skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and all those biases apply to people on HN too - You (the proverbial) aren't good at making assessments either. Also, flipping it for arguments sake, how come software companies are never penalized for introducing software bugs? How would you like it if an accountant wanted to send you to jail because you introduced a security bug and their critical data got wiped out and they went out of business? Or should we go back to blaming them for not having backups because we have an a-priori assumption that "shit happens" when it comes to software? Well, the other side could say 'shit happens' too.
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> people with no power spend a lot of time wondering what powerful people think

While this sounds "obvious", I don't think that someone in financial or personal trouble is spending a lot of time philosophising about what rich people are thinking. They're more likely focused on their problems at hand. But even if I grant you that ...

> so they tend to have a good understanding of what powerful people think

... How does that logically follow from the first statement? Just because someone spends a lot of time thinking about something doesn't mean that they're correct in their conclusions. Conspiracy theorists spend an insane amount of time thinking about what "the powers that be" are thinking about. Does that mean they're correct in their conclusions? No, their conclusions are tainted by their own biases.

> And that's where you get the trope of women being mysterious creatures, whereas women seem to understand men perfectly.

Assuming the trope was actually accurate, how do you explain that powerful women also have the same trait? Why don't very poor men understand women perfectly? It's almost as though evolutionary psychology plays a role, rather than this less-power-makes-you-more-empathetic model.

Also, I don't understand how this isn't a sexist view, saying that "women understand men incredibly well because they spend a lot of time thinking about men, while men don't spend nearly as much time thinking about women."

> The same logic applies to bosses and workers.

Do you honestly think that workers understand bosses better than bosses understand workers? I find that generally both groups misunderstand each other in equal quantities. Also arguably bosses might understand workers better because most bosses have been workers but most workers haven't been bosses.
As a software developer, why would I want to get better at software estimation? At best, it means that I can give a rough comparison of the engineering effort required for different projects, which means that I get projects with a positive ROI (which still takes office politics to translate into actual career success, but it's still helpful). At worst, it yields power and control over my work life for no good benefit.

I'd get good at estimating in a hurry if you flipped the locus of control. Make management generate importance points, give me freedom to choose projects given importance points, and make importance points per engineer-week a Key Performance Indicator.
>"on HN, the mods are directly responsible for the chilling effect. they censor anyone who doesn't tow the company line, or has any kind of strong dissenting opinion ..."

What is the company line exactly? Is it just maintaing agreement with YC-backed companies?

I hadn't heard about the shadow bans, are they only on submissions or commenting too?
The liability wouldn't be with the RNC or Deep Root; the liability would be on the entity that actually published the information. That's if you consider this to meet the legal definition of publishing (the legal definition of libel, as I understand it, is "to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film...").
Co-evolved with herbivores to damage carnivores? Insidious!

There's probably a way to check for that.
Wow, almost like double the memory bandwidth helps performance. If you want a fair comparison wait for thread ripper.
Huh? They have a booth selling China mobile SIMs, but they might offer Unicom also (important if you have a GSM phone) inside customs, I believe it is 24 hours, for most international airports.

The SIM is pay as you go, you can refill it at most newspaper stands.
I see your point. But I'll take the liberty to use part of your comment as my own response: "You can certainly find snippets that are simpler in Ruby than in Python, and vice-versa". Now that is something I 100% agree with (I added the part after the comma btw).

Basically what I'm saying is that the differences are very minor compared to differences vs, for example, other languages (Java, Scala, C++, etc). So from that perspective there's not much to complain about. I just have a slight bias towards Ruby, I find it a little more readable (in a small way).
The author is a famous highwire artist probably best known in the US for walking a wire between the WTC Twin Towers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
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Trump only has "signaling authority" over the entities with whom the RNC contracts; he can't actually force a contract termination, but he can express distrust in an entity and encourage the RNC to terminate a contract. I don't see that happening, for a myriad of reasons.

The people involved with the decision to start working with Deep Root are mostly not with the RNC anymore. Even if they were, that's simply not how the industry works.
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Libel, in the US, requires the publisher to either known the claim is false ormto publish it with reckless disregard for the truth when it is, in fact, false; I don't think that there is anyway that this could be construed to meet that, no matter what legal theory as to who the liable publisher is you use.
The results of data science models are contained in the data dump, and those are non-public. The rest of the information is accessible via public records or registries maintained by states.
I wonder if this is a fault with Western negotiators. Many of the Eastern countries will tolerate a lot as long as it is not publicized and explicit. But, if you try to get them to publicly agree to something where they may lose face, then they will adopt a hard line.

I wonder what issues, Western countries are blundering into currently in that regard.
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For many years I've been fond of Debian and have used it for side hobby projects. But I've had to use Ubuntu and Fedora for real work because I need a modicum of certainty about the intervals between releases.

I acknowledge that Ubuntu's rigid release-every-6-months, LTS-every-24 is impractical for a volunteer project with high standards. But without any firm timeline it's impossible for me to plan and use Debian in production.

For example, a commitment that releases will always be spaced somewhere between 6 and 24 months, would go a long way.
I recall from primatology lectures that a majority of violence is not triggered by a scarcity of resources but by friction in social ranking. I also recall a lecture by Sapolsky where he talk about this successful peace negotiator which focused on mutual respect, understanding and a feeling of kinship rather than negotiating about borders and resources.
That's an interesting point, thank you for spotting this. I believe there are many ways you can play around with this extension and draw your own conclusions.

In your particular example, it made me realise that if we were to pay for items with our time we would need some sort of anchor (something to compare to). Perhaps, I would thing along the lines: "Oh, I would need to work 2 weeks to get this Super UHD. Or, I could just work for 1 week and get this simpler UHD. That would save one week of my life. Perhaps I could go on a short holidays? Yeah... let's go for the simpler version".
Are you referring to the midwest of the United States? Where are these "vast lands" that are unsuitable to farming? The wind farms are being build right in the middle of what is arguably the best farm land on the planet.

Source: I live on that farm land, and I have a turbine ~3000' from my bedroom window.
Windows is moving to support ARM but the applications are not which was the original problem with Windows on ARM.

And in the business world backwards compatibility is everything.
I won one from Sparkfun and just recently started using it. I have some experience developing on embedded platforms.

The unit I have was a pain to flash the first time. I guess something got corrupted at some point and I had to recover with a very unreliable process from a Debian box. That said after the first flash, everything install wise has been wonderful.

The development environment is great for my purposes, however setup was non-trivial. Had I not been comfortable in eclipse I doubt I could have gotten the ld flags set correctly, or changed the c++ std for the compiler.

I love being able to upload code over wifi.
> What other examples are there?

Off the top of my head, so all my counterexamples will be British, but here are a few US tech companies who built missing features for major players - whereas in other countries the major incumbents just built it themselves:

* Venmo - real-time money transfer (the UK equivalent is the bank-run Faster Payments Scheme)

* Intuit - Self-service tax filing (most UK tax is done for you. If you do have to file, you fill out a straightforward online form ["I earned £___ this year"] and enter your card details. Job done.)

* Instacart - Online grocery shopping (a standard service from incumbent supermarkets, eg Tesco/Sainsbury/Waitrose/...)

* Apple Pay - Electronic payments more secure than magnetic stripe (most of the world had chip cards ~10yrs ago; the French had them in the 1980s.)

I'd say that's a pattern. It's not that the US economy isn't dynamic, it's just...weird.
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Thanks, though that doesn't change my impression of mz from our interaction, which I listed.

Since we're on HN: I don't see how it's fundamentally different from people who fail for years to raise money, until they finally do. My interaction with GP is from not that long ago. They're a smart, clear writer and I hope they resolve their housing situation soon. Then, if they ever want to do a startup they'll be better at it than most people, based on my interaction. They've also studied GIS, though I'm not sure if they want to work with it or in a different field. I am confident they can resolve their housing issue and I believe in them. By the way Elon Musk lived in an office and took showers at a YMCA.[1] That meets the definition of homeless.

If you want a chance to back the next elon musk, invest in whatever mz does whenever they're ready to take money (though I'm not sure if they have any such intentions - but surely there's a reason they're on this site).

mz, I hope this reply is not out of place and again, I hope you resolve your housing issue soon. I am basing my opinion of you based on an interaction with you and based your writing, which is all anyone gets if someone sends a pitch deck, emails, or business plan. you might have huge difficulty and perhaps its stretched for years but I believe you will go through it based on your talent and abilities. you can do it. go.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+showers+ymca
What would you do with the bike thieves you catch? Fines mean nothing to the career petty criminals, and jailing people for petty theft leads to hopeless US style mass incarceration.
Is there a good way to find people who are qualified to do such a review? This paper was written by a Ph.D. student and professor of Computer Science at a respected university. The professor teaches a crypto course on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/applied-cryptography--cs387). If they don't meet the criteria for being cryptographers, I wonder how many people in the world do?
Of course they're reasonable. But problematic large scale data breaches are not a new problem. The last financial crisis was almost a decade ago, and yet we haven't developed a new culture of organizational responsibility since, despite the massive societal costs.

Not to make overly sweeping generalizations, but 'hold on, let's think through all the ramifications here instead of being too hasty' is a great way to maintain the status quo while avoiding any responsibility for it. Who benefits? It sure ain't the general public.
I guess an example might be that the NSA has access to other partners information (e.g non-five eyes like Germany) and doesn't want their DB folks to be able to see that they are quering against the databases (e.g Merkels phone number)
>The people of Hong Kong were not party to the discussions, nor were they consulted about the final decision, which had a profound effect on their futures and freedoms.

For me it is another moral failure of the British.
It's at least as complicated as all of mathematics, in the worst case.
In snaps defence, they make it very clear that it's sponsored and you can skip it (immediately) the same way you skip any other story (sponsored or otherwise). It's really not a huge deal in my opinion.
> Also when CS happened, JS didn't even have classes.

And it only has class syntax now. Classes in JS are still prototypical inheritance under the hood (and probably always will be).

> Half of the ES6 features are CS inspired.

This is rewriting history. Most of ES6 was under active development before CS was a thing. It's more accurate to say that the same modern languages features inspired both (with ES6 thankfully being less Ruby-like).
Is there an efficient way on x64 to guard the stack pointer or program pointer? Maybe using hardware breakpoints? freeRTOS has such an option.
Privacy Mythbusting #1: Nobody else cares about privacy (Umm, yes they do.)
the idea that a job is something someone has to "bother to" create and hand to you already buys into the same sort of stratified inequality that you are complaining about with charity. if either way you have to depend on the people with capital and ownership to get money, how is being made to do something for it any better than being given it via the government taxing them and paying you a basic income?

also i'm afraid i had to stop reading that blog post at "poor women cranking out babies", because i seriously cannot engage with that sort of thinking right now. however, i will address your earlier point about ubhc being better than ubi - why are you framing it as an either/or thing? ubhc is absolutely the end goal of a civilised society, but it doesn't obviate the need for a basic income, nor does a basic income presuppose the rest of the existing setup continues unchanged.
This explains a lot.
That's crazy growth however if they can't handle the growth, they shouldn't tell them to wire them money. They should update the site instead of noting turnaround times in hours instead of days and weeks.
I'm guilty of this. I have a project I'd like to open source and it's currently using a blend of MySQL and Mongo. I plan on moving it over to Postgres before publishing its source.

I've been mostly happy using MySQL for relational things and Mongo where it makes sense, but there is a certain amount of overhead in setting up and configuring multiple different types of datastores. Securely deploying Mongo in particular is a minefield, and expecting other people to be willing to learn the nuances of this stuff seems like more work than just saying "use Postgres".
I understand the difference in timescales; I just don't see that much difference in the principle. Either it's reasonable to attract people based on free stuff and then monetize or it's not. I would agree that what is happening here is a dark pattern, but it's a dark pattern that has been the foundation for much of what people enjoy for "free" on the modern Web as well, so it doesn't seem particularly surprising to me that someone would try the same idea in a much accelerated process.
I'd compare this to Unison [1,2] where they combine register allocation and instruction scheduling into a single phase using combinatorial optimization. Usually you have to choose one before the other.

[1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-03//assets/slides/register_alloc...

[2] https://www.sics.se/~rcas/publications/CastanedaCarlssonEa_C...
It's not the only thing I'd like to change. Besides which, there is already a movement in progress to bring about another article V convention and I'm guessing the goal of the proponents is drastic rather than minimal alteration. Here's a recent summary article on developments:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-surprisingly-cl...
Metasploit is free software. We're talking about a commercial enterprise deliberately profiting from enabling surveillance.
> The dash cam videos would be correct, outside of high-occupancy lane (2+ people) there are no lane speed restrictions, and if someone feels like getting into the left-most lane and driving 5 miles below the speed limit, they most certainly act on that impulse.

Depending on state there are laws about using left lanes only for passing, which implies you must be travelling faster than the lane to your right. Those laws are rarely enforced though.
The schism between our science and politics is finally getting airtime. Liberal western politics are based on individual liberty and free will. However, mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will. Do we try to reconcile both views? Or do we drop one in favor of the other?

This, by the way, is also the subject of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by the same author behind Sapiens.
And a fraction of the security problems? Nobody misses the Sun update dialog.
I don't agree that that's the only option, but I think selling offensive security technology is so complicated and fraught that I'll never do it myself. So, "don't sell to governments" is definitely one viable option.
HN Feature Request: Select Reason for Down Vote
Sometimes, it's really frustrating trying to figure out why people are down voting some comment.

It would be very helpful if we had a pull down menu (or something like that) to select the Reason for down vote, from a fixed list, e.g:

(some of these are sarcastic or cynical -- signs of my own frustration)

- comment is irrelevant to the topic.
- comment contains a profanity.
- commenter has angry tone (suppress emotions FTW! [sarcasm]).
- commenter has cynical tone (bury passive aggressive behavior rather than be curious).
- commenter said something I didn't agree with.
- commenter said something in another thread that I didn't agree with and I hold grudges.
- I woke up on wrong side of bed today.
- prefer not to say.
- etc...

In addition to reducing frustration on both sides by giving the ability to communicate the reason for each down vote, we'll be able to do meaningful analytics and understand each other better.

Why not add the feature?
The Republican party actively recruits incompetency and actively sabotages the system. It's a blatantly racist, classist, anti-democracy party at this point. The voter disenfranchisement they engage in is widespread. The nutty conspiracy theories about voter fraud, all involving brown people, is widespread. It's become the party that's questioning democracy now that democracy means people like them aren't winning elections, so they have to engage in the craziest methods of gerrymandering, voter registration purging, barriers to voter registration, and actively dissemination of factually incorrect information.

<i>But when the time came to pay up for risk reduction in the Obamacare exchanges, Congress reneged and paid only 12% of what was owed to the insurers.</i>
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/im-a-former-health-insuranc...

They pull shenanigans like this all the time.
Those are actually questions I'm actively exploring.

Some recent discussion (from myself and others) on this G+ thread:

https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/267XsJzKM5B

I've discussed Gresham's Law dynamics numerous times at my subreddit/blog. See particularly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h63fp/is_gres...

I've been meaning to write up a bit expanding market price dynamics beyond the set of goods that Adam Smith defined: labour, capital, commodities, rents, and (indirectly) interest.

In particular, the question of risk pricing, which is treated almost wholly as a financial question rather than an economic one.

The question of pricing under duress is a key one -- the Backward-'S' bending supply curve is a curious economic anomaly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/53mcxn/backwar...

Also the behaviour of natural resource stocks under supplier pressure -- the price will fall to the lowest levels possible, and supplied volume will increase, if possible, for a number of highly perverse reasons. The collapse of oil prices following the East Texas oilfield discovery, from ~$1/bbl to first $0.13/bbl, then $0.02/bbl, before wellhead production was siezed at force of arms by the Oklahoma and Texas national guard, and Texas rangers, comes to mind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6etqey/oil_is_...
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Thanks, that's a fair point. I do value user freedom and also come from the R language where GPL rules among packages. It's true though that Rust crate culture leans much more to MIT.

I think GPL3/MIT as a dual license should be a decent compromise.
> The downvotes are likely because the GP doesn't add much to the conversation. It's an uninspiring one-liner that a grade schooler might say because their parents told them the government is incompetent.

That sounds a bit too specific. Why would somebody go so low to call you uninspiring in grade school out of all places?

There is a difference between making a meaningful conversation and having a conversation just to spew gibberish.

The intelligent individuals are well aware that discussing this is a waste of time -- you can save the generic 'Well maybe if we talked about it the DEA would change!' for your friends.

To demonstrate how out of touch the rest of your comment is; we need to take one simple thing into consideration:

The DEA was working with Mexican authorities, and the information was classified across two parties. They have no obligation to share anything with you, especially when the Mexican government is involved.

That information is above your pay grade and for a very, very good reason.
On the other hand Phillip DeFranco mentioned about a month ago that he had recieved an offer from a "big media company" to produce content for them.

It seems very plausible that Time Warner was this big media company. It then follows that if DeFranco is the type of content creator they are looking to to bring on then this new initiative with Snap Inc and Time Warner could prove very successful in bringing in young people to their platform.
It goes a lot further than that. People that are afraid are not rational, it is a lot easier to get them to agree to things that are not exactly in their interests if you can spook them first and then promise that these little changes to society will make them feel safer again.