skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little creeped out when--long after I deauthorized the app and enabled 2FA on my Gmail account--I got an email from them saying "We've found 141 new subscriptions". I wonder if that was just marketing spam, or if they have a weird way of accessing my email still.
Honestly, my programs tend to be simple enough that logic errors are reasonably rare, and the ones that do pop up can be resolved by println debugging. :)
Me too. I'm pissed.
This kind of dismissive argument is exactly what caused this situation to happen.

If you don't think the web has any use for them, someone else's "web" will. And that web will have a better user experience than yours. Before you know it, people are all using their "web" (see facebook).

The real issue here is how can we enhance the experience of the web we're trying to protect. If someone else has something that's easier to use, people are going to use it.
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How many Uber drivers have you spoken to?

Kalanick's moral compass may or may not be aligned, but the service his company offers is awesome.
I think you're just using "classic" to mean the behavior of languages like C++. Under the hood there are only two ways this mechanism can function, and I don't think it helps to mix high level language semantics in when trying to explain it, as those semantics are always expressed in one of those two ways.
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I never could put my finger on it till now, but this is why I found Android dev frustrating.
instagram do it on android. they place a small file called .profig.os on external storage that is left there even if the app is deleted.
> About 20% of the Tory MPs wanted to leave the EU

Sure, but the split I was talking about is in the party-in-the-electorate, not the party-in-government. It wasn't a technique to maintain party unity in the Parliament, but to avoid losing party of the electoral base for the 2015 general election.

> But I doubt that we would have been given a referendum without the increase in public support for UKIP.

Sure, but that wasn't​ the public demanding an isolated referendum on the issue; the referendum was just a Tory tactic for minimizing the controversy over EU policy as a general election issue for the set of voters that, their view on that issue aside, were generally aligned with the Tories.
"kind of"?
This really opened my eye: a long time ago, there was actually a meaningful difference between voting D and voting R. I can't really imagine voting in such a context, but it sounds nice...
Which specific regulations do you think are choking US businesses to death? I see a lot of handwaving about oppressive regulation, but I don't see anything careful cost-benefit discussion of which regulations are oppressive.
The animation playing at the top of the article is pure uncanny valley nightmare fuel.
This is essentially Trump's plan, which has had a hard time finding anyone in the field of economics to back it.

Can you point to anyone who has qualifications beyond being a pundit that believes that things would work out as you say?
This is also a huge problem in scientific research supplies and chemicals.
A lot of people seem to think that setting up a botnet is difficult, and it's very surprising when you decide to research and actually do it. It's ridiculously easy. You can rent out established botnets with almost no effort, and if you can run payloads on compromised internet-enabled devices, you can set up your own and coordinate it without much fuss.

This is a big problem that no one really knows how to solve.
> I'm not sure what you're on about.

You clearly interpreted OS to mean "the kernel" in my comment. To be clear I'm including the C library which implements malloc() in "the OS".

> curl is a piece of software that spends 99.99%
> of its time waiting for network traffic.

You're commenting on an article that shows that in some cases 30% of the time was spent on malloc() overhead.
I wonder if, without monopolies, rural areas would be served at all with the types goods and services that these companies bring them. It might not be economically feasible!
that's easy -- de-privatize the last mile access networks. run (copious strand count) fiber to everything, lease at standard pricing for every entrant, with operations & maintenance (and plant depreciation) built in.

done.
There's a link in the next paragraph to http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2010/dirty-... which tells more of the story. Claim is that rule change allowed hospitals to join group purchasing organiations (GPOs) which could get their fees from vendors rather than buyers, essentially creating a system of kickbacks from dominant vendors, which could be large enough for GPOs and thus hospitals and thus patients and thus taxpayers to purchase from the dominant vendors even if their products were not as good as those from medical device startups.

I also found interesting the only two brief mentions of patents in the article. One, a dominant vendor historically using patents to quash startups. Two, the startup the article focuses on has patents that would expire soon (maybe have, the article is from 2010), so other companies would benefit from their innovation (the article mentions a Chinese manufacturer, where the startup eventually took their product).

If the startup's product was really better, why didn't they license their patents to the big vendors? Was the startup simply greedy? The startup's research was largely paid for by taxpayers, why did they need a patent at all? It seems odd to expect inventors will also be good entrepreneurs and litigators: this seems a situation in which grants or prizes without patents would be superior. Alternatively, it points to some market failure in licensing patents that maybe could be solved by some kind of compulsory licensing, eliminating the problem of too greedy startups holding out. How am I wrong?

Finally, with articles like this about the health care industry, I'm always struck by intense focus on bringing innovations to market in the US, and the huge barriers to doing so. I realize that the US is the largest market, but still. Maybe BRIC and other companies should get better at delivering innovations stalled in the US, or maybe the innovations aren't actually so great?
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I largely agree with the observations in the article although I believe the author misstates the intention of government with "But in the 1980s, folks in power decided bigger was better, and conventional political wisdom followed suit." The issue with the 80's was that the US economy was in a very weird place where we had low growth and very high inflation (called 'stagflation' at the time). The mechanics of the economy were adjusted not to make 'bigger better' but instead to break out of the state of stagnant inflation.

That the changes weren't undone in the 90s when much of the economic forces were re-aligned was a problem, but understandable since nobody wanted to go back to that mode. We are living in the opposite local minimum of growth and deflation where the economy is growing but inflation isn't happening because real income is going down.

That said I believe that making single supplier contracts unenforcable would be an interesting change to try.
One quick question: why does it matter that the large corporations in which power is concentrated are geographically clustered? Would the situation be better if ceteris paribus the corporations were more geographically distributed?
This question has been discussed for over an hour in the other post[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178682
In which case the argument is still a value, containing a pointer to a value, which is a pointer to the object.
>Whats the big deal if you run ssh on port 443 as many do, together with nginx on the same port?

The deal is that if we're talking of TPC apps on a single network interface, you can't.

The deal is also that it's handy to know where you can expect to see a common service running.
I'm not saying Android development or Java are that great but this guy spent two weeks on it. That's not enough time to get a feel for the environment. It doesn't matter what the language is, if you drop a developer into a completely unfamiliar one they will feel awkward annoyed and lost for at least a couple months.
Wasn't there a project similar to that featured on here at one point? I don't think it used sophisticated machine learning or anything, but it used basic keyword search to produce "plain English" summaries of ToS. I remember it being somebody's hobby project; I can't seem to find it now.
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Am only I able to read the word IPO between the lines in this and most of the other recent news articles about Uber?

It seems plausible that some might try to artificially dump the upcoming IPO price to buy the stocks cheaper than they actually worth by creating outrage against the company and CEO in news.
How can you call LGBT rights, women's rights, police consent decrees, environmental issues, and health care, just off the top of my head, meaningless?
you mean like electrical, fire, and general safety regulations? going off your "mill town" example, would you rather copy Bangladesh where the buildings collapse and children as young as 11 work 70 hours weeks in the textile industry?
I don't know why you are getting downvoted because you're absolutely right. The first three markets named (airlines, telecommunications, health care) are all heavily regulated and the barrier to entries are controlled by the government, not natural market forces.

Monopolies are not all bad. Sometimes a company has a monopoly because they just offer a better product (Amazon, Google) and they shouldn't be punished for that, especially when there's no government intervention that exists to protect them.
Because they use an algorithm to extract the data that the searcher is looking for and display it on their site, drastically dropping the chances that anyone clicks through to the site.

Whether it's hostile or not, if they continue far enough, it would choke off the sources. People don't tend to invest time in creating content where there's zero chance to interact with the reader, ever.

Create a site that takes search queries, and return scraped Google results data. Become popular. See how long it takes before it gets shut down.

I do get your high level point, but isn't there some quid-pro-quo involved? People allow Google to crawl, which enriches Google's search product. Some traffic is offered in return for helping their index with high quality content.

Edit: If you doubt the effects widgets have on traffic, take a look at what it's done to Wikipedia traffic[1]. The KG entries used to have many, many deep links into Wikipedia. A lot of those links have changed to deep links into Google.

[1] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wikipedias-traffic-from-...
For what it's worth, python has been making inroads in the HPC world as well. In that context it seems like python is being used as the glue to tie highly optimized, custom written, C/C++ libraries together.
http://lorenabarba.com/publications/
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3019084&CFID=927535872&CFT...
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2830170&CFID=927535872&CFT...

It's happening enough that there has been a series of popular conferences for it, PyHPC http://www.dlr.de/sc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-11992/21071_r...
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There are sometimes in life when we end up on a path that take us to places we can't imagine. What path did you take?
Some people are far more specialized in what they work on.

- Apple's Swift codebase is 54.8% c++ [0]

- Microsoft's CNTK codebase is 57.6% c++ [1]

- Bitcoin's codebase is 68.6% c++[2]

- XBMC's codebase is 84.7% c++[3]

If you work on certain or specific types of projects, like ones making the tools that others use do their projects, then you are typically working more in only 1-2 languages at a time.

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK

[2] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

[3] https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
is TSI a CLEC?
or write it in go and run it in a container!
I think the hardest thing about a municipal network like that is having a government organization competent in managing it. Streets are still mostly functional with potholes, but a network certainly isn't.

We're operating on a brand new municipal network right now and it's not awesome. In an effort to be fair to all parties, no one is actually in charge. The network operator is separate from the construction contractor who is separate from the bandwidth providers. It's extremely frustrating.
That's the thing though, that is exactly what a late stage "free market" looks like. What you need is a heavily regulated market that prevents exactly this behaviour.

People need to stop wishing for the "free" market. The term is abused by orators and manipulators who prey on peoples desire for a market which is free in the spirit of the word, and deliver to them a market which is technically "free" and horrible.
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But it is burning coal, which is far worse at this point. That's what I'm getting at - Australia is uniquely well equipped for nuclear power and has not substantial begun moving away from fossil fuels. If solar is cheaper than nuclear, then by all means build that. But if not? Why not move to nuclear energy?
i didn't know it exist, now i wonder if there are similiar project, i have an old nas that i could put to use with something like this.
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Still is neutral, and will be in the future if Star Trek is anything to go by:

KIM: Thank you, sir.

JANEWAY: Mister Kim, at ease before you sprain something. Ensign, despite Starfleet protocol, I don't like being addressed as sir.

KIM: I'm sorry, ma'am.

JANEWAY: Ma'am is acceptable in a crunch, but I prefer Captain. We're getting ready to leave. Let me show you to the bridge.
> But there is no need to make taxi drivers out to be evil.

Maybe not 'evil', but I'm curious about these amazing experiences people have with cabs (US-centric here).

In NYC, cab drivers would refuse to drive to areas they deemed undesirable. I'm not even talking someone taking non-Manhattan rides, I would occasionally have cab drivers refuse to take me to Harlem from lower Manhattan. Cabs refusing to pick up non-white passengers is a common thing. Hell, even basic things like trying to get a dispatched cab to pick one up for an airport could be a disaster (during my time in Portland, I think I tried getting a Radio Cab to the airport three times, they never showed up).

> Uber and Lyft are better than taxis because of the on demand nature and they are cheaper because of better utilization.

Hell, I would pay more for an Uber of Lyft just because of the reliability of the service.
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Uber has millions of people who use and love the service. Yanking the app without notice doesn't just punish the company it punishes those users. Working with Uber to get the issue fixed without punishing innocent bystanders is good policy.
I m not being dismissive, just realistic. If you want an example of this crowd spilling into the "broader web" , look no further than youtube comments. People who have nothing interesting to add to the web had better stay inside silos.

Facebook is in no way a "better web". I don't use it and I m not missing anything.

I also don't agree that "ease makes it better". The early days of the web were mindbogglingly interesting because it attracted an inquisitive crowd who found ways to make it work (and invented things, if needed). Even today, interesting crowds often flock to low-UX corners of the web (case in point HN).
Well, I doubt any of us is perfect. I do my best to read the news & opinion responsibly: consider what evidence is given and do not give weight to hearsay with no proof, wait for each side to have its say before weighing evidence, and to make no rush to judge anyone.

I know I'm not perfect in those regards, but I try to at least avoid marching to the drumbeat of the two minute hates the politicians use to herd people.
Nope. We argued that we were providing data services under the FCC definition of utility. The only real person who got in our way was the city attorney. He said that internet didn't qualify as Montana Code (circa 1950) only mentioned telephone and telegraph.

So we registered with the PSC as a telegraph provider...
Better make sure those shell scripts all run in csh/tcsh too. Never know when you'll be running on MacOS 10.1!
Facebook has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption among certain demographics in the US.

Your news feed is designed from the ground up with powerful artificial intelligence to become an echo chamber, and lots of FB users just don't understand this. They fall for it completely.

I have more liberal friends than conservative friends, and my FB feed literally only shows me anti-Trump pieces (along with ads and other spam), some of which are astoundingly blatant in their bias.

I have to go out of my way to seek out opinions from or articles shared by my conservative friends. Even if I do this frequently, FB still does not incorporate them into my feed. Instead, every single day, it shows me low-quality clickbait anti-Trump articles shared by someone who lived on the same floor as me in a college dorm 7 years ago with whom I shared one conversation in real-life and whom I've never interacted with on FB in any way aside from approving her friend request.
How does that work? In the 1970s, the democrats were realigning, after the civil rights movement had fractured their tradional coalition and cast the Jim Crow Democrats into the Republican party with Nixon's Southern Strategy.
You got it wrong -- it starts as Lassie and stays as such after the function call (as "replacement" only affects the local (stack) copy of the pointer / refernce passed) :)

No fancy pointer-to-pointer business thus.

No idea what's going on Pascal, though, have to check out myself.

upd: upon checking http://wiki.freepascal.org/Variable_parameter , I suspect that here a pointer is passed underneath again, but the assignment now copies the bytes over into the pointed-to object.
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Not the GP, but these are social issues largely, and while I care about them, I consider them less important than economic issues (for a multitude of reasons). And on economic/business issues, the two parties seems to have minimal differences.
On Linux. Basic core libs like libCurl can find their way into MMU-less embedded systems with relatively crude malloc()s. Sane allocation behavior is needed to ward off fragmentation that hurts the entire system.
Yeah, and it's debatable whether -- in these cases -- the monopolies would exist if it weren't for this regulation. The health care market is extremely distorted, and that's definitely true in the case of agriculture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/richer-farmers-bi...
It's usually much more subtle than that. Repair bills for this and that on a regular basis. Then a big ticket item like new fridge or plumbing repair. Later you'll find that the fridge wasn't actually replaced, the plumber is the manager's brother, and that the property management company goes out of business and resurfaces with a new name every 5-6 years.
The linked post mentions several related projects and highly recommends one.
Power begets power, and that's just as true in markets as it is in politics. Large players have an entire playbook of dark, gray, and white strategies for getting a leg up on small players. Dumping, bundling, FUD, bribery, regulatory capture, moat-building, economies of scale, network effects, the list goes on.

A sizable fraction of large markets are dominated by monopolies or oligopolies. While it's arguable which factors contribute most, it's an observed fact that this happens, so I'm not sure I'd call any particular instance "a bit odd." Sadly.
[[ ]] works in bash, zsh, and (iirc) ksh. Saying it's "bash-specific" isn't accurate.
Given sufficient data, nothing's really anonymous. That's a bullshit hedge.
What if the burst of growth in the 90s could be attributed to the inflation in the 80s?

That'd be pretty unfortunate, if the low inflation mandate of the fed kept inflation below some inflection point where economic growth is more likely.
Unroll.Me scraped users' inboxes for Lyft receipts and sold that data to Uber
I'd also like to suggest that a lot of the price increases in the SF bay area are related to difficulty developing new units. The intention of the land tax is to increase the usage (density) of valuable areas; however, that requires being able to develop! Development is very hard and risky in many parts of the SF bay area.
The act of trying to connect an even socket to another even socket, or an odd socket to another odd socket, was considered a "peculiar error" called "homosocketuality", which was strictly forbidden by internet protocols, and mandatory "heterosocketuality" was called the "Anita Bryant feature" [2].

Queue all the SJW having fits...
> The idea that the taxis are corrupt and despicable is 100% Uber/Lyft propaganda.

Have you ever actually used a taxi?

It's incredibly common for taxi drivers to refuse to pick you up because you don't look desirable, or aren't going to the right place, or want to use a credit card, or any other reason (all of which are totally illegal). They flout the rules regularly, it's by no means propaganda.
The concept of fake news Rose from one guy making shit up for ad money. The whole ordeal about how fake news is this sinister plot to disinform is a disinformation effort in itself. There's a big difference about reporting while being misinformed vs disinforming or to harness views.
Here's one from 2011: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/singapore.water....

I guess now they do more desalinization and recycle sewage water for drinking.
Maybe I should have used a different title. This is half about making a GUI toolkit and half about a GUI toolkit maker.
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What evidence is there to suggest this will always be the case, in light of continual improvements?
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Sorry, but what are you inferring by hardware switches? Something not an overlay? Something that switches VXLAN in hardware?
Speaking of those terms and conditions, I was really surprised to see this in there:

>You may not use this SDK to develop applications for other platforms (including non-compatible implementations of Android) or to develop another SDK. You are of course free to develop applications for other platforms, including non-compatible implementations of Android, provided that this SDK is not used for that purpose.

Older versions of Android Studio were under the Apache License 2.0, but they seem to have changed that sometime in 2015.
I think you shoulda named it "Goby" -- which is a real word for a cute l'il fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goby
I was about to comment something similar , but then I saw your post. Btw I don't know why people are down voting it.

This is an important point. This research comes after 10 days of the leak. I have been following the leak closely, I've even compiled a list with all the analysis and resources on a gist.

Good guys, bad guys, kids, bored Blackhats, had enough time to practically follow the step by step instructions in order to implant the backdoor. It doesn't take more than 30-40 mins for the first read till a successful exploit.

The short answer is that we have no idea of knowing how many of those were backdoored by the NSA.

Also worth noting is that the leak happened 3-4 months ago. A lot of people had access to this privately.