skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>Titles like these are what happen when marketers optimize everything towards clicks, and don't care about actual impact on the brand itself.

Uh, you say this as if you truly think that this is NOT the actual premise of marketing.

https://youtu.be/DFCMhSzeGuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4
Steve Wozniak was on the board of directors, so we met him once at an all-hands meeting. (The other major celebrity appearance was from Thomas Dolby, who was involved with the Beatnik Audio Engine that we used for sound.)

The SnowBored easter egg was the subject of some internal controversy because it wasn't part of the standard QA testing process. There were initially some bugs in invoking it from localized keyboards where the asterisk wasn't on the 8 key.

The company was bought by Microsoft, and the Kin was the ill-fated result. Many of us went to Google and made Android; others went to Apple and made the iPhone; still others went to Palm and made the Pre.
What's stopping you from taking an Uber everywhere?
Moto G5S Plus – first impressions after few days of use from a real user
That is ridiculous, to expect a CA to google every cert request domain and check what they are doing? That is a ridiculous requirement - cert issuance is automatic.

Do you think we should stop allowing Let's Encrypt to issue certs? You know they don't google each domain to see what they are doing.
We are having a conversation on Hacker News. Any sampling from HN's user base, including your sample of 1, is biased. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a high probability that:

1. you have at least average intelligence

2. you can entertain logical arguments, since software development involves a lot of mathematical logic

3. you are heavily exposed to American culture and San Francisco's progressiveness, even those of us that are not even living in the US ;-)

4. you have a good education, either from an Ivy league school, or because you are an efficient autodidact

5. you are middle class and have your basic needs satisfied by your salary

Don't get me wrong, but there's a high probability that you're living in a bubble, just like most of us here and you're really not representative of the average population.
Off-topic:

Recently the desire to have your genitalia cut off in order to pass as a member of the opposite sex was considered a form of body dysphoria. Can you point at the scientific breakthrough that changed that? I've been under the assumption it was a social change.

In some cultures, eg areas of India, the concept of a third sex has been well established, those in such communities often find transsexualism to be strange yet accept the idea loosely described by eg "male body female mind".

So, I'd be interested in that pointer, that shows acting out genital removal is not "aberrant". Does the research also show it's not mental illness to want to become deaf, an amputee, etc.?

Direct me to one of your previous discussions if you like.
There is no company behind fidget spinners.
I'd argue you are anti-strawmanning. As with all these debates, there is a spectrum of opinions, but plenty of high profile (if not entirely serious) people do have implicit (and even explicit) beliefs closer to the strawman than what you have outlined. Or they may agree with what you say as far as it goes but then reject any implications or further analysis based on those and similar facts.
That seems like a great analogy until I remember that we built DC on a drained swamp.

Again, their statement was that if it involved pain then it was unacceptable. I pointed out boxing, they mentioned concentual. I pointed out that the user consented when they visited the URL.

I mean, come on... The two big ones were coontown and fatpeoplehate. What the hell did they think was going to be there?
"Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github."

I don't see this as a problem. They're providing a service, and doing it well. Why should they not be rewarded for that?
It's way less prevalent than it used to be. I remember how for a while right after FPH became popular pretty much every post that hit the front page would have "found the fatty" or similar comments. Thankfully that shit mostly stopped (or at least seemed to) after FPH was banned and this paper shows it was a real change in the culture of Reddit rather than just my perception of it.
leading the free world? you really mean US is some leader of free world? in what filed exactly? living standard, healthcare, education, internet, etc? because I fail to see pretty much any positive field in which US would be world leader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs
In some cases, yes. But, not always. The states are a bit of a hodgepodge...

- Washington and Oregon votes by mail for most/all elections (>95% mail ballot). No clue how they validate the sender, but you don't have to leave the house on election day.

- NC voters have to show an ID. But, just about any official-looking bill, bank statement, pay stub, or government document with voters name and address on it will do.

- Arizona similar to NC, but if no photo ID, must show 2 non-photo documents.
What it really needs is a floating button thing like the reddit app has that moves the screen to the top of each comment tree.
I would be pretty surprised if they decided to reduce their offer after you'd already accepted it.
Don't be too sure. Glancing at the link, all the test for is the usage of the same words that were used in the banned subreddits - but those are unlikely to be used as they would quickly get the account banned. Instead presumably the accounts would use a more subdued approach, but with little change in intent.

The approach also fails to account for users who go to alternative sites.
Yeah, but what's the name of the epistemic fallacy you commit when you single out one instance of a common phenomenon and subject it to extra scrutiny?
Less complicit than Mark is what I assume you mean, though it was ambiguous in my mind whether you meant "than either of those two".
Where I currently live, the bus app does the same, but the difference between scheduled time at each individual stop is typically 1-3 minutes. So it's not like off-line functionality would be useless, even if on-line can add value. But it obviously only adds value when you're on-line - and if off-line the app doesn't work at all...
We at http://fairpixels.pro also work 100% remotely. Personally, I found that, just like with office workers, there are particular types of people that naturally work better in a remote environment. There are people that HAVE to be in an office. Don't hire those. The folks that can only function remotely, will have less problems with the cons of the article. I read the similar cons pretty much on every remote working article, but really it's about hiring the right people.
It's harder to assess the state of the technology from the outside, but this is due at very least to legal limitations -- It's currently illegal to have a car on the road without a human.
Twitter built an in-app tweetstorm feature
Reading the "Bad Faith" section of the wikipedia entry was especially interesting when you compare the profile of your average alt-right person with the mindset Sartre is describing.
"...Two retired women partners at the firm have joined her lawsuit, but a larger number of current women partners have actually condemned it."

So it's not "law firms vs. women", more women actually support the law firm in this case. Of course that's not proof of anything, but it does suggest it could simply be a normal case of people disagreeing about compensation. In these sorts of cases, you tend to go for any "weapon" you can, and "discrimination" is a pretty powerful one, even if there's nothing to it.

Of course the stats don't look good, but we all should know that correlation ≠ causation. Jordan Peterson, who apparently works with law firms, gives a very different reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2yvI4Id9Q

TL;DW: Law firms try their darnedest to keep women, but most women just aren't as mono-maniacal as the few men who make it to the very top.
`mscgen` [1] was a popular one back in the day. I think `graphviz` can do it too. Since sequence diagrams are part of UML, most UML tools can do those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MscGen
To a large extent the causation is backwards: how much money depends on your genes. Smart parents have smart children and smart children make more money.
Which app were you developing? Is it actually in the app store? What kind of usage does it have?

I've always entertained the idea of using a hybrid framework--like Ionic--but I have never heard of a successful business betting the farm on one (especially a "Banking" one like you say).
>No one is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to eat too much.

How you recognize what "enough," "too little," and "too much" are are based on a complicated set of hormonal and nervous system cues. When that system tips too far one way or another you're inevitably going to start gaining weight or have trouble building muscle.
From my discussions with a friend with intimate knowledge of the software side of Cruise, there is wild skepticism within the co that they even have the hardware needed to go L4 or L5. Big promises being made to GM by Kyle which is leading to smoke and mirrors to distract/buy time from more critical problems "under the hood."
"I'm concerned they'll lower my agreed-upon salary after seeing the results of the report"

Agreed upon is agreed upon. If they really try to lower your salary it's probably not a good place to work.
Is this guy just a bad citizen of the dev community?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219048
If you read the link, you will note she was athletic before the transplant, and became obese afterwards despite maintaining the exact same lifestyle.
"The nail that sticks up gets hammered down" works extremely effectively in many cultures. I'm not saying there's other downsides to using that tool, but it is extremely effective.

S.Korea & Japan are in the lowest three obesity rates for a reason. (Third being Italy)
100% agreed.

Just fwiw, apparently (i.e., I discovered in the last 10 mins) pygmentize detects file extensions, so

$ pygmentize -o test.png test.py

is equivalent.
Actionable notifications have been a feature of PWAs in Chrome for over a year now: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/01/notificati...
It's not fantastic because this is not an actual floss license.
What are your thoughts on home batteries? Assuming the decline of battery prices is a major influence in the uptake of electric vehicles, I'm wondering if a similar uptake in home batteries (alongside residential solar) would mitigate stress on the grid.
It's a well-known historical phrase. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World#Leader_of_the_Free_....

Whether it is accurate now is another topic, though.
> $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads

No details as to the content of the ads have been revealed. One would think that if they were pro-Trump they would have mentioned that in the release.
I guess you may be onto something. Organised religion may be the source of some of the earliest human settlements - eg. Çatalhöyük.
Isn't there a way to find your current salary by your future employer? For eg. I am making x$ per year today, could I say I am making 1.5(x) to my future employer and wouldn't he validate/verify it?
Don't worry. I think is charisma for a mainstream crowd is up on par with Shkreli.
> I grew up with free speech was the ideal.

You must have grown up in a very strange time & place, because it's almost certain that in any reasonable definition, the freedom to speak and publish, and to reach an audience, is much larger today than ever before.
Never heard the term "anti-strawmanning" used before. Care to elaborate on the definition? Google didn't have much to say on it.
This PR announcement isn't the only data point, GM has the goods to back it up.
church is not the solution for poverty..
Wikileaks showed CIA interference in the 2012 French elections[0]

[0] - https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/
I'm inclined to believe that an ML algorithm can do what the authors claim- but maybe only for the data set they're using.

The inputs are self-submitted photos to a dating website. Can we be certain that how people pose, smile, look, etc, isn't influenced by their intention- to find a mate of a specific gender? What if those same people were each asked to submit a second photo when they're told to 'act gay/straight' in order to fool the algorithm?

It could be that this ML algorithm is picking up on very different cues than intended. But I wouldn't discourage the researchers over it- try it again with a better data set, one built for this purpose, and discover just what the algorithm is picking up.
Voat doesn't have a real userbase outside of the hate groups that have made it their home, and they've been in serious financial trouble for a while. They would have gone under by now if not for a recent cash infusion they received from /r/The_Donald, and even that will only last them a few months.

Hate groups were so prevalent on Reddit for one main reason: discovery. Being on Reddit made it easy for them to proselytize and recruit. Hate subs show up in Reddit's search function and in views such as /r/all. If someone posts a dogwhistle or even an outright racist statement on a default, you can click on the poster's username, see their post history, discover any hate subs they post to, and get sucked into their propaganda. Just typing the name of a subreddit creates a direct link to it... so if you tell a racist to "go back to /r/CoonTown", you're inadvertently advertising the sub (which is why AutoModerator has been a godsend, as you can automatically remove posts that contain links to known hate subs).

But if all the hate groups are over on Voat, all of that goes away. Redditors can't randomly stumble on Voat communities, and it's harder to advertise Voat communities on Reddit. Voat is its own tiny, isolated little private island for hate groups, and it's very hard to proselytize from there.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

Have a look at the graph of the cost of delivering utilities. This isn't about environmental sustainability as much as long-term economic sustainability.

When towns sprawl, utilities with costs that scale with distance cost more per person.
I guess it is a combination of factors.

As stated else where it seems like author has copied/forked existing project. Then (if I understood the license correctly) you are required to open source your software if you were to use the library, or pay $5k. On top of that if you contribute to the project you sign away your copyright.

If these things are correct it seems like a one hot mess of a project.
And, on the subject of camera obscura, I'd recommend Tim's Vermeer.
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I agree, that was odd to see. I think its because the author is writing outside of his comfort zone? It seems most his work is physics or history related, and he is stepping into something well outside of those.
I'm curious as to what type of hardware these sites that can't handle HN traffic are running on? I've had a project go front page before, and it was nothing a $10 droplet couldn't handle. A few hundred concurrent users is nothing for a webserver/database.
Worth noting that Apple (WebKit) set Service Workers from 'Under discussion' to 'in development'
I suspect they want the app to have an easy access icon on their home screen. I don't think most people know you can save a shortcut as an icon from a given web page on their home screen.
That doesn't mean much. People wear masks, self-censor or adopt more obtuse language. For example despite using a throwaway right now I am still phrasing things not quite as I would like out of concern that I would not be taken seriously.

"hate speech communities" still consist of people. Those people can engage in other hobbies without injecting their political views into everything. Similar how vegans and meat-eaters can dine in the same establishment and atheists and christians can be buried on the same cemeteries.

I would even argue that dedicated places for hatespeech lead to exaggerated expression of mostly reasonable people. Think of trump promising the wall. People cheered him on for that. But that doesn't really mean they want a wall. They might be perfectly happy with stricter immigration policy or enforcement of existing immigration laws too. But shouting "build the wall" is a group ritual for them. Virtue signalling works for both sides.

Edit: After skimming the paper I noticed that the authors were also identifying subreddit-specific lingo. I wouldn't expect this to carry over unmodified to other subreddits. You can still denigrate particular groups without using those particular keywords.
I think it's a fair question. I suspect the answer is just that it's not economically practical to be professionally prepared for eventualities of this scale. Like small towns with volunteer fire departments, there just isn't enough activity to keep a professional staff employed - at least not a staff big enough to handle a disaster of this magnitude. How many 911 dispatchers would you need? Can the (expensive, purpose-built, locally scoped) infrastructure sustain the volume?

I actually think this is pretty reasonable. We're too used to thinking that bad things are Someone Else's Responsibility. Maybe general-purpose tools (internet, walkie-talkie apps) combined with a sense of civic duty are the solution we should embrace, perhaps with a bit more public training (ala volunteer fire departments).
> No one serious claims that there is no genetically identifiable basis for grouping people of similar geographical backgrounds.

EU Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320...

The European Union rejects theories which attempt to determine the existence of separate human races. The use of the term "racial origin" in this Directive does not imply an acceptance of such theories.
The effect of commenting dismissively like this on a complex and emotional issue is that of trolling. We need you to be more thoughtful and to please resist flamebait like the guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe stop believing what companies say and start looking for third-party evidence that they're telling the truth
My first thought was publication ready pseudo code or code snippets for posters
Why are the terrible engineers terrible, leading to them being fired (after 1-2 years?)

I've not hired anyone who turned out to be bad at coding, but I have hired people who had other performance related issues, which were difficult to suss out during an interview.

From my own personal performance, my approach to interviewing has led to far more true positives, than false positives, so I am biased towards continuing.
The last photo:

"Cruise 3rd generation self-driving car assembled in Lake Orion, Michigan.

It shows a steering wheel, though the info graphic shows no steering wheel. Maybe the caption should read "2nd generation".
People also need to stop complaining about things that really are not a problem.
Arguments with extremists aren't for the benefit of the extremists; they're for the benefit of onlookers who perhaps haven't considered counterpoints.

And if a community deletes or down-votes dissent: well, that happens but it also becomes a matter of public record and can also inform. Case in point: the moderation of /r/politics.

Nothing is served by "saving" Joe User from being exposed to unpleasant speech in an open forum, due to the fear that he might be adversely affected or even damaged by the experience. This is anti-vaxxer logic, on a meme level.
Isn't this the usual way of the larger monopolistic corporations ? As they grow they lose their ability to innovate (if they had some in the first place) and rely on bullying, buying, copying, suing the little players out of existence.
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> "I'm concerned they'll lower my agreed-upon salary after seeing the results of the report"

That would be a really easy reason for you to back out and to start out not happy with them. If they did this, I'd consider leaving immediately.
Anti-gay stigma is useful to those wishing to exert control over a group via establishing in-group / out-group dynamics. One can remove a social competitor from a group by outing them as gay (even if they are not). The fact that it is capricious and the accusation unfalsifiable is an essential component. A 3rd party tool that can objective establish gayness would take away the subjectively. Society will have to move on to other mechanisms of group control just like we moved on from witchery and heresy.
More than 60 million people wanted Hillary to be president. It was a larger number than the number that wanted our current President.
For VOE they should just need start and end dates (at least anywhere I have worked) possibly with a heads up from you, but if I accepted an offer that was contingent on passing a background check I would just cooperate as that is just part of what you are signing up for this that type of position.
Why do people believe that public transportation does not enable sprawl?

A great commuter rail system is what allows people who work in the world's premiere cities to live in strip-mall exurbs and take the train to work.

I live in Washington, DC. Metro is what allows huge numbers of people to live in sprawling suburbs instead of in the city. Yes, some drive, but traffic is rough and would be unbearable without Metro. Fewer people would be able to live outside the dense city center.
My feeling is that under special situations 1 degradates to 5, so to have good security anyway you have to solve problem 5.
It is not the BigCo which is asking for the info but the third party. You can refuse to share the information by writing "undisclosed" if it allows for text or just write 0. In case the BigCo wants the salary information let someone from the company contact your directly and discuss it.