skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this helps with being always alert and ready for anything that requires a rapid response.

I always wondered why they do that, just spam meaningless things like open/close the stats window or click on the background. Some WoW PVPers did it too (like Laintime, I think it was - played a warrior and ran around spamming the character window open/closed an mashing 'weapon swap' even when there was no earthly reason to do so). I figured it was just the result of too much caffeine for 18 hours a day.

This sounds like it's more an equivalent of tennis players' dancing/hopping around, or martial artists doing their ducking/weaving thing?
Neither, I suspect, did you read my post. We can probably end here. :-)
Perhaps we perceive our safety relative to the safety of surrounding areas?

Compare:

"Tel Aviv is dangerous, the threat of war is everpresent and I often hear mortar fire, but the border to Gaza just 45 minutes away is substantially more dangerous"

vs.

"Toronto is dangerous, there's Jane and Finch and many homeless people, the suburbs of Newmarket just 45 minutes away are substantially safer"
Bullshit. A Google search for "socialist news" returns wsws.org as the #2 response. #1 is socialistworks.org, a competing site.
Yeah, that's not ideal. Apple at least keeps the Swift language guide current though: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...
The thing that’s cool about Rails is there’s some common understanding of the Rails way and in theory I can hire easier I have consistency of this working across versions, etc.

I know when I start a Rails project I’m a few steps away from business valuable functionality... less so with everything else, there’s like a design and architecture step that comes first. Sometimes/most times I just want to be productive.
Salesforce PR in the house!
The Best Programming Languages for Electrical Engineers
Of course, support.google.com opinion on this matter is entirely unbiased :P
It's a joyful surprise for me when the logo actually links to the right thing.
Also it's not just blogs--any subsite, like documentation sites, forums, company wikis, etc.
The kernel lists get plenty of trolls regardless.
EDIT: I've noticed all the replies and I'd like to acknowledge them. Unfortunately I feel very stupid for not screenshotting what I saw when I searched one hour ago. I now see 62,900 results, and I can load up to page 6. I can't prove that I was not able to load page 2 before, but it's true.

My original comment remains unedited below.

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For a concrete demonstration of pathological de-ranking, do a query for "site:web.archive.org".

I get "59,000 results" on page 1, but page 2 will never load!

There are a few results, which proves that a) web.archive.org are not using robots.txt or other blocking techniques, and b) that Google's infrastructure is inhaling content. But it's invisible.

Think about how sad this is - once a site goes dead, it's offline, even though the content is still publicly accessible. If only that context was indexed using a decent search engine.

Practically speaking, I totally acknowledge that archived content is complex to surface; sites can be pulled offline because content needs to be disappeared for any number of reasons, etc. I recognize the general difficulty of getting this right. So I'm not _really_ arguing "if only this were surfaced", because it's unfair to - I'm more saying "hey look, this is what it looks like when something has been completely killed," as a demonstrable and extreme datapoint.
>lololol. Half of these VPN vendors show up on Kenn White's VPN Hall of Shame for offering unsafe configurations:

having a per-user PSK isn't going to protect you if the protocol is fundamentally broken, which is the case for PPTP/l2tp
Up to you. Depends on which technical aspect(s) you're trying to explain.
I'd argue modern AI is sort of terrible at taking high dimensional data and finding an effective representation of it. It works better than a lot of other methods in ML but as far as I know pure reinforcement learning applications are sort of lack luster, and even dimensionality reduction success stories tend to rely on scrubbed, careful data treatment by people.
A bit funny seeing this on here tonight. My teenage daughter was looking to create a native desktop app and I pointed her to Lazarus just today. Then I login and check Hacker News...
OP is claiming that they are more afraid of underlings their own age than a bunch of kids fresh out of school.
I suspect that with your Java, you'll find Swift to be a snap to get started in, particularly if you've also experimented ever with Scala. Mastering idiomatic Swift is a bit harder, but definitely doable with a bit of effort.
> the company instructed its search evaluators to flag pages returning “conspiracy theories” or “upsetting” content unless “the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint.”

"Socialist news" would be one of the searches that "indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint."
Who are the startups? I'm betting that $1B is still in the 25-50% ARR range.
Yeah, there's some magical thinking that it'll take several decades to fully roll out "yesterday's technology", but somehow, by the time hyperloop technology is production ready, it won't take several more decades to actually get one built.
This is ironic, right?
Fake news is just the Bogeyman of the day, a pretext to exercise censorship.
The problem I've found with running my own vpn is that I could not find affordable vps with anywhere near as affordable bandwidth and speed. The main vps providers all cap your download/upload. ovpn is what I settled on and am quite happy.
And yet there are observable and objective facts. Water freezes at 32 degrees. The sky is blue. Grass is green.

When a source repeatedly tells you not to believe your own eyes, but offers no valid counter-argument--you should be suspicious. I'm fine with Google/Facebook or whoever filtering out known dishonest and inaccurate websites, whether they are intentionally malicious or just ignorant.
If it's merely an SEO problem as that page suggests, why does WSWS rank so highly for "socialist news"?
Ironic, coming at the heels of Google firing someone for being "anti-diversity".
My company has several Nim services in production. Here's an open-source component I wrote that we use:

https://github.com/makingspace/syphus-nim
Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wikimedia website allows email enumeration
https://www.pages04.net/wikimedia/WMFUnsubscribe/Unsubscribe

(yes the hostname looks dodgy but it is straight from a legit Wikimedia email asking for donations)

When you click unsubscribe, the response indicates whether the input email is valid or not and allows infinite enumeration.
Video Games May Affect The Brain Differently, Depending On What You Play
There would be no issue with that, if you were forced to deliver source code, with comments, and without obfuscation instead of a highly obfuscated binary format.

WebAssembly makes it even more common to run untrusted, random code on your system. The next RowHammer.js will be a lot more powerful.
An alternative might be that they are slowing independent media penetration in rural areas. If internet speeds are ~ 1-2 mbps then streaming HD isn't smooth, but all the digital over the air broadcast FOX / NBC / ABC are available in HD for free.
Where do I learn about how to do this?
> This guys post wasn't science. He used science to reason out a way to revert to a state of community where he stands to gain more

I don't think we should dismiss the ideas because of the person presenting them. In fact, the original Google Memo was written by a man in tech, but this open from Global and Mail was written by a woman in academia. What does she have to gain from the state of tech? Regardless, let's not focus on the people but instead on the ideas.

> how does that itself prescribe that we should stop pushing for an expansion there?

The call is not to stop pushing for an expansion there. It's that our approach is wrong. And we're not able to even see that our approach is wrong because in this liberal bubble we're not allowed to talk about the differences between men and women.
I cannot speak to those languages specifically but I don't like to limit myself against specific langs, that said, for API + high level web functionality "Laravel" is easily the best framework I have found in any language. With Dingo you have out of the box API with caches, queues, jobs, broadcasts etc.
That's right. We're chronic non-voters that are blind to the significance of that block.
But if it's open, people will game it...
Buy Google from Alphabet and have at it.
> Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business." Where is the science to back that up?

The same question could be asked for the converse statement that represents those pushing for these policies: "Discrimination to reach equal representation is fair, cooperative, and good for business."

The truth is that we don't know either way. My biggest frustration with those arguing in either direction is that no one has really put forth any specific and objectively measurable ways to evaluate these policies.

I personally believe that diversity is economically valuable, but that how valuable it is depends on the task/goals of a team. In some circumstances it will be very valuable and other it will be of negative value. And in many cases it may be of negligible value relative to other things you can optimize for.

What kind of diversity is another valid thing to question? Why are certain kinds of diversity like gender and race given priority over other kinds of diversity such as cognitive (aspie/autistic to neurotypical) diversity, socioeconomic diversity, national origin diversity, urban/rural diversity, etc.

If a team/company is composed entirely of the same race and or gender but every member is from a different country are they more or less diverse than a team/company composed of all Americans of various races and genders?

These are all important questions and it's good and healthy to express skepticism.
I understand feeling sorry, but doing a talk like this without the full support of your leadership is an incredible error. If you work for a big company, you can't do talks like this without aligning pr, leadership etc.
Perception of safety intimately ties to Whether or not you're in Survival Mode, but I think overall you are correct. It's interesting, since no one locale would have its own "inherent safety" it would just be known by proxy, which is interdependence at its finest. Laterally, a whole picture and paradigm are formed from insubstantial on-their-own blocks.

It is interesting, too, that safety is typically a feeling you get when there's not much competition for survival. In an age and time of such abundance, it really baffles me how it is taking so long (in some regards) but, as the great Matthew Wilder say, ain't nothin' gonna break my stride. Ain't nothin' gonna slow me down.

Just some thoughts.
The internet innovation spirit in the US is high but the companies in charge, and oversight, are on the milk it train.

Cable and broadband companies were massively innovating in the 90s and early 2000s, now they are focusing on their 'innovation' on pricing and milking it by: slowing things down, data capping it, lobbying for more monopoly control, trying to get access to your private info and constant pricing games. All of these actions are due to lack of product innovation and to make up for lost revenues of not just increasing capacity and speeds thus offering a better product people will pay more for.

All we can hope for is another disruptive network innovation that puts them in the rear-view or adds some competition like Google Fiber did or others. Google Fiber had an amazing impact to pricing and speeds in any market they entered. For the most part broadband has been lagging on real innovation and expansion, in favor of MBA metric pricing games and value extraction for some time.
Sorry mobitar, I forgot to address the pings. This is to find the best (closest by network latency) path to you. We're really focused on providing the best possible experience, and that experience is simply providing what we do best, in the most unobtrusive way possible.

And to that extent, when it comes to your privacy and fighting for your internet civil liberties, we'll be second to none.

Cheers,

Andrew
Google adjusts its search results all the time for business reasons but also for political or legal reasons. The PC description is "tuning the search algorithm". That may encompass any number of effects to the search results or Google interfaces. While I hate the idea of regulation, Google Search is such a basic utility in the US that it really should be regulated by the government.

Regulation is done on utilities like cell providers, cable/internet providers and consumers are usually aware of multiple choices. If I ask a non-tech user to name a search engine other than Google, they likely can't. So users do their search and interact with the results they are presented.

Edit: Removed my personal experience. Added thoughts on regulation.
"...what Google, working with the highest levels of the state intelligence apparatus, does not want them to find."

I'd classify that as conspiracy theory.
Page 2 loads for me, though there's a slight delay.
A mong or mongoloid was originally a racial description/slur, then it transformed into a disability description (a downs syndrome person has mongoloid features) and finally became synonymous with stupid. It's a bit like being called NegroDB.

In this time of PC outrage I honestly don't understand how it doesn't attract more attention.
Ahh! Violet! I miss her.
Is anyone going to actually come to the table with some hard numbers here or is this constantly going to be a dick waving contest?

Playing the devil advocate here I bet internally they have metrics telling them there isn't any value that people above 30 add compared to 20 year old straight out of college.
I saw that and I can't speak for HBO Now, but my experience with WatchESPN (which apparently also streams through BAMTech) has been abysmal. This may be incredibly naive of me, but I'd much rather have an independent tech powerhouse like Netflix focused on content delivery.

In my experience, traditional media companies stifle innovation instead of encourage it. It was never easy to work with them and they held us back. The whole industry is a mess. I can't imagine Disney buying a controlling stake in BAMTech will make things better.

That being said, Disney is better with technology than most other media companies. Of course, I could be completely off-base here. It's just my opinion.
$100k after tax is only $140k pretax
I'm glad I'm not using Facebook.
only 600kb of text on a landing page?

That's about the same size as _Walden_ by Thoreau. Seems large.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-0.txt
Linguistic analysis is sometimes called stylometry, and (although I've never tried it) there's a tool to analyze your anon-posts against a corpus of your non-anon language to see how to unique it is and how to anonymize it: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

My impression is that the average Joe doesn't have enough of a public corpus for this to make a difference. But if you're an academic who blogs both publicly and privately? You might want to check it out.

There have been a several recent cases of political doxing of pseudonymous users. Blogger "Delicious Tacos", alt-right Youtuber "Millenial Woes", /r/the_donald user "HanAssholeSolo", and several members of the alt-right blog "The Right Stuff" have all been exposed at varying levels by various organizations. , As far as I understand, they were all exposed through OPSEC violations in their content, rather than technical violations. In the US, calling out the SWAT team when the target forgets to VPN before logging on to IRC is reserved for black-hats and child pornographers, at least so far.
Well, ok, fair point. You're forcing me to better articulate myself (I'm not the GP, but still...).

It's not that they're "the same," but they've come to reach a homeostasis that protects each side while not truly fixing hard problems. They may not have sought that out intentionally, but now that they're in it, they're intentionally, happily, staying in it.

The end result is, we're watching a play, where each side has some powerful dramatic lines full of tense conflict, but it's all fake and they're really cooperating to keep everything pretty much the same.
How would that work? You want Congress to determine SEO rank?
Well now this article is marked as a dupe and has been removed from the front page. :(
Why not say "factually inaccurate information" if that is what you mean?
GAE Eclipse plugin not able to deploy
I cannot deploy to google app engine, from the eclipse plugin, anyone else seeing this issue? Error thrown when Eclipse tries to login to my google account, error is HTTP 400 invalid scope
Inflating self-inflicted problem makes it look like serious institutional flaws then take chance to act like victims, without sufficient evidence to back one's own claim.
Page 2 and on loaded just fine for me without any issue.
If I just don't like the feeling of being logged on some ISP
, is paying for a VPN something for me? Any free options for privacy ? Or is it more for torrents and stuff?
Can you provide any citations? Did you work on a Google hiring committee?

This doesn't even remotely match anything I know about Google. Unless maybe you have experience with a particularly unique product area within Google?
Well, considering it's a support forum and none of the people who have answered are affiliated with Google, yeah, it's unbiased.
Same with quantum Bitcoin mining as long as we are stringing words together.
It's the Kernel, the gates need to be kept else fools mess things up, thank god for Linus.
Much of the talk on this is about wether it not SFDC has a ‘right’ to do this, or if it’s legal. Frankly that’s all immaterial - this sounds like a perfect way to either lose most of your security staff over the next 6-8 months, or get yourself fired. Not sure the exec in question was planning on either of those outcomes, but they are the most likely.
D.C. - Boston has 52.33 million (15%) in a much smaller land area than your suggesting. Really once your talking about 2+ Million population centers adding some long distance fiber between them is so cheap it's practically free compared to last mile costs.

PS: Fairfax county a suburb of D.C. has a over 60% of the population (1.1m) than West Virginia (1.8m) in less than 2% of the land area aka 406mi² vs 24,038 mi² aka or well over 50 times the population density.
It's not low quantity but it seems very filtered. Recently finished reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-New-History-ebook/...

The Russian revolution was co-opted by Lenin and the Bolsheviks who were funded by the German foreign office and more than anything else were unscrupulous about who they murdered. 25 million people were dead by the end of the revolution (early 20s).

There's not so much as a hint of that just scanning though the titles.
Thanks, strangely enough this comment made me read more about D and I'm genuinely excited about getting into this language now
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist."
But a common theme in PG's writing is to hack... it literally is to be used for next week. Productivity is measured in lines of code. Technical debt is acceptable; as a lot of the code will be erased anyway in an early stage of a startup.

Besides the designing before coding part, I don't think this was quite his intent when saying discipline.
I expect it would prevent making changes that are not firmly based organic search quality; not changes that benefit Google's other businesses including advertising, maps, plus, etc. or political views.
It's fine to brag and feel smug about disliking TFA and the misogynistic "memo" for which it apparently has some sympathy...
The idea that the XUL extension model is necessary for a browser to be useful is obviously false. The majority of Web users use browsers that do not have a XUL extension model.

(And, of course, I don't believe your desired functionality is incompatible with Web Extensions anyhow.)
Your comment says more about you than about Google.

That search works just fine for me.
FWIW, searching on Bing "russian revolution" wsws.org shows up on page 5.
That's comparing apples and oranges. American metro areas are shaped very differently than European ones. Only 10% of people in the D.C. metro area live within city limits, versus 40% of people in Stockholm's metro area. That inner city population skews much poorer than the metro area as a whole, with a quarter of households making under $25,000 annually. That notwithstanding the city itself is very well wired. If you live in Anacostia (one of the poorest neighborhoods) you can choose from two gigabit fiber providers and two gigabit cable providers.

And as far as I can tell the difference in uptake is not really because broadband is cheaper in Stockholm Internet. Telia charges 990 SEK ($122) for gigabit. Comcast charges $150 for 2 gig, while Verizon charges $70-100 for 1 gig. At the low end, Telia charges $50 for 100/100, versus $40 for Verizon's 50/50 plan.

DC also is a good example of what I mean about population-weighted density. The D.C. metro area has about the same density as the Stockholm metro area, and the municipalities have about the same density too. But in Stockholm 40% of people live in the denser core city versus only 10% of people in D.C. So even though the metro areas have the same density, the distribution makes DC harder to wire (all else being equal).
Doesn't it speak rather poorly for free software if installing it is a "massive PITA"?
As an outdoorsman this is exactly what I am excited about with self driving cars. It has the possibility of making going even deeper into the wilderness more practical. A self driving car can take you to the trail head, go charge, and then go wait for you. With 300 miles of range you can go most anywhere.
The news that the left cheered when google and facebook censored fake news, is itself fake news.
What does "authoritative" mean anyway? I don't want my search results to be authoritative, I want them to be relevant, varied, and interesting. Google is not an encyclopedia. Google fails recently at providing varied results, on any topic you get a Wikipedia article, a load of the same blogspam from sites like Guardian, Atlantic, or Daily Mail, and then the same 1-2 paragraph article repeated 15 times on content farm websites. It used to be a lot easier to find weird corners of the web.
Even if Googlers had no sense of right and wrong, just knowing the number of socialists or socialist-leaning googlers there are, there is no way this would ever fly. It's not like anyone has super special access to modify the search engine algorithm and rankings individually. All changes go through probably dozens of people at least. One of them would presumably raise the issue internally(or leak to press) if something so nefarious was happening.
They just pointed out a bunch of SEO problems with the site, that doesn't proof or disprove that they have been censored. Especially if their ranking only dropped on specific terms and it dropped suddenly.
Given the heavy reliance on ML Google has for search these days, I'm not sure that would help much.

They would have to open source the indexed data and training data too, assuming you wanted to know why site A doesn't rank well for term X.
Forget flavor of the month, or 2017 trends. What are you looking for in a web framework in 2017? RoR might serve you well.
Fascinating. But so many of the maps look identical to each other, they obviously "cluster" together.

I'd be much more interested in seeing a SVD-style analysis that showed a map for each dimension and listed the bands that most closely matched the dimension.

It would literally discover "geographical music genres".