skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with all music recommendation engines, and for many intellectual music aficionados, the lyrics content - what is being verbally described in the music - is what I seek and hang on for my preferred music. When I listen to my collection, the genres are all over and I don't even know them. I listen to the words and treat the music as emphasis for the words. I'll have ska, 30's jazz, hip hip, and classic rock all in the same mix and it works because the lyric content is different takes on the same things. In fact, new friends are sometimes dizzy from my music choices, and then at some point they hear the thematic concept of my mixes and get it.
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The NSA dishes out intel it has collected to other agencies in the US, including to the IRS and DEA etc. There is no such thing as a person not being a big fish. Its the case being supported that matters.

So in this case, the NSA would have a perfectly good reason to have him under surveillance. Primarily, when you think about how Hollywood and the music industry was impacted economically (and culturally) by his company. The DOJ were justified in requesting technical help, and would expect get intel from the NSA (Who in turn would request assistance from the NZ Folks) to support their case.
> Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc) have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and Amber Rudd is asking them to quietly drop end-to-end encryption from their products. You should not believe a single word any of those companies tells you about end-to-end encryption or privacy on their platforms ever again.

and

> she reveals that she has created the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc.) and asked them to remove end-to-end encryption from their products (remember that Facebook makes WhatsApp) without telling anyone.

This wording implies that these big tech companies would silently, without anyone noticing, drop or compromise their E2E encryption. Is this something they could do? I'd expect such a change to be noticeable in both the clients they distribute and the network traffic they generate by people in the infosec industry.

Can anyone with a deeper understanding of the matter chime in?
While I agree that what the UK government is trying to do is dangerous, wrong and ultimately won't help all that much anyway, this article is so full of hyperbole, bluster and FUD that, even though I know and understand most of the issues, it's honestly hard to take much of it seriously.

I expect exaggeration from Rudd and I expect her to misunderstand how certain things (i.e. encryption and the internet) really work because a) she's a politician b) she's not an encryption expert (that's what advisors are for). I don't really expect the same thing from people should be trying to counter her arguments with facts, explanation and alternative ideas though.
https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html
I skimmed the actual paper.

To summarize: 50c is massive scale social media astroturfing or 'reverse censorship' that spikes up to drown all negative news with positive news.

> We show that almost none of the Chinese government’s 50c party posts engage
in debate or argument of any kind. They do not step up to defend the government, its
leaders, and their policies from criticism, no matter how vitriolic; indeed, they seem to avoid controversial issues entirely. Instead, most 50c posts are about cheerleading and positive discussions of valence issues. We also detect a high level of coordination in the timing and content in these posts. A theory consistent with these patterns is that the strategic objective of the regime is to distract and redirect public attention from discussions or events with collective action potential.

This is exactly how professional corporate PR works. Don't lie. Don't get stuck to negative issues. Control the narrative and and direct the discussion elsewhere.
I wish we stop the perpetuation of dumb metaphors and analogies. It does nobody any good.
Is there any form of communication where you know whether is full of things you disagree with before receiving it?
Never heard of Flutter (https://flutter.io/) till now. I hope the project succeeds. I just don't think React Native is the way forward. And native everywhere is just costly for smaller teams/solo devs. All the best to Flutter!
For every 100 experiment maybe one will be fruitful.

No one is criticising Mozilla for coming up with Rust, yet if they didn't take the time to experiment Rust wouldn't be around.

So yeah, good on them, I'm happy for them to try voice recognition and other endeavours, who knows what they might discover?
Yes we are. I have another already configured in a tab just waiting for me to have the courage to press buy :)
Angular 2/4 probably fits in the very smart people category :)
> I did say there are exceptions.

You said: There are rare heel-running sportspeople but running is not their competitive strength.

Do you agree that Meb Keflezghi's competitive strength is running?

The study you link to mentions multiple studies that say that 75-80% of elites are heel-striking. Would you call that rare?
From what you've described, I'm going through the same thing and I understand it's completely down to my lifestyle choice and work.
I'll be trying lots of these comments (thanks everyone) to see if I can improve / lift my brain fog. I can say sleeping around 10 after half an hour of no technology is bliss, have a shower, prepare your clothes for the next day so you have nothing but me time in the morning. It feels good to wake up, grab a coffee and read a book.
> Your iPhone signals you’re wealthier, better-educated, and more attractive than an Android user.

The "status" argument is a bit silly. An iPhone costs about the same as a dog annually, [1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-980&y=-2276&z=5
The stock already had a lot of growth expectations priced in, so whether he got it right from today's pov depends on whether these growth numbers are better than his buying price implied.
Some interesting work regarding citations has been put forth by the Semantic Publishing and Referencing ontologies, specifically the CiTO ontology[1].

It allows an author to state the reason for the citation (supports, refutes, etc.).

Having to state a reason could reduce spurious citations while providing a more accurate view of the nature of a paper's impact.

[1] http://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/cito
Our current Internet lifestyle is unsustainable and will crash sooner rather than later. I say this with no sarcasm: if I had to pay for everything I used online, I would be broke. $5 to HN, $5 to Reddit, $5 to ArsTechnica, $5 for Gmail, $5 for Google Docs, $5 for Google Search, $5 to Github, $5 to Medium, $5 to Wordpress, $5 to StackOverflow, $5 to CNN, $5 to NYT, $5 to Wikipedia, $5 to Weather Channel, $5 to each site I click on from HN or Reddit or Wikipedia, we could be talking hundreds of dollars per month.

You could make your argument about anything. "If Reddit is so important to you, why can't you pay them money?" "If HN is so important to you, why can't you pay them money?" "If Google is so important to you, why can't you pay them money?" You'd run out of money quicker than you'd run out of websites to pay, or you'd seriously scale back what websites you visit.

It's coming crashing down on us that either you have to pay for something or that something goes away. And we can't pay for everything.

Maybe the next Rails or Node can focus on making the cost of hosting infrastructure so inconsequential that sites don't have to make that choice.
> Your phone almost certainly has all the functions that your fitness tracker has

No, it doesn't, that's the whole point I was trying to make. My fitness tracker tracks heart beats for example.
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Ask HN: Got a job in a rapid prototyping team, what tech stack should I use?
A little background first...I recently got a job on a small I.T. team (within a large enterprise) whose goal is to test business hypotheses by thinking up and rolling out rapid
("digital") prototypes. These prototypes could be a web app, mobile app, or even "gluing" together IoT devices and services, etc. It sounds like an awesomely interesting opportunity with quite diverse challenges - both from software and hardware perspective. I used to be a web developer (2000 - 2006), and since then have been some variation of a project or product management overseeing web/digital/tech products (typically for large, conventional enterprises). While I may not always actually need to code up the prototypes for this job, there will no doubt be times where I will have to "get my hands dirty". Not that it should matter, but my time as a web dev back in the day had me focused on classic ASP, vbscript, sql server, ms windows, etc. (because that is what the enterprise standardized on)...however lately for my side projects, I use php, mysql, linux, and little sprinklings of python here and there.

So, my question: Can anyone recommend a stack of technology that I should familiarize myself with, which may help me with any of this prototyping work for this new job? (It could be some set of software, web framework(s), an IDE, an SDK, a programming language, an environment, etc.)
My suggestion about the child / children thing: make it more obvious by calling it 'one_child'. Maybe not as beautiful but I guess that > 50% developers don't have English as their native language.
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"Unknown unknowns are there"

Most likely that is the case but the point of asking is to see how well they've thought out the product and to uncover areas that may need propping up.
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I read his manifesto in middle school because it had just came out in the papers. Previously I thought it was incredibly repetitive to disguise the simplistic ideas. Reading this I change that opinion, he was an angry "loser" with delusions of his own intellect that overcompensates with a lot of words.
related: 20 things to do with a computer (1971) from MIT AI Lab

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5836/AIM-248....
Thanks, very interesting. I think a lot of the confusion here is over my terminology and a general lack of understanding about what the Delphi IDE is actually doing.

By "discoverable", I mean can the IDE:

1) Compile/analyze the code in the component library/run-time,

2) Figure out which type of method can be used for a certain type of event property for a given class, and

3) Display all matching methods in the current unit/module for the user to select.

This is what Delphi does (and Visual Studio with WinForms), and all of it is done at design-time, meaning that your application is not getting compiled in order to determine any of this.

From what you're describing, I don't think Smalltalk is doing the same thing. However, it could be doing something similar if it enforces (at design-time) this part:

"so long as the target object implements the appropriate message"
I think it's fair to define planets based on an astronomical perspective; it's clear that Pluto, Eris and things like it, astronomically, belong to a different class than the other planets. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet. If we didn't "demote" it to a dwarf planet, then we would have to define a new term for the existing planets.
Exactly--completely impractical for a lot of areas of the US. Just drive across Montana and then get back to me. I swear that most people never leave a major city their wholes lives! Parts of the US are tough on conventional vehicles and what I am seeing is that more and more cars have become a mess of bad engineering compromises due to CAFE standards.

Eight and ten speed autos are marvels of engineering, but they aren't as reliable as older, five and six speed boxes. You can barely find a manual anything, which I find repugnant since manual transmissions are the gold standard of reliability.

Another matter of concern is that there are almost no SUVs with a V8 for towing and I'm talking gasoline, no diesel here--the only diesels are pickups of various sizes and a few luxury makes. That's it.

Every decent V6 (and I6, e.g. BMW) engine is morphing into a 2.0L turbo, which is just shit in comparison. Yes, it saves weight, but the trade off is reliability.
Probably some heavy delegation.
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I honestly find it very easy to not use any of their services. They all have quality competitors.
Would it implode if the conjecture was disproved?
While the double frying is critical, the freezing step in the middle is not just for logistics. The fries are better when they're frozen post-initial fry. I make fries all the time from scratch, and I always throw them in the freezer before the second fry. The final product is better than when I don't freeze between fries. Freezing helps add irregularity to the surface and aids in crisp them up post second fry.
If a person is congenial and dependable there's usually a suitable niche in any large enough org. The sweet spot is where things are stable and include domain knowledge but aren't automatable yet.

Good team players that will get along with people and keep things running are very worthwhile in my opinion. Not everyone need to be able to invent their own crypto currency from scratch.

If the problem is more severe, like an inability to code at all, then they might just be in the wrong line of work.
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When i see articles like this it always reminds me of Carl Sassenrath's Fight Software Complexity Pollution - http://www.rebol.com/article/0497.html
> Have you use Delphi?

yes, though I have to admit the last version I did use was Delphi 7. What did you find lacking from Qt ?
Sadly Mozilla seem to be trying to kill off development of Firefox on Android...
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...says the voice in the back of my head, every time I say or write anything at all. How did you get out here?
I 100% agree with you. When Mossberg left the WSJ this thread was on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6414723

The tech press was then, and is now, a total joke compared to other forms of serious journalism.

I wrote this about Mossberg's colleague Kara Swisher a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036679

I think my comments still stand.

The tech press is terrible at covering:

- Energy Use/Efficiency of tech (not just laptops I'm talking datacenters, etc.)
- Governance of the Internet
- Privacy (until recently - sort of [and it still gets buried])
- Software copyright issues
- Market/monetary prospects for new tech
(I think the article sort of talks about the fear of
"crushing innovation")
- Energy tech itself (new forms of power generation, batteries)
- Tech in our lives (and I'm not talking about the fear card)
- autonomous vehicles, medical devices, etc.

And Mossberg was and is part of the problem. It's pageantry for the common man rather than serious journalism.

Things have improved slightly since I wrote that 3 or 4 years ago but there is still waaaaaaay too much noise about Apple's latest widgets. Instead we should be hearing much more about the socioeconomic, political, and societal impacts that technology has and the fact that Apple's entire business model is centered around filling our landfills with their devices that become unusable with their latest version of iOS.
maybe some moderator of such a site sees this and perhaps bans such content on his site as well. all we can do is set the right example.
I'm genuinely unsure how I feel about this article.

First, the internet itself is only in danger if net neutrality is genuinely threatened by ISPs. Until then, the network itself is as open as it ever was.

As for the services on top, the meta-layer of products and infrastructure we rely on--social media, content sources, smartphones and smart devices, etc--there's a lot of reason to be concerned.

But Amazon's marketshare is tiny compared to traditional retailers. They're growing, sure, but they're not a monopoly yet.

Apple is already being beaten on many fronts, smartphones included.

Google is successful in a few areas (search, email, android), but they've proven incapable of pushing into other major areas (streaming services, social, etc).

And Facebook also has basically one core competency.

So, there's lots of reasons to be concerned. But this article feels more than a little hyperbolic.

And as a random aside, modern theories suggest that pyramid builders were paid employees and not slaves.
What? Leibniz/Newton introduced the concept of calculus; shouldn't we credit them with this (amazing) concept just because it wasn't formalized very well until Weierstrass came along?
I was confused with Kaczynski in the URL, but after a bit of research I see that it's the http://www.montanaheritageproject.org that got the name wrong.
You say "may be bigger than Earth", but I'm unaware of any dwarf planets that are bigger than Earth. Are there any? Assuming there are none, that's rather the point: bodies that large would tend to clear out their local zone.
What always come through for me in Jane's writing is the love she has for humanity in general and her main characters in particular.

Yes, I get that her writing is consider by some to be about spoiled, stupid, privileged white people and why the heck should anyone care? But I feel like this is a red herring. She writes about a group that she has chosen (for whatever reason) and uses the interactions within that group to explore love, life, civility -- all the human foibles. The Regency nobility is her palette and humanity is her paint.

Let's talk plot and pacing? She's a master, imo. Her prose is beautiful and satisfying. Her books are fast reads, wonderfully skillful, funny and ironic. For those that have never read her, please do, you'll be doing yourself a favor. "Pride and Prejudice" or "Emma" are great places to start.

Yes, I guess I'm a fanboy. :D
Seriously. When I hear "Lola" I think of either the popular song about a crossdresser, or "loli" which is anime codeword for a specific type of pornography. I don't have any good associations with the name and absolutely would not feel comfortable talking to my friends about "lolashare.com".
honestly don't know what those are, could you share a link ?
For whatever reason, when I think of Norway, I don't imagine hard-working blue collar type people who work out in the cold or need to get to work in sub-zero temps the way we do here in the northern US states and Alaska. I'm sure some people in Norway can't screw around with unreliable crap, though, right?
How much of this is just an artifact of the fact that all our writing surfaces tend to be shades of white?
One of the things that surprised me after moving to a new country is that some languages don't have words for colours, even now.

Colours like "taupe", "beige", don't have distinct names in Finnish. The colours obviously exist, but they're called different things.

(I'm gonna ignore the whole craziness associated with giving tins of wall-paint strange names.)
There is a process, driven by actual reality rather than the (in my experience) highly artificial formal performance review process. fwiw when I worked as a manager in big companies, HR always told us that raises didn't depend on performance reviews...
I think it's very optimistic to imagine that we're only decades away from inventing God! But I'm also glad there are people taking the time to consider how we might do so without too gravely regrettable a result.
Translation: the latest known target of spyware that was sold to the Mexican government is the lawyer of an activist who has been killed.
Hacker News is actually relatively cheap to run, because Y-Combinator owns and maintains the server hardware in-house. Instead of paying a monthly bill to a cloud company, they opted to pay a lot (relatively) for a dedicated server and amortize the cost. The only ongoing costs are electricity, internet bandwidth and (I assume) offsite backups.

The last information 'dang confirmed was that Hacker News is a server with something like 256GB RAM, dual 3Ghz decacore Xeon CPUs and 10TB of storage space (I'd guess maybe closer to 20 these days).

That costs a few thousand to build, including the motherboard, case, power supply and a good cooling solution. Unfortunately, you'd probably pay the total cost of the hardware per month with a cloud service :)

So that's the hardware. Y-Combinator also has (at least two) full-time moderators who need to be paid. But while it might not directly bring in any revenue, Hacker News is one of the best industry watering holes. It's a powerful brand mechanism that brings together a lot of high-signal people that are either worth investing in for startup ventures or who are capable of helping those that Y-Combinator chooses to invest in. It doesn't need to see direct returns on the forum because it offers excellent human capital for seeding investments and ideas (see Dropbox, for example).
You don't have property, you have an account. If you had wanted to have bitcoin, you should have stored your bitcoin in a bitcoin wallet.
I kind of wish someone had written this article from an independent viewpoint.
It says "Bug #1 Bugs with incorrect references to this".

I always had a bit similar issue with PHP. I always forgot "this" before calling a method or accessing a field.
This article hilariously makes it seem as though Google hadn't thought about using Linux cgroups and namespaces to manage processes before dotcloud conceived of Docker.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Google has been doing "containers" since before dotcloud was even a company.
For the developers out there, here's one option for native applications that leverages the beauty of the web: http://jasonette.com/
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I suspect also that the marketing folks re-branded the various services on a regular basis so you weren't even sure if two different names for something actually referred to the same thing.
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is this the original code - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/4405b78d6059e536c3... ? or can you point to earlier version?
Move to Finland, there are far fewer colour-names there!

(UK definitely has taupe these days, "aqua" sounds like the kind of name a paint-salesperson we use!)
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I really do hope you are right.

I do remember Big Business complained about HTTPS use, coz it blocked them "hoovering"/vacuuming up customer info. (excuse the pun)

Also, the Govt has liaison people with some of the Big Corps. Not to mention big corps give big checks to both sides, as routine, there is no financial hurt on the Pol Parties ever sadly. ATT for instance gets paid millions to give up the data.

Update: I just read Amber Rudd (UK Pol goon) created the "Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc.) and asked them to remove end-to-end encryption from their products "
Yes, they could do that, and in order to detect it security professionals would need access to their servers and/or reverse engineer their binary software distributions where this is applicable.

Whether they do it, I don't know, but I'd like to point out that Google used RC4 for SSL for a suspiciously long time after it was considered broken (all in the name of compatibility, of course). A change in public policy only occurred after the Snowden revelations.

However, to make this clear, this is all speculation, they could do it but whether they do it I can't tell and no one else can without insider knowledge.