skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reference. Given the changes Apple highlights in iOS 11, I'm surprised this wasn't addressed.

I'd be interested in reading a more technical, in depth piece on the issue looking at it from both the client and the server side (to determine exactly what is potentially available to an attacker). Browsing through 17 pages of user-submitted forum content isn't something I have a lot of patience for (though I suspect that's a reflection more of how little I am (perhaps naïvely) concerned about it).

Thanks again for following up with the link!
I was curious and peeked over to see what's currently popular over at the_donald. Some of the top-voted recent links:

* "UN Globalists are on suicide watch after President Trump's speech"

* "One of the best quotes of the speech. Socialist cucks BTFO!"

* "This tweet from David Brock's cucks is less than 2 weeks old and has already aged terribly."

* "Can you imagine a world without Islam?"

* "HE TRULY IS A GOD AMONG MEN" (God-Emperor Trump)

* "Since 9/11 there have been ~35,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks; that's an average of 2,000 per year... So let's (A) NEVER FORGET, (B) PRESS F, and (C) DRIVE. THEM. OUT. FROM. THE. EARTH!"
I should have started looking for jobs when my hours were cut from full time to part time at a startup I was at. I guess I was expecting a rebound to happen.

A few months later, I messaged the founder asking if he had an ETA for when the work hours would go back to normal. I got laid off after that.
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The primary market works in part because there is a secondary market. It would be a lot harder to raise the initial capital if the initial investors wouldn't have the prospect of unloading their shares to the public. That doesn't mean I buy into the myth of the stock market as an efficient allocator of capital, though. For one, it isn't efficient. For another, if you look at e.g. AAPL a huge amount of capital is sunk into the stock, while the company doesn't know what to do with all the money it is generating.

Post-IPO, companies can also raise additional capital by issuing more shares (either to the public or by e.g. issuing RSUs to employees). Only in those cases is the stock price relevant. Otherwise, the market can be mispricing a stock without any bearing on the functioning of the company.
It is all done by hand I bet. Started in 2004
I'd be interested to know how their prescreening works. Sometimes those things are timed, and I can imagine a really short timeframe, say 30 minutes or so, might make the specific editor more relevant. For example, I absolutely hate Eclipse. Back when I was writing Java, I reached into my own pocket to buy IntelliJ because I was at least 50% more productive with it. I know there are people out there who dig Eclipse, but even if it's your editor of choice, it's more appropriate for dealing with a big, long-lived project. Similarly, if they had some existing project you are required to work with, full on IDEs like Eclipse might require a lot more fiddling to work properly, compared to straight up editors like vim/emacs/etc.
Definitely, for some people it’s easier said than done, but I think that’s a very small minority and not your average FB user?
iMessage is! Woah. I must be pretty tame. I saw a screen shot in the article with iMessage eating over a GB. I'm at a messily 61MB.

I've gotta up my social game.
> That meant less gold per unit of national currency, which meant deflation.

That seems backwards to me. Wouldn't less gold per unit of national currency mean inflation? Each unit of currency equating to less gold means that it's worth less. In deflation, it would be worth more.
With a debit card you have full liability if you don't report quickly vs $50 cap with a credit card. Not worth the risk of using a debit card ever IMO.
This is a real text book.

It is written by a wide range of eminent economists from world leading institutions, with the aim of instructing students.

A book created by experts in their field with a view to teaching students about the issues that concern them most is not anti intellectual.

I can only assume wrongly believe yourself to be in possession of an objective understanding of economics which disagrees with this text book (which you've read, right?).

Sorry to go so mad on this one, but it really is just a different view on economics. It ought to be welcomed.
I've always found that cleaning the contacts fixes it
That is a better definition than mine since I used the word civilian. You are right that terrorist attacks can be directed at military members.

I would maybe challenge or tweak the state actors inclusion in potential perpetrators. The bombing of population centers like London, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc. during WWII feels like a separate category. Those should still be war crimes, however the fact that they were carried out during an active war by the military would seem to make them a little different than traditional terrorist attacks.
History has repeatedly shown that the slope is that slippery.

Just within the last 17 years, we've seen plenty of examples of events and behavior that at one time would have been considered unacceptable or shocking become normalized and "par for the course".

That we have shiny beeping toys and a broader vocabulary to describe aspects of human behavior today doesn't change the fact that human behavior itself hasn't changed in a long, long time.

That which can be abused, will be abused.
Yeah? It's a state prison. Not the town's prison.
I think the only real difference is that, generally speaking, systems programming standards and best practices don't change weekly. Or, maybe they do. I don't work in that field professionally.
You gotta buy the hardware in some fashion that is deniable or hidden .... same thing with running it.

That's a lot of work.
Based on comments on HN, people are surprised that a company that "just runs a website" can employ "so many people." But this is a platform processing hundreds of millions of dollars among hundreds of thousands of users.

Here's a rough sketch of possible headcount. I'm making these numbers up, but maybe you can see how it does take a lot of work to make a business like this work.

- Engineering
- 5 - frontend dev/QA (web, tablet, responsive, A/B tests)
- 5 - backend dev/QA (app logic, video/content hosting, scaling up & out)
- 5 - payments dev/QA (payments is huge and complicated, probably a few payment processor partners)
- 5 - app dev/QA (iOS and Android)
- 5 - product owners (web, 2 apps, email, internal tools for agents etc)
- 5 - management (cto, engr manager, director etc)
- Business
- 5 - creator experience, patron experience, outreach, community
- 5 - marketing, advertising, lifecycle email and email campaigns
- 5 - partnerships, relations with big creators, collaborations
- 5 - fraud detection and remediation (fraud is huge, chargebacks are expensive, and the ability to charge $1 to test cards attracts fraudsters)
- Operations
- 20 - agents handling creator/patron requests/issues (more if 24/7 or multiple languages)
- 5 - ops/systems (keep everything running, downtime means less income)
- 5 - HR, recruiting, accounting, etc

This is probably under-representing the business side since I am from the engineering side. Also it looks like they are hiring more people for all these teams. If you want more info, you can always look up Patreon's job openings:
https://angel.co/patreon/jobs
https://boards.greenhouse.io/patreon#.WcFitC-6z-Y
https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Patreon-Jobs-E915057.htm
Try to explain this to an average communist party member
How would you know if they did know and chose not to do anything to avoid showing they did know?
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Awesome. Curious, what are you using to scrape sources, and for social counts?
not a chance. they will make you the red-headed stepchild. anyone with a shred of business sense would know not to reveal this to candidates. the fact they are flaunting it is a HUGE red flag.
Next you'll tell me "cloud" computing doesn't happen inside a bunch of water vapor.
Before getting on the train to the city, I try to remember to put my phone in battery-save mode preemptively.
Well I didn't realise we were talking about speed, OP spoke of ease.
This is why plastic surgery is so big in Hollywood. It's literally a career investment.

In countries like South Korea plastic surgery is extremely routine, especially for girls - their parents will give them plastic surgery as a birthday gift. You can read that as shallowness in society, or simply a greater willingness to accept, pragmatically, that people in every society are shallow.

http://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-is-the-plastic-su...

The problem is, once everyone gets plastic surgery, if you're one of the few who don't your natural looks will stick out like a sore thumb.
Except for margin trading, robinhood is a great deal. Many of these regular discount brokers are committing high way robbery in terms of the fees. TC Ameritrade is the worst in this regard. I hope robbinhood puts them out of business or at least takes away a large chunk of their market share.
What is the alternative? Allow terrorists to spread propaganda? You aren't going to keep up with them without automated tools.
I've been using most of these services since they launched and I can say that as a whole they are significantly cheaper to both run and develop until you get to very large scale at which point the code transfers to real servers pretty easily.

I have several mobile apps that I run literaly free because the Lambda usage is under the free tier and those I don't cost dollars a month. I am very happy with it in general.

There is of course the problem with any instant scaling metered service that if you are actively attacked you can rack up a large bill but there are monitoring systems that can be used to prevent that if you want (at the cost of taking down the service) or allow it to scale (at the cost of $$ but your customers stay happy).

Edit: It is worth noting (based on discussion below) that other posters are right. It is not for everyone. It has some major tradeoffs that you need to be aware of and plan around. But if the tradeoffs are OK (and I personally found they are for many of my projects) it is a great service.
Well, the central bank is supposed to watch out for this kind of stuff, and adjust to prevent it. The problem is that several other actors also have levers they can adjust, and they act after the central bank does. This means that the central bank has a very imprecise kind of control.
>The diplomatic game that unfolded in Vietnam has become increasingly common for Facebook.

Yes, At least this should ring a bell to all those who still think they can write anything on FB about a Government and get away with it. Facebook while being pushed and portrayed as your personal diary is actually your digital repository only accessible for the most elite like Government.

While an average FB user can easily shame anyone around him (like how frustrated boy friends shame their ex girl friends), fellow average FBians can't do much. This reiterates the capitalist world that we live in where Democracy is just a myth.
What do you mean? Linux runs phenomenally on my mbp, and everyone I know has similar experiences, probably because the hardware is so standardized. And avoiding frustration is the primary reason to spend the extra money on a macbook.
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Yes, 6 randomly picked words from 20k word dictionary.
Intro to theory of computation by Sipser is good.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Micha...
The best book sort-of about Darwin is This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson.
> Arguing over whether black people should be enslaved or Jews should be gassed aren't political arguments with sound reasons on both sides.

So then let them say it and make fools of themselves.

I'm well of paradox of tolerance and it doesn't apply to free speech. Free speech is what keeps the nazis at bay, it's not what gives them power. It's why hitler and the nazis hated free speech and it's why they banned it.
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Not from what I've heard from others. May be by now Linux developers ironed out common issues. See the link above.
I dont know who posted it originally (here on HN) but there are a lot of signs which may be true for startups as well as for non-startups:

http://wiki.c2.com/?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom
I stumble on randomly getting integer/float/string in surprising places at least once per week in JS. Store integer in localstorage, you will randomly receive float back in chrome.
Electron, which means it's heavy and feels like a website rather than an app. But worse, the features just don't seem compelling enough to move away from their existing native app.
I had no clue until a cashier did it for me in a European country. There may be a little logo like this either on your card or on the materials when you get your card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card#/media/....

Once it was demonstrated to me, I went back and found out the cards I've had since 2013 (pre-chip).
Well that makes; I wouldn't think it makes sense to buy a Mac only to install/use some other OS.

I've worked in several environments where the development team was equally mixed between Linux machines and Macs, and they all shared the same tools, setups, scripts, etc without issue. Which I think is why developers like Macs so much.
Huh! I also asked for something weird (Frank Zappa + Animal Collective) and got Foo Fighters. I wonder if there's some vector math going on that makes Foo Fighters crop up if the input songs are too orthogonal.
There are only 934 households in Mt Sterling, per the same census data.

This is a garbage post for comparing the demographics of a tiny town against those of a state prison _populated from all over western Illinois_ that happens to be located near this town.

I won’t argue that the demographics of that prison don’t seriously suck, though. But even that needs to be studied with nuance. Unless you can guarantee that prisoners are uniformly distributed to prisons statewide, then it could just be that black people are disproportionately sent to _this_ prison (for any reason).
3M command strips for picture hanging. Similar to Velcro, can be removed with no damage (as long as you're careful) Rated to 4 lbs per for the big ones.

I use them to stick my networking hardware to the wall to get it out of the way.
Definitely. Thats the next important thing im working on. Stay tuned!
>I'm generally against rules and regulations where one race benefits over another.

Sure, but you don't make the rules. Do you have evidence to suggest everyone is opposed to such policies? And I don't just mean they say they're opposed to them. I mean they truly oppose them, and that they agree with you on which criteria should be used to determine whether a rule or regulation meets that definition, and that they're totally unbiased in the application of those criteria?

>White nationalists refuse to understand...

They deny the theoretical possibility of such a rule? Or did they deny that the particular rules you discussed fit that description? Or did they deny that such rules were likely to be the only ones produced as a result of other racial groups having more political power, and that the more likely result would be rules which benefit those other racial groups?

>While the counterargument is simply "They took the jobs that no one wants to take",

And the counter-counter-argument is that if wages were not being driven down by immigrants, especially illegal ones who are more likely to hide their income, then the tens of millions of out of work Americans would have an incentive to move to the places where those jobs are available.

>After all, the economy expands...

There is no reason to believe that the benefits of the expanded economy are distributed evenly. There is actually quite a lot of reason to believe those benefits go mostly to people at the top of the income bracket whose wages are not driven down by immigration and whose businesses benefit enormously from the reduced labor costs.

>For whatever reason, white nationalists refuse to believe in...

Why would you expect that path to be the one we go down when every racial group has an incentive to act selfishly? What invisible hand is guiding them to work together for the benefit of all racial groups, rather than focusing their efforts on benefiting at the expense of others? Especially once the low hanging fruit on the latter tree has been picked?

>A wall, deportation-based policy...

The point of the wall and deportations is to stop the tide of changing racial demographics. Control over government authority is a zero sum game. You either win or lose office. Why would white people expect other racial groups not to use that power to further their own racial interests at the expense of white racial interests? Even if they pursue some policies which benefit everyone, why would anyone expect those to be the only policies they pursue?
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I think you will get a boatload of anecdotal grievance, though that's not saying much nowadays.
Right, i'm not sure what they're trying to extrapolate here. The larger data set of the state as a whole would be a better start point I would think.
>What is the alternative? Allow terrorists to spread propaganda?

Yes
That comparison between the readability of Newton and Darwin has got me thinking on what changed between the 17th and 19th centuries to make that possible. Aside from the obvious differences between how Newton and Darwin communicated in writing (Latin vs English) I think it also might have to do with the rise of the novel, and how novels effectively created a "general interest reader." I suspect that Darwin and Huxley were intentionally writing for mass reading public, people who read Dickens and the Illustrated London News. These sorts of people wanted to learn new things about the world but wanted things to be readable and memorably expressed.

Newton was basically just trying to communicate with a handful of experts, many of whom didn't even speak English, so he just didn't see what he did as something that demanded a lot of attention paid to prose style. I actually find the writing style of some of Newton's contemporaries to be really beautiful and readable (Margaret Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy is a surprisingly fun read). As is some of Descartes (like his Meditations). But those are definitely outliers.
The reason this matters:

In some (most?) states, currently-incarcerated prisoners cannot vote, but they do count towards the population of the town in which they are incarcerated for things like Congressional districting.

So, this has the effect of massively skewing political power towards the demographics of the non-incarcerated people living near prisons, at the expense of the districts where the incarcerated people actually came from.
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I'll look those two up - thanks for the tip!
The issue with this is that ultimately no individual is ever really personally responsible for a societal level action.

To take a contemporary example, it's very possible that within the not so distant future the first amendment may be overturned. And it's equally possible that 50 years later it comes to be that deciding to allow the government to criminalize speech at their discretion somehow doesn't turn out so well. So people would go back to the past to try to figure out what happened. And perhaps they would decide to blame President McPolitic, who oversaw the overturning of the amendment, as the source of the problem. Surely they just used their powers to make a decision that turned out very bad. But of course it wouldn't be that individual - but rather society that somehow moved in a direction that in hindsight might seem otherwise inexplicable.

The nice thing is that people looking back at today will [hopefully] have access to internet archives and they can see how things evolved. The NSA's surveillance and data collection are, in this regard, doing society a great service. They are effectively creating the greatest global social archive in the history of our species --- a sort of time capsule that encompasses the entire existence of humanity in the developed world.

But we don't have that privilege when we look back at the past today. So all we can do is look at the data. Historic record, such as "the Nixon quote", cannot be taken at face value. Those casting such aspersions (or praises) have their own biases and agendas. What we do from the data is that violent crime in the 50s and 60s was very rare. But then something happened. It started skyrocketing. From the 60s to the 70s the per capita crime rate more than doubled. And drug use and abuse was also skyrocketing. Is it not reasonable to assume that people, somewhat naturally, began to link the two since they did rather often compliment one another?

Now we look at drugs much more tolerably, but that too follows an interesting trend. Violent crime started sharply declining a decline in the 90s. That's a trend that continues to this very day. And our views, as a society, are reflective of this change. Ultimately I think leaders are products of society, rather than society being a product of its leaders. And thus attributing blame (or praise) to any individual is, at best, a misrepresentation of an event.
Curious if Triplebyte interviews for all of dev/ops/devops positions?

Is there a higher/lower success rate in ops/devops vs pure development?

For example vim is used extensively in ops/devops and emacs use there is quite rare. If there is a higher success rate in ops/devops and if vim is used more in ops/devops - could this influence the results shown?

Fascinating data - thanks for sharing.
> So the government gave Coke the permits, Coke used under 80% of the agreed amount, and now it's a crisis? It has the markings of some severe utilities planning blunder.

Qui bono?

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by corruption. Or something like that. In situations like these (international megacorp and their offspring making deals in countries with 'emerging markets') I tend to take a very cynical view. I'm pretty sure that whoever signed those deals doesn't have to rely on these wells.

You raise some good points, though.
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>A handful of people aren't arbitrarily deciding which of the 500 biggest companies are.

Right...

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/01/sp-500-to-exclude-snap-a...

Edit: note that Fortune 500 and the S&P 500 are not the same list.
I don't use any completion plugin with my Emacs. Not coincidentally I'm generally a better reference for our programs' APIs and organization than the documentation or the other developers who use things like PyCharm and Sublime.

For me not using completion works to keep me disciplined about the structure of code I work on. It also can make me vicious about arity and composability in code reviews. Fortunately most of those details are taken care of by design prior to implementation, so it's rarely an issue.
I really like this! The only comment I'd make is to make the sidebar static so it stays there when you scroll down. Would be nice to switch topics quickly after I'm done skimming through headlines of another topic. Other than that I love it.
I use a VPN 99% of the time, but when I want to watch some Netflix I have to turn it off. Not often, but enough to appreciate a nice toggle!