skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a problem with people who focus on the worst. Advancing the conversation isn't possible when "the conversation" is each side claiming the other is represented by the worst people imaginable.

It's the same thing as claiming BLM is represented by cop killers, or Islam is represented by ISIS.
Yeah, but it's mostly wrong, and it's a sophomoric commercephobic understanding of business (also, it's an arrogant and misanthropic view of Facebooks two billion actual users as ignorant victims of something that sounds almost like a scam).

The exact same argument can be made for supermarkets: they are conduits for putting you in front of goods from suppliers (supermarkets invest a lot more in their relationship with powerful suppliers than they do with individual customers!) - your desire to buy food and go home and make dinner is entirely orthogonal to the supermarket, their interests aren't aligned with yours! Yet, despite this, in more than half a century of supermarkets being wildly popular, serving billions of people, the number of times when the supermarket failed to satisfy the customers actual desire is a rounding error next to the times they did.

Adam Smith saw and understood this 250 years ago: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

And so it is with Facebook. If it does not fundamentally provide some value that you care about, you will stop using it, and in that important aspect their interests are aligned with yours.
Well if we're going that far back: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, King Herod - plenty of butchers of every persuasion. I was talking about more recent history.
AES and similar algorithms are specifically designed to not do that, because otherwise details of the ciphertext leak details about the plaintext. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis is about exploiting any unintentional leak of info like that.
Speaking of Jet.com and their billion, here is their GitHub page, https://github.com/jet

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That's not how this works at all.

The current price of Bitcoin is the market's best prediction of the present value of holding a bitcoin. When you spend $20 worth of bitcoin, you lose an expected $20 worth of utility from holding bitcoin (and, presumably, gain at least $20 of expected subjective utility from whatever you're buying). The past price of Bitcoin has no bearing on a rational actor's willingness to use it as a medium of exchange.
Recruiters say stupid shit all the time. They are like attorneys nothing they say matters :)
So begs the question, which will win, current content companies creating streaming equivalents or streaming companies creating their own content channels?

Hint: answer is not boolean, but float.
Most android apps force you to give them the permission to get your location at any time, when installing the app. Heck, I am sure if you're using iOS there are apps getting your location all the time too. Kinda pointless to stop a simple app getting your location when you have Google and Facebook obviously selling it to the highest bidder.
I don't know a good label for the US healthcare system, but it's so heavily regulated it's impossible to call it "private".

>Just because the Soviet Union fell over doesn't mean that capitalism has somehow been proven to be "the best solution".

Name one country implemented socialism (and by that I mean the government owns the means of production) and didn't end up worse off than when it started. Even the Northern European welfare states are capitalist.
A drop in the ocean compared to ISIS and even the IRA. A poor showing really in the global terrorist bodycount.
So if any charges are brought against anyone as a result they could most likely get any evidence from it thrown out because the initial warrant was too broad and violated their right preventing unlawful search?

The real test for the legality of these warrants is typically in the courts for the defendant's trial, which is unfortunate. It's not often thoroughly challenged by the initial judge from what I've heard.

Which is interesting when you think of the implications of NSA FISA warrants not having any public scrutiny at all, just a judge's opinion in total secret.

I know in Canada it's not even full judges who sign off on police warrants but people called "Justice of the Peace" who are less trained than a judge and spend all day working with police signing off warrants.

Various defense attorneys I've spoken to have said they sign almost everything the police give them and tend to give the police the benefit of the doubt. Which is why the first thing every defense attorney does is look to challenge any warrants because they are usually the lowest hanging fruit in terms of how well thought out the police investigation was.
> I'd advise against choosing core infrastructure components ...

To be fair, I'd advise against choosing core infrastructure components based solely on a recommendation in an HN thread.

You should do your own research, obviously! I am comfortable enough with the Deis brand to say that it is a solution that does not even remotely rival the Linux Kernel in terms of complexity. Kubernetes has API stability, and you can count on APIs that are not marked "alpha" or "beta" to be around in the same form as long as it is still called Kubernetes.

Deis is made of small, totally understandable parts. It is not a monolith that you need to weigh heavily in your conscience whether to allow it into your infrastructure, in case you can't find support for it at some future date... you can mix and match components, if you find one part does something that your infrastructure was lacking!

I'd be glad to elaborate on my strong suspicions, but tl;dr the last few days I've been scrambling to figure out how I'll get my issues resolved, now that the Microsoft dev team I had working on them for free is going somewhere else.

I've been raising every issue I can think of so I can get eyes on it before it's too late. And so far, I don't see anything that I think I can't solve for myself. My short list of issues, I've been able to solve almost all on my own! I have a lot of knowledge about Deis, I've been around for a few years, but I am not a core dev and I have never contributed any commits.

My impression of the codebase is that it is uncompromising and extremely comprehensible. There are at least about half a dozen of us that it appears will be sticking around; we don't want to undermine Deis and Microsoft's EOL notice, because "no breaking changes" will make our job easier as maintainers into the future. The first person to say the wrong thing, may wind up responsible for a fork. It is a delicate time, but I hope to convince some people that it should not be completely discounted because of this news.

But I don't really know what's going to happen to the project. It could be that development continues on Raspberry Pi and the project loses its focus on cloud platforms, because it's cheaper to do the development on RPI. And that might be fine for cloud users (or, it could be fine until your cloud provider makes a breaking update! More likely I think than K8s breaking APIs that are marked stable.)
they could switch onto whatever tech HBO uses and leverage their existing content without subscribers even noticing.

I disagree; subscribers would definitively notice if Netflix lost its global ISP-hosted dynamically-allocated caching network, for example: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

There's more tech than what's visible on the surface.
(Genuine question, haven't used it in the last few years.) Does Gmail support exporting email, other than using IMAP which I understand Proton also has in beta?
> An email address is not a credit card. It isn't private information.

You don't know what email address I'm giving you; I generate single-use emails for just about everything I sign up for, so when I start getting spam for it - like I actually did about 20 minutes ago - I can go straight to the source and start asking whether they got hacked, or sold me out.
This trope of establishing businesses as either "a tech company" or $INDUSTRY needs to end. You either provide a product or service in a particular $INDUSTRY and are technology lead, enabled or not. Netflix, Facebook, etc are "technology lead" businesses. Tech is not an industry, it's a medium in which a value proposition is delivered.
I help out with an Art open studio event.
Its really starting to be the case that people who are organizing events want to let members know about events and invite people via Facebook. We use that and email. Facebook is easy and somewhat effective.

Some people use it for their whole social calendar. This is different from the old evite.com days, which was more email list based.

I'm not on it so Facebook, but my Partner is so she keeps me posted on the social aspect of whats going on. If she wasn't I probably would have to be. Not being on it means stuff happens and I won't know. I'm ok with that, but it can be a bit isolating. There is only so much you can expect acquaintances to work to keep you in the loop.

People like that its free (not like the services you pay for like meetup.com)
> That's cynical.

So is not trusting the Federal Wallet Inspector on the subway.
For music i find songkick https://www.songkick.com/ is very good. I usually get information for bands i like from them before i see it on facebook.
Have companies been doing this too?

Lining up outside a new restaurant is probably safer than participating in a protest or strike.
Ethereum allows arbitrarily smart but also arbitrarily stupid and even malicious contracts. It's worth pointing it out because the hype boys won't.
Not anything more than various blog posts or web articles that I've read. I should have been more clear that I was mainly speaking from a personal perspective and what I, and those around me, have discussed and experienced. Sorry for being misleading.
That looks very good! Thanks!
> This may also be a good time to point out that Nazi stands for National Socialist.

Not without also pointing out that not only are political party names often misleading, and also that the “National Socialist German Workers Party” name was with the party before Hitler and his gang took over the party and threw out its old platform, specifically getting rid of the socialist bits.
What the lifespan of IP ? will people still love Mickey Mouse in 50 years ?
Yes! When I was interviewing at Uber in 2014, I wasn't truly interested until my interviewer mentioned that Uber reduces the drunk driving rate after it launches in a city[1].

(Later on, other studies[2] have cast doubt on the earlier findings, but from a mission perspective, I found that the employees really care about the drunk driving problem, and are proud to work on a product that can reduce the rate of drunk driving.)

[1]: https://www.uber.com/blog/chicago/dui-rates-decline-in-uber-...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/uber-drunk-drivi...
>Why would you print a typed letter and send it by mail instead of e-mailing? Waste of resources, if you ask me, and pretty expensive depending on the country you're sending it to. Good for USPS, though.

I just checked with USPS. It costs _a dollar_ to mail a letter from Philly to Madagascar.

>A typed letter is not more personal than e-mail, I'm afraid.

Comparing it to an email is clever, because it helps your point seem more valid. But this is about Facebook, so I'm going to compare it to that - though many of these points are valid when comparing against email as well.

Facebook is a constant barrage of snippets from constant mini mind dumps of everything each person is thinking, mixed with ads and distracting videos all carefully served by an algorithm that uses machine learning to steal your attention for as long as possible and addict you to the service.

A letter, typed or not, is going to be read in the real world, probably sitting down somewhere comfortable without any ads or distractions. It will be written more thoughtfully because it is an infrequent occurance. It may have been mailed with photos or a small trinket that made you think of them. How would you react if you received a thoughtful letter from your sister instead of of a hundred thoughtless shouts into the void? I certainly hope you would be touched, and I feel bad for your sister if you wouldn't.

All you're doing in this thread is deflect, deflect, deflect. I have no idea what you're trying to accomplish. I am fully convinced that you are a Facebook addict in denial.
Many of us did not, because throwing a party is expensive and complicated.
I wrote about the difference between snail mail and letters here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031357
The linked description provides several use cases.
exactly.

by the way Ethereum scalability problems are much greater than Bitcoin.
Recalibrating your sites
If you're using Slackware, or another sane distribution, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is where you put user-specific X configuration. Making the config immutable would prevent overwrite.

Making local edits in any part of /usr/ is extremely frowned upon.
> you deny that any aspect of difference between preferences in men and women is due to biology?

head explodes

I don't know how you can read what I wrote and come away with that interpretation. I said it probably does.

I said links between biology and occupation are extremely difficult to measure and there isn't research that does so. This is why a lot of research focuses on babies.
Then I guess this market is ripe for disruption: aka a boring CRUD app that eliminates paper and increases network visibility.
Nazis, arguably, were nationalist socialists in something more meaningful than just the party name—before Hitler took over and redirected the party.

Afterwards, they were even more clearly nationalist, but not at all socialist.
What movie would be convoluted enough to warrant C++?
Nuking the atmosphere to dictate the climate is how the Matrix started.
I've been with them for over a year now as well and not a single issue. The interface is a bit cumbersome in some ways, it's a customized OpenXchange, so some mailbox.org-specific settings are done outside of the rest of the more general OpenXchange settings.

What you get with mailbox.org that you don't get with ProtonMail:

* IMAP and SMTP
* Support for hardware 2FA dongles like Yubikey
* Ability to use your own GPG keys
* Very capable mail filter config tool
* Calendaring and contacts (with nice URLs so it's easy to use on Android via DAVdroid instead of Google's stuff)
* File storage
* Web-based spreadsheet, word processor and presentation tool

Their jurisdiction is Germany so you get whatever is left of EU privacy laws plus the Germany-specific ones.
Less time wasted? I mean regardless of what I do, they will continue collect data about me. It is just a question of how much I personally contribute and how much they acquire from my friends. The real gain is you are less addicted to news feeds with the cursed infinite scrolling. A big gain for me.
Webworkers lets JS be multi-threaded.
Why is everyone talking about Disney 'start its own streaming service'? Doesn't it already have Disney Life with all of the back catalog of the Disney brand I can think to search for https://disneylife.com/?
I'm curious to what this means for the existing puppet code base, is it now irrelevant, or are there still usages for it in the k8s world?
I believe they're referring to https://puppet.com

EDIT: Left the tab open too long, beaten to the punch by 20 minutes.
When uber, airbnb & amazon are not tech companies.
now that we are talking about email. what is a good open source email server to use nowdays? or some free provider where i can use my own domain?
Abu-Mostafa's Learning From Data[0] was more more rigorous, in my experience. It's a full-fledged Caltech course, sometimes taught on EdX concurrently with on-campus sessions.

The Ng class was a good introduction, but it was mostly applications, not the mathematics and theory behind them.

[0] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
vscode is slow as dogshit. Its performance is barely passable on windows(making it just barely usable), but when you run it on linux its pathetic and glitchy. If Vscode could eliminate click latency and unselecting highlighted text latency/glitches, it might be an ok editor. I will say the features it has are impressive, but its downsides are outweighing its benefits for me on ubuntu 16.04.3 on the brightside, my replacement ssd will be here soon and i can return to windows 10 and vscode is much better on windows, since windows always has superior desktop performance to linux.
Oh yes my bad. I meant to say I took Andrew's CS229, and Daphne's CS228. I never took CS221.
Fb was taking too much of my time and attention since it was super easy to scroll either mobile or desktop.

What worked for me:

1. Delete facebook app from phone (hiding it didnt work)
2. Install Newsfeed eradicator chrome extension

Result: still maintaining communication with friends via messenger app and checking facebook only once in a while for events etc. News Feed was the attention grabber.

Helped me to get back attention and time. Would recommend.
IP continually used and refreshed can potentially have infinite shelf life. Look at James Bond, the original books came out a long time ago. Look at Lord of the Rings, those books came out a long time ago.

There's a reason Disney keeps fighting to extend copyright, despite how much of their own material is derived from works based on expired copyright.
You're getting down voted because of your conspiracy nonsense. "X treatment is being suppressed because it would hurt drug companies".

Well it's not being suppressed and it's been studied since 1970. TDLR; It may help patient quality of life during chemo, it reduces tumors in some models but it reduces effectiveness of chemo in other models.

Here, read this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/vi...

(Warning - it's from the National Cancer Institute Complementary Medicine section so it's not considered a valid approved treatment in the US. That means something where cancer is subject.
You should focus on what you can do to make yourself a better person. Anyone on earth can compare themselves to another person and get the sense they feel inferior . Wherever You Go, There You Are.
There is in part 2: http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups-2/
With the quality of content they produce, that's more than enough. They are headed towards HBO level of production.
Or a very exciting, adventurous taste in hair color
Not sure how that helps when the caller spoofs the caller ID. According to Twilio, the spam call I received earlier today came a number registered a T-Mobile customer named Sharon. Pretty sure the actual origin was a call center overseas. They just picked a random number that had the same first six digits as my own number.
Many people actually need hints like that:-)
Yes, Google Takeout: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

I remember reading that they have committed to letting you download all you data from all their properties, and the list on that page is certainly long, but I can't tell if it's complete.
Its 7 billion in content, not 7 billion in Netflix originals, big difference.
Nobody is forcing the participants to stay, of course, but if they leave, they won’t be paid — their movements are being tracked with geolocation.

You have to be there to get paid, and that is a good way for them to know you actually are. Is there any other way I wonder ..

EDIT: did you mean that the app should turn off tracking when you're not "working"? then you're right but maybe it is due to software or hardware limitations.
Ratings are discussed in this article. But not specifically pro/con are rankings, sometimes controversial. What's HN's take on rankings?

To clarify: I mean ranking employees within or among certain teams. In companies that produce rankings, I think the rankings often supersede the ratings when used as input to raises/bonuses/etc.
Reverse Engineering X86 Processor Microcode
> Ultimately, the point that he's belaboring is that the "social justice" movement as he understands it doesn't rest on any fixed value

That's no more true for social justice than for any other view or principle held by many. There is in fact a large established body of work exploring what social justice means and exploring the concept in excruciating detail, from the Englightenment through Rawls, Nozick, and others. Yes, everyone brings their own personal interpretation, but so does every liberal, white nationalist, feminist conservative, Nazi, libertarian, etc. Singling out social-justice theory, when it's among the most developed of these ideas, is absurd.

> So the challenge is to either disagree, and identify fixed moral positions/values that support "social justice"; or to agree that social justice is moral relativism

As I said, I often do that, but not within an opponent's frame according to their priorities and subject to their judgment of which answers are sufficient.

> third parties who can't tell the difference may find it convincing

And if it's called out clearly enough, those same third parties might find it singularly unconvincing and be put off by the attempt to instigate a false debate.
What is the point? Is it indented as Art? Was it made simply for the fun of coding?
I could argue the merits of the ringsize but it would be moot because it's being bumped to 10 in September. So I will just leave this here as a note that the argument that a ringsize of 3 is not very anonymous will be moot in September for future readers.
Having been a part of large organizations that do it both ways, it is very hard to give objective feedback to large group of staff if it isn't done at the same time. Eventually everyone that isn't a total screw-up earns the "top box" and the performance review becomes meaningless. If everyone is done at the same time and you want to reward your top 10%, the managers are forced to identify who the 10% really are.
beside that, LFS on its own was weirdly useless to understand linux. More like linux toolchain / sed tutorial. I made a bootable LFS twice but it was strangely broken. BLFS is where linux knowledge is IMO.
> No, the job doesn't suck more than other career choices.

Then why are men and women alike rejecting the field? Men less so, perhaps, but neither gender are jumping at the chance to have the job. Not even the well above average compensation that attempts to attract them to the industry.

> Sorry you feel that way, maybe consider changing jobs?

This is not my opinion, this is what the data shows. I'm glad you do not feel that the professional is awful. I personally do not feel that way either, but we cannot use our biases to believe that everyone feels the same way. Be very careful of your biases.

> We just must strive to create a work environment that's not hostile to women and which doesn't discriminate against them based on prejudice.

In order to even think about whether the workplace is hostile to women, we first have to determine why neither gender is interested in the profession. Again, this is not my opinion. This is what the data is telling us.

> To me it's logically flawed to claim there's a biological impediment and when shown cases where women are successful, to suddenly claim "of course, they do it for the money in third-world countries!" as if this somehow explained biological differences.

Let me be clear: I am not saying it is explained by biological differences. I am saying that your explanation does nothing to exclude biological differences. Women proving success in the tech workplace does nothing to discount a biological aspect, and it is flawed logic to believe otherwise.
Grasping the essence of life: men help ex-offenders embrace positive masculinity
Read about the paradox of tolerance. At some point you need to draw the line. This line is going to be fuzzy as hell, but if you don't you're going to end up with a ton of intolerance.
I had no idea this existed. Yeah, this is what I think most people thought they would do next. Maybe expand the scope of it to include Marvel properties?