skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a good overview (albeit, less detailed): https://medium.com/artists-and-machine-intelligence/neural-n...
The buyer in Venmo has pretty much no recourse whereas in PayPal it's pretty much the opposite… likely something to do with their early relationship with eBay.
How do you know that? Do you work for Cruise?
Yes, decision making power has been hijacked from the population at large and put into the hands of a few. But the point I was trying to make was that these are still just decisions made by somebody, decisions that can change(or be forced to change). They are not the result of some inevitable process that it is foolish to try to change, as is often claimed by proponents of "free" markets etc. There is no "natural" distribution of wealth and resources that will be undermined by redistribution, because the current distribution of wealth is itself the result of hundreds of years of redistribution, from the commons into private hands, from the third world into the first, and from the disenfranchised to the wealthy.
Since when is Yelp a Google rival?
We gave bonuses and profit sharing. The now-parent company stopped that practice, I am told. I still own shares in the parent company, I should sell them.
I took the comment as saying obviously it's not "millionth of a millionth of a percent". You are strawpersoning here.

There are going to be definite real world measurable differences.

OP leaves open the possibility, for instance, of cultural differences that have a effect an order or two of magnitude larger though.

Personally I doubt this, but OP seems open to the idea the size might be small.
Its a college dorm. It was never meant to be "fully independent" and there is absolutely nothing wrong with a dorm being "sanctioned and financed by the establishment." MIT made a decision to cover their own asses in case anything went wrong in the dorm as they've been doing since famous hazing / suicide cases happened in other dorms / living groups fifteen years ago. More college-bound eccentric geniuses will end up considering other institutions of learning if MIT's campus becomes devoid of spaces that they find inspiring, creative, fun, etc. Luckily MIT still has some solid living groups despite this but removing two undergraduate dorms in quick succession will definitely have an effect.

Society doesn't know enough to judge whether they lost something. That doesn't really matter ultimately as MIT is the one that made the decision. If MIT could have gotten everyone in the dorm to sign a legal waiver then they would have been more than happy to let it stay.

You say the people running MIT's budget didn't find it "especially useful". It is a dorm that houses people. Its not like the option is to have no dorm. They still need a dorm. It was a specific cultural purge to shield legal liability.
Be careful w/ these urls - I visited one and it appears my IP is now blocked from accessing yelp.com.
Indeed, the book explains how Austrian economics does not use the scientific method at all, since the conclusions are derived from fundamental axioms.
Not just meat, kangaroo leather is also banned as well as any other kangaroo made products
What an enormous echo chamber. I moved from senior dev to sales.

My contract is 100% commission, because it aligns performance with business requirements. Good sales is every bit as difficult as good dev, maybe harder.

The only people who think devs are not well compensated are devs who can't negotiate or are marginal.

If you've never told an interviewer to go fuck themselves over stupid questions or whiteboarding in an interview, you're probably not making an effort.
I wonder if it's like beef where cooking the outside of a solid (not ground) hunk of meat is enough to kill bacteria that mostly only hang out on the surface. This, incidentally, is why I'll happily eat rare seared steak, but I only eat burgers that are cooked through.
I think you're getting hung up on the difference between product work and product revenue. Think of this like the terms front office and back office. The back office (engineers, product managers) build the core software and the front office (traders, salespeople) use or sell that software to bring in revenue for the company.

The terminology doesn't refer to which parties did more work to release the product, it refers to which parties are closest to the revenue, and thereby have more quantifiable metrics to be judged upon.

Unsurprisingly, software engineers can make just as much or more than salespeople if they work in roles that happen to be very quantifiably attached to revenue generation, this just isn't the norm.
It's configurable in the app's settings. You can change the default to private.
An interesting idea is that mine, unlike that defined in the link, is defined by force of the individual first and foremost. My dogs and cats all have a sense of mine. They own things. They keep things from one another to the point of force if necessary. Mine is that which I hold by force. For the modern society, the force is, at least for the most part, yielded to the State. Indiana or Florida enforce mine. I promontory not kill those who seek to take from me in exchange for the State using its collective force against my adversaries.
I'm surprised there is no mention of the lack of non-blocking filesystem reads and opens. In other words, I should be able to submit a read request, and then select()/poll()/epoll() for when the data is available like network I/O.
I heard in US if somebody knows your SSN, he can take a loan accounted to you by phone.

It is so strange.

What gives banks right to do that?
Only 802 People Paid Taxes on Bitcoin Profits, IRS Says
Google bought Zagat
I've received 160 emails over around 200 days after signing up with a temporary email to load up ads. I've even filmed this: https://youtu.be/xUwjs2Te5hw

They are a juggernaut.
Not necessarily. My mother is a natural blonde and her roots come through similarly.

If you do a quick google, you will see there are many natural blondes with this issue for a variety of reasons.
I haven't read it either, just skimmed. Maybe I'm overly concerned. It's not devoid of math, but it's certainly very light on math. And the supply and demand isn't until chapter 8 while inequality is 1.1.

But much more concerning is "1.9 Capitalism, causation and history’s hockey stick".

It starts off questioning whether capitalism actually did cause the great hockey stick. It then presents the German case study pretty fairly but then ends: "We cannot conclude from the German natural experiment that capitalism always promotes rapid economic growth while central planning is a recipe for relative stagnation."

While it's true that one case study isn't conclusive (and the absolute term "always" was used to weaken the hypothesis), the closing paragraph leaves the reader with the impression that we only have one data point so we're not that sure which approach works better.

Edit: On the other hand, it is honest about price controls. And it does actually incorporate supply and demand curves in later sections where appropriate.
This isn't the case in the United States. Air quality has increased for decades. https://www.epa.gov/air-trends
Are you referring to Economics in One Lesson? It looks like that's Henry Hazlitt, not Sowell. (Am I missing something?) It looks like DeLong has some criticism of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson#Critic...

Just to be clear, I'm not an expert on any of this. I just popped in to provide a pointer I've found useful in learning about a topic when I'm not sure where to start. Similarly here, I just applied a bit of search-fu.
Cryptocurrency and ML are at least as cool and interesting as visualization design, and online privacy is at least as important. Bret Victor's work is both cool and important, of course, but I think it's in a bit of a cul de sac right now. It makes for awesome demos, but it's harder to generalize and democratize than he makes it look -- some further technological breakthrough is needed, I think. That breakthrough might well be related to ML...
There's a certain zen to going back to basics and using plaintext. It's always my default choice whenever I'm given the option.

I'd argue in most cases you really don't need any fancy styles and markup. Although upon writing this I'm now wondering if unstyled HTML might provide improved accessibility over plaintext. What are people's experiences on the matter?

Although I respect that some people may find greater value in carefully styled marketing emails, to me it just feels a bit overengineered at times. How many man-hours have been spent trying to get marketing emails to look the same across all major clients? Are slight variations really such a horrible thing?

As we're on the subject, I'll add the following suggestion to gmail users: go to Settings and changing the Images option to "Ask before displaying external images". External images are regularly abused to track if the email has been viewed, which I consider creepy.
Person A was on trial for (attempted?) murder. Person B posts to InstaFaceGram that Person A will be free soon. Person B then shows up to court and starts live-streaming the court proceedings, included of witnesses, to a sketch-sounding Facebook group.

Person B then lies to judge about what he was doing and so the judge throws him in jail for 6 months for contempt.

The probable witness tampering probably had something to do with the harsh contempt punishment.
Slightly offtopic but still related to web-security in general; how can I be sure about chrome extensions that I'm using are not doing malicious stuff? I think if a state actor or a resourceful entity wishes to steal data of users, attacking/hijacking/buying a popular chrome extension would be so much easier than attacking a CA or doing MITM over SSL, and trying to decrypt it.

I've always hated the concept of certain chrome extensions having full access to all the pages I visit in the browser but sometimes its necessary. Ad blockers are way too high on the list of potential attack targets, close second would be web development extensions like editthiscookie.

There needs to be a way for webpages to indicate that they don't want any external scripts running on the page. Even a setting in chrome would be really helpful. I don't want external scripts to be running on my bank website, or when I'm working with my stock exchange website. Right now I'm making do with multiple chrome profiles but that doesn't cut it. There needs to be some initiative in this regard from major browser vendors.
I just never read the wall thingy. When I go to FB, it's either directly to the messenger or to facebook.com/<my username>. I really only use it for the IM. I hate how it's 2017 and it doesn't have simple things like bold* or colors, that were available in AIM/MSN/Yahoo/EveryotherMessenger before (not to mention until the early 2010s, FB message was the most unreliable piece of garbage in the world. If you used Pidgin/Audium/anything XMPP, half the time messages wouldn't get through).

I have too many friends spread across the world to ever quit FB, but I only really use it for messages. I only post things if they promote my website and pull people to my content and away from Facebook. Since that's all I do, my posts obviously don't get as much reach. It's kinda the opposite of the Silent Bob effect. You have a friend who always says crap and you ignore them. If someone says things only once a week; you pay attention when they have something to say.

Facebook basically penalizes people who only speak when they have something important to say and rewards people who cannot learn to shut the hell up.

*I realize it has bold now, but it doesn't work universally across all their tools: mobile, web, etc. I know people who just use unicode symbols for italics because it's more reliable.
Hmm, the numbers in the publications are not stratified. Besides, I am not sure if the father-to-son monetary delta is the only factor to estimate the mobility. The first publication seems to study a broader set of parameters but all of them except the father-to-son thing look secondary.

I wonder what the data would look like for the various strata in the American society.
>> the guarantee that data has been committed to somewhere durable when a write() call returns without an error is a semantic aspect of the POSIX write() API

> No, that's just flat out wrong.

from "man 3p write":

After a write() to a regular file has successfully returned:

* Any successful read() from each byte position in the file that was
modified by that write shall return the data specified by the
write() for that position until such byte positions are again modi‐
fied.

* Any subsequent successful write() to the same byte position in the
file shall overwrite that file data.

>> POSIX I/O is stateful

> This is fundamental to the authorization model. Authorization happens at file open time. It's also what enables the stream abstraction.

This is very true, but in the workloads the author is talking about, there are often times that a stateless API would enable a more efficient implementation. Think about what is going on in your file server when you have 100k clients all accessing the same open file.

> . I don't know anything about the domain the author talks about (HPC), but it seems what he needs is basically direct access to the block device. Or writing away through network sockets / using a database.

The author is talking about (possibly distributed) networked filesystems backing clusters with extreme levels of parallelism (minimum 100s of nodes with 10s of processors on each node, and it gets much bigger). As far as "using a database" that falls under the category of a user-space I/O stack, where the (userspace) database is proxying the I/O to reduce state.

The title of the article isn't at all bold in context, because it is well accepted in HPC that POSIX I/O is the bottleneck for certain types of loads, and the author is clarifying to those not familiar with the details why this is true.
This is silly. The authors establish that phishing is a serious problem (duh), and that this problem is caused by the absence of reliable authentication of messages (a worthwhile observation, albeit one that the industry is already aware of and doing its best to patch over), but they fail to establish that text-only email solves this problem in any meaningful way.

Text-only emails can and will still contain links, which users will still click on. Misleading domain names will work just as well in the email body as they do in the address bar. Even if (as this article seems to imply should be done) mail clients don't make the links clickable, users will still copy-paste them. (Not to mention that the usability benefits of making links clickable are significant enough that mail clients won't forgo them just for a speculative hypothetical security benefit.)

The authors seem to think that inserting a "speed bump" here will cause users to pay closer attention and not be fooled. This is not how humans work, especially very busy humans who get too much email and just want to get through it as quickly as possible.

Also, the reference to JavaScript in email leads me to question whether the authors have any idea what they're talking about. Mail clients don't execute JavaScript.
I can't think of (m)any situations where tripling the size of a dev team in 6 months makes sense. Did it here?
Great article. I agree with almost all of it.

Although I think all this highlights the massive unmet need for high risk investment vehicles. The stock market has become huge, slow moving and boring, where the already-rich make slow gains on top of their existing fortunes. The only companies that bother to IPO anymore are basically pump and dump crap (blue apron, snapchat). Private equity and VCs are snatching all the action for themselves. Why the hell can't I invest in uber? I would take less equity and provide more capital than all their current investors.

The ethereum network now provides everything we need to offer and trade equity - etherdelta has shown that decentralized exchanges based on the ethereum network work. So this really can't be stopped now. It may not occur in USA or China's jurisdiction, but its going to keep happening.
Yes, I agree. The possibility of a rogue extension stealing data also freaks me out. All you need is the Google account of 1 popular extension's author to be hijacked, and now the person has full control over all the credentials of every user of that extension within an hour or so.

I was so concerned about this potentially ticking time bomb, in fact, that I sent an email about this to a prominent person on Chrome's security team many months ago.

I did not receive a reply.
Used to like Yelp as an alternative to Google owning everything, but they are destroying their brand using shady app-hijacking tactics.

It's a dark pattern to limit access/force app downloads for access to content on mobile. I hate rooting for google, but I'll root for open web any day.
You need to think beyond the fine. There will be costs of new regulations (if passed), increased costs for lobbying against any said efforts, loss of revenue (would you want to have your company name as a partner for Equifax), and finally lawsuits.

Going long may make sense but we've not hit bottom yet.
I personally know sales folks in large enterprises (say Cisco) who do a lot of travelling and are able to get base salaries of ~250k and commissions of ~400-500k a year, on top of essentially life time personal unlimited travelling due to millions of miles points accumulated. So yea, pretty high.
Firefox has it's own certificate bundle, so do Java applications.
I haven't used Facebook for anything other than _chatting with family_ in more than a year. I still get "notifications" about things that I literally could not care any less about. Someone posted something on _their_ wall? I don't fucking care! Someone said something and it got a lot of attention? I literally hate that person, why are you telling me this?

And... you might tell me that I could just unsubscribe. Yeah. I did, multiple times. The notifications still come. They just go to the spam bucket now.

Facebook is one of the worst "products" on the market and I'm pretty close to telling family to find some other means of communicating with me. Like, you know, a good old fashioned phone call.
So overly ambitious that they were fraudulent and fictitious.

It's almost as if the goals of Star Wars were written by a ... drunken science fiction writer!

But that doesn't mean we don't need everlasting world peace, or a pony, or whatever fantasy your heart desires, as N Korea proves daily.
When I first read this thread I was really happy to read so many stories about people flocking to help each other.

But I became almost depressed after reading this https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/world/americas/irma-carib...

I've got different meanings for "First World Problems".
> Unfortunately the effects of a single teacher are so noisy and indirect that it's basically impossible to measure their performance. The lack of firm data is why the debate about teacher compensation is so fraught.

The problem is not that it's hard to measure. The people is that teachers actually have very little ability to make a marginal impact on their students though their performance, except at the very tail ends of the distribution.

In other words, structural factors that teachers can't directly control, like family support or district curriculum standards, have a much larger impact on student performance than teaching quality does. (Except, of course, for the exceptionally bad teachers, but that's better addressed by firing them than by adjusting the compensation strategy).
I think some conclusions are being drawn too soon, from a study which cautions

> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To
be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less
hateful.

From section 6.6 -

> Recent work has shown that some banned subreddit users migrated to other social media sites like
Voat, Snapzu, and Empeopled [29]. The banning of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown led to the rise
of alternatives on Voat.co, for example, where the core group of users from Reddit reorganized. For
instance, in another ongoing study, we observed that 1,536 r/fatpeoplehate users have exact match
usernames on Voat.co. The users of the Voat equivalents of the two banned subreddits continue to
engage in racism and fat-shaming [22, 45].
In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To
be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less
hateful. One possible interpretation, given the evidence at hand, is that the ban drove the users
from these banned subreddits to darker corners of the internet.

As I recall - it took time for Coon town and FPH to metastize. That the metastizing process may well be REQUIRED, to get a critical mass which results in a succesful cleansing.

Further this study is based on specific keywords, which the researchers took great pains to curate - but human ability to hide improves with practice - the change of lexicon to words that Wont be easy to track with basic lists.

FINALLY - People should flip this on its head - should reddit or any site be compromized, and suppose subs which "fight for equality and freedom and goodness for the world" are banned - what would this study imply?
What Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ tells us about the state of blockchain
Companies would do similarly for managers and engineers if there were a discreet non-gameable measurement of their output

The sales process is gameable especially in software. The salesperson can sell vaporware and promise the customer that the company can deliver. That puts pressure on software development to work overtime - unpaid - to meet the deadline.
Experiments in Open Source: Exploring Vcr-Sharp for Http Record and Playback
This happened to me with Instagram (which I stopped using after they killed the chronological feed). I'm almost certain I never gave my number to Instagram. I used it to confirm something with Facebook at some point apparently, but I don't recall giving it to them and I can't imagine myself consenting to phone notifications. At one point they sent me a message at 2am local time on a Sunday.
We must be reading entirely different articles.

"We showed that the climate responded significantly to reduced vegetation cover in the pre-monsoon season. We found decreases in rainfall, higher surface and ground temperatures and enhanced atmospheric stability"

In other words, burning vegetation led to a more arid climate. That is the entire thesis of the article. It's really pretty clear.

Not to beat a dead horse still further but one of us is really missing something here. It could be me and if it is I'd like to know what.

"Contested" isn't cause to reserve judgment at all. The age of the earth is contested. Man made climate change is contested. But the age of the earth is very likely what geologists claim it is. And it's also very likely aboriginal burning is one of the causes of aridity in Australia. In which case they weren't "managing" so much as ignorantly abusing. Very much as we do today.
It might be that we miss some key insight into Ebola or virology by trying as hard as possible to contain and eradicate it. Still, we restrict ourselves to studying it in a lab, rather than treating an outbreak as the place to find a possible nugget of truth.

It's one of the most frustrating parts of discussions about this topic for me: we're constantly supposed to weigh the value of hypothetical goods and somehow judge our commitment to freedom of expression by how far we're willing to go in defense of possible outcomes we can't even clearly articulate.
For web pages to indicate? No, that'll get attached to every terrible ad in the world.