skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I lost account access to Facebook, I'd create a new account and build my network again.

If Facebook permits you to do so. They don't have to let you, and it is within their power to stop you. Whether they choose at this time to exercise such power seems to me less important than that they can, and that it's only up to you whether you participate in Facebook's privileged access to your friends, family, loved ones, and confidants, insofar as Facebook suffers it to be.

> Except in this case it's not a generic protocol but a specific service. That's probably more the issue with facebook/twitter than anything else. They created a closed ecosystem that people rely on not a protocol that can be implemented by anyone.

Yes, that's the point I'm making. They - and here I mean mainly Facebook, which is the only one of those two actually thriving - created a closed ecosystem which is entirely mediated at the whim of its creator, whose motives and methods are almost entirely obscure. And it has over a billion people using it - for many of whom it's the primary medium of social interaction.

That one relatively small and relatively secretive private corporation should have such astonishing insight into, and power over, the social interactions of such a significant fraction of the human species as a whole, is a new thing in history. To be sure, we live in an era of such novelties. But I think it's reasonable to question the worth of this one, as compared with the extent of damage it might be able to do.

That's why - while I'm not horrified by your choice - it would horrify me to realize, in retrospect, that I had inadvertently made such a choice in my own life. To the extent it is a choice, of course - when, as my own experience demonstrates, while one may indeed demur, to do so often incurs a peculiar new sort of social nonexistence by way of punishment.

None of this is simple, just as nothing else is, and I don't mean to suggest that only your choice, and not mine, bears a potential cost. It's only that, while I know in very real terms what my choice cost, the cost of yours has been a very abstract thing to me - as I said before, I've never actually used Facebook. I suppose the way you described it just brought it home to me in a way nothing had before.
TL;DR: It's the same as Amazon Mechanical Turk, but aims for higher quality by screening the people performing the tasks.
It is certainly correct that DHS, and to some extent our government generally, is known for over-classifying things either out of laziness, desire to avoid embarrassment, or because they believe that anything remotely security related needs to be hidden. As an intelligence analyst, you likely didn't see the misclassified things (I'd imagine roughly everything you did was classified for good reason). It's the political officials who are more likely to over-classify.
Realtime request/response monitoring middleware for Koa, Koa2 and Express
> You only have to be willing to read out some text for few minutes, once, to train the model.

I guess that's what kills it as practical in the real world.
If I'm asked to do more than a few hours of work for an interview, I expect to be paid for my time. It's unfair and disrespectful that an employer would ask for a large amount of time (like the requirements in the post) without paying for that time. Of course there are ways to be tactful about it, without directly stating it, but it's not unreasonable to get paid for a large amount of work.
The third-party 'regex' library is aiming to finish off what needed to happen there. It's a drop-in replacement for 're', and adds some important things like implementing the Unicode grapheme-matching rules.
Yes, I love tuning my /etc/hosts as well. In case anyone is curious: https://pastebin.com/raw/4cUS8r8W
Well, for whatever reason, they stole more equipment more recently. Could be that the new stuff is more advanced, or maybe we bombed the gear they took from Mosul. I don't have more details that would provide insight.
This article isn't at all about how sad the author is. It's a fairly abstract essay about the rise of alogorithmically-defined identity, and some of the ramifications of that.
> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.

This is the crux of the challenge.

Plenty of people are concerned about Facebook, not only for privacy concerns but also for its impact on public discourse. [1]

But any viable alternative must be mindlessly easy.

Salim Virani’s suggestion of phone and email instead of Facebook works in part — replacing Facebook as a messaging medium — but it doesn’t address the use of Facebook as a personalized news feed informed by your social graph.

We need something better. Something with a good mission [2] but orders of magnitude better.

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alter...

[2]: https://diasporafoundation.org/
I wonder if it has something to do with trends in education. It seems like the only thing my generation ever did in high school English classes was learn how to write college application essays, the more personal, the better.
I have a long story of an interview I regretted where they talked me into spending far too much time building a skeleton application onsite, and in retrospect I know I should have just walked away as soon they tried setting up an IDE environment. I'm more likely to consider that a red flag in the future.
I may have mistaken electricity or running water for just running water, and any numbers are sketchy as they don't have a lot of trust in the federal government, but life in the SD reservations is fucked up. Lack of utilities, 25% of children are born with fetal alcohol syndrome, people are dying from packs of wild dogs, and ~90% unemployment. You could argue it isn't third world conditions, but a slow burning genocide.

http://www.4aihf.org/id40.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=shpx&comments=t

JumpCrisscross's comment about perfectionism being bad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729864 and pg with a similar thought https://twitter.com/paulg/status/855342574063800320
non-regretted departure?

Is that something like "Quit my job at Google, middle fingers in the air," or what?
Achieving Immortality by 2045 with AI and Biotech, Ray Kurzweil [video]
> I never was pressured to update my review, never asked to return the original unit, never solicited to buy more stuff. They seemed to have a genuine desire to make sure their customers are being served well, and that is the kind of thing that will make me a customer for life.

This is great, and behavious we should encourage. But lets not pretend this isn't a carefully manage strategy.

A company doesn't care about you. It cares about messages like this.
The author is clearly not paying any attention to any responses. To any HN readers, this is utter nonsense. If you choose to spend time trying to understand it, please then don't have wasted that time. Write up your conclusions and put a link to them so that when this gets posted again - as it will - we can simply point to your work.

The author continues to submit this repeatedly. I've replied in depth in the past, and the author has been given the same advice over and over again - factorise a large number that's known to be hard, and people will pay attention.

Here is one of my previous comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990371

I have no idea who has upvoted this and other submissions. I suspect sock-puppets.

See the comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345059

Author's posting history:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=subhendra

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bosons
Isn't this situation directly analogous to e.g. Uber? That isn't hard to understand, is it?
Indeed. Delaware and Northern California are about to get very, very busy.
> I mean, do true geeks prize "living in Japan"

True geeks, no. Many geeks, yes.
Lesson we learned before the original dot-bomb, both on the trip up and the path down:

You want your cube to be just slightly smaller than could uncomfortably fit two people. Otherwise, someday it will be uncomfortably fitting two people.
Respectfully, you are mistaken. Private airlines are "common carriers" and are required to play nice with the public, and you're conflating "whether the private carrier wouldn't want to take you" with "whether US CBP wants to see the contents of your laptop."

I actually filed suit over the former back in 2015. AA told me they wouldn't let me fly home unless I answered their "security questions." The case was resolved quickly when everyone (AA and DHS) did an about-face and said whoever told me I wouldn't be allowed to fly was mistaken.

https://professional-troublemaker.com/2015/02/23/corbett-sue...

The US may not refuse entry to its own citizens, even if they insist on remaining silent. They can detain you to be searched on arrival, but they must, after completing that search, admit you to the country.
I guess is my chance to tell my story.
I have been doing this job for a few years now. Driving all over the country, living in the truck, see the family one or two days a month, etc, etc. In summary not the best job but it allowed me to help my children.
Now, how have I spent all those long and boring lonely hours ? Learning to code, yeah!.
Always looking for something to do inside that truck, somehow started reading about computer programming, and, well, now I can't let go.
I used to work in accounting(long time ago), so had an idea of what it was, but that was it. Now I know a little bit about Angular2, Ionic, Django, Docker, github, and things like that, and even bought a PC and installed Ubuntu after reading the book How Linux works.
But what I really want express is this: It's amazing how much free learning material is offered by the open source community, and will never be able to thanks them enough.
And yes, my hope is to someday get a good programming job!
In my experience most computers support Linux pretty well now a days. Docks are a lot more hit or miss. I would recommend focusing on finding a dock that is explicitly Linux compatible, a choosing a computer to match it.
Exactly. Imaging devices all have blind spots, which is how I was able to defeat the TSA's body scanners in 2012.
Ceramic, glass and plastic knives can be extremely dangerous and yet they probably don't show up on these machines at all. The utility of these machines is questionable to say the least.

Bruce Schneier observed, like you did, that the heavily secured cockpit door is one of the only real improvements made to airplane security in the last few decades.
It will also require much more power and cooling this system will rise a cost and reduce stability of the system.
Note the clever way the researchers avoid the race vs. intelligence quagmire by limiting the study to those with european ancestry.
They have a dedicated state court for business issues, and a deep well of case law. The judges focus on these sorts of cases.

Patent cases are federal matters, so I don't think it applies there.
It's not potato pahtahto. Many US jobs are in competition with third world wages. If you raise wages 1000 dollars and increase cost of living 1000 it isn't a wash, since some companies might choose to outsource.
Reading this story made me curious as to why software companies haven't made an effort to exclude sales in that area. It seems like that would at least get you out of that jurisdiction.
They mention their portable batteries at airports. Is that allowed? I thought I heard spare lithium ion batteries were banned from planes, both checked and carryon.
Basically the same [1,2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/751178795323908096

[2]: https://nlpers.blogspot.com/2016/08/fast-easy-baseline-text-...
The Israeli model requires ethnic and religious discrimination. It is not an option in the US, nor should it be.
And yet, the press has done an about-face on Al Qaeda's, referring to its Syrian branch as 'Al-Nusra, a moderate rebel group.'

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that we are being primed for the CIA getting into bed with Islamist terrorists, in order to combat Russian influence in the Middle East. Again.
I have done simple math - one 1080 ti will cover costs for a only month or two on AWS.
At the same time, without those hard rules, people get pressured to overwork.
There are very few actually socialist countries at all. Almost every country right now is capitalist with varying tax rates.

Of the few truly socialist ones, the only one I wouldn't consider an outright failed state is China, and that's a can of worms unto itself.
What about TFS or Visual Studio Online through BizSpark?

https://bizspark.microsoft.com/
Fossils cast doubt on human lineage originating in Africa
It's "spying" when you're gathering data they didn't consent to give, like mining through their contacts, scanning running processes or uploading unrelated content from their computer. The browser User-Agent string is hardly classified information.
I'm not sure if you meant ocean farming or land farming, but most environmentalists oppose land fish farming because of the practices used to get fish meal are pretty destructive and impacts of concentrated penned animals (antibiotic use, waste, etc.) that affect all dense animal protein production.

http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/salmon-farming-problems/en...
Ww3 muslim bombings in manchester looks like alot of injuries
I appreciate the concise description of your worldview, but what of it? People still have to survive, and inescapable despair is really not a good tool for that.

It's one thing to state a premise, but they're usually expected to be accompanied by conclusions.
Americans shouldn't be competing with workers in third world countries. That behavior leads to a race to the bottom to see what country is willing to offer the cheapest labor, lowering the standard of living for everyone except the business owners.
I don't know how you'd get anything done since there are answers on Stack Overflow that solve problems that otherwise would involve hours to days of fussing to come up with the same non-intuitive solution.

All roads lead to Stack Overflow these days for progrmaming problems.
GTX 1070 8GB has the best performance/cost at May 2017 and a good laptop costs as much as an equivalent desktop at below $2k.
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"Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court after it heard arguments in the case and did not participate in the decision."

The last line in the article.
"What do you mean our competitor is using 'for' loops? We invented those!"
That article comes across as one massive ad hominem attack against the guy. It's fine if there's a "Controversy" section, but it's practically the whole article. There's just a little section at the end called "Notable contributions", but the massive first section ("Questionable activity") dominates---not to mention casts judgement on everything.

It was my first exposure to RationalWiki. Color me unimpressed. I'm all for skepticism, but it seems RationalWiki has a very particular agenda, as if the answers are all decided.

The Wikipedia article strikes a better balance, in my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Yes, and it is a good thing I merely said they had socialist-inspired policies, not that there were socialist countries.
It's like the transition from physical models to CGI in space SF - I don't think we've lost anything in the process

I would argue that it depends on the money spent. Cheap CGI looks just as bad as the physical models of a 70s Godzilla movie, IMO. And the comparison to movies about everyone's favorite fire-breathing lizard is apt because Godzilla's model were cheap, too. But no one watches Japanese mutant monster movies for the attention to detail in the model work.

OTOH, if you're going to argue that CGI bests the model work in 2001: A Space Odyssey, then we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
bargl asked aantix permission to directly quote them without the intro further downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395143

>Do you mind if I word for word quote your above to see if I get downvoted too? I want to repost with just the last two paragraphs to see what happens. I'm curious how this post would have been received without the intro.
Depends on who you care about. Facebook is really good at making you feel close to people who aren't really part of your life anymore.
This is nothing that can't be addressed through training. Questions on Stack Overflow with generic code actually get better responses than those bogged down with irrelevant details. You should strip out all labels, namess, even extraneous fields that don't matter. It makes for a more generic problem and solution pair that can help others as well, and eliminates the problem of leaking proprietary information.
You don't think so? China probably has even more to lose with automation. Automation means that fewer people will need to send their manufacturing over to them. Automation means that their factories will employ fewer people, which will have a much bigger impact given the sheer amounts of people they have.
Can Bitcoin’s cryptographic technology help save the environment?
welcome to the free market
> Imagine if someone showed up at your desk and told you that you couldn't write any more code because you'd already been coding X hours.

If there were a decent moment-to-moment shot of somebody dying because I was coding tired (rather than a future chance with a barrier of code reviews), it would be totally reasonable to put a really sharp barrier on reducing that risk.
Can't recommend this channel enough, Isaac Arthur opened my eyes.
They cost like $199 or less. It's an anoying tax, but they do offer a lot of options, so they're often worth it.
> Anyone even remotely close to fields like infosec, cyber security, or data engineering know that Facebook is quickly becoming a giant spider web for its users.

Exactly. Everytime I see a person using Facebook (so basically every day) I think: Gosh, again a guy or girl not getting paid and yet eager to work. What a world do we live in?
Given the scale of Stack Overflow, you'd think they could set up AAAA records that point to a proper TLS 1.3+ server and leave the peasants on IPv4 going to one that's more...accommodating.
Please explain "on the fringes".
> then forces every applicant to spend 5-10 generally unpaid hours completing it.

Multiply that by 4.
Intel Broxton Gets ASTC HDR Support in Mesa
In headlines maybe, the articles​ almost always include phrases like "as early as 20xx" that communicate the uncertainty.
This subsidy is going to take an interesting turn with vehicle electrification. Right now the lower the MPG, the more taxes you pay. Moving to a tax per miles driven is going to punish those that have the most efficient vehicles in a more upfront manner than it is today (Hidden in gasoline prices).
I cannot help but think that sounds like they are doing A/B testing on which strategy is more effective at making users change their reviews. Nothing wrong with that, btw.
Great point, I'm certainly oriented towards B2B by habit. There is definitely not a market for $50 a month personal SaaS products.
Well there is the public channel but there was initially a private channel recruited from the early public channel that was much better and more useful but we all got into redacted and things died down.
Ultimately, from a very long term perspective, one has to recognize that fossil fuels are not going to last forever -- at least in an economically viable form. The exact nature of when we (for all practical purposes) fossil fuels become economically too costly has been hotly debated over the years (it will be a while, sure) but since our economy is so dependent on them, I would view exploration of practical fossil fuel reduction as a win for this reason alone -- perhaps it is a matter less urgent than climate change, but it still is something to consider.

Yes, there are limits to extraction, but solar and wind power's advantage is that, location wise, it is viable in far more places than something like hyrdo power; it also can be set up in a more decentralized fashion which can be advantageous for some scenarios (remote areas with little existing infrastructure for instance). I've always thought that solar and wind's biggest challenge to overcome is more the non-continuous nature of that power source. At any rate at this time I don't think it's safe to predict what a long term solution might be or might not be. There probably is (as like now) no single solution that is right for every location.
My first reaction was a jaw dropping "Whaat?", but it really gets better: "In 1944, German soldiers constructing a bunker in Greece uncovered a fossilized jawbone." (from the WP link).

If we step away from this wonderland then it appears that so far there is a single jaw from Greece dated to be about 7.2 millions old and belonging to a unique primate specimen and there is a single tooth from Bulgaria believe belong to the individual from the same species from the same time period.

Consensus seems to be that unless more evidence is found then it is more convincing to believe in status quo. Involved parties are eager to look for further evidence.
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Except people left agriculture because they wanted to. They also didn't need much in specialized training (and the factories were more willing to provide that).

Seriously, tell us what jobs these truckers are going to go find.
I used both.
While Atlassian didn't included everything by default and misses lots of features (due to their plugin system which means that they don't necessary think they need to implement stuff) and Atlassian uses more resource and does not support git:// urls only the ugly ssh:// once.
If I think back I should've never switched from Jira+Stash+Jenkins, however we did the Switch to GitLab and somehow I'm not 100% happy. It's way way slower a lot of things in CE are just missing and the costs for our < 10 user company would be way higher with gitlab ee.
gitlab is easy to upgrade and the maintance feels a little bit more easy since jira/stash backup is way more complicated. however the jira is way better at managing issues (even the lightweight version of the boards is more simple and easier to use) and stash is extremly fast compared to anything on gitlab.
at the end everything has their tradeoffs, but I would prefer the Atlassian Stack since it never broke anything, while on GitLab we often run into issues (especially CI related)
"Women looked at individually do have some additional risk over your average man due to biology as well as the desire to actively mother children". Hmmmm....
This Chive article has some movie effects from the silent movie era. Scroll down for the Charlie Chaplin roller skating one, it's stunning.

http://thechive.com/2017/01/10/how-movie-effects-were-pulled...
The power consumption of a 1080 is actually lower than a 780 or 980, plus a 1080 Ti uses about 50W more power when pinned, so I'm not sure where you're coming from here.
Very excited about official gitlab Helm charts! Awesome work.

Just tried it out and was hit by the `gitlab` service not starting due to: "PersistentVolumeClaim is not bound, which was unexpected."

Shame, I'll try it in a few releases and see if it's improved.
IPFS https://ipfs.io/
The linked Consumerist article doesn't say

I imagine that's because the author was really just looking for an excuse to use that opening sentence. The rest was just filler.
I can only offer such views within the context of this particular article, to make the point that not all those wallowing in misery should dwell on instrospection, when there is a tidal force of nature beyond the individual drenching a broader collective in misery, for reasons beyond most anyone's control.

Even if you win the war with yourself, you'll still have an entire world to confont, but at least most of the problem wasn't even you to begin with. So at least there's that?
China's famous elevated bus is now just a giant roadblock
There is a third one where the deadline is knowingly set too low to see how you deal with time trouble.