skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say reducing fairness. I said regulations to improve fairness are probably detrimental at this point when they are still trying to figure out how to run it efficiently and what other related problems can be solved. If you try to slow them down, society will be the one to lose on some services that would benefit everyone at large. It's not that regulations are bad but rather that it's hard to regulate something that is still being built.

I am thinking of regulations like better employee protection, more benefits, constraint on margins, forcing use of environmentally friendly cars, etc.,
Grafana is incredible and 4.6 fixes my two major issues with it (no cloudwatch alerting and no postgres support).

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Zuckerberg created one of the largest multinational corporations from scratch, has data on billions of people, and is one of the richest people on the planet. Implying that he hasn't done much in his lifetime is pretty disingenuous. Sure, he was lucky, but you can't be a bumbling idiot and gain that kind of power.
So now I need a VPN for my cellular data connection. What happened to privacy laws? You could quickly grab highly personal identifying information by setting up an encrypted wifi network at a business with plenty of foot traffic and no open wifi networks. Then you could have a sign or placard directing passerbys to visit a URL of your choosing to get the wireless password. Then you'd implement this API on your website.

Now you've got their personal info. Scary..
I'm curious - is that unique to tech? (It seems to be the common worldview from what I've seen, but I've only ever worked in tech.)

It occurs to me that the Peter Principle implies basically the opposite: in companies where it applies, you're not promoted based on any evaluation of whether you can do your target job, you're promoted based on demonstrated ability in doing your current job, and a presumed ability to pick up new things as needed. If these companies handled promotions the way tech seems to do hiring (a lot of companies expect experience with large-scale deployments before they'll hire you for large-scale deployments, with specific languages before they'll hire you for that language, etc.), you wouldn't have the Peter Principle; you'd have the opposite problem of failing to hire/promote people who could be quite competent but have no experience to prove it a priori.
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Holy cow. This is scary.

With T-Mobile USA, the 2nd link correctly identified my phone number.

In the 2nd link though: name, current address, email address, phone number, how long I've had the account, when it renews, who my previous carrier was, my phone hardware details and my current latitude/longitude!

This is scary that anyone can access this with just a site visit.
You'd hope the chain with the most utility wins out.
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Me too, for the first link.
Can you give me some evidence to support your idea that the Americs is more just now than it was in the 18th century, except for the obvious example of racial injustice?
The left has needed a scapegoat since election night.

It has ranged from:

* Bernie Sanders (second pick for Democrat candidate)

* James Comey (former FBI Director)

* Huma Abedin (deputy chief of staff for Clinton Campaign)

* Russian hackers

* Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)

* Wikileaks (ie: more Russian hackers)

* the Benghazi Committee

* the "Basket of Deplorables" (ie: white America)

* white women (ie: 53% of white women voted for Trump)

* white men (ie: universally reviled by progressive supremacists everywhere)

It seems the Democratic Party will never recover as it is more fragmented than ever, with ailing Nancy Pelosi and out-of-touch NYC urbanite Chuck Schumer being the only notable Democrats as of late. All they can do is respond with righteous indignation rather than form a coherent party platform, especially given extremists of all flavors left-of-center being unable to form anything beyond a rickety coalition under shredded banner of "Democrat."

Self-reflection and soul-searching is totally beyond the left's comprehension.

Clinton was just an awful candidate and the shrieking of the liberal media -- from WaPo to CNN to has-been celebrities -- was (and continues to be) tasteless. Whether Clinton's campaign was ever more than "shame on everybody that won't vote for me, also it's a woman's turn now" is irrelevant because that was the only message that got out there.

I would love to see a candidate campaign on, specifically, "tolerance, shared responsibility, and mutual respect." The Democratic Party has truly abandoned tolerance, shared responsibility, and mutual respect, and returning to it would go a long way to bridging the ever-widening gap between Democrats and Republicans.
What does this mean for an average person like me? Based on the comments, I can opt out from those specific site but not from the phone company making data available to who ever purchases it? Am I better off going back to no SIM and only Google voice number pointed to a phone? (I did this for some time and recently put a SIM card back in.)
I don't think they should worry so much... there are plenty of people who post crazy political things already. Just look at the comments on any article anywhere remotely political.

There really are only two real solutions:

1. Paid political ads should be marked as such.
2. Remove fake accounts / bots.

That still can't prevent paid shills...
Do you think learning you editor's shortcut significantly affected the success of the product you were developing, as opposed to thinking about the problem, choosing the right design and architecture, writing useful tests, having good communication with the rest of the team, prioritizing the right features, etc?

I mean, I'm sure it had some impact, but how did it compare to the other factors I mentioned? My guess: proportionally, its impact must have been insignificant.
How are you so certain that new information won't come out about this? What do you base that on?

If there's one constant in the investigations, it is the steady drip of new facts. In fact, it is self-assured reactions like the above that have destroyed a lot of people's credibility on the topic.
Ajit Pai is stoked about this.

If you work for AT&T, Verizon, etc you have a responsibility to stop this even by sabotage.
True. The difference in scope, however, is critical.

One was rather irrelevant, while the other will result in more distant relations with our Cold War rival, serious witch-hunting, and most importantly: further polarization of the U.S. political climate.
Bingo. As long as you stick with this mindset, you will continually be the kind of developer that companies will fight over.

Relatedly, this is also the main ingredient for a successful career in consulting. Clients will pay handsomely for someone that shows up and can magically solve problems in disparate domains. They have no interest in hearing that you need to spend today writing "hello worlds" because you've never worked with this particular stack.
Why would permissions matter so much?

We use it, good experiences so far.
>Does this mean that a web server written in node is running single-threaded?

Yes, which leads to hilarious things like: https://medium.com/walmartlabs/using-electrode-to-improve-re...

"In our tests, however, we found that React’s renderToString() takes quite a while to execute — and since renderToString() is synchronous, the server is blocked while it runs. Every server side render executes renderToString() to build the HTML that the application server will be sending to the browser."

"The average renderToString()call with this configuration took 153.80 ms."
Can't we skip gcc 3.3?
"In no way"? The US doesn't need to reindustrialize because its industry is bigger than ever, exports are strong, etc?

How is that meaningfully different than GDP being high? They all completely ignore wealth distribution.
It seems that the biggest difference between the American right and left is whether to preserve the wealth of the rich at all costs, or whether to prioritise some other objectives ahead of that.
I really like Kobo Abe too. I've read Woman in the Dunes, The Box Man, and The Ruined Map. Which others would you recommend?
VZW (in .us):

First link: Didn't work, kept saying my billing zip code was incorrect.

Second link: "We used our mobile authentication to instantly discover your mobile phone number from the phone network." but it didn't show any information.
Really liked this article.

I liken software methodologies to cooking recipes.

On one end of the scale you have a highly skilled and experienced chef, who can craft a great (requested) dish with a variety of ingredients and equipment. Knowing how to adapt and what to add and when. This works well, but requires a heavy cost (experience) and is, from the outside, difficult to follow and control.

On the other end of the scale you have fast food. A strict process and fixed ingredients that ‘just works’. Those involved in cooking have very little knowledge of why, and are almost certainly not able to adapt. This works well for scenarios where you exactly know and control both the input and output.

A skilled chef can ‘codify’ their recipes, but this results in a specific description of what to do, and not why. Thus marginalising the adaptability.

In my experience, most software engineers are trying to attain the skilled chef role. While most _managers_ want the fast-food style predictability. With the ‘process’ being the battleground.

The best process is where you - a complete multi-disciplinary team - make as quick iterations as possible, learning as you go. But, always knowing where you are trying to get to (and why!) and constantly adjusting accordingly.

Good luck out there.
> Please tell me what system call you can write in RUST that you can't write in C.

One that doesn't suffer from context switch penalty, but still provides separation of the kernel and the process?
AFAIK the carriers require a double opt-in for this.

The first opt-in, which the Medium article describes, can be online with boilerplate language. But then you have to opt-in a second time by replying to an SMS sent directly to the device by the provider with language pre-determined by the carrier. The user has to reply YES to the text message, and you have to keep auditable records of these things.

If these 2 providers aren't requiring the second opt-in step, I expect they'll be kicked off the platform pretty quickly.
It's also just a side effect of the voting system. Once the population gets big enough, people vote based on whether or not they agree with the poster instead of whether or not the post advanced the conversation. Over time, those downvoted stop replying due to a perception that they're part of the out-group, and an echo chamber forms.

To prevent this, this site really needs to work hard to maintain an interesting, thought-provoking culture that welcomes dissenting opinions as long as they're well wrote and not overly emotional.
Not only were the amount of ads bought miniscule, Russia simply wouldn't have the ability to target them nearly as well as the Trump campaign could. While there was a conspiracy theory going around on social media that Russia had used hacked copies of the electoral registrations to micro-target voters, it was ridiculous - political campaigns have official access to that data and have to spend huge amounts of volunteer time collecting enough info to do even basic targeting because it simply doesn't exist otherwise. (Which is why a newer conspiracy theory says the Trump campaign gave them the targeting info.)
Not familiar with this case, but W/s could be describing an acceleration, i.e an increasing rate of energy transfer
> If they hire me to work with a particular language I don't have any experience with, I'm not going to sit at my desk on their time reading a book and doing Hello World programs. I'll spend my own time getting ramped up in the language as quickly as I can.

Why is it ridiculous to expect your employer to give you the training you need to be successful? This is standard practice in many other professions, some of which even have ladders of apprenticeship.

If for example the language they needed you to use changed, would you then learn it on their time?
Only for AT&T, and there's a response to that response that suggests that the opt-out is ineffective.

I noticed some weasel words in a bank's ToS back in January that should have been a harbinger of this kind of 'service'. I wrote to my carrier's privacy team, and of course, heard complete radio silence in return. Here's what I sent them:

> Hello,

> I recently opened an account at MEGABANK, and read through the opening documents. Towards the end of the documents is this paragraph:

> You authorize your wireless operator (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon, or any other branded wireless operator) to use your mobile number, name, address, email, network status, customer type, customer role, billing type, mobile device identifiers (IMSI and IMEI) and other subscriber status details, if available, solely to allow verification of your identity and to compare information you have provided to MEGABANK with your wireless operator account profile information for the duration of the business relationship.

> You may opt out of this information sharing by contacting your wireless operator directly.

> Googling phrases in this paragraph shows many banks and other companies that have identical or very similar language in their terms of service or privacy policies.

> I tried to contact customer service to opt out of this sharing (I absolutely do not want to share this with anybody,) but they were unable to help me. Can you please let me know how to opt out of this information sharing on all lines on my account and to provide me with any other details you have available on it?

This has been a thing for at least this entire year, and the "opt-out" mechanism appears to be completely ineffective.
What you say is a perfect example of a conspiracy theory.
I really enjoyed reading this and I strongly agree there isn't an easy task at all. Depends on the business, people, existing processes, it's up to us to find what really works. I had some thoughts based on my recent experience and went into a mood to write something quite long on my LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/waterfall-scrum-kanban-scumba... if anyone interested.
It’s megawatt-seconds per second. (?)
If that's the case, why don't the carriers do the second step themselves?

That's the very least they could do to protect their customer's privacy.
In cases where you need to interpret the resulting model, I've been advised not to bin (for example: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/CatContinuous). Other alternatives are splines or generalized additive models.
If Russian influence is purely a conspiracy theory, you have to explain why the FBI, the previous President, multiple Senators on relevant committees, and other Americans with access to confidential information are propagating it. And then you’re right back in conspiracy theory territory.
Second got my number, but that’s it.
I just visited both sites and both showed my full name, e-mail address, physical address, and T-Mobile billing plan information. I never opted into anything on T-mobile's site (and I can't find any opt-outs that I don't already have), I never opted into a text message, and only one of the sites required any other info (my zipcode).
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Bad enough.
This is a race to the bottom. This industry is neck deep in perpetuating a culture of surveillance that most here benefit from, and see no problem in stalking people around. So much for techies improving the world.

That's why moral and ethical posturing must be met with ridicule and skepticism. When it comes to actual action most people are much more narrowly focused with a unique ability to live in dissonance and hand wave and brush away nearly anything.

Only regulation with laws and consequences works.
I agree with what you said, and I agree with what I said. :-)

It's funny how technical discussions are much better here, and anything touching politics is terrible. Kind of reminds me of how you can hear good debates on sports radio, but not politics.
Oh please help us all. Is the following really any better?

Can someone please explain why the left's frustration over a Trump presidency is any more justified than the right's was over the Obama presidency. And can they also explain how screaming "RUSSIANS" is better than developing a platform that works for the fly over states and not just the coasts.

Honestly, is couching everything in the Socratic method the blessed way to comment on HN?

Sometimes I don't want to discuss I just want to make a statement.
Programming, do you speak it?
Didn’t work for me
Well, your entire business will depend upon that single employee doing his job while remaining sharp to take care of all edge cases. Given that you need one like that in every city, your chances of finding such person to provide consistent service across the board are slim. Software is just automating decision making process of such an ideal individual without any human downsides. It is infinitely scalable and consistent across the board.
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I wonder if this is behind so many of the stories about seemingly impossible de-anonymization by Facebook.
In the case of self-modifying code, I wonder if the techniques behind profile-guided optimisation could work for decompilation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization

In other words, you create a JIT to run the executable, building a profile of the execution paths at runtime, and use that profile to guide a static decompilation process. That way it should be easier to identify the sections of self-modifying code, as well as model the behaviour of this code.

The only difficulty I can see is how much time it might take to map out all the code paths, but in principal it's possible, and there may be some efficient approaches for doing so.
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They’ve been doing this for years. You can also license real-time GPS and WiFi location. Perfect for geotargeted ad campaigns.
What does it mean to "tack-on" self driving? Did Waymo engineer their physical vehicle differently from other companies in some way that helps self driving? I don't think they ever claimed this.
Sadly we do deadlines now, depending on the product. Before Google got into the world of hardware, that may have been true. But consumer hardware requires deadlines to be successful.
I used to read a lot. I had a long, long to-read list in a spreadsheet, and I would add items to it faster than I would tick them off.

Competing demands for my time cured me of this list, and I came to view reading not as something indisputably virtuous (as my schooling had trained me to do), but as just another form of consumption.

There is such a thing as too much consumption. Junk books are no better than junk food, and even a diet of classics might be no better for your head than constant fine dining is for your gut.

I now take more care in choosing to give my time and energy to reading.
When you get bored of programming (or have other things to deal with, eg family, illness, life etc) and still need a job to pay your bills you won’t see it as a whole life experience anymore
Ask HN: How to get into top MBA schools with low gpa?
What are other things that are necessary to compensate GPA?

- How many years of work exp. is good?
- What is a good GMAT score?
- Who should you take Letters of reco from?
I feel like Microservice idea does not seem to translate well to front end.
When thinking of microservices, one can think of collection of well encapsulated functions that are composed together. The keywords are function & encapsulation.
This is not usually the case for frontend development. UI components in the same app can't be completed sealed off of each other. You can model UI component as functions of state, but those functions usually depend on at least 2 globals: DOM event system and styling. This is where encapsulation is broken and leads to all sort of maintenance issues.
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No problem! I'm glad to help. Aim to build something cool and useful, the rest of the pieces will figure itself out. Enjoy your Sunday!
I hope that was an attempt at sarcasm. I really do.

Because if not, let me rewrite your last sentence: "Really, as a member of the inoculated group, I have no reason to fear the plague, so why would anyone else?"