skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-profits too.

A more accurate worldview might be "Your friends are your friends. [1] Everyone else might be an ally, an enemy, a competitor, a customer, a business partner, an Internet acquaintance, a relative, a romantic partner, a dependent, a bedfellow, or most likely just someone you're indifferent to. Know who is which."

[1] Technically, a good portion of our friends aren't actually are friends either:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/half-of-your-friends-pr...
In depth explanation of “minus world” glitch (Super Mario Brothers)
by committing atrocities, you become the evil, even if you have an utilitarian excuse. saving more lives is ultimately meaningless as evil will always exist and people will always die as a result of it but the one thing we have complete agency in is our own actions and that will ultimately be what we will be held accountable for
I think a better metric is would I wish my grandma be treated this way? A society should be judged by how it treats those that are the weakest.
And sea turtles!
Building Something
We used to have government-funded research programs at universities, now we have for-profit big pharma which by definition creates treatments that cost more. It could be argued that this was by design. So open sourcing cures like this is a natural free market reaction to that.

Since most of the cost of any new medication today is research, we should decouple that cost from production.

The main reason this doesn't happen is that conservatives preach personal responsibility, so want people with hepatitis C to pay for their own treatment at $80,000 a pop. But even if the cost to develop that cure was a billion dollars, that's a tiny amount for the government to absorb. We should be having a space race to cure the worst diseases and then give those cures to the world for free (or nearly free), much like penicillin or the polio vaccine.

Please keep in mind that I'm not politicizing this - it's already been politicized. I'm just explaining what happened.
By the high volatility I meant that poor people can't invest money they can't afford to lose because it's too risky at the moment. You can't invest $500 to take them out two months for now because you don't know if they'll be worth $1000 or $50 by then.

>Taxing bitcoin and making the rich spend their bitcoins makes no sense... there are bitcoin whales with 100 times as many bitcoin as I have... doesn't affect me. IT's not a disincentive in the least.

That's the kind of short sightedness that worries me about the bitcoin ecosystem. It does affect you if you ever need a loan to buy a house or start a business because those "whales" which will be the new 1percenters won't have any incentive to lend you money. The rich gets richer, the poor remains where they are. We end up with all the problems and inequalities we have today, except worse.

We killed the banks and replaced them with other banks except these new banks are even more opaque and will be even more stingy about lending you money. And on top of that we waste an ungodly amount of energy securing the blockchain. How is that an improvement again?
Also: "This device collects data to be processed by the vendor and possibly resold to third parties."

Also maybe they should be honest and just write: "This device will stop working at any time the company behind it gets bought and/or decides to abandon the product line."
I googled this, but it didn't really help.
You will need more citations to prove that point. Same publication, more recently published, "Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work".

"For one, a recent meta-analysis of over 40 years of diversity training evaluations showed that diversity training can work, especially when it targets awareness and skill development and occurs over a significant period of time."

https://hbr.org/2017/07/two-types-of-diversity-training-that...
I don't think he has explored Haskell's type system that deeply, since he mentioned Haskell as a complex language along with Java and C++. Haskell has a very simple core.
> How about the SEC opens an investigation into whether Twitter is defrauding investors/advertisers

The SEC protects investors, not advertisers. When non-securities fraud gets companies in trouble with the SEC, it's because said companies failed to disclose the fraud or the risk of the fraud to their investors.

Facebook discloses their "advertising revenue could also be adversely affected by a number of other factors, including...the availability, accuracy, and utility of analytics and measurement solutions offered by us or third parties that demonstrate the value of our ads to marketers, or our ability to further improve such tools; adverse legal developments relating to advertising, including legislative and regulatory developments and developments in litigation; decisions by marketers to reduce their advertising as a result of adverse media reports or other negative publicity involving us, our advertising metrics, content on our products, developers with mobile and web applications that are integrated with our products, or other companies in our industry..." [1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680117...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Don't commit fraud.
Lack of monetization is fully taken into account already - the number given for income is not the sum of monetary transactions per individual but the income per individual however obtained including barter, food grown+consumed by oneself, self-built house, etc. Even in the late middle ages monetary transactions were not the common case so it would be absurd to conflate monetary transactions with average income.
Didnt Opera do something like this years ago? Opera Unite
NYT Social Media Guidelines for the Newsroom
It's a difficult balance to strike - you want the companies to keep developing drugs, you want onerous regulation on those drugs to make sure they're produced and tested for safety and efficacy. But then you want them to be cheap for patients and insurance companies.

The best solution is probably to simply drop patent extensions for these things and allow generic drug manufacturers to do what they do best, but if you do that too early you risk damaging funding for new drug development. Too late and you wind up with companies just building up piles of cash like we have today. You need to hit that point of "we need to develop new drugs to make a profit" - what that is, I'm not sure.
Consider what's happened to the NFL with the anthem protests.

By not putting a strong policy in place (or rather, not consistently enforcing the policy they had) to avoid politics in the workplace, the brand has been damaged and the product they are selling has been hijacked.

Employers need to carefully weigh the pros/cons of letting employees participate in politics while they are representing the company. In the NFL that would include time on the field.

For the Times they judge that to include all social media use -- a clearly much higher bar brought on by journalistic responsibilities which hits at the core value of NYTs entire service.
> A bot a) does not see the ad tweets in his normal timeline feed and b) does not feed back impression tracking to Twitter

Source?
But then you didn't solve the problem. You solved pieces of the problem.
As a student, that is an aspect of OOP that I've never thought of, and that nobody thought us.
Very interesting article, and I will definitely have a look at that book !
Okay, there are a lot of comments here about various things but what struck out to me was that on the website it says Woz U will help students "get into the workforce quicker" but their curriculum doesn't really cover any CS. It covers things that help you build stuff using "hip" tools and languages, but not things like algorithms, data structures, etc.

My question is, is this really all it takes to get a job in a startup/tech company? Would YOU hire somebody who just knew these things?
Rich would probably do very well in a debate-style talk. The art of argumentation is very subtle. If you think there'd be a blowout that entirely discredits the dynamic typing camp—that would rather be like expecting a debate that completely invalidates one side of republican/democrat debate. There are simply core values each side has that are very hard to persuade someone out of. mostly, what people do is "talk to their base/tribe", and then snipe the other side with cheap shots.
Bitcoin (BTC) Marketcap Is Bigger Than Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and AMEX
Project managers usually shouldn't define interfaces between code modules. That's a design lead or architect responsibility.
I dunno. I personally love having all the world's information at my fingertips for free. I recognize that doing so means that they have another set of constituents they need to please whose interests are not necessarily aligned with mine, but I'll willingly take that bargain.
No. Somehow, someone wrote a review for my company that has never had any employees other than myself. Unless I have multiple personalities, then it was me.
Reliable, no. Useful, yes, but mainly in the aggregate.

If there are only a few reviews for a company and those reviews are all over the map, I'm not going to put a lot of stock in any of them.

However, if there are a dozen or more reviews, most of which come across as fair and nuanced regardless of the score they assign, then I feel comfortable drawing some hypotheses based on the points they raise.

Also, companies can respond to reviews on Glassdoor. In more than one case the content of the (defensive) response has been more valuable to me than the original review.
How about these bots?

@newsyc250
@newsyc100
@newsyc50
@newsyc20

Why should these bot accounts be expelled? I just love the way some bot accounts are so useful. In fact, following the above mentioned bot accounts, gives you just enough number of Hacker News posts that you want to see, based on how popular they are.

Similarly, there can be many bad bot accounts, but differentiating those from good bot accounts may not be an easy task, and bound to fail with false negatives and false positives.
Prototyping Games at The New York Times
I think he's familiar enough; you also don't want to mistake the trees for the forest.
There's a long bibliography here, replete with suggestions and some research; but someone else will have to supply it.
They were not political ads. Does anyone read anymore?

They were ads that highlighted social issues. That's it.
This is probably one of the weirdest questions I've seen on HN, but I'll bite anyways:

Without spoiling the plot of a certain film, you'd want to be an AI or augmented human capable of maintaining one million relationships simultaneously. Simple.
You are arguing with a straw man. The other side doesn't believe that a dollar spent by the government is as effective as a dollar spent by the private sector.
> The content opines that people of color would not be welcome at our organization. I cannot tell you how completely FAR off that is from the truth. Diversity is something we value tremendously (and not just when it comes to the amount of melanin in your skin)

Get ready for people telling you how you're wrong.

But I am going to tell you that you're doing the whole racial diversity thing 'wrong'. Either don't give a crap about this stuff and let your company be a meritocracy, or if you're going to appease that kind of crowd, then do it their way.

Which essentially is,

- Make everyone inclusive, at the same time make that effort seem easy and not forced. Like "tonight we're celebrating Diwali night" rather than "In the honor of victory of light over Darkness from the land of Indian people and to honor Sajeet, we are celebrating Diwali night".
- Never say that you're trying so hard to make things inclusive, that violates the earlier point in a literal sense. The whole point is to make things inclusive but not making it obvious to anyone.
- Don't claim you hire people regardless of their background (this is a signaling problem, it's like saying "All Lives Matter" it has nothing to do whether you're logically arguing over the point, but rather to let other people know what your opinions are), don't claim that you're a meritocracy, but don't ever claim that you hire minorities first (because this breaks the earlier rule of making your effort look hard).

At the end of the day, understand that you are either hiring the best person for the job or you're "promoting racial diversity" in your company, don't say both the things.
Yes, when they're glowing. Fake reviews are a great indicator to me and I love how transparent they are.
Enbrel didn't receive a patent extension.[1] In 2011, a patent was issued that covered certain aspects of Enbrel that had originally been applied for in 1990. Under the rules applicable to pre-1995 patents, the life of that patent runs 17 years from the date of issuance (or 2028). That could not happen under the current law. Patents issued after 1995 are only valid for 20 years from the date of filing, with current limited adjustments due to delays at the USPTO.

[1] There isn't really any such thing, at least as a way to resurrect patents that would otherwise expire.
Once our tweet used a popular hash tag and got re-tweeted by some bot network. It was really easy to tell the accounts were all bots, all the re-tweets happened simultaneously, profiles were very similar, with similar messy streams.

I went into trouble of reporting each of the fake accounts manually (the UI for this is far from convenient). After some time I checked the bot accounts again. None of them was deleted, our original tweet still had a large re-tweets count, which basically misleads the real Tweeter users, making the tweet look more interesting that it really was.

From this incident I no longer look at re-tweets as any reliable metric of popularity or quality of tweeted content.
Another way to slice those data - 33% don't have accounts, 33% (9.9 million) have just one account, and 33% have the remaining 30.1 million accounts spread between them - on average, 3.04 accounts per person in that group, but one or two people/groups may have thousands of accounts.

Edits: Correcting math. Thanks, kbenson.
When I've looked at the reviews of places I've worked, I've found them to be reasonable, but often painting an incomplete picture. Most of them seem to be from people who never really understood the work or the culture of the place, and therefore didn't perform well.

Also, it will bias towards bad reviews. I've never posted a review of a place I loved working at (and therefore never posted a review). I guess I should, but it would probably just be assumed to be astroturfing.

One other issue is when there are multiple classes of workers. For example Netflix has a lot of negative reviews from the folks who work in the DVD warehouses. But their work environment has nothing to do with the software engineering part of the company, which is the majority of the company, so it skews negative. Amazon has a similar problem, where a lot of the reviews come from the warehouse workers, who, for better or worse, get treated differently.
Node.js Foundation Readies Official Developer Certification
If you are up for it, learn a little about designing. Read some design docs and stylesheets. Google, Apple, Microsoft all have good ones.

By learning, you may be able to go a little longer without a designer. And when you need a designer, you'll be able to participate more.
Robot operating system (ROS) is a bit like this. It sits on top of Linux or OS X but offers a message passing framework and some naming and type conventions for passing around data common in robotics, like transform information, laser scans, odometry, etc.
Bot use endpoints that don't return ads so I don't see how they could cause fraud.
If you use gog, there's innoextract for that, so no need for wine or x86 at all.
Except that grep and make have continued to be augmented over time?
The value of bitcoin seems to trend more and more towards being a digital wealth store over a currency. In that case BTC "market cap" is a somewhat useful indicator of how much wealth is stored. It's rough but market caps in general are, especially early stage companies.
Well, I strongly hope those many people involved in these things can feel the peer pressure here, and subsequently push for changes at their workplaces.
Debugging and Tracing Elixir Applications
The article says not about bots generally but about the bots that (allegedly) were controlled by Russia and (allegedly) were posting pro-Trump tweets and (allegedly) could help him to win the elections.

But from a legal point of view, is Twitter obliged to find and ban such bots? I don't think so. Marking them as bots would be a good idea though.
Emma the robot masseuse gets to work in Singapore
A web based fire alert system can help. The system becomes responsive by broadcasting a Help message to the million friends if one of them raises an alarm.
This is simply an unbelievable position to take. We can't create a perfect model, so it's not worth the time to think about simpler but more tractable ones? Great, I'll let the vast majority of scientists and philosophers know that centuries of work is worthless.

There is obvious value in these "contrived scenarios," as has been proven innumerable times in human history. You do realize that simplifying assumptions like "assume a spherical cow" have worked to produce an accurate model of the physical world, right?
Maybe the more fundamental question is “how do I make one million friends,” in which case the answer is “you can’t.”
Well, but that's the point: don't connect it to the Internet. 99% of the IoT stuff should never ever have to work outside of your local network (including VPNing to your phone if you're outside).
Maybe for your company, but like, for Amazon, when all the bad stuff really came out, one thing that people always said was, "It depends on what team you're on." Do I really want to take the chance that I might end up on one of the crappy teams?
I wonder what the requests look like coming through the proxy. Is there a distinct user agent? or some other header send with the request
Winning what precisely? Making early speculators wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, causing extreme FOMO, while in no way effecting world policy? I’ll pass on that train wreck.
The best i can advise you is to find a forum on medicine. reddit is known to have such subreddits. Research is best to conduct but self diagnosing is highly frowned upon especially if you know nothing of the medical field. Dont limit yourself to doctors of your country as whatever they have not discovered there could have been discovered elsewhere. I hope you find the solution to your problem.
It was a well known policy. It was clearly stated in plain language, just as I say it here.

I hired professionals, adults. I expect them to be adults.

I'll put up with a lot. Dishonesty is not on that list, however.
The Original Pioneers of Silicon Valley
Seconded. Great book. The range of neural architecture that exists in nature is really fascinating and something that i think could help inform AI research.
there's a huge difference between developing and teaching curriculum for elementary school math, and developing and presenting curriculum for an online education system that extends beyond elementary school age and elementary school math.
Is this even a question?

Having spent my teenage years in what would otherwise be called a ghetto and now living in a wealthier suburb, poor neighborhoods have way more selfish assholes. I'm very glad I got out of there.

I think being an asshole hurts you more than is helps you as you get richer.
This doesn't work for everyone. Some people are just not good at being deceptive like that.

I have strong social anxiety that is at its worst in interview situations. When I try to 'edit' my answers to questions like that instead of giving a straightforward and honest answer about the stuff I've built and the experiences I've had building, my brain spins endlessly trying to model all possible 'edits', the possible responses, and possible counter-responses.
I expected a rant. I was pleasantly surprised.
I am not familiar with their work, but I am having trouble getting though this piece, in part because it is long, and in part because it seems pretty fluffy to me.

I am a content producer. I am both a blogger and someone who gets paid to produce content. So, I was hoping for something meaty to enhance my work.

I have read most of the way through this and, so far, the only solid tips are things I already know: Use bullet points, subheaders, etc to make written content more scannable, accessible and digestible.

They talk a lot about personal process. I am usually very interested in things like that, but I don't think that fits the title of the piece and I am finding it surprisingly yawn worthy and irrelevant. I was looking for actionable advice on content marketing and I don't feel I am seeing much of that.

They also talk a lot about how hit or miss their work feels to them, how challenging it is to measure its effectiveness and that they don't really know how to do that for sure, etc. The impression that gives me personally is that they don't really know what they are doing.

Which seems like it can't be right because they have had prestigious positions etc. But, I look for meaningful metrics and they talk a lot about going with their gut or just having a sense of something. Your job is communicating information and this artsy, fartsy hand wavy gut intuition is the best thing you can say?

Okay, great. So you are telling me you are some great artist with amazing good taste. This in no way whatsoever tells me how to develop the same skill.

So, color me unimpressed.
The definition I use is 'a system lacking a state or ruling elite.' If you want to include anarcho capitalism you probably want a more general definition though.

I think I derived this definition from David Graeber's work.

Also some people choose a definition that emphasizes the process rather than the features. Those kinds of definitions are like 'removing unjust hierarchy or domination' or something to that nature.
The only problem is that everytime he/she wants to execute Hy (Python in s-expression syntax) code, he will invoke the macro "org-babel-execute:hy", and this runs Hy as a shell command.

So Common Lisp objects can't be quickly copied or shared to Python, and for each invocation there is a time overhead.

I'd love to see a good bridge from Common Lisp to Python. It should be possible.
You didn't read the article did you...
Yeah that's what I was referring to. Was really unfair to fans since their initial marketing made it look like a fresh new game. What a shame. Even the "coaster builder" is awful. Not even sure why they bothered.
Things you never saw at all could be made public too. How would you prove them wrong? And would it even matter if you did? It seems like a fools errand to worry about this, even if you do everything right you can still get just as screwed.
That doesn't work for the reason above: I don't want my grandma imprisoned, but zero imprisonment is also impractical. [1]

"A society is judged by how it treats its weakest", "would I want $GOOD_PERSON to fall victim to this" -- those sound nice, but don't translate into a practical metric for appropriately navigating real moral dilemmas.

[1] I know the lectures about the evils of mass incarceration; those don't prove that no one should be imprisoned.
It's usually on the box, because manufacturers think the cloud is a feature, not a problem.
I would just call this a shell or a runtime environment. It's not an OS and I don't think we should co-opt that term. We don't call nurses virtual surgeons or construction workers virtual architects.
Excellent writeup, and a good example of what types of attacks to expect as we move forward towards a more decentralized web.
I had a quick chat with someone involved to ask about the relationship. They said WozU and CoderCamps are both owned by the same parent company.
Sure.

I submit pretending every interface is external is expensive and painful but perhaps an accurate reflection of reality.