skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scary case isn't the internet going down. The scary thing is the internet becoming to hostile a place.

When I can't reach the internet, all it takes is a new cable. When anything I connect to the internet is going to be infected and DDosed to oblivion, the fix is a lot harder.

The other scare is that some critical infrastructure is exposed but not widely known. This allows the infrastructure to develop resilience to unintended failures, but not malicious failures. When this finally gets found, carnage may happen. An interesting example of this is BGP.
Go into Incognito and see if they are showing up there. Google might show you files from Google Drive and other places because you are logged into your Google Account, but it may not show up for anyone else.
Usually what happens is people with extensive social networks and (now virtually worthless) property stay in the area, and their children leave for greener pastures. I have relatives in Western PA in a town that was built around oil and lumber. The oil and lumber are gone, and with them went all the jobs.

The people who live there now must be around 70 on average. At some point that town is just going to die and become unincorporated county land.
Except they aren't playing referee for their user's benefit. It's about not offending advertising agencies and the brands those dollars represent. Nike doesn't want their ads next to whatever is considered hate speech at the time.
I just started looking for tools like this and came across plotly and dash: https://medium.com/@plotlygraphs/introducing-dash-5ecf7191b5...

Am I right that zeppelin is similar to this?
> That's just too general of a statement.

Every time I've ever conducted user experience testing the results have always been far more positive the faster the app or page is. In fact, while it's still only anecdotal, I have never seen a decrease in any of the overall measurements of a user study where, between two versions, the speed of the app or page improved and little else changed.

Honestly I think it's a great general statement. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's the case with almost any general rule of thumb.

> That's like saying a landing page with a hero image is, generally, a better page.

No, not at all. Speed isn't everything and no one was suggesting that. A faster application, however, is always better than a slow one as long as you are comparing apples to apples.

With the way technology works nowadays it's actually very doable to get the 75th percentile to load really, really fast. But it's not without effort and earlier work may need to be redone, something many avoid at all costs.
True, I saw an efficiency and exploited it, so in a way I 'won'. And I was taking a bet myself, as I didn't know the precise details of the job before taking it and just how much I could automate it. But they didn't logically 'lose' anything, business-wise, they got exactly what they asked for.

I suppose what I learned is that it's humans who run a business, and humans aren't always logical and act based on feelings.
I can't find where it says that or gives comprehensive hard numbers (or references to same) at all.

The relevant question is: is any resulting consumption of medical care dollars reduced by more than the cost of these frequent in-home care visits? Generally, personnel costs (especially in public agencies) far outweigh the cost of (mostly generic) meds.

I see no hard numbers for either statistic. What did I miss?
The 'algol' example doesn't have enough context to demonstrate that there is a lexically scoped block. The lisp example contains an empty block.

If it were truly algol it would probably have an 'endlet' symbol at the end of the let, for example. If it were C it would require curly brackets, python out-dentation, ocaml something else(!?).

Anyway, I suspect you're a troll,

good day.
"The UW report nonetheless finds an unprecedented impact of wage increases on jobs, ten times higher than the average in 942 published minimum wage and non-minimum wage estimates, and triple that of minimum wage critic David Neumark. There is no reason why Seattle's low-paid employers should be so much more sensitive to wage increases than employers elsewhere."

Except that's not the claim. Nobody's saying Seattle is more sensitive, just that there's better data there.

So, we start off with talking about the multi-site critique, I respond to that, and you... switch topics to the $19 cut-off? Is this Calvinball?
Go to college to get a degree with a return on investment, not because going to college is a thing everyone you know does. And you might find out that you actually like programming more than making art.
Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men but Not Black Children
Everything is a file ≠ everything is a blob/adhoc plaintext interface.

DBus is a much superior “everything is a file” abstraction, except DBus calls files objects and doesn’t special-case directories.

Quick comparison:

Inode — Client address

.. e.g. 3597293 — :1.32

Mount points — Well-known addresses

.. e.g. /proc/subsystem — org.foo.subsystem1

Directory/file hierarchy — Object hierarchy

.. e.g. /foo/bar/xyz — /foo/bar/xyz

Implicit RPC — Explicit RPC

.. e.g. IOctl or echo "foo" > /foo/bar — org.foo.Interface1.methodFoo(int, int, string)

Security

.. sudo vs Polkit

etc.
Moonlighting is often against company's policy because there is a legal concept which applies to all employees called the “duty of loyalty.” Because legally employees are “agents” of their employer, they are required to act in the best interests of the employer during their employment
This would be better if it was only 10 years of the Simpsons.
Aside from clickbaity title, I would have rather liked a list of reasons to switch from Chrome to any other browser (including Firefox).

I am genuinely curious why Chrome is the default for most technical people? The only reason I hear over and over is its developer tools. However, there are other Chromium-based browsers, like Opera or even Chromium itself, with exactly same dev tools. Why then keep using Chrome considering it being developed by such a controversial company?
Medicine Hat is hardly a magnet for out-of-area homeless like S.F. is, nor is it ever likely to become one.
In case you didn't notice, on iOS 11 and High Sierra the new network APIs are only available as Cocoa APIs there is no plan to support them at POSIX level, while on Google side there are these little things called Android and Android Things, both with a locked down NDK, with Fuchsia on the horizon.

So I know on which side I am betting as winner for this chess game, given that Apple and Google seem to getting all the pieces with their moves.
I'm familiar with the premise, and don't disagree. I'm just of the opinion that for a social science to ignore biology is probably fine at a certain level of abstraction. I'm not arguing anything else at all.

Again, this is a bit outside of the areas in social science in which I regularly read. So if a particular set of dogmatic ideas run counter to our best scientific understanding, then those ideas deserve criticism. I think we agree on that.
This is a great tutorial. Most people point out that most of this is in `vimtutor`, but I found this easier to consume.

That said, I got stuck when I had to learn how to switch buffers. I don't know if I missed a description with how to do it, or if it was missing.
The weird thing is, this was a very small business who hit the jackpot of high Google ratings. They weren't a heaving bureaucratic business.
"If it is possible to gamify so seemingly boring things as learning keyboard shortcuts, then sky's the limit!" from https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list#bonus
As a Bitcoin fan, I think the invention of Bitcoin itself was useful and has proven itself in certain areas, and there's been a couple Bitcoin forks or inspired projects that have done real worthwhile innovation (Ethereum to name one), but otherwise nearly all cryptocurrencies outside of those two are just copycats with no innovation (not counting a tweaked identifier) that have absolutely no reason to exist outside of being pump-and-dump scheme.
The marketer's guide to APIs
Don't you worry about X, let me worry about blank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAeTf8px0mE
Google should have country specific feeds (canada.google.com) instead of domains. Then location based filtering is forced on the browser where it should be.
You can't record every currency transaction on a blockchain it simply doesn't scale. None of the altcoins have figured out how to scale either.
My question is - will he ever tell the employer about the program? Even after the point of employment.
Can you point to an instance of offensive behaviour towards minorities in the Rust community? I'm not involved in Rust, and I have no strongly held opinions on the topic at hand. However I cannot recall coming across the abuse you describe on GitHub's issue trackers, nor in the IRC channels I frequent, nor somewhere else. Sure, just because I don't notice it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Same goes for biased wording in the docs.

A common line of argument is that "being more welcoming" will lead to more contributors and thus to more diverse perspectives. Browsing through Rust's documentation and bug tracker alone makes me skeptical of that. I can't find a thing that will turn away someone interested in Rust.

There's definitely sexism in the industry, no question. But I have yet to see someone present numbers of how e.g. their Code of Conduct lead to more contributors. I doubt that any of these undertakings do, unless the project really does have an asshole community. But Rust surely doesn't.
If he's paid based on task completion then no ethical violation. However, if he is paid based on hours worked then there is a grey area of whether he is actually working.
> I learned something that day, though I'm not sure what.

You learned that people get sour with jealousy and annoyed when you can produce the same output / unit of work, at a fraction of the time that it takes them?
Interesting question here to me is how to align incentives in a manner that works out best for both, the employer and the employee. Automate your job and then move on to higher level problems, rinse and repeat. Profit share?
Can someone clarify this piece for me? I don't understand how the author is able to completely avoid taxation on the rents.

>My wife and I don’t need the money we make from owning most of the business. We live off the salaries of our jobs, and reinvest virtually our entire share of the business. These reinvestments count as “losses,” and so officially we have never made any income or paid income taxes on our share of the business.
First ‘haploid’ human stem cells could change the face of medical research
I was expecting the ruling to involve some really bad behavior such as selling misslabeled drugs or invading the privacy of private individuals. Instead it is a benign product relabling suit. IMO, product relabeling doesn't even harm the company who's products are relabeled.
Oh - didn't see that.

If I'd decided to sell out of my collection instead of giving it away, I'd have had some parallel cases - any large enough collection is liable to include a small but significant proportion of one-off parts. I'm not sure a 2x4 black brick is likely enough to sell that it'd be worth listing alone, but I suppose someone with a sufficiently completist bent might go to the trouble.
The most common reason I see is 'security'.
I'm not sure I follow. If I can do what I want to do online and do it fast, then I run out of things to do much faster and I can get off the internet for a bit or do anything else.
I thought doing anything in the adult industry in IT was a blackhole? i.e. It's hard to go back to non-porn afterward from social dynamics.
The Index as a First Class Citizen – OSCON 2017 [video]
The way the screen works, it can only erase the whole screen in one go. I think with the cloud-connected ones, you can save the page off before erasing it and then view them later.
They all miserably failed? The US does this to an extent right now: we have a decent (of course it's not the best) public education system, and we have programs like SNAP/TANF/Section 8 so that children don't grow up underfed on the street. There's no reason it could not also be done globally; the global GDP/capita is about $15k.

Of course, simply providing these services doesn't always cut it. Look at the generational poverty in the US "ghettoes" for obvious confirmation of this. But in general it's a good thing to do and it benefits people. It's certainly not impossible and definitely does not always miserably fail.

For maximum potential, I mostly mean the ability to do what you want in terms of jobs with only intelligence and work holding you back, not the circumstances you were born in.
The rise and fall of MongoDB
Overlooked water loss in plants could throw off climate models
I think the problem is actually deeper than whether or not it's ethical, but rather the structure in which we place people gives them more incentive to hide their improvements rather than expose it and help the company flourish. Why should OP ever reveal it to his boss? Ethics? What do those matter on the bottom line for them? He could be fired or disciplined. His experience might be positive, but judging from the comments and how people are reacting to it, I wouldn't be very sure of that.

In this case, I think a positive of some sort to give the employee a reason to reveal this automation. People shouldn't be afraid to tinker and learn in the face of punishment.
Sensor networks are great boons to any infrastructure. It allows for much quicker reactions and much better tuning. However, this network doesn't need to be public.

I can see how you'd pick the internet as a base-layer for this network, which would be a bad idea. The alternative is building an entire separate network, which seems almost un doable.
Flow shop scheduling, its a bunch of different approaches to optimising a seemingly simple problem (at first glance) that turns out to be np-hard at second glance.

The more I read the greater the complexity, I've never been much on the theory side and frankly as an enterprise programmer I've never really had to be, my distant A-level math has always been enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_shop_scheduling

Its a practical application of some really beautiful approaches to a problem (everything from simple queue stuff through to genetic algorthithms and machine learning) I didn't know existed and at the same time a decent solution will have a really big impact on the business I work for.

It might take me quite a while to grasp even a small chunk though I'm starting from a pretty low level.
I learn quite a bit via "view source" or the debugger on sites that I see doing interesting things with JavaScript.

Wasm certainly makes that harder. I cant speak to what broad impact that might have, but it probably impacts me. More so as they add features like direct DOM manipulation (on the roadmap).
To go a little further, I suspect with CP cases like banks the real underlying problem is more fundamental. You can't realistically, under the laws of physics, have a hard notion of transactional ordering (did the account's money come in before it went back out?) without pinning down the concept of an account to a location. At least, not efficiently or quickly.

In other words, eventual consistency in the face of asynchronous remote actors never makes sense when your requirements dictate hard, consistent transactional ordering. You have to think of it as "the transactions happen in the order they arrive at the account's virtual location in New York". To think of them as globally-distributed in nature is always going to cause logical problems at some level. If your database was eventually-consistent, you'd have to build in some sort of after-the-fact safety checks that have the ability to abort the outer transaction, at which point you've wasted a lot of effort patching over the wrong model.

So either you have a need for strong consistency guarantees (order really matters), in which case you have to pin the transactions' locality down (where do they meet up at for their efficient strict ordering?) and CP is your model, or you don't (simpler things like social network updates) and you're better off with AP and eventual consistency to scale things out easier and make it faster for everyone, and really who cares if once in a great long while a user-visible race happens and some people see a couple of posts in a different order than someone else does for a few minutes until things snap back into sync?
I worked in Seattle at minimum wage through this for a "small employer"(this term isn't very nuanced) who was still a millionaire and making huge profits. More significant than the cost of any wage hikes he was experiencing is the skyrocketing real estate market here. This doesn't even begin the discussion on the concern for the welfare of employers who complain that their large profits are being hurt because they can't squeeze dimes from poor people as easily.
McAfee talked about porn sites being paid to download spyware/keylogger software onto devices. Click play on a video etc, something is downloading in the background. I think of this as how some sites/software in the early 2000s automatically downloaded a toolbar when installing.

I'm sure many porn sites do this, not sure about the more "reputable" ones. Storing/streaming all that info can't be cheap.
Thank you. I'd wish people would stop scrutinizing my existence as a white male.
How was your experience in the study? Do you feel like the UW study missed any important questions or aspects of your life that would potentially alter their conclusions?

As for depression, from what I can tell of skimming the UW paper (hopefully I did not miss anything): they did not segment by education or earnings potential, and provide no insight into This seems fairly flawed, given that you would expect different subpopulations to respond very differently to a reduction in available hours.
If your data isn't available, you're going to get these kinds of critiques.

With the data available, people could see how strong the various effects are and how much "p-hacking" it is susceptible to.
the sweet pool of extentions will dry up soon, when thy depricate the old api
3) Firefox will import passwords from Chrome automatically. Options -> Security -> Saved Logins -> Import.
It goes further than that. I offered to show them how to automate the job (it's not like I had a promising career making HTML pages to sell furniture) and they didn't take it because presumably it bruised their pride. Even though it was strongly in their interests.
This is utterly incorrect and not at all what the neoclassical micro/marco economic laws suggest.

For the sake of brevity, you are not making the proper distinction between demand and quantity demanded - a change in the price of labor does not change the DEMAND for labor.
A hypothetical: Company A is in country X and company B is in country Y. Country X declares on behalf of company A that company B be blocked from searches worldwide (including country Y). Country Y declares on behalf of company B that company B cannot be blocked from searches (at least in country Y). Who wins in the global context? Whichever can/will fine the most? Does this give benefits to the overly-regulating country/region and is that what we want?

Another hypothetical question: Can Canada require some retailer in the US to remove another non-Canadian company's products in the US just because the retailer and a competing company both have presence in Canada?
Sibling comment by doingmyting seems like a valid contribution to me. Anyone know why it's dead?
That was my first take as well, but it can be easy to overlook this part of the original post: "I even insert a few bugs here and there to make it look like it’s been generated by a human."

The fact that he is engaging in deception to make it look like he's still doing it manually rubs a lot of people, myself included, the wrong way. You could also argue that by introducing bugs, he's intentionally degrading the end product.
Bulletin (YC W17) is filling three open positions
That story would've been much sadder had the lawyer's client decided it was worth the money to pursue him. A lawsuit against a well-monied opponent is no joke, whether you're on the right side or not. AFAIK unlike a copyright case, it is pretty hard to lose a defamation case as long as you haven't gone too crazy, but a lawsuit can seriously damage your life whether you win or not.

Knowing a little bit about the law is indeed helpful, but it doesn't seem that a little bit of legal knowledge would lead one to congratulating the grandparent on sending an inflammatory mail to opposing counsel.

C&Ds are in fact frequently bluffs, so that should be considered in the response, but some companies are notoriously well-known non-bluffers; if they send a C&D, they are chomping at the bit to file the lawsuit for real. It's best to ask a real lawyer whenever you're staring down these types of possibilities.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.
These are, IMO, exceptions. Most slaves probably got worked half to death, beaten, and generally abused. Certainly history tells us that many slaves simply died en route from where they were captured. I can't prove this, but it's much more likely than the fate of high-status slaves.
If you're a salaried employee assigned a task, you fulfill the task, and are available to respond to requests during business hours, there's no ethical issue here.

If you're hourly and you are spending 3 hours a week and billing for 40, you're in bad ethical place in my mind.
I love questions like this, especially when the person replies to the reactions. I'm less interested in the answers as I am to the question, "Why did you post the question?" There are lots of people saying that they think it is unethical, and the OP has taken time to respond to these reactions with a rationalisation.

In other words, the OP feels guilty and is seeking permission to continue with the course they have already chosen. They feel they won't get it from their employer, so they feel the need to find the permission from random strangers on the internet.

I've done a lot of process improvement in my career and this is always the trickiest bit. People make decisions and build elaborate walls to protect them. Exposing the decision does nothing to remove the walls -- it only prompts the builder to design even more elaborate walls. It pays to be sensitive to this!
But you would want tab completion of the shared secret so all an attacker needs is to guess the first character?

Why not email the ssh public key in plaintext and verify the md5sum, sha1sum, fingerprint, and / or first and last X characters of the key itself over the phone?

... or... Why not just put the public key on a web server with SSL and a free cert and speak the URL, then scp the payload file over? Or go ahead and get the free S/MIME cert from Comodo for your email since you can sign without the other end sending a signed email first and attach the payload file itself or an ssh public key and then scp? Or use Pidgin or a similar client with the OTR plugin on any XMPP server and send the payload file in the first place? Or issue SSL keys from your own local CA and communicate the fingerprint orally? Or send the public ssh key plaintext and only allow ssh through the firewall from the IP of your friend?

... or ... allow ssh via password rather than key for a small timeframe and communicate a password out of band rather than a shared secret for this thing?

... or ... put your ssh public key on a well-known account of yours like GitHub, Facebook, HN, etc and let your friend install it from there?