skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too was a moderator years ago for a Stack Exchange site. I was always amazed by the sheer amount of tooling that I had access to. I could instantly tell when there were sock-puppet accounts, voting rings, auto-flagged low-value postings, etc.

One thing that Stack Exchange does very differently from other sites is that they emphasize professionalism. Since Facebook and YouTube allow memes and off-topic material, there is an expectation that low-value postings will be tolerated by the community. And that's exactly what those places get.

SE sites prohibit garbage. On the Quant Finance site, for example, we required people who post there to actually work in the industry. That metric made it very easy to distinguish ourselves from other QF forums; we didn't have "How do I become a quant?" or "What programming language should I use?" for every other question.

Another community that has some bar of professionalism is Hacker News. There's no requirement that people be entrepreneurs or programmers here, but there is an expectation that anything posted must valuable and high quality.
Five employees. Developers can stay on if needed.
Facebook says “passively consuming” the News Feed will make you feel worse
For clarity, that's a 4:34 mile / 2:50 km. ie hauling ass.

The vast vast majority of cross country runners in high school can't maintain that pace for 3.1 miles / 5 km. How a human maintains it for 26.2 I have no idea.

Another perspective: the world record 1 mile time, which is essentially a 4 lap sprint, is 3:43.13. So these athletes run at 81% world record mile pace for 26 miles.
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Condescending much?
>I technically have no grounds to complain that they abused their access.

I would argue that since they knew you were giving them access on the assumption that they would not do things like that, you would have grounds to complain. Similarly, I installed Firefox on the understanding that it would not phone home with opt-out telemetry, advertise third party products, or syntergise with acquired properties. Mozilla has, in the past few months, done all three.

I like Firefox, though, so I'd rather kick the tubas out of Mozilla than go kick them off my individual installation. Does the public have any power over Mozilla's governance?
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I love javascript.
I'll try to answer in the parent's place, since I've been watching this issue.

> Can you explain what you mean by "unknown Mozilla developers?" Unknown to whom?

Unknown in the sense that this extension wasn't documented at all, there was no Bugzilla issue for it and it's not clear whether it was properly vetted by QA. Whether you argue that this kind of silent push updates is good or bad, I think they aren't tested as well as in-browser functionality. This is a necessary consequence of "let's try it and revert if something breaks or people complain".

More so, a rolled back Shield study will be invisible to the users, so any problems will be impossible to debug. This is made worse by the fact that most, if not all Shield studies are opt-out, so the user won't be notified.

> Can you provide more detail on what specific configuration changes are reverted when opening the add-ons window? That sounds like a fairly serious bug.
> What is the specific "this" you're trying to "properly disable?" You shouldn't have to dive into things like lockpref.

People have reported that extensions.ui.experiment.hidden reverts after viewing the add-ons list. I haven't tried it myself, but you can find details in that Reddit thread.

Others have noticed that the Shield studies checkbox sometimes (possibly on version bumps) reverts to enabled. I can't overstate how bad this is; it's basically cheating the users' trust. Lately, Mozilla has been doing some pretty nasty things for an organization that takes pride in caring about the privacy of its users.

Are you aware of the complaints regarding Windows telemetry? Edge, for example, sends full browsing history to Microsoft by default. Should Mozilla follow suit? Because that's exactly what Pioneer does and, while it's not opt-out yet, Firefox advertises enabling it.

As for the rest of the system add-ons, they're either poorly documented (if they are at all), poorly named ("Presentation"), or seem concerning from a privacy point of view (e.g. Activity Stream, Follow-on Search Telemetry, Photon onboarding, Presentation, Web Compat Reporter).

For anyone curious, Presentation seems to be an implementation of a proposed Web API that allows browsers to find and talk to devices in their neighbourhood. Does that include location/proximity beacons like this old proposal https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/06/the-proximity-api/ ? Do users really want Firefox to tell advertisers where they're shopping? That's the same kind of "experience improvement" that the spyware of yore used to bring.

Why should Pocket be an add-on with superpowers? There was quite a bit of backlash over it a while ago, but Mozilla didn't budge, and some employees actually spread misinformation (not to say "lied"). And actually none of my system add-ons seems to be providing any important functionality (if you disregard the new tab page, for which I haven't seen yet a privacy policy). Looking at Shield studies ( https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php ), it's even worse: most are surveys, advertisements, asking the user to enable Pioneer (i.e. send full browsing history to Mozilla).
On the flip side, if my body were donated to science (as is my wish) I wouldn't particularly care whether they did this sort of thing to it.
1.) I think that therein lies the reason it's not more popular. You can achieve the same things in other formalisms but GA generally makes the most sense to me. Simplification to the point of obviation is a big win for me.

2.) Diversify. I picked it up because I felt like I can mold this better for my problems than LA. And I'm more about publishing code than publishing papers. So I care more about making it "my own" than explaining things to people.

3.) Coincidentally Lie algebras are also easier in GA. Look at this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/E8... and don't tell me that the symmetries seem more circular than linear.
Assumption made: the safety system mentioned had anything at all to do with the safety of human beings. For all we know, this is an entirely lights-out operation.

From the article, it sounds more like these were systems designed to protect the equipment, which they did. A loss of productivity due to equipment failing or being destroyed has an associated cost. If that cost, factoring in the probability of that event, is less than the cost of not having these things remotely accessible (however that is determined), then the math is pretty clear about what choice you make.

Even if humans are involved, that's just another cost to factor in. People get killed in work accidents all the time.

This is the problem with "security people". Their only care in life is stopping attacks, so they don't give a damn what the cost is and how it relates to the rest of the organization. We take calculated risks every single day, and if we didn't, nothing would ever get done.
The ethical considerations may have also been an afterthought considering the cost of using a human cadaver.
Pretty much every older chat program used this at some point including Google chat, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, Pidgin, and even Skype.
Being against the implementation of specific crop products because you believe they weren't adequately tested, or because there is evidence that they are harmful in some way - that is not anti-science.

Here's what is anti-science: being against using a range of methods available to modern biological science to engineer crops and demanding that we continue to use the less precise and inherently less safe methods that we used throughout the 20th century. This position is inherently anti-science because it is opposed to scientific understanding itself- when you realize that traditional techniques modified dozens or hundreds of genes in unpredictable ways, and now we can target specific genes that we understand the functions of, but you are opposed to doing so on some strange principle, you must realize the anti-GMO movement is anti-science itself.

It is exactly like being anti-programming because you heard about hackers stealing money from banks in the news. It's just too much of a risk, computers are complex systems that we can't always predict! It's just being safe! I hope that this analogy feels like a ridiculous stretch to you- that's how your position feels to me!
Can confirm, I got a new MBP 15" about 6 months ago through work. The right side of the space bar doesn't work and the 'a' and 's' key alternate in not working without having to slam my finger into them. Also the keyboard is so obnoxiously loud that it can be genuinely annoying to others in the same room (i.e., the girlfriend).

And let's not even get into the "Touch Bar". Just stay away.
I haven't noticed this extension sending data to outside services. Did somebody find if/where it does that? If it is sending personal or browsing-related data out, we can flood the servers with garbage.
> there are certain characteristics that women find more desirable in men and yet no one would say that men are being oppressed because of this.

I have a male friend who's far on the left side of the bell curve in terms of height, and he has shared plenty of life experience with me that contradicts precisely this (and not just in terms of his relationship to women as well, but also to peers, employers, etc.). It certainly goes both ways.
The Lightning Network promises to make Bitcoin useful to pay for things
Frankly, all I miss from the pre-VoIP world is being able to start with "Hey, how are you" instead of "Hey, can you hear me".
Indeed! I consider myself a serious amateur runner, having broken 3 hours in the marathon a few times.

At that pace, I wouldn’t be able to run even a single kilometer even in my peak shape. Could probably manage a lap around the track.
Also fun, 1-2 times a year the Spallation Neutron Source[1] is shut down and the tunnels are open for tours. Was happy to have had the opportunity to check that out when I was working there, although I think my favorite high-science tour is still the National Ignition Facility[2]. Going inside of that places was awesome. Thinking back now, LLNL had a number of great tours actually, HEAF[3] was pretty cool as well.

As far as I know none of those are open to the general public though; you have to work there. Someone I was dating at the time went on the public's tour of NIF, which really only involved them standing in the lobby. Ironically, she was a nuclear physicist and I do environmental and energy economics-y things, so I was completely unqualified to know anything about what I was seeing and she didn't even get a physicist as her tour guide.

[1] https://neutrons.ornl.gov/sns

[2] https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/what-is-nif

[3] https://wci.llnl.gov/facilities/heaf
> That’s great – for their engineering department.

Well, no - it's great for you too. Nobody can buy anything if the site is down. First-time buyers are especially sensitive to that. If their first experience with Etsy is a timeout page they won't be back (we actually had numbers asserting as such). Amazon famously wrote that 100ms of additional latency cost them 1% of sales, and Etsy is very similar in that regard.

> What about the guiding vision for their core business? It’s not enough to make IT top notch when their overall aim is floundering.

The guiding vision was, and likely still is, to have Etsy be what it is today (but with much better execution, obviously). Amazon with a more hand-made slant to it.

I saw this frequently when I was there - sellers want Etsy to be more like ArtFire or ArtYah is now, but that's not what Etsy's leadership and funders want Etsy to be. They want Etsy to be Amazon, but for unique items.

Now sure, that's not what Rob Kalin wanted it to be. But that vision was lost years ago, way before Chad et. al took over.

> As a customer and developer, I frequently felt that their communications and decisions missed the mark and heard this from fellow customers continually.

No argument there. The decisions usually made sense internally, but the external communications were poor. I would not be surprised to find out it's part of why the C-suite was gutted. I'm really sorry you had to be a customer during that phase. Seriously.

> Etsy needs to be run by artists and retailers, not technologists.

They tried that. Rob Kalin is an artist, through and through.

Turns out artists don't always make great business leaders. And let me tell you, definitively, Rob Kalin would have ruined that company had he stuck around for much longer than he did.

> Part of the problem is that they want to address the things like eliminating mass produced goods as technology problems, to be eliminated with the right algorithm.

It is a technology problem. Etsy can't possibly afford to hire enough people to sift through items manually looking for mass-produced goods. They'd go bankrupt. The marketplace is just way too big for that.

Etsy can remain a small marketplace and do that, which is I'm guessing your preference, but that's not the preference of the VCs who backed Etsy. Unfortunately, money has the final say.
Why would an ordinary consumer ever want to pay for retail goods in a currency other than the one that their salary comes in? Amazon is happy to eat credit card fees, and if they really wanted to avoid that they could let customers link their bank account directly to Amazon.
First, it is you who made the claim, specifically that 'the stereotype "gypsy = criminal" is still incredibly harmful'. You have not backed this claim with any evidence whatsoever.

I assumed that you were aware that the burden of proof is on the person making the claim, that "I claim something, prove me wrong" is not how this works. That assumption appears to have been incorrect.

Given that the burden of proof is on you, what I provided was evidence that makes your claim unlikely, specifically the following: "When individuating information is clear and relevant, its effects are “massive” (Kunda & Thagard, 1996, yes, that is a direct quote, p. 292), and stereotype effects tend to be weak or nonexistent.".

So if the effect is "weak or nonexistent" as soon as any individuating information is known, your path to showing "incredible harm" has just become that much more difficult. Of course, you haven't actually presented any evidence whatsoever, so I guess it doesn't really make much of a difference.
Bomb threat temporarily disrupts FCC vote to kill net neutrality rules
Yet you do realize that Bitpay just converts BTC to USD, correct?

It's the equivalent of you selling your BTC holdings at market rate and buying the car with USD.
I have an old fashioned landline at work. The Sound quality vs my cell phone is night and day.
There's a whole article after that sentence expanding on this my dude.
Exponential correlation of IQ and the wealth of nations [pdf]
VZ had nothing to gain from rolling it out, so they stopped. They put all their eggs in the net neutrality/complain that the network is congested basket.

Google might have some smart developers, but they know very little about rolling out a full ISP with fiber plant. Their webpass acquisition showed that. This is another case of Google's hubris tripping them up and landing smack on their face.

Real companies and organizations with good operations can roll out an all fiber ISP. It's not like it's never been done before. Your two counter examples were due to greed and incompetence.
America’s Inequality Machine Is Sending the Dow Soaring
Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017.

Is it my data? If it is, why are you deciding for me what happens to it?
Really? My experience has been the opposite. I can tell I'm not on a Facetime audio call or what have you when the call is clearly undergoing the super lackluster compression used by the traditional system.
2018 year in preview: the future of cryptocurrency
It seems like you are confusing vector algebra with linear algebra. The cross product is not a part of the theory of vector spaces and linear transformations.

Geometric algebra is pretty cool, but it is a potential replacement for vector algebra, not linear algebra. It is defined on a vector space, which means that the theory of linear algebra (concepts like linear transformation, bases, etc.) applies.

As a sidenote, reducing Maxwell's equations in the 4-equation Heaviside form to a single equation is not necessarily a boon. Each of the four has a clear physical meaning in the vector calculus formulation, which may be lost when moving to a single equation.
There's an orange "don't walk unless safe hand" at a crosswalk and a red light where a right can be taken when safe.

Until there are no conflicting signals there are going to be problems because both parties use the same criteria (no cross traffic) to determine when it's safe to go.
There is no doubt that Democrats sometimes ignore facts and expert opinions. That is a normal part of the political process.

The problem is that in recent months Republicans seem to always ignore the facts being presented to them. That is beyond "politics as usual" and is dangerous and destructive to our country.
The fact that HN is just discovering Coinbase (Normiebase) and not discussing the in's and out's of Etherdelta tells me this bubble still has a far way to go before it bursts.
> the lag associated with changing channels

This isn't even an audio thing. With a classic television, you can crank the channel dial and (along with the instant audio output) see a stable frame within 5-20 frames of vsync (so like 300ms or so worst case).

My TV at home can't switch an input (e.g. between two HDMI inputs) faster than about 3-4 seconds. No, I don't know why either. It's actually much worse if the device being switched away from is a Chromecast. Don't know why there either.
One (cumbersome) solution is for all players to provide their own dice. Whenever a die roll occurs, all players roll one die at the same time, and the totals are summed and the remainder is taken after dividing by the number of players. So, as long as at least one player's die is fair the outcome will be fair.

If you're playing Catan by email, this approach can be extended with bit commitment. Each player rolls a die and sends a message to the other players with the number they rolled signed with their own digital signature but also encrypted with a key randomly chosen for that round of die rolls.

None of the other players can know what the other players rolled without the key. Once everyone has sent all the other players their rolls (i.e. they've "committed" to a particular die roll but the other players don't know what it is yet), they exchange keys to reveal the numbers they rolled.
XM Radio quality was embarrassingly bad. Quantized robot talk. and their sales were so relentlessly annoying trying to upsell my free trial for my new car.
Links2. http://links.twibright.com

No, it doesn't show PDFs or videos, but does that belong in the browser anyway?
He got his wife to do it. That's the original automation.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15896616
No my account was opened over 3 months ago with a verified phone number.
> after interviewing two candidates ...

This contradicts the evidence that: "When individuating information is clear and relevant, its effects are “massive” (Kunda & Thagard, 1996, yes, that is a direct quote, p. 292), and stereotype effects tend to be weak or nonexistent."

After the interview, you have individuating information. In fact, you probably have individuating information beforehand, such as the resume, maybe references etc.

So your claim contradicts this study. As I haven't seen any evidence for your claim, my tendency is to believe the study.

But certainly something that probably warrants further study.
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I don't know much about Blockchain but what is the benefit of using blockchain for Bluetooth LE network or IoT? If we care about security aren't higher level protocols doing that? AFAIK one of the biggest challenges in IoT field is to reduce network overhead and latency because constrained wireless networks like BLE are slow and not reliable. Doesn't blockchain significantly violate that?
Yes, it is so. Consider that corn was modified to be more resilient but its pollen may be compatible with nearby plants. Hybridization of transgenics with local flora may have unintended and far-reaching consequences. That's why the "Terminator" traits are typically outlawed. No one (eh...citation needed) desires a world where growing the food requires a proprietary compound. I doubt a civilization with a food supply like that could remain stable.

However! I read an interesting study that claimed Bt transgenics are better for food production & the environment because they kill crop pests but the carnivorous field fauna (spiders, horseflies, etc.) flourish with humankind's helping hand.

Whereas I typically purchase non-GMO foods, this revelation caused me to question, and to become ambivalent. No doubt pests would tolerate Bt with time, but in humans Bt is a non-toxic pesticide, and the germlines of the crop pests would probably never recover from the trait's proliferation. At the same time, the carnivorous "worker arthropods" which eat the crop pests would also experience a huge acceleration in their development.

Directed breeding in animals is an issue which has a tighter grip on my heart--some of the stuff that's been done to dogs and cats to "get them to look a certain way" is really messed up. Maybe some look at the fields the same way.

I do not know. It is not my choice. I am glad for that.
Evolution of a designed protein assembly encapsulating its own RNA genome
In the US everybody wants sub streams so they can sell more commercials. It's all about the money. Thankfully FM is still going strong here.
I still get the busy signal calling into the Seattle area from the Midwest once every 4-5 months or so when it's clear the other end wasn't on the phone. I'm not sure I got that before. So I wouldn't say the problem is solved, though the scale of communications has surely increased.
There are definitely situations like corporate networks where automatic updates need to be quarantined and tested before rolling them out to all the machines, but since I don't pay a dedicated sysadmin to run tests on all my software on my personal computer before I receive updates, I'm content to trust my browser to update itself and hope it doesn't break anything.

It's disheartening when the update is a marketing tie-in.
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Fair point. I don't know much about India.
Agree with you on Ripple's potential but I wouldn't read too much into that slide. Those companies were on the slide as an example use case. I don't think it meant any official buy in.
But what if you don't have a choice and the building manager just appoints your roommate. We need to kick out the building manager.
How do you tell if it's voip or not? A lot of phone operators use voip for calls. So choosing the default phone app doesn't necessarily mean that you are not using voip. And the phone operators infrastructure for voip is probably way ahead of most other call apps.
Saw Erasure and was expecting this instead

https://youtu.be/CC_Y4zOUdcI
I did a Jupyter notebook http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/Yorwba/image_frequency_sc...

I should have probably written more comments, but I really need to go sleep now.