skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A systematic study, oh ok which study is that then - there is no link provided ?

The link you provided is just one persons essay.

And sometimes people sell for other valid reasons, they need the cash even though they think its still a good long term investment.

The original point was that yahoo and marissa meyer hardly set the business world alight by holding (not even buying), just holding, alibaba shares.
> look at any Budweiser commercial and tell me it isn't a subtle play to insecure masculinity

I'll happily tell you it isn't subtle.
How do you stay organized (apps, routines, etc)? Need something new
Open to any recommendations
Did anyone read the second paragraph? The vile conjecture contained within is based on a report that concludes with "moderate confidence" that NK might have had something to do with WannaCry...

Did you skim over that detail? How many other people did too? How many other articles are there like this?

"...that point with “moderate confidence” to North Korea’s spy agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, according to an individual familiar with the report."
I suggest signing up for Recurse Center retreat in NYC and learning something new that excites you. Like crypto, AI, AR or VR.

They are not a school, they're a retreat where expert coders and beginners meet and work on self-directed cool stuff. Amazing community and brilliant founders. You only need to provide a place to stay for yourself.

I did that. It was a good.

Besides learning a new language which enabled me to launch my next start-up a month after Recurse Center program was done, I also met few amazing people and programmers that I consider good friends now.
I would like to stop, but the devil is in the details.

Facebook is used for many social and business events. I get a lot of work via contacts that come through facebook. Withought it I'm certain I would miss out on some of these. I'd also miss out on keeping up with family abroad.

Do you have any suggestions?
Re (1), it is worth noting that the GP didn't say the US was actively targeting civilians. The GP said "dropping missiles and bombs on civilian populations abroad". You are in agreement with that multilevel nonsense.
There's 20+ pounds of corn in a gallon of ethanol. That gives popcorn quite a bit of runway (it isn't the same corn, but I guess the dollars/acre work out okay for popcorn).
Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species
Why is the revenue generating argument weak? Even Kasperky who was unsure of the author is leaning towards it being NK.
Trips don't fit neatly into a good/bad dichotomy. There are certainly cases where people get very overwhelmed and simply aren't prepared for the experience, but even in those cases, many take something valuable away from it. Sometimes things get worse before they get better.

I'm not saying that all trips are 'actually good' or some such. But it's not like you're rolling the dice; pretty much every 'bad' experience can be attributed to doing too much and/or doing it in a bad setting or with a poor mindset. And even in those cases, some basic prep to learn to not resist the trip, to just go with it, can make recovery quite achievable.

Basically, some of the more 'difficult' trips can also be among the most valuable. To use acid 'correctly' (I disagree with this idea), you simply have to be prepared for whatever comes your way. You may confront some personal demons, but if you're ready to face that, then the benefits from doing so are enormous.
I don't work at a "star name" company, but it's in the Bay Area. $150k (+/- a few percent) is the typical base for Senior and Lead Engineer positions here. I don't know if that's typical for "not star name" places, though.

And most developers are definitely underpaid relative to the value we provide. From shabby CRUD through deep machine learning research, we're generally underpaid. Partly it's our own collective fault, though: as a group we're told constantly that passion for the product and satisfaction at "being paid [anything] for doing what you love" should be enough, and enough of us buy that crap that it effectively depresses wages.
An interesting read. However, there are many differences of regulation across state lines. For example, insurance is quite fractious (pun intended). I'll bet there's some way to innovate, even if politicians haven't stumbled across it yet. Perhaps the trick is to avoid calling it welfare, just as "credit default swaps" stayed unregulated because they pretended to not be insurance.
I occasionally wonder if something like this would significantly improve our education systems, where part of our schooling includes tutoring / teaching someone from the next year.
I'm not sure how to parse the tone of your post, but assuming you're asking somewhat seriously -- of course. And it's not always NK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398 (see report by Mandiant a few years ago).

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...

Fun for everyone. ('fun' with a big /s)
Yes, perhaps China.

Or perhaps, a goal is making China look bad. Or as you say, Bitcoin.
Ex-Apple hardware repair tech turned ThinkPad X1C5 owner. Thoughts on switching
Stay fresh. Opportunity is always always there what changes is who is involved. GL at home.
These people are not particularly good at interpreting statistics.
> I've said it before here, and I'll say it every time it's relevant

What makes this one of those times?
Thanks for saying so! As you can probably tell I had a lot of fun writing it so I'm extra glad you enjoyed it.
You're not. von Rossum has to maintain Python 2.7 as part of his day job.

Things I still have in Python 2.7:

- Code that runs on low-end shared hosting. There's a Python 3, but it's 3.2, the least-compatible version. No "six", and "u'xyz' isn't allowed.

- ROS, the Robot Operating System. Python 3 support is coming, but it's not really here yet.

I converted over the dedicated servers and some IoT stuff a year ago.

The types stuff probably should have been called Python 4, not Python 3.6. Those are major language changes. The optional-types-that-are-not-checked thing seems a bad idea. I can see having checked types; that allows some important optimizations. When you know something is a machine type, such as an int or float, you don't have to box it. But the feature of type declarations without checking is a foot gun.
OP might have meant when Facebook exhibits another attribute closely resembling a skinner box [1]. Or the use of their platform as a world scale behavioral analysis experiment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

"An operant conditioning chamber permits experimenters to study behavior conditioning (training) by teaching a subject animal to perform certain actions (like pressing a lever) in response to specific stimuli, such as a light or sound signal. When the subject correctly performs the behavior, the chamber mechanism delivers food or another reward. In some cases, the mechanism delivers a punishment for incorrect or missing responses."

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10708590/facebook-google-a...

"Facebook made its Android app crash to test your loyalty"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/12161461/Facebook-addiction-...

"Facebook addiction ‘activates same part of the brain as cocaine’"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911...

"Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

"Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users' Emotions For Science"

https://twitter.com/niftyc/status/482925976251154432

"#facebook emotional contagion study effect sizes are small--probably nobody was driven to suicide. #jokingnotjoking http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full …"
Was there a time, and if so was this throwaway FB account part of it, when you could only sign up to Spotify with a FB account? I was a paying member of Spotify for about two years and my account wasn't tied to FB but Spotify had already been around for a few years prior.
There's obvious abstract reasons why they should stop using it:

1. Facebook knows about all of your interactions on Facebook, and they probably know what you are buying and what sites you visit through tracking mechanisms. In real life we call those people stalkers.

2. What utility are they really getting? Is keeping up with every part of your friend's life (or the good parts they show you) really worth the stress and anxiety of feeling like you are missing out? It's fake utility. People somehow existed for something like 300,000 years without this utility, so what value is really there?

That being said, it's designed to get people addicted and the immediate "utility" is a lot stronger than any abstract worries, so there's probably nothing you can say.
Hayek in His Own Words
Not really. Very few attacks dedicate enough effort to evasion or anti-forensics to be completely untraceable.

There are plenty of things that get reused such as public keys that can be reliably tied to a group. There are also many private indicators that are not released to the general public Discovering who funds that group or where they operate from can be tougher, but APT groups are trackable.
> exactly is pro-North Korea that the US is trying to sway ?

What if the point is not to sway any "pro-North Korea" people, but to make as many as possible "anti-North Korea".

It will be much easier to justify a war with them that way, because, you know, the US needs someone to go to war with next.
Very cool study on the loss of magic. There has always been anecdotal advice floating around about how to regain the 'magic', but it's good to have some empirical evidence on what actually works.

One of the odd factors that I've heard of but didn't see listed was the "someone new" factor. It maybe somewhat related to the "close friend" factor. Basically, some people claim to regain some magic if you do it with someone you just recently met or reconnected with who has a low tolerance (as opposed to doing it with someone you're already familiar with). Maybe its the empathy combined with the pleasure of making a new friend...

I've heard it makes a difference... but nothing beats supplements and tolerance breaks IMO. lol

We definitely need more studies like this-- there's still so much we don't know about MDMA.
Props for collaborating to make ACME v2 an actual Internet Standard.

So many of the things we use today use custom APIs that can change on a whim. That makes me sad.
Wait, seriously? I thought pawadu was joking. There's actually an accepted standard for color ordering on pie charts?
The OPs point is very clear. Js encryption has a lot to do to prove itself before it should be trusted with production secrets.

Furthermore weak encryption is worse than no encryption if it encourages dangerous behavior.

I would add that dropping ssl because you are using something like this would be dangerous behavior.
Ask HN: Vested options with 500K strike price. What can I do?
I have been at my current company for over 4 years. When I joined, I was offered stock options with high strike price which would cost me about $500K to exercise. At that time, I was hoping that the stock price would go up by the time it vests, and a 100% gain in the stock price would net me a decent amount of money.

However, after 4 years the company is still marching on at the same stock price, still in private mode with only internal investments(no outside funding).

We expect to become profitable in another two years in optimistic scenario, and things may change then (outside investment / ipo etc.).

Is waiting till another two years my only option ? Or is there anything else I should considering, if I want to get out and explore other opportunities?

If I could get out without any loss, I want to explore a different area for a couple of years, to give more job flexibility in the future. Currently I am working in the area of my PhD with not a lot of flexibility to move around.

Suggestions appreciated.
Making a rough outline, _any_ outline of a series of steps over a period of time that you would take, to fix your biggest concern (source of income after one year) will take your sub-conscious problem-solver/worrier off the case. This will give you more presence of mind in the present moment. Which in-turn will help you to dig deep, really listen to your heart about the next journey in life you really want to undertake.

Perhaps, begin again.
Go to school for biology
I'd love to hear more about how it compares to other workflows. Is it worth the learning curve? There's a lot going on here, and a lot of overlap with more popular and widely used tools in the R world.

My small team is R-first and a big fan of the tidyverse, and we're exploring using Docker in tandem with tools like plumber (R package for building simple API's around R code) and pachyderm (language-independent, containerized data pipelining with straightforward cloud integration) for different projects. Does Syberia fit in nicely with these tools, or aim to replace them with its own set of conventions and philosophies?
>But by making Safety Check a default expectation Facebook flips the norms of societal behavior and suddenly no one can feel safe unless everyone has manually checked the Facebook box marked “safe”.

I'm not buying this statement. Where is the evidence of this? The article features two tweets from nondescript people stating they think the feature spreads unnecessary fear, but features no tweets from people who actually felt unnecessary fear. Are there any cases of people who felt afraid because their loved ones didn't check in even though they could have? Otherwise to me this argument is just speculation.
> after you fire someone, they don't impact your numbers anymore

They would if your measurement is incidences per month. Otherwise you could fire someone every day and think you're doing a good job at office culture. I'd rather not have any harassment. Of course, you'd need to be careful not to discourage reporting of incidences. Measuring things is tricky.

> Find an offender, fire them

What's your technique of "finding" problems? Could it be improved? How would you know?

> no gray area

Of course there is. How do you know when someone accidentally insinuated sex versus intended a salacious proposal? Or accidentally touched someone's rear while passing by? Because it happened 6 times in 2 days? What about 2 times in 6 months?
I started with arduino a few years ago as a hobby and loved it as an easy way to get into the field but lately I have been realizing how many terrible habits I've obtained by learning this way. It took me weeks to retrain my brain to prefer looking at schematics instead of the breadboard views and I'm still trying to learn atmel studio and directly programming chips. It's coming along but slowly.

I still think arduino is a great way for interested people to break into electronics but there is no clear 'line in the sand' when they should stop learning that way
turns out it's the only way to get their label to make any sense.

all one!

(fantastic soap, though)
Pretty sure BTC owners are only a small part of the shady people who got rich by any means.
I think you just described graduates of journalism school. (Before you downvote, check the curriculum of your favorite J-school.)
> The NSA was never given the mission to take on that defensive role you state.

It's both. James Clapper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper), former director of national intelligence, says the NSA has a review process to decide whether or not to disclose vulnerabilities to software vendors. Nothing in their mission prevents them from doing it. They're choosing not to do it.

Look at the slogan on the NSA's website (https://www.nsa.gov/): "Defending our Nation. Securing the Future". It's difficult to say with a straight face that they are defending the nation when they are willingly leaving domestic networks open to attack from zero days.

The NSA says (https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/) national decision makers "Must be able to outmaneuver those who would do us harm in cyberspace." How are you outmaneuvering anyone when you allow systems to remain open to harm?
Ok, I had to make a throwaway for this because apparently its a heated debate.

Why does everything Facebook do have to be so heavily criticized?

Safety Check is a wonderful feature. If I remember correctly, it started off as an internal hackathon project that got turned into a full feature. They get shit if they turn it on (here), and if they don't turn it on (past tragedies where they failed to turn it on).

Why does everything Facebook do turn into a riot? After years in the industry, 95% of things that are "bad" that come out of big companies end up being well meaning and just look malicious without context. Hanlon's razor is real.

Yeah, Facebook has to fund all this somehow. Yeah, they are going to make their ad space extremely valuable with all the information they have. They don't sell your raw data. They sell access to you like the rest of the industry.

Those creepy ads that you saw based on some conversation you had? Turns out that they're NOT listening to your mic or whatever. It's either confirmation bias or something you're not thinking about.

Those friends that they suggest with a new account? Turns out your friends posted pictures of you on Facebook, and Facebook knows how to do facial recognition.

It feels like everything Facebook is overblown on HN. What am I missing?

Edit: I should have said this originally, but I'm a former Facebook employee, now at another big tech company. I try not to be too controversial in writing, which is why I made a throwaway.
>"and things like this are to a large extent driven by demand for such features in the wake of previous tragedies/disasters, after setting up impromptu groups or check-in mechanisms"

Do you have a citation for this claim that 'FB is just answering the demand'?

>"It's not a simple problem to solve."

Who asked them to solve it?
Are you kidding me? All trading schools are scams ran by con artists - this is what my profile says in a nutshell...
> Facebook knows about all of your interactions on Facebook, and they probably know what you are buying and what sites you visit through tracking mechanisms.

So what? I mean that earnestly - why is it inherently bad if a company knows a lot about me?

> What utility are they really getting? It's fake utility.

Do you really believe that easily keeping up with friends is "fake" utility? You really think that billions of people log on to a website every day that provides no "real" utility?

> People somehow existed for something like 300,000 years without this utility, so what value is really there?

People existed for a long time without the the lightbulb, automobiles, the wheel, computers, etc. You're basically arguing that there can't be any utility in anything new.
"Intuitive" in this context means "intuitively practical."

Besides which, that may be intuitive to programmers like us, but it's definitely not intuitive to the average person.
Please stop, if you don't want to try, it doesn't mean it is not possible... the truth is that the market efficient hypothesis is not valid and there are plenty examples of people beating the market consistently
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> However 97 are worryingly labelled “not marked as safe yet”.

That's the problem.

It should be a positive notification only, without any negative one. People can say they are safe (I see value in that). But facebook should not say anything at all if someone has not declared themself safe.
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Where do we apply for the above role ?
It wasn't long ago that Facebook was being criticized for not enabling Safety Check:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/15/facebook-says-it-will-enab...

>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the company turned on its safety feature for Paris but not for Beirut and other bombings.
UTF-8 isn't CPython's default encoding for strings. The internal encodings are ASCII, UTF-16, or UTF-32, depending on the widest character in the string.

I would have made UTF-8 the internal representation, and generated an array of subscript indices only when someone random-accessed a string. If the string is being processed sequentially, as with

for c in s :
...

you don't need an index array. You don't need them for list comprehensions or regular expressions. One could even have opaque string indices, returned by search methods, which don't require an index array unless forcibly converted to an integer. Some special cases, such as "s[-1]", don't really need an index array either.
The combination of a wildly successful company, not caring about privacy, and a (formerly) bombastic founder. It's the perfect storm for HN shitposting.

They have an enormous target on their back and could never do anything right. They got ripped for not enabling safety check recently too. https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/15/facebook-says-it-will-enab...
I think we have a difference in vocabulary. I would say value and equilibrium market price refer to the same thing, but you are saying it is the particular use it has to the individual which is of course not quantifiable. Assuming the person who's had no water has access to a functioning market they will only pay market price. Arguing about them perceiving it to have a higher value seems like a pointless philosophical argument.
Thanks for the metaphor, I indeed use tabs as a generational collector.
That's an interesting idea. Some quick googling and I found there seem to be a number of CMS systems for libraries, some open source, some vendor/closed. That got me thinking that another angle on this would be to write the curator part (e.g. some ML model trained on reader preferences), and provide that as a SaaS to end-users. But I see that something similar already exists[1]... of course.

1 - http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
FB has apparently realised that the safety/security argument is extremely powerfully persuasive, and can be used not just to take away freedoms as is usually the case, but to increase profits.

I am probably in the extremely small minority of individuals who don't think of safety and security as a universal good, but as only one of many possibly desirable properties to be weighted and contrasted with others. Coincidentally, I also do not use FB.
He showed up on Reddit saying he's finding ways to return the excess back to creditors in case price stays over 100% claims at the time of distribution.

https://www.reddit.com/user/MagicalTux/
I think it's more like "there is your bogeyman, stop looking at us".
State election website exposes 15GB unsecured data including passwords/software
This is tangential but somewhat related. I'd like to see a day when if someone publishes something on their personal account (not official work account) whether it be social media, private conversation, etc. that those actions not affect their "life for hire" (work) life.

That's the way it has been for ages (what one would say in one's private time was detached and unrelated to public time).

I hope we can get there because humans are not perfect and we will always say regretful things. Things which if held to account as if representatives of a company would carry different weight. People should be able to voice their own opinion separately divorced from their "professional persona".

In other words, someone from UAL when in "uniform" should conduct themselves professionally --but once they go home and don their personal attire and their personal opinion (even if negative) should not affect their professional standing. For example, flight attendant has to deal with egotistical high profile passenger --as a professional they should be able to handle things gracefully, but once they get home as a private citizen they should be able to say "I had to deal with a nasty traveler today" without the company coming down and saying "don't demean our paying customers even if they mistreat you, that is unbecoming, you are fired".
Sandman: an application for insomniacs