skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FUCK. I thought that when we attained wealth, power, and appeared on the covers of magazines people would stop dunking our heads in toilets and finally pay us SOME RESPECT. This just shows that our society isn't a meritocracy. It doesn't even matter anymore what you do, we're still undesirables to the cheerleaders and jocks and the popular kids.

We'll get our revenge though. We control everything you mfers see, hear, buy, and think. If you look down on us, get ready for your phone to be the new heroin. If you like us, you can be free and dance with us and sample the earthly delights of the real world. We will be Neo, you can elect to be Morpheus or Trinity. Or we can be the machines in zero-one. Maybe that fits better.

Enjoy your new paradise losers.

/s
Why were venture capitalists interested in funding this?

What do they get out of it?

How and when do you intend to ‘exit’?

(Apologies for the skeptical tone, I think this seems like a cool idea.)
When I visited the R&D center of a German car manufacturer, we were checked at reception and needed special permission to carry the devices we had with us for the presentation we were there for. If the software lead (the host) hadn't cleared the way and taken responsibility, we would have needed to leave everything at reception like most visitors. We were only allowed to take in one laptop.

The surprise here is that the daughter was allowed to take her device into the development office. I suppose the father did the same as our host years ago by signing off and taking on liability for anything that might happen. In that sense, and I don't want to sound harsh, he unfortunately had a momentarily lapse of judgement and kinda failed his father and employee duties. Hard to balance them at the same time, but maybe certain Apple employees need to operate like, you know, Air Force R&D personnel. You go to work, but you never bring home or talk about work.
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That sounds like you are thinking of maybe adding hidden services in the future, am I reading you correctly?
It's Tor but with a worse website and more decentralised?

I think the website could be better if it said right at the top what it actually does and what it offers over competing services.
Author's implementation in rust: https://github.com/suhr/esobsc

The parser and AST have tests, which clear up some of the syntax confusion, but it doesn't have the function definitions used in the last code example.
The Internet would have disrupted Luther?
Crayola also has like 1,200 employees manufacturing packs of paper wrapped tubes of product for 5 bucks a pop. What about cigarettes is more beneficial for economies of scale?
> Vulnerabilities happen from wrong function calls, yes, but also through using the wrong types of calls for the particular purpose.

Which is detectable through static analysis of the type signatures -- at least to the point of ensuring that a threat assessment document includes a section on what they did there.

That's my point -- why doesn't my IDE auto-generate a template threat assessment report to share with security as part of my code review process? ...why does it rely on me understanding the possible threats, rather than clearly expressing what data I use and letting security set flags on what I should watch?

That sounds like a lack of tooling -- because there's not a technical reason.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/301645-senate-r...

farm subsidies apply to tobacco companies
It's pretty small. I'm working on an internal application using Polymer 3.0-rc1 currently, with some basic Paper elements (button, input, icon, spinner, tabs, app-route). The whole app bundle (made with rollup + babel-minify) is ~90k gzipped, ~200k uncompressed.
I think would be very interesting to see what they would do if it WAS an 8 to 12-year-old.

In this case it’s dead clear that the father violated policy. I mean he was right there showing it to her while she was holding a big camera.

The daughter was more than old enough to know what might happen. It seems odd to think that someone who blogs on YouTube with professional equipment wouldn’t know about Apple’s secrecy if their parent worked there. I figured she must’ve been told that certain things couldn’t be discussed before, or had to be kept secret.

Either way neither of them is blatantly innocent.

Where as if a young kid took a video and posted it while the father was asleep or something like that it would be a much more interesting case. Would Apple actually fine with him in that case?

I think they probably would but I could see a debate. As soon as I saw this video last week it was dead clear what was going to happen next.
I'm only just into the introduction and I am very engaged. The intro brings up some very interesting arguments.

- Contraception is damaging to society

- Massive redistribution of wealth and power to men

- Suggestions that taxing men and subsidising women and children will fix it

I'll update this as I read through the article.

> Their graph, below, shows that, for example, the percentage of Americans married at age 30 fell from roughly 85 percent in 1960 to roughly 60 percent in 2000. Assuming that sexual activity has not decreased over the same period (clearly a safe assumption), this implies increased participation in the sex market over the same period.

I think this may be a flawed statement. Millenials are having less sex than previous generations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/there-isn...

> It may be biologically inevitable that relatively more men will populate the sex market and relatively more women will populate the marriage market.

It's a little crude but biologically we're built that way.

> The average age at which men exit the sex market and enter the marriage market is higher than the average age at which women make the same decision.

I was going to make the argument that it's normally just a couple of years but...

> This, in turn, means that at each point in time, more men will inhabit the sex market than women. Correspondingly, more women will inhabit the marriage market than men.

So there's an imbalance between the two markets. I agree with this - take a look at Tinder or any other hook up style app. Heaps of men, comparatively less women. The result is women getting hundreds of Matches a day where most guys will be lucky to get one.

Oh and vice versa. Women trying to find a man that is marriage material is as scarce as men trying to find a casual sexual partner.

Actually the marriage market even more scarce than the sexual market. Once a man is taken off the market through marriage then the man pool becomes even smaller, making the ratio even worse!

I'll continue making more points in other posts.
Delawarean here. Growing up, I had the impression that Arden was just a place for aged hippies, history buffs, and the overeducated idle class to have space to live out their utopian fantasies without bothering the rest of us.

I mean, if you think about the town meetings in "Gilmore Girls," where you have these people who are really into town meetings, you probably know that they're meant to be an exaggerated parody of the handful of people who show up at town meetings and are really, uh, passionate about their viewpoints. Only in "Gilmore Girls," the whole town is like that.

Well, I would much rather have them all in Arden, duking it out, than spread out more generally in North Wilmington and northern New Castle County, causing eye rolls everywhere.

That said, Arden is not nearly as much of an insulated place anymore. I think, for the majority of residents, it's just an address and not a philosophy.
Is there a verifiable way to determine someone's location? I'm not talking about phones or Ingress, because I know this can be spoofed with rooted phones and careful "traveling" of your fake GPS coordinates. But what if the game was set up in a way that required photos to be taken of the surrounding area to match (but not exactly match) existing photos? That could be bypassed, but it'd be an additional annoyance. What about sending surrounding WiFi access points or nearby phone IDs to the server as a means of verification? That is worse for privacy and again could be spoofed. Thinking bigger, what if the game could only be played with satellite phones, and the satellite would send the location of the transceiver to the server? Would be harder to spoof unless you own physical devices left in different parts of the world.
Scarily enough, China has nothing on some of the cities in India. Delhi pollution is regularly literally off the charts with readings above 999.
I asked hota_mazi to provide an example which demonstrated what they were talking about, to explain why they said "Smalltalk got it wrong by making all the parameter names mandatory".

Are you hota_mazi ?
This sounds like a good idea. One problem with things like tor and i2p is you want to have tons of traffic so as to hide things from the various spies, but it is hard to get enough people to support nodes. Add a token and perhaps that problem will be solved.
Nowadays I would look at Kotlin, if you really need Java's slowness—er, features—in a shinier package.

I still use Groovy to write quick scripts or cron jobs that need to use Java libraries. Basically the Bash or Python of the JVM. Otherwise there are much better choices.

I've never worked on an "enterprise system, not web based," so I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds important and large. I wouldn't write such a thing in Groovy, or any other dynamically typed language: one misspelled variable and you have a runtime error waiting for you. (I wouldn't write such things in Java either: one missing null check and you have a runtime NPE waiting for you. But alas, the industry thinks otherwise.)

PS. Whatever you do, stay away from Grails. I've never seen such a bug-ridden, slow and crappy piece of junk in my entire career. And when I say bug, I mean a running production system suddenly starting to omit all WHERE clauses from all SQL queries, out of the blue. The app still working properly, but customers seeing the data of all other customers. I'm not joking.
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> Nobody goes into journalism for the money, the pay is terrible.

I think I should have clarified. When I said "journalists", i used it in the same context as this article.

Which means by "journalists" I meant "journalistic organisations". I have worked with and know many journalists who have high integrity. But at the end of the day it's the organization as a whole that decides what to focus on.

So yeah, from my experience I'm pretty sure they all get into journalism because of their ideal and each journalist as an individual (especially those who work at those top newspapers) has high journalistic integrity, but my impression is that this spirit is dying away as new entrants see what's going on in the ecosystem. It's no secret that these media companies who pride themselves on having high bar for journalistic integrity have started pouring efforts to emulate Buzzfeed (and I'm not using Buzzfeed as symbolism, they have explicitly tried to study Buzzfeed and emulate it)

> Is this actually possible? Does believing in e.g. global warming constitute bias?

I think I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread but I believe this is possible if you hire people from the both ends of the spectrum and write both points of view about the same story. This is impossible at the moment because the entire organization tends to consist of mostly left wing people or mostly right wing people, etc. It's a "company culture" thing, and you can't do this unless you change the company culture fundamentally.
Thanks for the quote.

I am just wondering if '...empirical research has confirmed that self-reported health ratings are reliable...' is still true if you pre-select the individuals to have a high IQ.
This is an interesting question; one which I feel for greatly, and one which we have been discussing internally. Not having this detail worked out before going public was probably a mistake of ours, particularly as now we keep getting distracted, but we are rapidly working on addressing the issue as quickly as possible. I am going to give you an answer to this but want to stress that this answer has not been vetted through anyone else and is a look behind the curtain (and I hope you can give us a little benefit of the doubt here, at least based on the track record of some of our developers).

One issue is that we have put a lot of effort into the whitepaper, and we really want people to review the concepts in the whitepaper and give us feedback on that, but I will say that it is highly likely (if not a foregone conclusion) that if we have source code available, code which we know isn't done yet as the whitepaper design has been leading ahead of the implementation in the code, that we are going to have people only downloading the code and giving us feedback on the code... but what we really need is feedback on the design, not the first draft implementation :(.

On the other side of this, our team includes someone from the Free Software Foundation who feels some strong moral pulls towards doing all of the development in the open immediately and yesterday. I have made sure that my code is ready to release on a moment's notice and still feel proud about what is out there (though there is one last super high-level thing in the organization of how the code for the network connects with code for services that I want to fix tonight, and issue that will be much easier to deal with fixing at the git level if I didn't think I'd be breaking anyone's clone).
Hey man, Tor has been up for over a decade, but this isn't even in beta.
The other day I was looking at the output of nbconvert (turns Jupyter notebooks to HTML) and found the default template embeds over 10,000 lines of CSS!

I see the point of munging the names of CSS classes and I'm very interested in the problem of cutting up N HTML documents to produce an N+1 HTML document, which probably requires this.

However, I'm also increasingly concerned about the sheer size of web sites and applications that people are building today and one factor there seems to be more and more stuff that gets added to the stack.
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and marijuana, too.
I'd be curious to know what the compile times are like? Does ever compile run recompile the entire code base or is there some kind of incremental compilation?
I've seen your name somewhere before..

Your Wikipedia page shows that you have something to do with Cydia, which is unlikely for me to remember but I guess that's it.
A much larger market. Nobody buys crayons or even school supplies every day.
Apple has strict rules regarding filming on their campus; the rules are posted.
The coming correction is going to be a big one! Just look at what the stock market has done since the election. The DJIA went from 18,000 to almost 24,000. That's a 33% increase in a year!

The good news is that if you've been in the market for a while, you're way up anyways. The 10-20% correction will come giving you an opportunity to buy low again.

And then in a decade we'll repeat everything again!
Pleads only to reckless driving; DUI charges dropped. Even the reckless driving charge will be expunged if he complies with diversion education program.

"The 41-year-old superstar golfer is scheduled to plead guilty at a court hearing to reckless driving, a less severe charge than driving under the influence, as part of a Palm Beach County, Florida, program that has graduated almost 2,500 first-time offenders since it began four years ago... If he completes it, he can ask a judge to expunge the reckless driving conviction"[1]

[1] https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/golf/tiger-woods-to-ple...

Note the error in that article's title; he did NOT plea to DUI. That's why I submitted the other.
> Even Polymer's advocates seem to be holding their nose and using it because they appreciate the long-term promise of Web Components interop.

Bullshit.

Polymer's developer experience is absolutely my favorite, since version 1.0. Importantly, Polymer does not require any build tools.

lit-html is neat but there's nothing wrong with the current Polymer.Templatizer system in terms of developer experience.
Call me zealous, but I'm the same way. I'm wary of the potential for monetary incentives to skew actual demand. I've seen how digital advertising has more or less destroyed much of the internet. Hopefully decentralization will prevent monopolies or oligopolies from forming, but I'm not so sure about that.

At this point, it's hard to say what actual distributions of wealth might look like if people start using cryptocurrencies in their daily lives, for example to route traffic over a network. But at the moment, the distributions of wealth are quite nuts. But if there is an overall "unfair" atmosphere in the crypto-economy, it's could make depending on this system of routing kinda suck in the long term, especially if peoples actual livelihoods are under the pressure of massive ad gaps. People "sell out" when they're perceiving some stress.

If we go 'all-in' on this kind of system, it might actually end up creating the same kinds of de-facto power imbalances we see today with conventional social media.

I'm not anti-cryptocurrency either. I actually own a little bit of cryptocurrency. I'm curious about its potential to dissolve existing dominance relationships non-violently. That said, I don't see it as an end. Moreso, I see it as a potential conduit of healthy, non-violent economic chaos.

I also recognize that this strange new alien could be "out of the frying pan and into the fire".
True, except when there is a virtual near 0% unemployment in cities, then even when it is hard to let people go they still are pretty desperate for candidates.

(Speaking from experience from tech industry in Oslo, before I moved on)

Also why depending a lot on more on easier to let go contractors are prevalent all over Scandinavia.
XBox seems to be stuck at ~breakeven over the entire lifecycle. They have spent several billion on advertising, they generally sell the console for a direct loss, and it's PS2/3/4 have each sold significantly more each generation.

So, IMO it's not hugely successful just not out an outright failure.

That said, they have shipped a lot of hardware over time, and made some reasonable profit from mice / keyboards.
Hey man,

Did you add a captcha to your login? You could add one after 2 failed attempts from an ip.

I understand not wanting 2FA for lower conversion rates, but I'd recommend implementing it in the future. It's one of the best ways to mitigate an attack against knowing your password. The session cookie is another story.

As for the passwords, I'd enforce standards around what a user is allowed to use. You want to have it be at least 10+ chars with special characters. If they reuse the password on another site and that gets compromised there really isn't much you can do. However, if we assume the reused password from the other site is hashed with a salt and you enforce more chars, they are much harder to crack and thus prevent the plaintext password from being recovered and accessing your site.

A great way to demo what more chars does to a password here

https://www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-time...

You should also maintain a record of the common IP address an account uses and require an email/text to allow access that would further mitigate your problem. I know your a startup, so this is more of a luxury feature.
Real wages in silicon valley for the hot industry at the moment have definitely gone up the past 40 years.
That's why I kept Ingress and uninstalled Go. It's a great simple resource when you're in a new town, and it is a lot more interesting then Google maps.
Came to recommend this. It's more or less WSYWIG, and while you'll want to learn Inkscape first, it has its own set of tutorials for Sozi specifics.
There is a solution to that: renounce your citizenship and remove your country’s obligation to you, removing your liability as a citizen.
Who the hell wants to type markup every time they send an email!?

Makes zero sense to me.
Citing Progress and Poverty when asked about adding references to Wikipedia about the history of a Georgist town strikes me as like citing the Bible when asked about adding referenes to Wikipedia about the history of a Christian town -- and it's available on audiotape! Of no use other than identifying oneself as a true believer.
I roll my eyes as these tortured attempts to draw parallels that aren't even superficially similar.

2000 was an IPO bubble of companies that had no revenue, no prospect of revenue and no business plan. Analysts went out of their way to justify valuations by inventing new metrics like revenue-to-price multipliers.

What's different today is that the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon are money-making machines on a scale probably not matched since at least the era of Standard Oil, the 19th century railroad tycoons and other industrialists like Carnegie.

I mean, Apple is trading at a P/E of less than 19 and it has a market cap of $842B. That is mind-boggling but not at all outrageous.

In 2000 the tech IPO bubble burst. In 2007 the subprime disaster came crashing down. It is absolutely certain there will be another downturn in the future but at this point I have no idea what the next trigger will be.

My best guess is something to do with China. This could take many forms. Some think that the Chinese economy is a house of cards. There has clearly been a flight of capital from China. Who knows where this ends? Also, Chinese money in particular has been flooding into Western real estate markets. This too may come to a head.

Or it could be something to do with North Korea or even Iran.

Or populists movements may drive Western governments to crack down on what they see as excessive power by the large tech companies, particularly in the EU.

Or a constitutional crisis instigated by our current lunatic-in-chief.

Whatever the case I really don't see any significant parallels to 2000.
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Giving your first technical talk
Has anyone here visited China?

I want to visit once in my life particularly to Beijing, Xi'an, and Shanghai. Hong Kong and Taiwan would be side trips as part of the same trip.
Note that this is from a franchisee, though it may well use the same materials that corporate-owned stores do.

Back in the 1980s, "shift managers" were called swing managers.
I'd hazard that the difference is in the demand for the products. The total addressable market for crayons is likely much smaller, and would be more quickly saturated if you were to ramp up production. Cigarettes have killer recurring revenue and the demand for them is highly inelastic.
> decide whether to observe changes and respond to them or whether to regenerate the UI as a function of state

These things don't conflict with each other though. In Polymer, you usually observe changes to fire off requests and stuff, but the UI is pretty much described as a function of state.
Are Swedish companies perpetually understaffed, moreso than in (say) the US?

The report doesn't lead me to that conclusion.
Clearly everyone that saw this filming taking place doesn't respect those rules.