skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It borders on the impossible to fake data on this scale and in such amounts

the more cynical among us ahem would probably say that it borders on the impossible to accurately report data on this scale and in such amounts, regardless of intention.
Peak traffic on a typical weekday in Seattle is around 5:30, when 1/5th of all daily use vehicles are on the road at the same time.
Vegetable recalls happen, check out https://consumerist.com/tag/recall/ but it doesn't justify the QR code, they already have your email address.
AMD has recently stated they'd like to do something about this during an AMA on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...

This probably won't happen for a while, though...
I wonder if it's an increased sense of permanence, habitability and sometimes magnitude that allows it to happen.

Some boats become decade long institutions, and living aboard a 'thing' that is dynamic and alive with motion is probably very emotive.

Even small sailing vessels are often designed to be lived aboard and occupied for days or weeks on end.

Cars and planes can be very transient in comparison.
former -> formal
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get out of this article. As a counter-example. My family is Bangladeshi but we live in the U.S. Bangladeshi food is mainstream in the U.S. in many ways (many Indian restaurants are owned by Bangladeshis) but there will always be stuff Americans find unpalatable. I think it's awesome to see Americans (of any color) enjoying Bangladeshi food; do I care that they'll probably never develop a taste for shutki (extremely pungent dried fish)? Is that a mark of "structural oppression?"

And moreover, its sad to see the author engage in racial and ethnic stereotyping of her own. "White people," of course, have many different culinary traditions. My father in law is from the Oregon coast; he loves salmon, smoking things, pickling things, etc. Can he complain about "structural oppression" now that the East Coast cultural elite have embraced salmon, but continue to find sucking on fish and lobster heads disgusting? Can he claim "cultural appropriation" now that pickled foods are super trendy?
Explain professional women's sports. Why don't they have equal size audiences despite the fact that they should appeal to half the population as role models (protagonists)? Men's sports still draw in much larger audiences from both genders.
Grexit blackmail didn't work, so run away and got rich writing books.
I agree with how sad it is that Texas doesn't have more public land for hunting and shooting. Imagine if we had 100,000+ acres out past Fredericksburg for outdoor activities.

Honestly, I didn't know how people hunted or shot weapons outside Texas. I assumed it was all private business and expensive deer leases. I still don't get it! You're telling me, in Utah/Colorado and other places, that I can just go to federal/state land with a gun and a license, and get food?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
San Francisco politician Jane Kim is exploring a tax on robots
I'm not sure you're going to correct the perceived gender/racial/whatever imbalances if you start hiring self-taught programmers and bootcamp grads in droves, just looking at the typical demographics of the people that self-select into those cohorts.
the only way to get a somewhat unbiased opinion is to consume multiple sources, cross-reference everything and ponder the results for hours.

Which is impossible (takes too much time). And kinda lame, because its the professionals job to provide results.

Obviously needs some kind of machine learning algorithm that just takes in all the news and spits out the average.

"Independent media" does not work.

Modern journalists dont make enough money, need to cater to external constraints like pageviews, need to put out way too many stories and are generally inept. Just looking at journalism on physics, you get major idiocies like "the LHC will create a black hole and not only will it create a black hole, the black hole will eat the world and everyone dies". Physics is generally not a hot button topic that people outrage about. Yet they screw even that up. Something really simple where you just have to listen to your interviewee and not apply hyperbole.

Its ok for random folks to not understand what a black hole is. Its generally not ok for a tech reporter to not know his subject matter at all.

The New Yorker writes some interesting stuff. But thats more like reading novels than reading "news".

People claim that pre internet, media was less biased. But I doubt that thats true. It was just way easier for them to be biased because nobody could even potentially fact-check them.
> As long as Facebook continues to increase the percentage of women it hires, it will have a disproportionately high number of junior female engineers.

I don't understand why this follows. The standard argument I hear for why women are under-represented (relative to the null hypothesis) is the "pipeline," that at various stages in the process women drop out and it is hard to retain them. In particular, there's the argument that women put their career on hold for their family, which implies that there's a significant number of under-employed senior women.

I'd be very interested to see the number of years of experience vs. level assigned by Facebook, grouped by gender, which would answer whether Facebook's gender balance is really the result of a bunch of 0-years-experience hires. It seems very possible that causality here is the other way around: because women get their code rejected more often, therefore they do not get promoted as much.
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I don't recall the exact source but I believe that overall, women score lower in tests for mathematical and logical aptitude, and higher in tests for verbal and social aptitude.

This correlates with the low numbers of women that choose to enter the industry, despite increasing incentives. It also correlates with female domination of fields such as nursing.
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> This used to be true, but as more government control has been ceded to the federal government I don't believe this to be the case.

Maybe this is the problem then? If you have less federal government control, and more state-level control then it wouldn't be as big of a deal if Trump is elected if you're a Californian. Likewise with a democratic candidate.

And the current setup actually works pretty well. You should get diminishing returns on popular vote in a republic. Otherwise you have some areas that dominate others instead of a balance. In other words, you don't punish people/states that are not highly populated. It may not have worked out for us this time around, but it's more fair. If you want a different system, then abolish the Republic and the States.
The NSA has no use for morally 'good' people.
> who to be frank seemed a little thin skinned

seems apt, lol
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I think one problem with certain 'declarative' styles, is that imperative code is, in a sense, temporarily ordered.

When you lose this, you need to replace it with some other enforced order, that helps you navigate the code.

Think how much debugging is based on locating buggy code by walking through the execution path and/or data-path. When you lose that kind of strictly linear execution, you still need a layer of heavy modulation to compensate.

Consider reaching a state of https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsBankruptcy you can easily modify the editor in any way from any file, so you really need to use in-build tools to navigate how the environment is affected by the config files.
I'm simply saying that while both are cases of free speech, fake news is allowed to spread out of control on the Internet due to a lack of editorial controls while hate speech is largely constrained by community norms.
" Only certain dishes like noodles, dumplings, kebabs, and rice bowls have been normalized. The majority is still largely stigmatized because, bluntly put, white people have not decided they like it yet."

Is it really "white people" though, or just Americans in general?
Gets even more funny when you add team dynamics, in one team you can be 10x programmer if people are decent. When you are in a team with maybe not better guys than you so they don't have to be really 10x you and you just feel bad, you might not pump even 1x off yourself.
North Carolina, It's time to speak out for your right to repair
You are in America too, adult enough to marry, adult enough to join the army and die for your country, adult enough to drive, smoke cigarettes (and weed in some states), have sex (gay sex too) but not old enough to drink alcohol.
I suspect most Linux users, don't even know what iptables is. It's certainly not a no brainer process, or even made prevalent.
As clean as possible for who? You've probably devoted many hours to thinking about the tool. I'll probably give your webpage two or three minutes of my time. If you are very very very lucky, someone else might click on a link to your page. That person probably won't spend much time trying to figure out what it is and if they can't their answer to "should I care?" will be null because they won't bother asking that question without knowing what it is.

Which of your ideas is more important, being as clean as possible or people using the tool? To me, the hard thing about good design -- and part of what makes it distinguishable from art -- is that good design is designed for someone other than the designer.
I didn't necessarily mean the US exclusively. I was thinking more of the internet in general, but I'll provide some specific examples anyway: in the US, I believe [the efforts of our government to undermine net neutrality][1] pose a serious threat to free speech online; in the EU, [well-meaning but misguided laws regarding blocking hate speech and potential taxing internet access][2] pose a similar threat; and in Australia, the government has already [blocked some websites under the guise of copyright enforcement][3].

Outside the western world, the situation is even worse. In the past few months, [the Turkish government has blocked thousands of websites and several DNS servers including 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4][4]. While China has always maintained strict censorship on the internet within their borders, lately they've been stepping up their efforts by [replacing major websites with state-run alternatives][5]. Further, [Russia has started following China's model with aggressive, nationwide IP blocking][6].

I know censorship has been a big challenge to free speech on the internet for a long time now, but lately, it feels as if the problems are escalating much faster. Nations are locking down their citizens access to communication, discussion is becoming ever more politicized, and partisans on all sides are cheering along the erosion of our most fundamental rights.

I know I sound like a conspiracy nut and doomsayer waving around the classic "End is Nigh" sign and wearing a tinfoil hat, but I can't help but feel like the internet is inching ever closer to dystopia. I feel like we're on the verge of something terrible, and I'm afraid that despite our best efforts, it may already be too late to stop it.

[1]: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/05/9-senator...

[2]: https://openmedia.org/en/leak-eu-commission-points-link-tax-...

[3]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/australia-passes...

[4]: https://turkeyblocks.org/

[5]: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39779088

[6]: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0...
I doubt that hyperdunc was directly referring to the idea that:

> women, in particular, are statistically-significantly less strong at the software engineering industry

I think that what was they indicated was that because individual strengths may vary, because there likely isn't a strong balance of genders in the workplace. It would be obvious that due to different strengths of individuals that there would could be an apparent bias.
I am a car enthusiast and even I try to keep my cars at arms length, knowing they could (and have been) totalled and whisked away in an evening for no better reason than someone glanced at their phone for too long.
Maybe a better way of phrasing it would have been "most startups that raise money still go out of business"
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I was amused to visit Capitol Reef National Park and enjoy a tour of a small canyon where a boardwalk lets you see the names of some 19th century folk carved into a cliff face. Along the way were signs warning you of the criminal prosecution that would result if you carved your own name into the cliff.

I have seen significant preservation efforts regarding a name scratched on a hillside near the Grand Canyon. The author was still living down the street from me, but the scratching was 50 years old.

The abandoned houses across town are blight, but the one in Yosemite is a national treasure. My child's mud hut is a safety hazard, but the one up the cliff is a sacred Anasazi artifact.

On the other hand, I have seen a small local wilderness area turn from a fun spot for a family Easter egg hunt to a regional ATV attraction so crowded the local Boy Scouts could no longer camp there.

Balancing the past, present, and future is always a subjective thing. When the BLM actually does its job, it does land management. But that is a hard job. It is often easier to just close everything down and not let anyone in. That is not management. But when pressure on a wilderness grows from a couple hundred visitors a year to a couple hundred visitors a day, a policy of "anything goes" is also not management. Management can be expensive.

The people in the best position to observe and propose solutions are always local. But BLM struggles to build local partnerships. They try to manage through a multi-layered bureaucracy that ultimately makes decisions from Washington, D.C. The result can often look like the United Airlines video--constructing and enforcing a policy in a manner that doesn't fit the local situation. There are any number of ideas that could get the job done cheaper and with more sensibility.
You might remember that the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon Bombing were Chechen.

I say this not because I think we should screen Chechens more thoroughly now, but because your original appeal to profiling at the border is provably ineffective and, frankly, ignorant.
This doesn't make any sense. Doesn't matter your age if you have to drive to/from the bar and drink driving is illegal, what difference does being 18 or 21 make?
Perhaps it's using one of those luminance-from-RGB vectors somewhere in the calculation? That could overrate the contribution of green to the appearance.
It needs to match the proportion of qualified women to qualified men, because to do otherwise is to either fail to employ qualified people or to employ unqualified people, both of which are bad for Facebook as a company (and arguably for the world at large).

I have not yet seen any concrete evidence to dispute the null hypothesis, that while gender is correlated with a great many things it is not correlated with the ability to be successful at Facebook. Therefore I accept the null hypothesis and think the right number is ~50%. I'm open to believing that the number should be different, possibly very different, given evidence.
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Purchase alcohol.

There's all sorts of situations where it is legal for minors to drink alcohol.

Like for example, when accompanied by a parent in a bar in Wisconsin.
Hey everyone! I’m Steve, co-founder at VMPower. I built VMPower because while working at Microsoft with Azure I noticed there really wasn’t an intuitive way to schedule power on/off VMs and detect unused ones. It quickly grew into having automations like resizing and taking snapshots as well as detecting basic unused resources.

We wanted to keep the following in mind:

1) Scheduling VM actions should be easy like dropping events a calendar

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Does anyone else think it is dangerously Orwellian to describe speech as people 'hurting themselves and others'?

We seem to have a serious problem resulting from people living in bubbles of information sources that only confirm their own viewpoint.

How can the solution to that problem be to have a single corporation design the bubble for everyone?

(Note: I know he's taking about actual videos of violence taking place. However my point is that violence is already happening, and hiding that from public view is 'out of sight, out of mind')
Seems to me a case of Simpson's Paradox, already proven to be the cause of wrong conclusions in the past in similar stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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If you personal info gets stolen from a company (or government) you entrusted it with, it ends up being your problem, despite any negligence on their part.

Personally, I believe that if it's negligence, there should be compensation - they lost something that belongs to you and is of value. But few people seem to really care. The info of 1 billion yahoo accounts was hacked, but who cares? Until that changes, the problem will continue to exist.
Hi HN,

I turned my open source ruby gem knapsack into indie SaaS product. I was inspired by sidekiq gem. Here is the short story:

In 2014 I had a problem with large test suite in my customer Ruby on Rails project. I developed the open source gem knapsack to split tests among CI nodes in parallel.

In 2015 I had an idea to turn it into small SaaS product and by the end of the year, I had a first early adopter Buildkite team.

This year I released a new solution to dynamically split RSpec tests among CI nodes and I tested it with a few companies like Pivotal, VTS, Namely.

On one hand would be great to live in a world with small and fast test suites but on the other hand, we know how it is in the reality. There are large projects with dozen minutes or several hours test suite time execution.

I also wrote the article inspired by work we've done with one of my customers:
http://docs.knapsackpro.com/2017/auto-balancing-7-hours-test...

I'm curious if there are similar problems with getting optimal time execution for large test suite across multiple CI nodes in projects done in other languages than Ruby. Have you experienced that problem? I'm thinking about building my tool in a different language and would be nice to test solution on the real project.

I'd love to hear your story about working with big test suites and what languages & tools you use. :)
Maybe what the parent comment said was an over simplification. I would say most startups today go out of business because of poor spending choices, bad oversight be investors and board members, poor management in general (though financial management is the highest among the issues I see), and poor product market fit. Is this because of investment? I would argue yes it is. You learn far better financial practices when you have no cash on hand. Investors and VC's honestly aren't always the best board members and don't always help. Product market fit can be masked by investment money. My comments are all anecdotal however I do work as a consultant for VC's who invest in or purchase startups. So there is that.

One other area in which people will regret taking investment money if they are not careful is at the time of exit. Many company owners who seek investment money don't realize just how quickly they are dilute themselves. While this won't put the company out of business, it may put an individual out of the business of running a second startup. It is wise to be careful taking investment money.
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And others (such as myself), voted for Trump only because he was the only alternative to Hillary. (Better option than Hillary, but not by much. There were other options of course, but they did not have a chance at winning). I should also specify that I voted for someone else in the primaries.
I think the real question is whether or not the extra money is worth being beholden to other stakeholders... I know a lot of people like complete control over their company
Any bike with wide tires is a good idea for urban riding, which fortunately includes many road bikes (or so-called 'gravel bikes') these days.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13539767

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13540164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536701
ORMs (i.e. Hibernate) try to hide the database. You change the objects and they are magically saved. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20863150/in-the-context-o...
>In most fields there is little incentive to change things when the company itself isn't too affected in case of hack

This is correct. As long as the risk isn't too high then companies will just take the risk and accept a hack as the "cost of doing business". Much like Goldman Sachs expects they will get fined by Governments, but they don't care because the money they make far outweighs the fines imposed.
Unless they can drink and drive.

Self driving cars should probably fix this someday. All other cars should have mandatory ignition interlocks for breathalyzing.

Someone should invent an bluetooth-connected breathalyzer which at least annoyingly beeps when you drive until you pass. It worked for seatbelts! Kids used to not wear then until the beeping made it more annoying to not do it. Annoyance is a big motivator.
Nobody's forcing you to have a Facebook account, or participate in it. It's not "for everyone".
I find they're nicer when you give them the passport in such a way that they first see your O-1 visa. Covertly letting them know that you're an "exceptional ability alien" right off the bat, sets the relationship off to a good start.

The time when I said "Oh just coming back from vacation" before the lady saw my visa ... well, she was much less nice about it.
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How is this different than astroturfing?
Quite confused by your comment.

I like beer. And if I could have non-alcoholic beer that tasted as well as standard beer I'd prefer that. (IMO todays alternatives still taste very different.)
Yes but in France you have an ID card, you don't need the driving license to identify you.
Lesson #1: Stick with your ideal customers because a customer who isn't a good fit for your product will inevitably experience problems and decide to blame you for it. This is why a refund policy makes sense but even that could be avoided by sticking to rule #1.
>When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US.

Yes, we should. It's odd in this day that I can't tell if you're a radical liberal NWO kind of person, or a college libertarian feeling out the philosophy of border ethics.
Why don't you add a counter?
I cycle to work in New York, colder than much of Central and Northern Europe, year-round. The main issue is that the city doesn't do a great job of clearing its many new bike lanes of snow.