skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I wrote integration code to get shipping info into distributed logistics software.

I would've never done this without TDD because I dreaded to have hidden bugs sending washing machines to the wrong customers.
Mozilla recently changed their add-on review process. Humans are still in the loop, but part of the process is automated.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/09/21/review-wait-times...
Can't that also be because that's easier to do and already lucrative enough for the hackers? Not the only reason, but a big reason? Add on that a ton of [hacked] wordpresses are in jailed settings.
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Repeat the statements - sure, ban them if they cross the line, even in quoting. You can always report on the statements instead. "Xyz harassed S, used slurs while taking about P, and ..." can be still talked about as things that happen without repeating the insults word-for-word.
Still? I love Windows Phone relative to other mobile OSes and I clung to webOS for as long as possible. But seems like clinging to Windows Phone still has to be tough at some point. The ecosystem is gone.
#Notetoself:

Need to be less flippant about bitching about my life on twitter. While the world doesn't actually give a crap about my welfare, they will up their attempts to police my self expression concerning my dark moods that are at least partly a result of living in this often shithole of a world.
Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.

For the first time in English, that sentence has an extra meaning.
Not interested in playing "who is the worst". If you want me to acknowledge the US has done and continues to do evil stuff, well, yeah. My only point is that Russia intervened in a flawed American democracy. That's obvious, the only way to have proper self criticism is to acknowledge that reality which doesn't care about your political views.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627646
Another viewpoint is that those people in 40s become more like the people in 60s when they themselves become get older.
They may well have other systems like inertial systems combined with GPS. See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS/INS
Quote from the article (!):
The population of America farts about 3m times a minute. It likes things on Facebook about 4m times a minute.
I adore the capital R in Bembo. Generally, Venetian Renaissance Antiquas are very nice, maybe looking a bit quirky to the modern eye.
> If you look at boards that use old chronologically ordered systems that are not threaded, there tends to be much more diversity of thought. A comment is just a comment - just like real life. People say smart things, people say stupid things. And the same people often do plenty of both. When you read a thread some comments you might love, some you might hate - but instead of focusing on one or the other you get a flow of ideas and views of all sorts. Instead in ordered/threaded systems we obsess over singular comments and the comments themselves become centers of discussion.

My experience is like this: flat, chronological comment systems have more "diversity of thought", because they make it harder for people to actually engage with each other - so you get more shallow comments. Tree commenting encourages depth of discussion.

Interfaces are a problem, too. You can't have a meaningful discussion under a popular post on Facebook, because UX discourages it. You can't easily browse through hundreds of comments - you need to click a lot to show more comments, and each such click degrades performance of the site itself. On top of that, misclick somewhere, and your state is gone.

Upvotes are a solvable problem. In fact, both HN and Reddit solved it, by not doing strict score sorting. Also, with proper UX, you can skim all comments quickly.

Ultimately, the problem with on-line discussion is the same as with lots of real-world issues - there is just too many people, and each one has an opinion.
If you won't install what you call crap and they call good or great on your phone to communicate with them, do you really love them?
Oh I’d love ti do that, but it would harm both my social and professional life in ways I can’t really afford. I do feel captive, with only myself to blame.
Anyone who wants to pin this on social media hasn't been paying attention to the history of the past 25 years. They've ignored the downfall of the newspaper business which used to take on the role of educating the American public. They've ignored the trend towards 24/7 TV "news" stations that focus more on inciting panic and fear than they do on educating the public. They've ignored the rollback of regulations that have allowed media conglomerates to homogenize what people are exposed to.

The reality is that if there were still journalists doing investigative journalism on par with Woodward and Bernstein and if Americans were getting their news from someone with the gravitas and ethical backbone of Edward R Murrow or Walter Cronkite, these "fake news" stories would be laughed at. But because our schools fail to teach critical thinking and our news either fails to inform people or cannot even interest people enough to watch, social media is the only way we have left for people to consume content and become educated. But since it's an open channel that anyone can participate in, is it any wonder that people would seek to co-opt it for their own purposes? It's little more than a modern day soap box and people have been bloviating their self-serving narratives that way for generations. What's changed isn't social media, it's the lack of adults with professional ethics supplying a baseline reality from which opinions must derive.

This is our generation's "yellow journalism" and it's a reminder of what happens when there's no one who takes on and is recognized for playing the role of establishing that baseline of accepted fact. Social media's reach is a symptom of the problem, not the cause.
Not necessarily that exact wording, but yes: in the U.S. at least, this has been a popular topic recently with regard to things like Donald Trump on Twitter, NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, Google's firing of James Damore, removal of white supremacist content from various services, etc.
You are underestimating things. Comic books were scapegoats but like none of your examples really have an explanation on how they do damage. Like one that isn't based on misconceptions. With social media, the pathway is a lot more obvious.

> But apparently a few hackers around the place were vastly better than them.

Yes, yes, this is entirely possible. Do you know how? People working during the campaign still do things very much by hand in ways they don't scale. They walk around canvasing etc. A hacker spins up 20 new AWS instances and have a semi-direct access to your brain.
There's many things I see wrong with this argument/sentiment in general and I don't really know how to even address most of it.

Apart from what are mostly just biased judgements used to drive forward the narrative, there are 2 basic misconceptions that the article is trying to pedal as fact.

1: That democracy is supposed to inherently solve these issues; there's a clear reason why America was not founded as a democratic country. The founders of the US saw democracy in the same way they viewed autocracy. They called for a careful balance of different political systems in order to minimize the harm of each of these. Democracy was specifically avoided because pure democracy quickly devolves (and is synonymous) to "mobocracy." The article tries to place the blame for this on everything other than the system itself. However, the reason why these issues exist even in a system that is partially democratic (and obviously much more democratic than it was when the United States (or any other country mentioned) was founded) is because they have not taken over. Mob rule is slow to come to power, and this should be a warning to people that we're nearing the edge of the cliff (rather than that some have cheated the system into submission). It's also worth noting that democracy should never imply a system in which everyone independently forms views, as that is quite clearly impossible. Leading to the second point:

2: "Outside influences" are supposedly ruining political discourse. This idea just makes no sense to me. The blame placed on Russia for influencing the 2016 election is effectively for generating discussion. It is not for changing votes, because as far as we know that was never done. It's also not for lying to people; to argue that Russia was in the wrong for lying to people is 100% disingenuous because the authors of this article are just as happy lying to people in order to drive forth their own narrative. It seemingly blames the increased political division on right-wing politics by arguing how everything from Gamergate to Wikipedia has caused people to become more right-leaning. Ignoring the fact that they mischaracterize the entire movement of Gamergate (equating it to alt-right politics by linking it to 4chan, when in fact Gamergate was almost exclusively originating from 8chan, saying that it is trolling rather than a legitimate opinion to hold, etc.) and lie about Wikipedia's political agenda (it's quite easy to see that the major editors on Wikipedia are heavily left-leaning based on the frequent bans given to right-leaning editors), it's immediately clear from the graph showing party division that Democrats have "radicalized" far more than their Republican counterparts. In this scenario, they are using blatant lies and scare tactics to get across their opinion. How is this different at all from what they blame Russia/right-wing media/4chan for? Sure Russia might be using fake accounts to manipulate the public, but if the only solutions you can propose are limiting freedom of speech, you are doing much more to ruin democracy.
tu quoque or whataboutism isn't much of an argument.

such responses are often vacuous, if not intellectually dishonest. it's can seem like an effort to divert or sidetrack an argument or conversation with blatantly fallacious responses.
Have you seen Adam Curtis' Hypernormalization[0]?

The word "hypornormalization" was created by a soviet thinker to describe the soviet world in the 1980s:

Nobody really believed in Communism anymore and everyone could tell everything is getting worse. The party leaders, factory managers, and government bureaucrats were all thieves who were telling ever more preposterous lies to the people about the state of the economy and the society. Nobody believed the lies, but they also couldn't perceive any alternative arrangement of affairs so they didn't know how to do anything except proceed as if they did believe the lies.

He then traces the rise of perception management, the rise of the banks and neoliberalism, and machinations in the middle east, along with the career of Donald Trump, and threads them all together as Curtis tends to do, to make the case that we are currently in a period of hypernormalization in the west.

What's interesting is that he makes the case that Trump is the perfect man for this time and place, being a phony made-for-TV businessman whose entire career is the triumph of perception over reality, and the movie was made in 2016: Trump wasn't even president yet.

As with all Curtis' stuff I only believe maybe 90% of it. The stuff on the middle east is the weakest. He's guilty of doing the same thing he accuses our political class of doing: oversimplifying things to the extent that he risks fictionalizing them. But it's an extremely interesting look at the current state of the western world.

Oh yeah and Russia features heavily in it, not just in the cautionary tale of the USSR, but at the same time Curtis is emphatic in emphasizing that the post-truth world wasn't conjured up in some Kremlin propaganda office. We've been working on building a post-truth world for ourselves for the past several decades.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLQPNPlK5M
>As the country’s economy grows more unstable, Bitcoin is emerging as the solution to its problems.

Deflation of the primary currency is not a good thing for economy either.
You're not getting the point. They're not banning people, they're banning content. If the president tweeted: "Negros are inferior" that would be banned. If you tweeted "Negros are inferior", it doesn't really matter where you copied the tweet from, it will be banned too.
That seems like a rare occurrence. My macOS install is screwed up. I'm not entirely sure if it's something on my end, the hard drive, MacOS or something else. But I'm not going to straight up just blame macOS or Apple MacBook hardware for the issue when maintenance others do not seem to be having the issue. That seems far too assuming and rash.
>Instead of Facebook, participate in independent online communities around your interests (for example, forums).

Replacing your actual social network with anonymous internet strangers leaves you in a much worse position on the axes on which people usually criticize Facebook. Facebook may be a poor substitute for meatspace interaction with your actual community, but your connecting with your actual community is surely more important than connecting with internet strangers.

>Instead of chat apps that attempt to envelop everyone you've ever met into monolithic walled gardens, use SMS and email.

SMS is a spectacularly low-quality monolithic walled garden. Email is federated in theory but in practice is almost always Google. Both systems have the uniquely privacy-hostile property of being in cleartext by default and in the overwhelming majority of real-world usage.
> They've ignored the downfall of the newspaper business which used to take on the role of educating the American public.

Which American news paper can you point out that's unbiased and isn't pushing some narrative. The truth is that printed press has been the megaphone of the ruling class since the beginning.
> I get that you don't seem to like Democrats

No you don't get it. I am not American, but if I was, I would prefer Democrats, at least program-wise. And yet, I share the OP's opinion.

Here's the thing - before social media (which are much more open to public than traditional ones), the general intellectual idea was that more openness in democracy, despite its apparent weaknesses, actually makes the whole thing strong. So for example, military budgets were much more open in the U.S. than in the USSR; this openness could be considered a flaw from the strictly military POV, however, it actually makes everything more efficient because it doesn't let people in power cover more corruption. And so on, you could find many other examples.

However, recently (in the past 20 years), the liberals (in the U.S., you don't have mainstream left, so please don't call them that) have rejected the idea that openness makes the society stronger. And the outcry about social media is just a manifestation of that belief.

Now, the action depends on this belief. If you believe that openness is bad for society, you will favor the censorship of social media, and, taken to the logical conclusion, a very controlled society like Russia or China.

However, if you don't believe that openness is bad, then the proper reaction to existence of social media is to have more openness from the side of the government (and also perhaps industry). In other words, maybe people (on social media) are anxious for information (and so they fill the void with speculation), but the government is still keeping too much for themselves, much more than the social media would allow to be shared. But it will take some time to catch up, because of course existing bureaucrats are used to have their ways.

Just an example. If the U.S. government agencies truly believes that Russian manipulated the election, why don't they just share all the evidence openly, as soon as possible? Why don't they call specific sock-puppets out as being known to be Russian hackers? The reason why not is because institutionally, they are still living in the old paradigm, where secret service operations couldn't be in much public light, because historically, there was no good platform to disseminate this information (citizens couldn't easily use or cross-check it but it was valuable for the foreign actors). Of course, there might be more cynical reasons why is it that way.. but hopefully you get the point.
Russia is not the whole cause, but it was a catalyst. Most importantly the issue is not the effectiveness or outcome of the covert interference, but that interference is wrong.

Most importantly, aiding and abetting covert influence should be a punishable crime. Current tech environment, where tech gaints simply saying they hadn't noticed is not an acceptable answer.

When you are a tech gaint, with power to influence so many people at once, you have the responsibility to be transparent.

With great power comes great responsibility. Not faux remorse after the fact.
This isn't just slightly OT, it's completely OT and includes an ad-hominem sideswipe for no discernable reason.
Vodafone sold it (pay as you go, no contract) with only their brand visible, but I think it’s an Alcatel device under the paint. The model is no longer being made, but their current cheapest model is almost as cheap.
Yes, no one said TDD code is 100% bug free.

I'm also not a fundamentalist when it comes to TDD. It really depends on "What can go wrong?" and "How much time does each route costs?"

The other day I showed the guy I'm mentoring how to write tests in go to test some Go middleware code for HTTP BasicAuth. This was some example code he found on the internet. And guess what, it has a basic logic flaw where it doesn't test for correctness of user AND password, but for correctness of user OR password.

Using code like this and not writing tests is really stupid.

When I was in university, I also read lots of papers on TDD. There are many "we had 20 students trying to solve a 2 hour problem with and without TDD"-papers and only a few "IBM and Microsoft used TDD and no TDD to write hardware drivers, these are the results" papers. Guess who I'm trusting more.
Also not good for gaming I guess. Most UI elements in a game are left unchanged for a long time.
This is an awful idea that conflates country and language and adds another place where governments can marginalise minorities. Should administrators of north African tlds be empowered to forbid Tifinagh characters?

Which character sets should be permitted in the .US tld?

The general principal of all ascii or all something else is not bad though. It would prevent certain homograph spoofs.
This. Every year, I donate to Karabiner-Elements. It's the best open source keyboard remapping software for Mac, and its primary developer Takayama Fumihiko has tirelessly maintained it for many years before open sourcing it.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/pricing.html
We do have a "trash heap"[1] of blatant lies about the Russia hacking from the "Unelected Deep State" (CIA/NSA/FBI), which just adds to lies from them that have been stacking up for decades. I don't trust agencies with histories of trying to murder civil rights activists like MLK, lying to get us to go to war in Iraq, lying about domestic surveillance, etc.

Then we have the DNC very literally and provably rigging the primaries in favor of Clinton.

You know what? I hate Trump. But give me a break. This Russia trash is just all a distraction. Trump blatantly supports unconstitutional programs like domestic surveillance and gitmo--this should be enough to impeach him alone for supporting an undermining of the US constitution and American's rights.

The fact that they need to rely on this Russia story which requires a number of shifting standards and "just trust us's", rather than in-the-open undemocratic authoritarianism here in the US, is probably a testament to failures of the human mind's ability to think in terms of, and stand up for, liberty.

I have been to Germany and Japan and the people are unbeleivably friendly and wonderful. What on earth is wrong with people that they can be coaxed into the evil dreams of tyrants--conflicts, authoritarianism--and is it happening again? Are we so different or special that we really think tyranny cant happen to us when we are going through the same patterns of history?

Probably, if we could just adjust the human factor of 'susceptability to sell their liberties and fall in line behind authority figures for short-sighted self-interest,' we would live in a much better world.

1 - https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia...
Aren’t you missing a lot of security updates, though? Or does Apple backport these to previous iOS versions?

E.g. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/broad...
If your math is right, they were issued ~2% of the company, which is worth $535B today.
I'd like proof or actual numbers before just believing this. What if 8% of users is a few people?
I have been using Navigation Apps on my AMOLED (Pixel) all the time and have no issues.
Just to clarify what 'acquitted' applies to, I would note that President Bill Clinton was acquitted of the articles of impeachment by the US Senate.

He settled the sexual harassment lawsuit with Paula Jones during appeal and agreed to a suspension of his license to practice law after being held in civil contempt of court by Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright in separate proceedings.
> a lot of programmers who don't know this is happening

Not so sure - anyone who’s ever copied and pasted from an arbitrary WordPress blog that adds smart quotes to code snippets, for example, will have encountered this.
Your point weakened more and more as you had to lean back on your exaggerated or extremely rare circumstance to the point where now this comment isn't even a strong stance for the site.
ASCII is very well defined. Control characters were needed at the time (and still are today, if you're using a terminal emulator).

It's easy to handle, just disallow < 32 and > 127, which are invalid or non-printable chars (but think about tab/cr/lf). Basically every font you can find can display all of the ASCII printable range without room for confusion.
Single source of income is by definition at the mercy of the source. If one thinks that one could have had a disciplien to save, think again that savings has limitations. You can not save much as an employer and if you get screwed in your mid 30's, you don't have much savings to live off and also can not start over either. The only option is look for multiple incomes and if you are not capable, do not marry or take any personal commitments that affect other people. I know it sounds harsh but that's also make logical sense. Since you now have time, either save more or fight to change the situation so that the next generation of humans does not have to suffer this. Depressing but logical thought.
That's not "stirring the pot", that's breaking the site guidelines, which ask HN users not to post insinuations of astroturfing or shillage without evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What? What about any store or company? You didn't ask anyone to have costs. They do. And you need or want to pay for some stuff at some point. What's your point? Seems quite entitled.
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You've cited a lot of recently proved stuff (DNC rigging) but are ignoring the other stuff (re Russia) propaganda. It seems very arbitrary. Did both not very clearly happen? I don't think there's very many credible sources which believe otherwise.

Probably if we could just adjust human susceptability to sell their liberties and fall in line behind authority figures we would live in a much better world.

That only happens if you are realistic about what's going on instead of holding ideological political views. That's your solution.