skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But those VCs and CEOs and COOs are your bosses.

No, they aren't. I don't mean to be hostile here, but I object strongly to the implicit assumption that 'tech' means "heavily Sandhill-funded software companies operating in the Valley".

I've worked at several software companies, some good, some bad. But I, like a very large portion of American 'tech' workers or even 'CS-degree bearing programmers', have never actually worked for a Silicon Valley company, much less one with major VC financing, much less one where VC culture has shaped everyone else's environment.

That's not to deny that there can be a very real issue here. But as an example, banking has similar serious issues at the top, and I wouldn't assume that every realtor's office, even ones ultimately tied to Merrill Lynch, had the same issues. Even if a realtor did have issues with sexism and discrimination, I think it would be unreasonable to assume that they came from what happened at the top carrying 'down the stack'.

I think it does a real disservice to 'tech' in general to understand it entirely in light of people like Travis Kalanick and Justin Caldbeck. I think it even does a disservice to efforts to fight sexism and harassment; the behavior of the richest and most powerful people in tech seems to have more in common with the rich and powerful of other industries than the rank-and-file of tech.

And I worry that this concept of trickle-down misbehavior will do exactly what the top comment points out - obscure everyday issues and opportunities in favor of a focus on a small group that's behaving quite differently, and can't be easily improved.
Twitch was bought for 970m. preeeetty close but not technically a billion. Quora had a 1.7b valuation in series D recently
Isn't his device the nearest near device to him?
Announcing the NYC Algorithms and Optimization Site
> cumbersome

Yes, turbolizer currently lacks some of IRHydra/2's mature featurefulness. No pretty "you're deopt is here". I've no idea whether Google would welcome contributions or not.

> I was always hoping that V8 will eventually get proper Dev Tools integration for compiler / runtime internals

Wistful sigh.
Doesn't law enforcement already prosecute criminals? Why would anyone risk using Apple Pay now that they are thought policing?

Dumb.
My understanding is that it is not enough to ship the device to a country, you also need an very large ad push and deals with local operators in order to actually sell it.

However, it should be mentioned that the pixel was sold in even less countries than the previous generation ..

Google really need to step up its game.
If you're not white, it's almost socially acceptable to say "fuck white people" in cities like SF, NYC, and Chicago

I'm sure Google, CloudFlare, PayPal etc will be shutting down that blatant hate speech too.
> It is immensely interesting to me the impact of negative emotions on brilliance and success. People driven to greatness by their fears or urge to overcome powerlessness.

Robert Peston's "The Entrepreneur's Wound" is relevant:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nh06m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6375518/Ghastl...
Hans Reiser[1] didn't do too well with the murder thing either, despite being (apparently) pretty damn smart w/r/t file-system internals.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
Go to any co-working space outside the US/Canada and it's basically exactly this. Pretty fun.
> Maybe I didn't care before but now that I can't root my phone I am forced to deal with it.

Why not?
Space partitioning when there are 4 players is a bad idea.
But inconsistency is truly a problem. Is not that JS is just "crazy" but with a method on his madness. Is that is just not well designed.

So, how we can claim to "developer good software" in front of our customers and defend tools like this?
Fwiw. Duckduckgo is using Bing under the hood I believe.
The Next iOS Update Has a Feature to Prevent Cops From Searching an iPhone
I know programming within the constraints of mobile devices isn't easy and I want to take nothing away from the release, but when you are still used to Desktop computing it's kind of funny to see how seemingly trivial nice to have features like picture-in-picture or notification dots get all hyped up in the press release.
I think that Paul Otlet may be your man for that sort of thing. He was obsessed with how to organize and catalog not only things, but knowledge and information.

Interesting guy, and ahead of his time. It's too bad that his work (along with the rest of the world) was mostly dropped on the floor in the chaos of WWI and II. There's a book about him called, "Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
On Android at least, the Google maps app lets you download large map areas for offline use, including turn by turn directions. I use this for when I head up into the mountains to explore a new area where the cell service is spotty and it's really convenient. It's a nice complement to a topo map and it means you don't have to carry a separate GPS receiver.
IANAL wait is this true?

The way I understood this conversation was that BMW (continuing your example) cannot sue facebook if facebook infringes them on an of their car patents but it's not a right or a grant or even a license of any sort.
> Lack of opportunities for a nice lifestyle is not a justification for criminal behavior.

Of course it's not. Suppose you're in a situation where you have a lack of education, family/community support, and a general lack of resources. Perhaps you already have a minor conviction on your record due to racist or classist laws. The options are: have money, or don't. Do you sell drugs? In the states, where money implies safety, health care, and the means to provide for your family, while lack of money implies little security for your way of life, potentially no access to health care, and no support for your family, the choice is obvious.

And yes, about half of federal prisoners in the US are for drug offences[1].

> and finally to hurt

I assume you're talking about violence in general. I know you didn't argue against it, but since it's the topic of the original article, I'll state it plainly. I would rather violent offenders receive education (yes, at a cost to taxpayers), which is shown to reduce recidivism greatly, than have my taxes go to a system which favours their return to prison.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders...
Why AI Wont Destroy the World
I think the idea is that you can update the HAL portion as well, and the system on top of it can be verified to have not problems with that HAL independently (and you can wait for that or or just update the HAL as available if you think it's important enough).

Since it's semantically versioned, you can theoretically have fairly high assurance of what updates might cause problems and what should purely fix a bug that doesn't affect normal functionality.
Apart from what Ironlink said below, there's also the fact that Google and Apple support mean different things.

For Apple, updates often mean some subset of the full operating system updates, or a crippled version.

Whereas Google updates tend to be all of nothing - meaning if your phone does get the update, it gets all of the features of that particular version.

This seems to have changed somewhat with moving a lot of the stuff to Play Service (and now obviously with Project Treble), so you get the best of both world (in theory)...
There were a number of unfortunate cases already, example: http://us.pressfrom.com/news/us/-76402-internet-shaming-when...

We need to follow our judicial system otherwise we are no better than them.
It doesn't stop at the German border, though. And if you look at this map, the distinction between S and N is much less clear: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_domestic_pro...

Southern Germany, Western Austria, Northern Italy, Switzerland and parts of France: There's a big wealth cluster in the larger region around the Alps. Why? I don't know, but as a South German myself, I'm not too convinced by the claims of the article.
In FPS there are people called "stat junkies" the name expresses its hobby well. You try to play for the best stats. Head shot ratio (how often you get head shots), KDR (kill death ratio).

You could likely data mine from stat sites before before/after purchasing very high refresh rate monitors.

OFC there maybe some bias to try harder once you drop >$400 on a hobby. In my own subjective experience 60 -> 144FPS was night and day. Roughtly ended up being a 50% pref improvement.
Im sad there was no info about feedback left by the buyer. Refund usually makes people not leave any (reciprocation) :(
Same is in Bulgaria. And when you ask them "Hey actual version is 7.0. Why you use outdated OS with vulnerability? How you buy that devices?" They told "I have seen 7.0 there was nothing new."

But no one want to get computer with Windows 95 (or 98) anymore. Just Android 4.4 is "OK".
If you're awaiting/catching upstream, you don't need to wrap at the lower level, and it can be cleaner.

const delay = ms => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));

async function fooErrors() {
await delay(100);
throw new Error('I failed');
}

async function doSomething() {
await fooErrors();
}

async function main() {
try {
await doSomething();
} catch(err) {
log.fatal(err);
}
}
Assuming you live in Iowa, you could sell that as a really bad revenge action movie: eBay's Bose Boise Betrayal.
I'd like to add another voice to this: I host my own email myself out of my house, and I've never really had any problems with it either. AFAIK I've never been marked as spam, even after I've sent a couple of mis-configured emails that should have probably been marked as spam.
I get the point you are trying to make, but as AWS offers many services, I don't need a sysadmin for a DB (RDS, Dynamodb, ElasticSearch, S3) or for APIGateway nor for any coordination between systems (SNS, SES)

True serverless let's me offload that cost to AWS instead of having a sysadmin
Heard a guest on NPR say that treadmills were invented as labor for prisoners that would create no sense of purpose nor pride in accomplishment
On Crypto-Companies and Taxes
If they haven't already blocked you...
I didn't think I'd miss the blobs until I saw these new ones. The new ones are embarrassingly bad. Maybe it's just me, but I feel Koreans and Japanese do much better emojis.
How to Speed Up Slow External Drive
They can still get a merchant account. I mean given these groups might be selling merchandise on their own sites I imagine they ALREADY have a merchant account.

Now if no bank is willing to let them have an account… That would be interesting. But I imagine there has to be at least one. Heck, they can start their own.

I wonder if the big credit card and it works (visa, MC) might start doing this kind of thing too. That would be a real blow, and might start to be illegal (collusion? IANAL, obv).
Filter HN for GitHub stories
I am most interested in HN posts from github. I like cloning the repos and trying them out. I usually ctrl-F "github" and go page-for-page through HN. Is there a better way to filter by news source?
In Canada it is illegal to practice engineering, or use the title "professional engineer" or "engineer", without a license. For example, after complaints were lodged by the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, a court in Quebec fined Microsoft Canada $1,000 for misusing the "engineer" title by referring to MCSE graduates as engineers.
Why doesn't he say which of Google's terms of service he supposedly violated? He just spends the whole 3 pages saying that he hasn't done anything wrong, without even once saying what he is alleged to have done wrong. Seems a bit dishonest.
Even if it is an algorithm: So? Just because an algorithm made the bad call doesn't mean it's OK.
My new headless CMS uses Vue: https://www.headless.rest

It uses webpack with alot of code splitting so instead of 1 big bundle its many small bundles which should help loading times alot.
I’m fine with receiving years and years of security updates. I paid for the features I got. Anything new is a bonus. But an up to date secure OS is non-negotiable.
They're not cutting out "peaceful" people, they're cutting out “activities that promote hate, violence or racial intolerance” which are inherently neither peaceful nor civil.
Does that make the new emoji a non-feature for Oreo?
Project FIFO releases vmadm with FreeBSD Jails containers support
Yeah, I'm not sure why anyone would down vote that. Own a stake in YC?
I'd be much more interesting to see what is the expected value, median and average for the founder.
Have you ever done mailing list work? Like run a mailing list with a few tens of thousand users?
> Given that the valley now has multiple companies with $500bn+ market cap

Only one of which was founded this millennium (but still founded before YC).
Is there a reason this link is to a blogspam site that is just copying a post from Zero Hedge?
If it only happens to one out of millions, why can't they have an actual responsive human being to respond to queries?

"We have so many zillion customers that we're forced to use bots for customer service" and "Only one out of a zillion customers has this kind of problem" would seem to be mutually exclusive.
Audi Engineer Implicates Superiors in Diesel Case, Lawyer Says
That's awesome to hear about the desktop app. It's certainly a project with important goals :)
I remember this coming up before :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195091

ninja edit: I mostly jump remembered the picture of Robert with his/a dog and the text, “Hi! I'm Bob Nystrom, the one on the left.”
Something like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com
"worth billion dollars" is not the same as "have billion dollars". FB is both worth and have multiple billion dollars. Does this make sense to you?
http://scienceblogs.com/interactions/2007/06/08/on-quantum-m...

"The probabilities are what they are, no matter what we want, no matter what we visualize, no matter what we meditate upon while imbibing inspirational substances. It doesn’t matter how much you want that electron to be spin up, it doesn’t matter how many good “vibes” you give the electron about being spin up, it always has exactly a 1/2 chance of being spin up, a 1/2 chance of being spin down."
Used to be that Android distinguished between connected wifi and a internet connection by trying to reach a Google server or something.

At least my 4.x tablet used to have a 3-state wifi icon, off (not present), connected (gray), internet (blue).
I've built ABS (archlinux) packages by having some swap space on my pogoplug mobile's boot drive (1TB USB). It's a slog, but stuff will finish sooner or later, and by that I mean later or really late.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'd like to see if going from the RPI's USB3->SATA adapter->M.2 adapter->16GB of Optane ($40+tax locally) would work, and if it did work (a big if), what performance is like.

Edit - Scratch that, I just remembered the Pi 3 is still USB 2.
What are you looking at for liquefaction risk? I'm not seeing much on this map:

http://gis.abag.ca.gov/website/Hazards/?hlyr=liqSusceptibili...
Did I claim that someone else's behavior limits your neutrality? Or that it somehow invalidates your views?

Also, did I say anywhere that stereotyping was bad in and of itself?

In fact, here is what I did say:

maybe we don't see how we interact with women or at least admit that many of our gender demean women in ways that equates to bullying in one form or another.

Not sure what that has to do with you or your views, but you seem to be defensive simply because I stated a generalization.

And yeah, I stereotype and prejudge all of the time. However, in any power position I may hold, I need to correct for it internally to make sure that instead of trying to confirm my biases, I'm actually being fair and respectful to the other party.
And I think this should be done regardless of the genders involved.
I have an HTC One M8 which I purchased in summer/fall of 2015. The phone works great but it makes me sad that I am still on Marshmellow and the phone is no longer supported.

lately I have been been wishing there is a way I can just run some version of linux like debian/fedora on my phone and be able to run apt-get update and upgrade (or yum) as updates are released.

IIRC it cost $600, and technically it does more than I need, but the fact I am becoming more and more concerned that security updates are not being received is making me call into question I actually want a 'smart' phone.

I understand android is based on linux but it is above my head to compile this realease on my own and it is difficult for me to trust rooting the device if there was an option to install oreo on htcone m8 with my 'old' chipset.

any thoughts? did I miss any truely 'free' linux smartphone OS that I would be able to use?
Wouldn't using ones own domain and gsuite alleviate some of these issues? If Google were to shut down your account, you could update your mx records to a different mail server such as fastmail or self hosted as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and be back up and running relatively soon (of course you still wouldn't have your connected YouTube/G+ etc accounts).

Although as I write this it occurred to me, you would likely loose all your contacts and calendar unless they were backed up prior...
Honestly, I prefer this over the popular alternative of making UX changes for the sake of adding something new.
Pretty much exactly this.

Sort by "From" and thread conversations. Far easier than by date.

As an executive, Pao just deciding that this was acceptable, either at the behest of her counsel, or with their approval, demonstrates "poor risk management behavior" that I wouldn't want in any company executive.
Ask HN: Short term predictions for the price of BTC?
My prediction: It looks as though BTC should drop a little bit here. After that, it will make a final run up to around 5000 somewhere in early September 2017. If ~5000 +/- holds, we'll see a sizable correction downward. Thus, directly above 5,000 becomes a clean area to define risk for a sell/short play from 5,000 downward.

What's your "prediction"?
They are different.

Clustering is useful for when the requests have roughly the same cost and serves to distribute that load over several cpus roughly evenly (because a NodeJS is single threaded you need this to take full advantage of modern hardware).

Workers are useful when requests vary greatly in cost (some far outweighing the others) so that the event loop is not blocked for less costly tasks by much more costly ones.

Consider a web application serving http requests. You would want to multiplex those requests over available cpus on a machine with workers but would not want to block processing any of those individual cluster workers with expensive requests.
There's one phrase that makes the whole thing very important : "In April, ABC News reported that none of the prisoners who had gone through the program had returned to prison since being released.". It is, imo, the only thing that really matters in the end
> How hard would it have been to run a few keyword searches and get some paralegals or junior associates to filter out the irrelevant material?

It's actually trickier than it seems, and the penalties for under-inclusion can be harsh.

Even if you make a good faith/reasonable effor, if you accidentally don't include everything that you're supposed to, you can be sanctioned. So if you do a keyword search for a word that seems innocuous/personal (so that you can exclude those emails) and it turns out you accidentally excluded some emails you were supposed to include (because you didn't have doc reviewers actually read every email that the search returned), you can get in trouble.

And having doc reviewers go through hundreds of thousands of emails could cost $50k or more. How much would depend on how complex the discovery request is.

If they just said "send us emails where you talk about John Doerr", that's easy. If they say "send us emails where you talk about JD, the firm, your mental health, or sexism in SV", that becomes much more difficult/expensive.

Under the circumstances, it is not appropriate to fault her lawyers for the decision not to do doc review in order to cut down on the emails provided in discovery. Remember that the client here is herself a lawyer (Harvard Law School, Cravath), so she bears the responsibility for a major decision like this. This may have been a bad strategic decision on her part, or it may have been too expensive to go any other way. But her lawyers are not at fault.

Note: I am a former SV lawyer, but I do not know any of the lawyers who represented her (or even what firm it was).
I can't live without hot module reloading anymore.. With my Vue projects (no idea if React does it like this too) I can update my code and it only reloads either CSS, JS or HTML and it completely maintains state. Textfields maintain their content while I edit their CSS, just great.

Wasn't long ago that auto reload on file change was a fancy feature...
It seems reasonable to me that Google's banhammer is largely algorithmic, and that the algorithm made an error. I can't think of any reason for Google to ban him intentionally.
I've had some success with Custom Elements, using skate.js as a higher level interface.

This piano keyboard element: https://micahscopes.github.io/all-around-keyboard/

Some elements for quickly drawing graphs in html:
https://micahscopes.github.io/tangled-web-components/example...

(It still needs some more convenient ways of defining the graph structure, as well as an interface to do force layouts.)

I haven't worked on either project in a while. I kinda got tired working with the development version of skate.js while the custom elements spec was changing so fast. It's an excellent library, but things were moving too quickly for me to keep up.

Today, I'd probably just do it in plain javascript, since the spec is more stable now.
This ranks highly on the worst webpages that I've ever been to. Shows off nicely that it takes a lot of effort not just to make good webpages, but also to make the truly atrocious ones.
Wow! that's an amazing library name? Would you mind if I ..er.. borrow it? (JK) :D
Cute! Shame the pricing is "elite" too.

Slice >£1000 inc tax: http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Offer.aspx?p=b-pc-hp-elite...

Comparable spec small PC £520: http://www.misco.co.uk/product/2688486/HP-280-G2-SFF-Desktop...
I suspect their UX people nixed the whole "revoke individual permissions" thing because then aunt Tilly would accidentally revoke something and complain that her phone is broken.

Seen the same kind of reasoning play out in other contexts where user customization has been curtailed.
Is this a historic trend or a consequence of the war?
Okay, now I understand the issue. It looks like you're reading a description of postcolonialism written by someone who's explicitly opposed to the school of thought and treating that as a primary reference on the tenets of the philosophy itself.

If actually read the original essay with that title ("Can the Subaltern Speak?), you might see that Chibber's criticism is completely off-base, to the point of misrepresenting even objective facts about the principles of postcolonialism.
Ah yes, it will die just like C++. Backwards compatibility focus languages are the only ones that live long enough to be old and encumbered.