skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel for what happened to her at Uber but, no offense, her description of her physics achievements appeared to be borderline bullshit (e.g., things like studying for quantum field theory exams a year and half after getting introduced to college level physics and math for the first time, after picking philosophy as a major originally. And then proceeding to blog about how everyone can do this because she can).
The worst possible application (exploring app design patterns in Swift)
A fair complaint, but you didn't address my main argument -- that novelty shouldn't be a precondition for discussing repugnant situations. Diversion is also a scummy argument tactic.
I know a guy who did this. He went to a state college for 3 years and then transferred to a super expensive private college for his last year and graduated from that school. So he can put on his resume that he graduated from the prestigious school even though he only went there a year.
This part of the comment did not exist when I replied....

Clarification: After many years of desensitization to this practice since the first iPhone, it is neither "a secret" nor "scandalous", but it is still disappointing. Moreover, I am not advocating any other mobile OS simply by making a comment about iOS. In fact, none of the "smartphones" being sold today are satisfactory to me as portable computers when compared with the control I get using an open source OS with i386, amd64 or even a development board.
This is good. Yes factory girl is a really awkward name and I found myself pondering this as I used the tool in the past.
The extent of my profile that can be built (and is probably available) is absolutely insane. Picture this: most people use a single email ID to register anywhere. Dating sites, e-commerce, social networks, banks, and even offline stores. My online purchases can be linked with my preferences on OKCupid that can be linked to ads I am clicking that can be linked to my offline behaviour. Personalised pricing is direct result of that. Who knows what other interactions are being shaped by it. Because the power of having this profile is limitless.

There's a Gmail trick to avoid it by using "+random_name" suffix but that is easy enough to circumvent. Disposable email IDs are banned from most sites and I never found it easy to integrate in my workflow. I have been pondering about building a service that acts as a mask to your real email ID, can be configured to forward emails to your real ID and can work with your personal domain name. I know some people who are running similar kind of setup here; a service might be helpful for those who don't might not want to go through the trouble.
Jaffer was never a good person: already in 2013, Zain Jaffer and and his co-founder Jack Smith were willing participants in the intrigues of the violent organized crime syndicate “the people behind Zynga” with links to Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman, Michael Moritz and William Bing Gordon and their efforts to bankrupt, evict, and destroy the lives of former Zynga employees and imagined enemies.

Lack of judgment does not make you a child molester, but gangster capital hiring people that lack ethics and are willing to commit crime gets you employees that may spiral out of control
> So you're discounting their accomplishments because a company was destined to enter this niche?

No, I am discounting their accomplishments because their net contribution is negative due to the way they operate their business.

> Github has done a lot of good in this space

I disagree.

> and there's nothing wrong with showing some appreciation.

There is something very wrong with showing appreciation for something that is actually hurting you.
All of my Zigbee stuff 'just works' as well and is under $30/bulb for basic lights.
A's get you academic scholarships. I got through undergraduate school (2 Bachelors and a minor) and graduate school without a dime of debt because my A's netted my academic scholarships every semester.
Supply and demand except on the individual level?
Ask HN: Got seed funding from the Japanese government. How should I use it?
TL;DR - I got 3 million yen in seed funding from the Japanese government for a marriage-focused dating site. How should I use the money to grow the business?

Longer version:

Moved to Japan two years ago. Started watching cheesy soap operas to get better at the language. Got an idea from one about a marriage contract-based dating site. Found a great domain, filed a patent, and hacked out a basic site one weekend.

https://keiyakukekkon.com

Over the last few months I've been working on it in my spare time. I made a blog (one of my posts made it to the front page here actually) and did some promotion on Twitter. With very little marketing we've managed to get about 200 users to register and tens of thousands of site visitors. Mostly I think it's just people stumbling on the domain which was a popular term on Japanese twitter.

My Japanese friend recently suggested I apply to the Japan Finance Corporation for startup funding. There is an increasing amount of accelerators in Tokyo and we figured with some money we could invest in improving the site and marketing. Well lo and behold, the representatives liked our site, and immediately gave us 3 million yen (A little under $30,000. A yen is comparable to a penny). The government as you know is very worried about the low birthrate so they want to support businesses that help people get married.

So it's not a ton of money but I have zero experience so I am not sure how to use it. I'd like to make some improvements to the site and also do marketing both online and IRL.

Anyway let me know what you guys think is a good way to proceed.

Also, if anyone is interested in the project and wants to help out, just shoot me an email. Could use technical people, designers, marketers, investors, and even a cofounder if I find someone really good. Thanks in advance!
You're describing a sandbox. You run the security-vulnerable routine inside a separate process and give this process the most minimal read/write-permissions that the routine can still work with.

Flash itself has been sandboxed inside Firefox's Plugin Container since forever and Firefox is getting a sandbox around tabs as we speak.

But you can break out of sandboxes. By either exploiting a bug in the OS that bypasses process permissions or by finding a hole in the sandbox that allows you to do things.

I imagine, for example, if you want to upload a file, then the tab-process has to talk to the less restricted main-Firefox-process, which has to then open up a file-chooser dialog and give control to the user.

But it could for example be possible to somehow malform this request to the main-Firefox-process, so that the file-chooser crashes and just hands over a random file, before the user has even seen the dialog. (Obviously, I'm not going to come up with an actual security vulnerability on the spot here.)

This kind of vulnerability can't be fixed with a sandbox. You need some way to upload files, for which you'll need filesystem access in some way and to pretty much the entire Home-directory.

Theoretically, you could require the user to copy the file into a separate "Upload"-directory and then only have read-permissions to that directory, but that's hardly user-friendly and would probably end up with some users keeping their entire Home-directory underneath that Upload-directory.
Most of the casinos are publicly traded, so for them to be involved someone would have to be lying on the financial statements submitted to the SEC. SOX would make that illegal at best and I believe reward anyone who blew the whistle on it with a substantial reward.

So if they are involved it would be more likely related to contracted services and such where you could pad the actual cost by a large amount and no one is going to look too closely.
Maybe you need to lower your requirements for participating in conversations. Most of us talk freely on stuff we didn't study at University level.

Why not read a few books and watch a few documentaries and start chiming in?
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While you are completely correct, it would force any rational being to make sure not only that they are wearing a camera, but that it is working too.
The term used to describe it to me was "shit show" which seems to be in line with your experience. "Glorified Legacy BIOS loader" was another term used.
There are a ton of languages I would love to learn but I have no access to any substantial amount of written or spoken content, like you mentioned.

Hell even being in America, your access to pop culture media created in most widely-spoken European languages is severely restricted. If I want to read a German language book I only have a few choices to pick from that aren't specifically written for learning language. Movies are even harder to come by, and German is very much a living language.

I'm not arguing that niche languages shouldn't be saved, just refuting the argument that we need to keep speaking them in order to retain access to their cultural materials. Like you said, they need written or recorded cultural material to begin with.
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True, but it's good to keep in mind that genes don't have an "agenda" either. They just are the way they are because they survived.

It's like having a neighbor who just won $100 million in lottery and thinking, vow, what is his secret? How could he do that? I don't think I could ever do that. How did he do it? The fact is he didn't have much to do with it, it was all pure chance.
Kind of pricy, to be honest. Walmart has an A1C test for $30.

Although if they offer other tests, it could be useful.
Odd that no one has mentioned Cixin Liu's Dark Forest theory as an answer to Fermi's paradox: that the universe is a zero-sum game, and the safest reaction to the discovery of another civilization is to annhilate it. Therefore, hiding in the vastness of space to avoid any contact is the most prudent course.
I would be a lot more sympathetic if your reply had been something other than

> Don't act like you're scandalized about discovering the big secret that Apple won't let you fully control your iPhone in 2017.
Wow this headline does not do it justice at all
Will you have a choice if you live in a condo where they have places several of these antennae on the roof, where they are broadcasting at much higher wattages?
It /is/ pretty nasty out this weekend, and I /am/ spoiled by being able to afford rain gear. Point taken, stay warm- just trying to be positive!
Yes because cigarettes, radium, leaded petrol, asbestos, etc. Most things turn out to be pretty safe but in the slim chance they're not, the downside risk is very high.
The body also reflects terahertz radiation from the surrounding environment, even directly into other people's eyes. This has the bizarre side-effect of causing people to be able to "see" each other.
Seriously? Diversion? You just spent 100 words ripping me apart for a completely valid argument that you misunderstood, and you have the gall to say I'm only pointing that out as a diversion. Seriously. Take a look at yourself right now.

This was their original comment without their subsequent edits:

>I have been logging, redirecting and blocking these queries for these domains and more for years.

>It is one of our biggest complaints about the "new" Apple.
There is no option for the user to disable the nonstop phoning home. iOS is a BSD-like OS configured so that the user does not fully control it. The user cannot fully configure it. This is no fun.

>Turn on an iOS device and it will keep trying to connect to Apple servers; it will not stop. An incredible tracking device if those servers keep logs.

It's a far whinier post, with the biggest complaint being that the BSD license allows companies to lock their software down, as intended. Not every piece of software needs to be fully controllable by the end user. I wouldn't call it "repugnant".
Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
While there is plenty of cheap alternatives for your VPS or Cloud server, I'm curious for those who are using shared hosting, if at all, what are you using it for?
I see CM myself. Perhaps STIX is in your cache or installed locally, since MathJax makes some attempt not to download fonts.
What's the purpose of fake buying hardware for 300x its market value? Can't you just fake purchase 300 times as much hardware at its market value?
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I'm not sure why you seem to have a personal vendetta against me, unless you're an alt of feelin_googley. If you want to argue, I think we can keep it to the one chain we already have going, yeah?
Even putting the writing system aside, there's multiple styles of speech too; casual, formal, super-formal, etc. There's also regional dialects. Not to mention Internet lingo.
He lost his grazing rights by refusing to pay for them.

I've read the filings for Hage, but I'm not as familiar with the details of of the Bundy case. So I presume you are right, that their behavior seems indefensible, but I also presume that "the choice of starting point" has a large effect on the narrative. I'd wager that the Bundy's feel the story starts somewhere earlier, in a way that makes their response seem more reasonable. Here's an update from a couple months ago on the upcoming 3rd retrial of the defendants there: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigat...

I think the tendency so far for juries to repeatedly fail to return guilty verdicts is a pretty good defense of the "unsettled law" theory. Or worse, as the mother/wife in the first video linked suggests, maybe it's a sign that the government treats the legal system itself as part of the punishment rather than a dispassionate means of adjudication.
The narrative that actually interests me is most is the extreme conflict between the district and circuit courts. Nominally, they are both "federal" courts, but at least in the Western US, the local district courts are all about states rights and the San Francisco based circuit courts tend to lean heavily in the opposite direction.
Hey, I noticed your site doesn't have SSL.

https://letsencrypt.org/

SSL Certificates are easy and free to get, and they protect the privacy and security of your users. They also prevent ISPs from doing shady things like injecting ads into your site.
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It is, actually. It doesn't scale once you start talking about too many things at once. There's so much time one can spend reading. At some point, you just have to trust the experts (whoever you consider those to be) on many things.
The heaviness of fame and fans
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This is equally ridiculous advice. First off, college is not necessarily a massive debt inducing experience. There are so many grants and loan options that it is absolutely affordable, if you do your research and plan appropriately. The early part of most college curriculums is built to help you find areas where you have interest and want to be employed. Not to mention the pursuit of knowledge is absolutely worth the cost.

Second, you mention traveling and living in a remote area with locals. This is definitely a good thing to do. But it can also drop you into debt just as quickly as college in the US if you don’t research first. And you may or may not learn anything if you are not careful. In other words it’s still a risk.
Building the new version of pomodoro.cc in the open
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What you can't measure doesn't exist

... Until it is discovered!

I can feel Bluetooth waves!
Profit margin is higher on less hardware at a given price.
To be fair, it's a doctors declared goal, to reduce the need for themselves. From a system stand point, down regulation in moderately quiet times promotes people to be well healthy by their own. It's symmetric if its not just doctors monotonically maximizing their income, but also patients and doctors competing with each other and one another for prosperity. So the doctors who earn most, should in principle dampen their own optimal payout.
You're wrong, she wants to be the social crusader. She has the ear of Silicon Valley and she believes that she must use this opportunity to educate us on things that she believes are important. She's not wrong.
It depends on how you define "free market", exactly. The definition that is popular nowadays originated with libertarians, and equates it with lack of government regulation, regardless of anything else. But the traditional definition also includes monopolies and other factors that stifle competition, and from that perspective, it's entirely possible for a market to be more free because of government intervention (e.g. monopoly busting).
> At some point, you just have to trust the experts (whoever you consider those to be) on many things.

That's extremely dangerous IMO. If you have a populace that is not literate or engaged, you end up with a slave society. Just see the rise of the concept of a "thought leader" [1]. It's quite scary when you see the implications such a concept will have for society.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-h...
> But why has obesity not been such a problem in the past, despite sugar being available?

Sugar, usually in the form of HFCS is added to almost any processed food these days, to make it more delicious and to make the food more profitable. HFCS is very, very cheap to produce. You're eating more sugar without perhaps even knowing you are. Low fat foods, introduced in the late 70's have the same amount of calories, but sugar was added to make the food more palatable.

Sugary items, like sodas, are also coming in larger portions, as well.

Sugars from fruit are less of a problem, as the fruit also contains fiber, which slows down the absorption of the fructose, and helps to not overload your liver.

Calories in the form of glucose are digested differently than fructose or HFCS - the latter two which are processed in your liver. You shouldn't worry about eating too much bread - you should be looking at if the bread contains added sugar.

Good video to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
> What ar we creating celebrities out of people who blogged about their experiences?

Because ambivalence and good measure doesn't seem to be trendy anymore. This applies to other subjects, sadly.
Multi-level tunnel systems, cool as they might be, aren't exactly a major improvement cost-wise.
Good profile overall, but I think it should have delved a bit more into her visible accomplishments before the blog post. This wasn't some random person levying these accusations, it was someone who'd spoken on multiple occasions and written a book for O'Reilly. Had she had a lower profile, the blog post might have been received very differently.
Do you have a citation for this? What is this statement based on?
Funny, someone shared this video with me earlier today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8
Its a bad example because saying something is unlimited when its not is kind of bullshit not just semantics.

There are situations when I think its best to just go with the flow of how people are commonly using words but simply accepting what others say in a blanket sense is not right either. In the case of "serverless" it doesnt really matter much to me, but if you think of the word "gyp" for example thats something many people have had to make a conceited effort to stop using. So in some cases, with effort we can improve the language we use and not always be swimming against the tide.
How did Seattle get more people to ride the bus?
1. They made coummuting by car miserable. Average commute time for Everett to Seattle (24 miles) is 76 minutes, Federal Way to Seattle (22 miles) is 66 minutes... Reducing congestion is not a goal of WA DOT.
2. They make driving really expensive. $30 car tabs that cost hundreds (if not thousands) and one of the highest gas taxes in the nation.
3. They subsidize the heck out of it. Bus fares cover less than 1/3 the cost of operating the bus.

Ironically, if it weren't for all the cars the buses couldn't afford to operate. For every driver that switches to buses cost go up and revenue goes down. Maybe this is fine, but I don't think it should be ingored.

This article seemed to praise Seattle and Metro but the area is always ranked as one of the worst traffic areas in the nation. If it is working so well, why is it so bad?

Is there something Seattle or King County Metro has done well that makes people want to use it? Does it smell nice, is it quiet, are the drivers really friendly, do they offer good coffee..? Or is mass transit around here "good" compared to all the other bad options.

One thing that is not transit's fault that makes traffic bad around here- Seattle area is filled with some of the worst drivers I have ever seen. Born and raised here so I think I am allowed to criticize, we collectively suck at driving!
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In Python - this leaves FactoryBoy and ModelMommy (name taken from FactoryGirl).

http://factoryboy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://github.com/vandersonmota/model_mommy
This is just another way to keep GDP growth up by boosting spending. Basically there are a few policies that the Chinese are pursing:

1. Conquering the industries that they are lagging in(i.e auto and semiconductor) by disguising govt subsides as state "support" and flouting WTO rules[1].

2. Spend money on belt and road thingy to prop up GDP because there is no more to spend on existing overheated asset bubbles.

Remember all those years of propping up GDP in construction projects, where the interest on debt(and the debt itself too) becomes too large a portion of the GDP such that most of it goes to just servicing the debt. Ultimately you want consumer spending and standard of living to grow in lock step but it does not[2].

But ultimately with extra spending and little growth they will keep running against fundamental issues like the Impossible Trinity[3] which is like the CAP theorem of macro economics. Unless the economy balances spending and real growth, and if it does not the only Q is when will it burst or become like Japan's decades of stagnation.

[1]https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172944...
[2] http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/72997
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
Yeah no. Burning yourself on a hot stove does not increase your risk of cancer and that's the same thing which happened to your coworker.
Although twenty-something tech workers may almost always live alone (or want to), this isn't true of people in general. If all 142k people were members of 3-person nuclear family hosueholds, for example, 56k units would be more than sufficient.

I think it's insane to claim that any level of housing production is sufficient until rental prices approach maintenance costs, but it's important to remember that a 1:1 person:household ratio only applies if we're talking about adults who are not in intimate relationships.
Sleep more often.
ROTC can get you a scholarship and a great job out the door, plus loads of opportunities and leadership experience during your career no one else gets.

Plus you are defending an entire country. And much of our country's leadership class comes from the military, so it gives you a bigger say in where our country is going.
What are the advantaages/disadvantages of a function-scoped destructor like Go's defer vs a lexically-scoped destructor like C++ offers?
> 1. Show up to office hours. Even if you sit there and do nothing, TA's notice -- and TAs will absolutely spill the beans on what to prep for for exams, even unintentionally.

Just showing up and hanging out in the TA's office when you don't have any question seems kind of weird to me.
With that argument you might as well redeclare everything with unexpected macros, your ide will do macro expansion on hover anyway.

Or why write descriptive function names at all? Ctrl-click to view the implementation of the function is just one click away...

Typedef pointer is a huge anti pattern.