skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think it's going to cause an improvement -- we already see plenty of individual high-productivity Eclipse users and low-productivity Vim users.
Nobody chooses who to reproduce with for purely sexual reasons. We choose who to have kids with based on a very complicated array of factors like who the person is, what they do, how much they earn, is there good chemistry and of course also physical appearances.

Human evolution seems to no longer be driven by nature, but I don’t think it’s true to say selection is purely sexual in the modern world. The term “agency” from the article best describes it I think. In essence humans are now self-selecting the path of their evolution through conscious agency. Pretty trippy to think about actually
It's stuff like this that keeps me on iPhone instead of defecting to Android.
> Apple seems to be the only tech giant adhering to "do no evil."

They are the ones that might currently do less than the other two, but history shows that giving one company too much power means it will be abused sooner or later. Google seemed a really, really nice company in the late nineties. When it developed, people were fascinated. When the first versions of Android came out, I was coding like a crazy, happy to own an "open phone" I could simply copy MP3s and ebooks to. And look what a monster they became. Now I do whatever I can to get rid of Google from every aspect of my life, and believe me, it's not easy at all.
Exactly; they are the gatekeepers of their iOS ecosystem but got no backslash like Microsoft did with Windows (circa 2001); so now they know they have a free pass and are trying to be the gatekeepers of the Web [for their users] as well.
I do support anti-monopolist policies. My favorite president is Teddy.

The very fact that we are discussing the enterprise limiting speech does show it's arguable. I say it should be argued. Further, I say that comments such as yours, while I'm fine with you stating it, serves only to act as slight of hand that limits speech.
JavaScriptCore compiled to JS, so you can run JavaScript in JS
How do you know if your card supports it? Try it and see if it works?
> Or will this result in people learning just enough of vim or emacs to use it badly in an interview?

Hey, I use them badly in real life, too. No reason to make it sound so duplicitous.
Agreed, and this should be the retort to any curtailing of free speech in the name of safety. Its the same argument as allowing “the_donald” to exist on Reddit. You will not stop an ideology by denying them a platform. Better to debate them in an open forum, even if they are evil. The only way to counter bad ideas is with good ones.
Vault is a pretty good thing. For some time, we used chef attributes and environments, but by now we have migrate most stuff into vault. The migration was easy, because chef-attributes form a big JSON object, so you can translate that into a secret tree in vault in a straightforward way.

The worst part about vault is managing access in a secure way and granting access to the right parts imo. We leverage the pki backend (or rather, three dozen pki backends) to map nodes to their respective policies and that required quite a bit of tooling to make work. But now it does, it's secure, and if need comes, it should be easy to revoke secret access for a cluster.
Imagine if Rust just used s-expressions as syntax in the first place.
I don't think that's likely. Here's why:

YouTube doesn't have to worry about major competitors because of the network effect. If it bans people from YouTube, where are they going to go? To a competitor video site no one uses? Sure, they could, but they're not going to have much success considering how unlikely it is that their entire audience will go through the hassle of signing up for the competitor's service and then remaining active on it (while likely still using YouTube) just to watch one person's content.

But with Patreon there isn't a similar network effect at play. You just log in and subscribe as a Patreon. There's no real need to log in every day, or week. There is no additional benefit you get from it being the largest service of it's kind either. So if Google did buy Patreon and they did start banning people, I don't see much reason why someone couldn't just create a successful clone. Creators would even have a reason to use the new service over Patreon given they'd be less likely to loss their revenue stream by simply linking their audience to the new competitor site instead. Sam Harris recently started pointing his audience to his own donation service instead of Patreon for this reason, there really is no real cost to either the creator or subscriber doing this, I'd guess Sam probably even takes a larger cut of the donation money.
Pfft. My new Amazon CC got compromised the day I got it. I used it precisely once, for an Amazon transaction.

I've probably had 5 cards compromised in the past decade. The biggest hassle is changing recurring payments. I don't track them, I just do my best ten wait for the bills to fail. What's annoying is sometimes they keep successfully charging my account for 4-5 months before failing. How they're able to bill the old number I don't know.

But yeah, they just call you and send you a new card. No need to select which transactions are fraudulent typically -- or at best 2 mins on the phone. No big deal.

Sucks when you're overseas but google voice + headphones and then Apple Pay means your new card is active the minute it's issued, even if you won't get it in the mail for 2 weeks.
But what about when the posts are being used as a tool to vet and recruit candidates to join their cause and kill people?
Does anyone know if tracking via localStorage still works? Also to be fair if you interact with the iframe cookies can be set. I just wish it was sticky per domain.
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They've been suspending terror accounts for years.
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Sure, but there used to be a strong performance advantage when using the arguments variable with function.apply, also editing arguments' values affected named parameters' values (not sure that's desirable, but you know, semantics)
> Miners have very little power over Bitcoin as a whole.

Chinese miners currently control significantly more than 50% of Bitcoin mining.

If the government takes control of the the miners, they take control of the bitcoin network. There's plenty of mischief they could make with that if they were so inclined.
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It hasn't, it says clearly in the article that they've been suspending these accounts at least since 2015.
>Apple seems to be the only tech giant adhering to "do no evil."

That's such an odd idea. I'm not sure how you arrive at it.

Apple, in this case, is simply setting itself up as a gatekeeper for advertising. Just like Apple is the gatekeeper at the app store who takes 30% of everything.

Apple isn't going to stop ads. It's going to charge advertisers a cut to reach Safari users. In the process, it claims to protect users of Safari from the "evil" cookies. Essentially, they're taking shots at Google's business model and trying to get a cut of Google's income at the same time. It's purely a money grab.

This is also great news for server side trackers. This will be a big boost for their business.
One man's political dissenter is another's terrorist :)

More seriously, this is obviously a textbook example of a cognitive bias: There is absolutely no possibility that the number of specific people being blocked for hate speech in the US you are likely to read about come anywhere close to these 300,000.
It's short lived
I don’t think economists believe there is a specific functional form for the utility function (although it often has certain properies). It’s more just a useful concept for representing customer preferences.
Museum shops are an excellent place to buy toys.
I am interested to understand how does distributed database systems built on top of distributed key/value stores compare to other distributed database systems.
Yeah, the numbers are weird. I'm in SF, full-stack, with 20+ years of experience (and leading several successful exits), but I can't seem to get a job making as much as a mid-career developer (according to that calculator).

To be fair though, I don't have time or patience for long interview processes. But, on the other hand, a lot of times I get rejected just after the phone screen (with no feedback, of course).
No.

Miners can only double spend transactions if they have > 50 % of the hash rate.

The only purpose of miners is to add proof of work to in exchange for new coins that users value. If the proof of work is on a chain that contains valid transactions and conforms to consensus rules, it'll be valuable.
> But since most internet commenters never go anywhere, they buy into the "US is old and backwards and dumb" cliche that makes them feel superior to everyone else.

Because I am the OP of this comment chain, I feel that is directed at me.

For reference, this is me - http://theroadchoseme.com

I like to think I have been a few places, lived a few lives.
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"Isolating people from Twitter isolates them from their inherent right to speech."

I disagree - are you saying access to a social network like Twitter should be a human right?
Your argument boils down to: Tulip Mania was caused by the govt, BtC isn't a govt system, therefore BtC can't be a bubble.

Tulip Mania gets referenced because it's ridiculous on its face, but what about the Dot-com Bubble or Railway Mania? [1]

Economic systems are a combination of markets and regulatory frameworks, and you can't always blame regulations when the economics say things you don't want them to. It's flatly impossible to isolate the two: the market is shaped by regulations and visa versa.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
This site is for conversation, so let's please have one instead of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Evolution of Beauty was a great book, but it was a little depressing how the author had to face a ton of entrenched academic prejudice to get his theory out.

That aspect alone is more interesting than the actual book, which focuses on Darwin's The Descent of Man arguments that have been marginalized due to their implications rather than their accuracy. Lots of interesting bird trivia, too, if you're into that.
Great question! It’s similar in that we extract significant phrases and measure their frequency. Our differences:

• We combine similar significant phrases together. I.e. cancel subscription and end services would be clustered together.

• We track and display their distribution over time not just their total frequency. i.e. is it trending? Is the current downward trend significant?

• We ‘learn’ from each company the topics that interest them by both manually allowing them to subscribe to topics or mark them irrelevant as well as by automatically tracking click through rates and time spent.

As for the internal audience vs. external audience, we focus on the questions that are important to a product or operations team: how to reduce churn, feature requests, sentiment (what improves customer satisfaction) which is different from information valuable for consumers.
It’s probably just as hard to be good at being an “influencer” as it is to be a good developer. But the hard parts are much different.
Except in this scenario the behavior of the doctor infuriates the other surgeons in the room degrading success rates down to 30%.
You could say the same thing for intelligence, which is arguably more valuable. Intelligence allows you to have a comfy 9-5 job and long-term stable career making 6 figures a year writing software and doing something you love.
Ever since Citizens United the American ideal of free speech has been quite, quite, dead.
I'm pretty sure the litmus test is when you're calling for the death and destruction of others, and people are doing it, it's terrorism.
This. I'd NEVER give thieves access to my bank account, that's what credit cards are for. Chip transactions take ~5 seconds, it just feels slow because with a swipe you can put the card away in your wallet while the processing is happening.

Chip+PIN doesn't really exist for US CCs. I've setup PINs on a few cards but they only work overseas where the terminal refuses signature.
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One straightforward (though possibly not the best) way: just ban ads on-line.
So you don't agree with laws about hate speech?
> It seems the pressure is comming from policy makers, not the house owners.

I think you'll find that most people in society would support the motion to attempt to reduce extremism and hate speech. It's not a controversial issue nor do I in any way feel it's trampling on any rights I have.
Sure, but if the industry, as a whole, is more secure, those operating costs go down, and, in theory, so do fees charged to consumers.
They're attracting them to other forms of communication where they can be further radicalized.
While not perfect, it does help that it's free for non-commercial use
Is this more evidence that interviews are broken in the world of GitHub profiles? There does not seem to be any correlation between the choice of editor and developer productivity when it comes to open source development. It is possible that developers who code with vim and emacs are forced to focus on low-level details like method names while developers using IDE's can focus on getting stuff done.

While I do understand that this is just content marketing to drive traffic, it would be great if the following questions were handled with rigor.

Is editor usage related with age of the interviewer? If there is a strong co-relation between Eclipse and older interviewees this could very well be explained by ageism.

Is PyCharm ranking high in the rankings because of confounding with Python also being high?
Research on meditation
No.

I'll bet may salary that the folks at Twitter have no problem deleting ISIS accounts, and would do it irrespective of any impetus from the US Gov.

And the Europeans are considerably more strict on this - they have severe surveillance laws. Sweden inspects every single packet coming in and out of Sweden.

Also - consider the fact that Twitter bans accounts all the time for some really basic stuff. People have been banned for not much, the bar is not high.
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Good for Apple.

Marketing in the 2000s/'10s has really turned disgusting. Whereas many moons ago marketing was just about giving your brand an image, and making people aware of it - it has now turned into an all out psychological assault.

Additionally, we seem to be seeking out every way possible to bombard each other with it. Remember when someone figured out that you're stuck standing near the pump when you purchase gas for your vehicle, so they put tv screens with sound blaring at us there where we can't escape it? I mean, you're in the middle of making a reasonable transaction (money, for gas) - but you still have to be turned into the product for marketers to assault now, just because you can. In the same vein, I've heard there's a CO based startup working on bringing similar advertising to ski lifts - another venue where you can't escape.

We really need to take a stand on this (as Apple is), as the internet is just one of many spaces where marketing can and will massively infringe on your privacy. Google Maps seems to track your physical location constantly (so you can "see where you parked"!) - how long, if not already, until they notice that I've visited a dry cleaner, or gone to Home Depot, so they can use that info to continue the onslaught?
> … the paper separates languages into…

The paper, both shows tables that include all the results (ordered by Energy consumed) and shows separate charts for what the authors classify as "either a compiled, interpreted, or virtual-machine language".

What is "an interpreted language" ?

"Although we refer to Lua as an interpreted language, Lua always precompiles source code to an intermediate form before running it. … The presence of a compilation phase may sound out of place in an interpreted language like Lua. However, the distinguishing feature of interpreted languages is not that they are not compiled, but that any eventual compiler is part of the language runtime and that, therefore, it is possible (and easy) to execute code generated on the fly."

p57 "Programming in Lua" (2003)

> … why would you compare the performance of C and Ruby, for example? Ruby is bound to be slower…

Except when the C program is measured to be 50x slower than the Ruby program --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang...
> The company is balancing a commitment to free speech against pressure from policymakers who want to see social media companies do more to fight extremism and hate speech.

Big issue for today. Both 'free speech' extremes are bad. No two people can agree on a "perfect" middle ground though.
It always configured my repos to use Git LFS - which is not installed because I don't use it.

I hope it can be turned off now, I wasn't able to find that setting.
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Isn't it precisely that?

I'm actually confused by your example, because it looks like an example of precisely that happening (and then they were forced not to allow that). Lots of people flocked to e-commerce because of changing the ability to tax transactions.

Lots of "technology disruptions" seem organized around allowing people to break the law on the broad scale by making enforcement complicated and infractions easy. Not to say all of them, but enough that it's certainly a trend.

We can view that as a good thing or a bad thing (and there are reasons it might be a good thing), but it seems strange to ignore it happening.
There was a recent /r/science article that suggested the banning of coontown and fatpeoplehate resulted in less hate on the platform as a whole. Would you argue this hate moved to other avenues of the web? I'd bet some of it did, but some people just stopped being so hateful on the internet once their cesspool went away.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6zg6w6/reddits_ban...
Unbelievably, it looks like it is controversial.
> If you want to write a book that starts with motivations before delving into the nuts and bolts, and you ask customers what they think is most important and they all say the same thing, it seems reasonable enough to put that first.

Starting with motivations is great.

An introduction where an expert explains why economists think economics is important would be interesting and compelling. Telling us about a topic that students think are what makes economics is important is silly. If the students are right that the topic is most important, then it will come out in the expert introduction. If they're wrong, then wouldn't the version that actually gets at what makes economics compelling and interesting be better?
Indeed. I would be very surprised if any real planning happened on twitter DMs. That would be unbelievably stupid, with the NSA stuff now being so well known
This is perhaps giving the USG too much credit, but it's possible that they considered this a reasonable trade-off. That is, they are reducing the amount of new radicalization, at the expense of driving the already radicalized underground. On it's face, this is a good trade-off, since already radicalized people are going to be using crypto/darknet stuff anyway.
Being good looking also helps coders, though to a lesser degree than Instagram models. Better looking job candidates tend to get hired more and get more promotions.

Personally, it doesn't amaze me at all how important good looks are for a model. I know I'd prefer to look at a lithe college coed bounce around in Ibiza rather than a frumpy mother of three work in a textile factory. It's programmed into my animal brain.

It helps to keep in mind that "influencers" are a product of a lot more than good genes. It takes a large investment into beauty products, hair stylists, clothes, camera equipment, travel, etc. These people are constructed using their fit bodies as a foundation to build upon. Taylor Swift is a product, not merely a person. Her development costs surely tally into the millions.
motifinvesting.com sort of gets you there, e.g. a 'socially responsible' fund: https://www.motifinvesting.com/motifs/socially-responsible
I have yet to find a single Git Front end that allows drag and dropping of branches. Feel free to enlighten me.
Obvious wife beater comes in to defend the wife beater.
Rust macro based language. All great until you have to debug or figure out why it does not compile. Then you may just as well kill yourself.
It's nice, good work there. Have any plans to open source it or sell it as a script?
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I assume they're referring to national parks, Alaska, and so on.

Yellowstone is the size of Cyprus, and Death Valley is the size of Montenegro, to use two examples without much internet access. Alaska is three times the size of the Iberian peninsula and most of it does not have internet (though to be fair most of it has no population or tourism).
It might not be the best comparison, but OP was on-target with their last sentence: "Who defines what is considered terrorism and what isn't? Once censorship infrastructure is in place, it will get abused."

Today, it's ISIS. Well, that's OK -- they're clearly terrorists.

Tomorrow, it's the KKK and White Supremacy groups. Well, that's OK too -- they're racists.

Next month, it's climate change deniers -- that's probably just as well, as climate change is a threat to civilization and these guys are merely standing in the way of a solution.

Two months from now, it's Trump supporters -- might as well, as Trump is against taking action against climate change and the whole alt-right thing is a nebulous group that includes the already-banned bunch of racists....

Next year, it's the people who objected to all the Trump supporters being censored -- they clearly aren't on-board with keeping online speech civil and hate-free....

Etc.

Yes, Twitter is a private organization and therefore cannot run afoul of any 1st Amendment protections. The danger isn't from certain groups being able to tweet, it's from this casual "ban what we don't like" attitude so easily adopted by individuals and groups who would otherwise be screaming bloody murder if they were the ones being scrutinized.

I'm all for bombing ISIS and similar groups to oblivion. I'm not OK with this latest fad of neo-Puritanism determining what is "hateful" and unacceptable speech and the subsequent hand-washing because it's private industry doing it rather than the government.

Edit: If you disagree, take the time to explain why. Otherwise, your downvotes simply further illustrate my point: I'm saying something you don't like, so you'll do your best to simply punish & censor an alternative viewpoint.
> Apple OTOH has behaved this through their entire existence.

Rosetta, Carbon and the Mac 68k Emulator are examples of the exact opposite.

Apple does not hesitate moving forwards, but historically they provided large amounts of backwards compatibility, just not as cruft inside the existing system.