skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But there's always a gain, regardless. The riddle was why would you be worse off holding rather than selling.

Anyhow, if we grant the riddle was poorly worded, that the implication was waiting an additional day you're be better off, it's still technically incorrect. The clock starts ticking the day after the purchase, and you have to hold for a year and a day. If you purchase on May 3 2016 you shouldn't sell before May 5 2017. Possibly May 4 or even May 3 if I'm misunderstanding something, but almost certainly not May 2.
I keep smelling "pump and dump" when it comes to cryptocurrency. Perhaps when the bubble bursts the honest people will be able to get to work developing something worthwhile?
Twilio is really a one trick pony. As messaging apps proliferate, the need for sms/telephony will slowly die out.
I've moved to Arch. They can have Debian too.
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Love the spin the media is putting on Twilio's earnings call. Uber load balances its traffic across multiple providers. Moving their traffic off Twilio shouldn't be seen as a signal that they're distancing themselves from Twilio. Twilio has a model that's hard to predict long-term revenue. This will continue until they figure out how to get more high value companies to sign contracts.
Ask HN: People involved in hiring: are hires via referrals more frequent?
I'm asking in terms of your own personal, anecdotal experience with being in the hiring process. Is the hiring model at your company more effective when referrals are used?

As someone who has no friends/contacts that know me well enough to refer me in a professional capacity, I am almost sure that I'm already at a big disadvantage when it comes to applying for jobs. So I'm curious as to how often jobs are filled via referrals and not, from personal and anecdotal experiences.
> create a narrative of something happening that is clearly not taking place

Sounds like a moon landing hoax "documentary" I unintentionally watched 15 years ago. They were very careful to not show the questions they asked the expert, so the supposed responses to very detailed (albeit bullshit) conspiracy evidence sounded cavalier and vague.
> We will only provide individual user data to governments under correct legal process.

If the law changes such that companies can be compelled to hand over information that would be unethical to hand over, the pledge should require that companies stop collecting that information and delete what they already have. If there are countries that have existing laws that would permit them to insist on handing over information that would be unethical to provide, the pledge should require that companies cease doing business in those countries.

Right now this is simply a pledge not to engage in reprehensible behaviour. We shouldn't be providing rewards or encouragement not to act in reprehensible ways. We should be encouraging people to do better than the socially acceptable bare minimum. A pledge should be a promise to go above and beyond, and this is nothing of the sort.
While I am pro immigration and pro freedom of movement in general (so I mostly disagree with your stance in general), I can't deny that the current immigration rules have been mostly to the benefit of making tech company owners richer by hiring highly skilled people at indentured servitude wages. Truly free markets would allow immigrants to change employer at will. Suffice it to say that this issue is controversial enough that it doesn't belong in a simple code of ethics. We agree on that.
Not sure I would say that. They have voice, video, messaging, SIP, etc. They have a lot of tricks.
I have definitely, definitely seen ads for gambling and sports betting on Facebook.
Most mechanical watches are a magnitude more expensive than an Apple watch and tend to be smaller and not flashy at all. If you want to impress others.. don't wear an Apple watch. But if you like it as a watch, go for it!
One is a Political statement and other is a Political submarine.
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And on top of this it is still possible to buy laptops with a 1366x768 screen resolution. In 2017.

It's insane.
The fact that Volkswagen sells currywurst delights me, and the fact that they sold more sausages than cars in 2015[0] makes my day.

If you weren't already aware of it, I hope you are similarly charmed by the fact that Lego is the worlds largest manufacturer of tires[1].

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go call my local auto parts store.

[0] http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/19/volkswagen-sausage-curryw...
[1] http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/08/lego-worlds-largest-tire-...
You ought to continue to read past that. Because you missed his point. He goes on to basically question "ethics" entirely:

>What did this tool start spitting out? Every ethnic stereotype you can imagine....People who liked Jay Z were more likely to like Obama – it was one of the statistical truths Facebook couldn’t be seen espousing.

I disagreed. Jay Z is a millionaire music tycoon, so what if we associate him with the president? In our current world, there’s a long list of Truths That Cannot Be Stated Publicly, even though there’s plenty of data suggesting their correctness, and this was one of them.

African Americans living in postal codes with depressed incomes likely do respond disproportionately to ads for usurious “payday” loans. Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 25 probably do engage with ads singing the charms and advantages of military service.

Why should those examples of targeting be viewed as any less ethical than, say, ads selling $100 Lululemon yoga pants targeting thirtysomething women in affluent postal codes like San Francisco’s Marina district?
considering how weak the pledge is, I think it would be more effective to concentrate efforts on growing neveragain.tech
Few people eat steaks every night, let alone good cuts of steak.
Bad Driver? TrueMotion Has an App for That
Absolutely - but I'm not aware of any sort of regulations limiting the use (or washing) of, say, microfiber polyester (unlike the 'microbeads' I was heaping scorn on). I have mixed feelings about microfibers, they certainly have justifiable uses, I wonder if what we need to solve is how to effectively remove them from the wastewater generated by laundering them.
Does the article handle ethnically discriminatory hiring practices? Neither "Divers-" and "ethnic"show up in the article, and if it's like Boston's Chinatown, workers are overwhelmingly Chinese.
I've thought about this a lot, and here's my .02 on the matter.

If you look at politics now, there's a decidedly anti-elitist trend. This is why Trump got elected. I felt the movie "Hell or High Water" portrayed the ex-Bay Area/other "creative class" cities' zeitgeist really well. There are just a huge number of people struggling to get by, trying to make their mortgage payments, in tons of debt.

At the same time, I find Snap fascinating. Anecdotally, it seems to appeal to young people, people bored working low-end jobs, and others I wouldn't call "rich". And despite the CEO's dumb comments about "a social network for rich people", there's a raw, back-to-basics, "for normal people" feel they've worked hard to cultivate.

I think that if Apple isn't careful, they could be seen as an elitist, out-of-touch, "rich person" phone company. Like, "this is the phone for people who drive E-Class Mercedes. I want a phone for people who drive a truck, drink Miller, and watch football". I could totally see this happening if the Asian Android manufacturers keep nipping at their heels. At some point, phones are going to hit saturation in terms of how much new functionality people care about. And I think there will be a space for a device that's further downmarket, more affordable, and not as aspirational/elitist as an iPhone. It would be a phone that does about 80% of what an iPhone does today, GPS, video calls, camera, good battery life, etc., but without some of the really "gadgety" recent stuff on the iPhone, like 3D touch.

I also think that if computing overall moves to more of a conversational/message-oriented paradigm, it's going to cause the form factor of phones to change a lot, and become more "invisible" in favor of simpler devices, or even a pair of headphones that talk directly to a mobile network.

The other thing to keep in mind, history shows incumbent tech companies aren't "replaced", they're just outgrown by new ones. IBM is _still_ selling mainframes, just not PCs or mobile phones. So the more likely case is, some new thing comes up and has even broader appeal than Apple products. Granted, it's hard to see how that could happen with their sales volumes, but that's what history suggests.
It's a social skill to learn when it's appropriate to talk about politics, and when it isn't. Many people lack this skill.

Of course, we all know that it's safe for some political persuasions to speak out, but not others. I suppose the people advocating for this are - literally - Politically Correct.
Garbage collection or at least some sort of built in memory management that is consistent in all programs for that language.
I have a Discourse forum that I run on my own, and it has been a fairly pleasant experience overall. Initial installation was a bit problematic because of a bug that they have that doesn't properly handle # in mail server password (https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-app-yml-doesnt-like-e...) - it so happened that my mail password was auto-generated, and did contain that symbol in it. But other than that, it all went pretty smooth.

I've done a few updates, and it was all entirely via the web interface, with a single click on "Update" button and watching it do its thing. Zero issues so far.

I'm not sure what you mean by "ton of configuration". It seems like most things just worked the way they were set up out of the box. I keep fiddling with various user- and posting-related settings, but that's mostly out of curiosity more than any kind of need.
I feel like I'm a pretty average person.

My instinct when I'm looking for something is to Ctrl+F, not scour the UI for a search bar.

Anecdotally, I know people who are not programmers who are the same way.
> by using an editor that provides the appropriate assistance.

To spell it out: this means Emacs with Paredit, or an imitation thereof.
Urban areas are beautiful.
Skim thru his book. He definitely has morally bankrupt covered. Also, was he an exec at Facebook?
>The largest national/ethnic group contributing to the American population is German, followed by the British Isles/Ireland

I would have thought people from the British Isles were the largest group, based on what I've read about America, the Pilgrims, etc. Is that wrong?
A Guide To Twilio's $53.5B Opportunity, Why It's At Risk, And 3 Ways The Company Can Win.

https://exponents.co/twilio-market-opportunities-risks/
You can spend hundreds of millions of dollars before you even get to the point where you can ask the FDA if you can start human trials. Even having spent all that time and money, you still won't have any guarantee that your drug will prove to be safe, effective, or better than any existing drugs.
+1, always do this... I tend to find that certain design constraints need breakpoints that don't match the atypical @media breaks that are used in Bootstrap and the like... just by nature of what's being placed... It's best to actually exercise and practice where you're breaking things down.

Also, since I tend to use React/Redux lately, I inject size/scroll into my state and use that as a basis for those decisions in controls as often as I'll use CSS/JSS alone anymore.
Your take on the article is all wrong. And buzzwordy to boot.

Analytic philosophy, though a broad church, is a number of things -- (1) a constrained style, one that tends to mimic the papers in logic or mathematics, certainly not one that is stylistically liberal (2) a reluctance to address certain topics, so philosophy of science (championed by Quine as mentioned in the article) to name but one out of a restricted set of topics is favoured (3) this one is important, analytic philosophy is very Anglo-American, and this shows.

> Anybody know anything I should read besides Nozick along this vein?

They mention two in the article: Hofstadter's nerd-famous G.E.B which I could not in good conscience recommend, and Rorty's _Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature_ which is a landmark text. One reason to recommend Rorty over Hofstadter to a person interested in philosophy is that PatMoN is a proper philosophical text and G.E.B is most certainly not.
Agreed, I can't believe that article existed with that title. I was rather annoyed when I got to the end.

Title should have been, "Summary of a audio recording about the type of ARM computer a bunch of nerds wish existed."
"For whatever reason Americans just don't eat a lot of seafood."

Pretty much every place I've lived on both coasts, you couldn't go the day without hearing about someone wanting a tuna burrito, or fish tacos, or shrimp stew (Frogmore stew specifically) or lobster or crab or flounderor more.

So maybe the inland Americans don't eat as much seafood, but rarely does a day go by here on the West Coast that I don't hear about or personally think about eating some seafood.
What area are you in?
2c from my experience.

Fluentd is a terrible log shipper: sub-second timestamping is not yet supported in the stable build, support is patchy in the plugin ecosystem in 0.14. There's also some humdingers buried in the source (Rational numbers for time arithmetic?) Abstractions leak all over the place. The plugin ecosystem is weak and the API shims in the minor version API break are poor and in my experience break semver.

Prometheus has the right idea, but I wouldn't want to be running and scaling my telemetry system if I'd also taken on the burden of running my own container scheduler. Whilst I've no doubt Prometheus can be made to scale, I'd rather somebody else made the federation decisions for me.
It might be more correct to say "data reveals things that might be politically incorrect to state in public (or advertise based on).
Well, they are. Addicted to immediate and frequent social validation. Telling people heroin is bad for them isn't going to make them quit if they are addicted to it. They have to witness or experience the hardships that come from such an addiction.

Telling people Facebook is bad for them, telling them why it is bad for them, isn't enough. We have to show them indisputable evidence of social media having an extreme negative impact on their lives.

We have to pull them away long enough for their brains to stop craving the dopamine release they associate with browsing their feeds and narcissistically posting several times a day.

Most importantly, we have to care and understand what they are going through. Being angry at them or thinking they are stupid for not knowing better is alienating and divisive behavior. They will rush to Facebook to alleviate their negative emotional response to what you are telling them. Even if they think that you're right.
US housing wealth is growing for the oldest, wealthiest Americans
Can't figure out why you are being downvoted.

Post counts: a metric for how long they have been here, also an attempt to let new members know if this person knows what they are talking about. Yes, post count is a poor metric for level of knowledge, but measuring level of knowledge is not an easy problem(see controversy over IQ tests). Displaying upvotes could be better, but see reddit where people post the same dumb jokes to farm karma, or steal jokes from other subs.

Signatures: People like to express themselves. I'm not a fan of this one either, but hey. It can be useful when you see someone say something intelligent/helpful/etc, and their signature has a list of threads they started. You might find those threads filled with useful info.

Badges: This encourages desirable behavior. It can also help identify those who have a high level of knowledge.

I would add avatars: Have you every heard someone say they can remember faces, but not names? This is an attempt to help members identify each other.

Edit: post metadata: seeing the number of upvotes on a post gives you an idea on whether it is true or not.
Targeting seems, to me, to be ethics-neutral in terms of first-order effects. It amplifies the effectiveness of both positive-value and negative-value advertising. Like, roads can be used both for transporting troops to invade a country as well as to transporting food to relieve a famine, and better roads improve the effectiveness of both.

Like, advertising payday loans to poor people may be an acceptable cost of advertising if it gets out valuable mesothelioma information as well.
We're both the customer and the product.

I'm the product to advertisers, but also to my friends.

Similarly I am the customer to the products that are my friends.
It was cracking bootleg games that forced me to learn how to use hexadecimal editors, binary and computer programming. The skills I learned going off the approved curriculum are the same ones that actually pay my bills today. Hell if 13 year old me was exposed to computers today, I probably would never go past light user. Computers today have too smooth of a surface area. You actually need to be shown the curtain nowadays whereas before it was right in front of you and you needed to get past it to do anything useful
The first 30 years of Moore's law showed a direct correlation between transistor density and clock speeds. Yes it's not Moore's fault that this correlation broke down, but we can still mourn its passing.

> On a single core, not over a whole processor, as can be seen by the fact that there are 22 and even 72 core processors available now.

A worthwhile development, but not a panacea. I'd suggest you become familiar with Amdahl's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law. There's also some give-and-take between core count and individual core performance.

> This has nothing to do with Moore's law, it is a result of processor architecture.

But Moore's law is an enabler of more sophisticated processor architecture.
I like the idea, but can't you achieve most of the functionality just with an add-on $10 USB 10-key, and your choice of scripting? I have used the crazily versatile Controllermate[1] on macOS to do something similar with a gaming keypad that triggered Applescripts and shell scripts.

1: https://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/
Of course there's upside — if it really does cure all viral diseases it could be a trillion-dollar pill. Not to mention they'd want to introduce it before the competition.

What's probably working against it is it sounds too good to be true.
People are often very naive about different cultures. In the west we're trained to view them as an interchangeable package of foods, languages, and perhaps dress. The differences are real and substantial, and fundamental assumptions about how the world works or ought to work are definitely not shared.
It's not mostly Bitcoin gains. Lately people are buying over 100,000,000 USD worth of Ether per day with mostly fiat (and not Bitcoin) in order to invest in these ICOs.
I keep waiting for the price of these things to dip below $400. $999 is a very premium price and makes it hard to buy it as an impulse purchase.
My experience using Apple Pay with a checking account's debit card at Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's is that it only saves having to swipe/insert the physical card. I'm still required to enter the pin. Sometimes it gives me the options of "VISA Debit" or "US Debit" which both work the same way. A few times I've gotten lucky and it gives me the option of "Credit" or "Debit" and when I pick "Credit" it's a toss up -- probably driven by the amount of the transaction -- on if the transaction is complete or if I have to "sign" with the stylus on the POS.
Note in particular the utter lack of anything that actually benefits us, the developers:

* No protections on moonlighting
* No mention of fair equity for work by early engineers
* No condemnation of clawbacks of equity
* No whistleblower protection
* No comments on diversity or discrimination
* No comments on harassment
* No comments on reasonable workloads/workweeks
* No comments on allowing remote work or helping remote workers

Make no mistake folks: this "pledge" does basically nothing to help you. Look out for your own interests.

Further, it doesn't even have the balls to stand up and say "We won't do evil things like give away user data to government agencies" and instead goes for the much easier "well if the paperwork is okay we'll sell out the users i guess".

This isn't worth the bytes it spent getting to you.
The Satellite Utility Manifold
I'm tempted to buy some AMD now after this gigantic one day plummet. While I'm not sure AMD will ever be able to compete with Intel in the enterprise cpu market (cloud providers), NVIDIA and GPUs are looking like a solid core business for them.

Everybody keeps on hyping and saying Ryzen, but again... I am very skeptical major enterprises will make the switch from Intel.
Many years ago, I had an argument kind of like this with my mom about the difference between decaf Diet Coke and plain Diet Coke. Since she was the Mathemetician in the family, I let her design the double-blind taste test.

When I could conclusively tell the difference every time, she was flabbergasted. But she did finally believe me that there actually was a taste difference between them, at least there was for me. So, she stopped trying to get me to drink decaf.
As I recall, this fabled Win32 converter created giant binaries? Or am I wrong?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/porting/desktop...

Regarding mobile changing everything, I am not so sure that it is. I still see people using Office over Google Docs (due to Sheets becoming sluggish with large quantities of data and years of XLS files floating around). I recall the release of ChromeOS being hailed as a threat to Microsoft in the media but in truth it hasn't dented businesses at all and I cannot ever see any business IT department even considering a switch to ChromeOS (even small businesses). The Chromebook devices look like etch-a-sketch toys compared to even cheap Windows laptops.

The ability to grab data and modify it on the go has been around since the Windows CE / Windows Mobile days. The requirements haven't changed in that time - grab a document, see it, and then attempt to edit it on a mobile device (give up, wait until you're at a normal computer - my experience anyway).
How else can a Silicon Valley programmer convince himself his job is meaningful to society when he's altering CSS tags and writing code to cache requests all day?

"The 0.5% increase in engagement after the A/B test result is making the world a better place." <-- that's not enough anymore, a programmer's employer has to be taking a stand for something now. Not anything that would harm revenue. Something that is meaningful to tech types, like net neutrality.
>Why use JS when you can have Lua for scripting

Have you tried NPM? If I want to write every single line of code for my application, I don't expect it to ship (unless it's extremely simple). When there is a library for almost everything, why not use one instead of trying to reinvent the wheel?
Comcast effectively blocked BitTorrent and exempted its own video service from data caps. T-Mobile throttled video that didn't participate in BingeOn. AT&T blocked FaceTime.

How to regulate operating systems, search engines, or social networks, if at all, are entirely separate questions. Most American households have only one option for high-speed Internet service; nobody has to move to a different city to use a different search engine.
> Sure. But there's always a gain, regardless.

Not true. Suppose you buy a stock for $5 on Jan 1 2016. It rises to $20 on Jan 1 2016. If you sell on Jan 1, you make 15x.65 9.75. If you hold until Jan 2 and the price declines by $1 to $19, you make 14x.85=11.9.

Hence, you're better off holding till the next day, even though the stock goes down.
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