skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no fooling just sequence of facts and events you are denying.

The victim was shot because he refused direct police order and endangered himself by making the SWAT thinking he had a gun.

The guy calling the SWAT is an effete asshole but there's no way he could've predicted the endangerment that the victim put on himself by directly refusing orders to keep his hand up (he didnt and he was shot thinking he was pulling a gun).

So if you wanted to prove intent to kill, you'd have to

1) Show the probability of getting killed by SWAT vs Hitman is the same, which the judge will throw out as intent.

2) Show that the SWAT caller could've predicted that victim would put himself in danger by disobeying a direct armed officer.

3) Retrospectively show intent to kill in previous SWAT calls the perpetrator has been charged for.

This is just the harsh realities of court. It's very hard for prosecutors for cases like this, especially when the public is so skewed to one version of the story. It's ironic that such zealous energy from the mob crowd will only hurt the case, the internet and the mob mentality doesn't prevail against examination of facts and evidence....

Hence this is why I stopped pursuing a legal career...because I realized that true justice will rarely be delivered. To convict someone, you need more than just conjectures and emotional response, you are up against highly intelligent defense lawyers who are expert in raising doubts in those that react with emotion, not logic.
Are there common domains to Instagram sponsored posts? I'm wondering if blocking DNS on routers / devices would give some temporary relief for this situation.

I'm sorry that you're being bombarded with this, it'd be nice if Facebook provided topic blocking for ads beyond alcohol and parenting.
You can use Java 8 now
Evidently it's working on SOME front or they'd be putting more profitable ads in.

Still brings up the question of whether the extra revenue is worth annoying part of your user base - but from my experience I'll only ever see 1-2 ads even if I scroll for 5-10 minutes.
The rumored proposal is exactly proposing that the affected H1B workers (mostly Indians) should be "expelled after a short period" (of 6 years) and have no opportunity to get permanent residency, given that the path to permanent residency for these workers is really long right now.

I don't think the current Administration is planning to change anything w.r.t. green cards, since raising the limits or removing the per-country quota requires legislation.
Don’tcha know, HN is srs bsns. The only way humor is allowed is if Elon Musk shits a comedy blockchain onto PG’s chest.
Giant made the Loyalty integration Mandatory for the Self-Checkouts.

Kroger doesn't make their Kroger Plus Mandatory for the Self-Checkouts, but they do make it Mandatory for the U-Scan system.
> Accessing Java objects from native code is also a pain, with potential performance gotchas (pinning, mostly).

What do you mean by pinning? If you mean pinning threads to cores, how does that relate to JNI?
My own projects:

- Ask The Caterpillar: a chatbot that gives harm reduction information about substances/drugs

https://www.askthecaterpillar.com/home.html

- Some API wrappers and Slack add-ons, one that just lets me control Sonos from Slack.

- I taught myself Elm and wrote a little app that lets you use the Spotify magic algorithm for finding similar tracks

--

At work:

Learned a lot more about building a clean API, and some stuff about React on the front end
Who cares if they can SSH to their app? That's like saying "no matter how nice my natural gas furnace is, I still want to shovel coal." The market will speak - people don't like SSHing into servers any more than they like shoveling coal into their furnace.
So what is the strongest plausible interpretation here? Because the article is full of body image issues and being jealous that somebody else in the ads looks better.
I suspect that ads like this will show regardless whether she's using Instagram or some other website.

For example, while at work, I searched for some documentation on syslog-ng. After that, page ads on multiple websites would refer to syslog.
At work I worked on and helped ship a video game. At home I worked on my life simulation, learning Go, and personal fitness.
Try to use average women (and men) to see how many bras you are going to sell :)
In Gaithersburg, MD, you're just prompted to enter in the number of bags you've used. You're then charged the $.05 per bag on your tab.
I'd remove spouse and priest from that list.

The lawyer is the only one motivated to keep secrets because they have skin in the game.
That's how targeted ads work - if you bought a product in the past, you must be interested in buying the same type of products, every week, forever, and you'll be interested in seeing ads for these products.
That's the beauty of Adams writing. It allows deniability by him and his fans.
Strange, I find the ads instagram decides to show to me extremely on point and highly interesting. And I can easily see how they did it, since I keep clicking and liking pictures that are very well tagged.

What is your experience?
Well that’s advertising for you.
The end game I see is that people won't trust photos or videos anymore. That politician picking up an escort and using racial slurs? Real video. But he'll say "oh, that's just AI, I would never do that" and now he has the plausible deniability.

The end result is more freedom and privacy because people won't trust "hard evidence" anymore. I think this might be a good thing.
It seems like you've just completely blocked the possibility that this case will not go your way. You've repeatedly denied facts and evidences present in this tragedy, that a) calling SWAT will never be accepted as calling a hitman therefore no intent lies in itself other than pranking b) the victim was killed because he disobeyed an armed officer c) restrospectively prove intent to kill in all previous swat cases, which will have wide reaching political ramifications that go beyond just the individuals involved. d) the victim was unknown to the accused therefore impossible to claim any sort of aforethought and intent which both requires evidence.

So when you react with such vulgar statements and continually attack others who present facts and evidences against your conjecture, it's hard to take you seriously.

You keep thinking the accused somehow had blood lust without even looking at all the pieces. It's so easy to jump on the bandwagon, but there's always those that choose logic over passion, this is what the legal industry is about.
I was excited about this project when i first saw it here but i have to say the setup instructions are very confusing. It would be nice if the documentation had step by step installation and first boot instructions. Many months after cloning the repo, i have never managed to set it up.

The instructions are all over the place. The NodeJS instructions say you can run npm -i after installing node. Then you get to Getting Started and it seems like a detached process altogether. The getting started section should start from either installing the dependencies or cloning the repo. Right now it just starts with renaming some file.

Good work, though, at least from what i can see on the site once it actually does run it is a beautiful thing.
I feel this is just the pound of posts that HN allows to feed the hive.
Slice tricks in Golang
That's an exercise for the reader, and not a difficult one.

I'm not here to argue the point so much as let you know that if you don't study the site rules and follow them properly, we will ban you.
As mentioned in another thread, the a real power of Lambda is that once it's approved for your org, you're likely to be able to rapidly deploy other services. This is the same benefit Heroku has over raw AWS, F500 enterprises generally security review a tool like Lambda very differently than a tool like EC2. Suddenly the amount of time it takes to get a functioning service to production is cut to a third, just because there's no provisioning redtape, even if Lambda isn't PERFECT for the usecase.
And the same people will get upset if you don't make a bug report somewhere.

Feedbacks important whether it's code or just experience.
I've worked almost exclusively on https://info-beamer.com, a digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi. It all started as a for fun project while freelancing and turned into a profitable business. All while still being a lot of fun to work on. Unlike other Pi based solutions, info-beamer isn't using a sluggish browser but uses Lua/C at its core to use all the hardware acceleration features while still being pretty simple to program (see https://info-beamer.com/doc/info-beamer). The challenge is always to make all those feature easily available through a web interface. I'm currently improving that a lot by enabling users to create more complicated output without any programming knowledge. Getting to know Vue.js has helped a lot with that.
> I'm honestly shocked that more first world countries with low birth rates below replacement rate don't appeal to US citizens to import them, train them, and have them join their society as valued workers (vs raking them over the coals in the US with student loans, a broken healthcare system, underpaid/non-existent jobs, and housing that might be forever out of their reach).

Most higher education in Europe is free, even for international students. More and more countries are offering programs at Bachelor or Masters level taught in English.

What more of a red carpet welcome do Americans need?
Maybe OP is making a value judgement on instagram? Maybe OP already decided that instagram's soul is not salvageable, and that they will always push advertisement that puts their profits and revenues before the preferences (and comfort and perhaps health) of the user.

Maybe the parts of the system (perhaps even the entire system) are so broken, yet also strangely voluntary (in particular ways... shadow profile aside) that we might owe it to ourselves to extract ourselves from it as best as can?
>> lowering prices so much that those goods are then sold

If you lower prices so much then you may have to sell at a loss, and this is the reason smart businesses won't increase supply unless they know demand exists. Demand has to exist first. Consumers aren't going to buy your mud-pies no matter how much you lower prices.
It's been my hope that the russia story and Google and Facebooks realization of the technology they've built has been used in ways they never intended, might stand as a sober reminder about the reality of evil in the world.

People recognize evil in, say, Isis, Nazis, or a school shooter, but usually accompanied with that recognition is a distancing from the act - a way of saying "I'm not like them".

And I'm not saying you are. But evil is insidious and pervasive. It affects everything we do. And that definitely includes software.

I worked for a company that had a help chat room, where users could ask a support person questions about the product. It was publicly accessible from a link on the website, basically a slack room. One day we notice two teenagers had hijacked the room in the middle of the night and were using it for an erotic conversation. That's fairly mundane, but what if they weren't teenagers? What if one of them was underage, and we had accidentally facilitated a child molester?

And this happens everywhere.

I heard about a kid who got cyberbullied with scratch (scratch.mit.edu) because it allows you to share content with other users? Do you think the makers of scratch ever imagined that they'd play a hand in some middle-schooler committing suicide? (fyi, they actually police this stuff)

I've built financial research sites, ad optimization software, phone calling apps, operational and monitoring tools. I think all that software has been mostly helpful for people, but I also recognize that it played a part in nefarious ends as well.

Everyone's hands are dirty.
Good, balanced article. I'd love to see something similar for the competitors like AWS Elastic Beanstalk or the upcoming "App Engine Flexible Environment" that the author mentions (of course it'd be hard to get a "3 years in" perspective for such a new product).
I don't have that problem. A model's job is to look good in photographs, my job is to create computer programs. I'm good at my job, somebody else is good at their job. I don't see this as a personal failure or even irritation that I'm not good at all possible jobs in the world.
I don't think "annoying" is quite the right word to summarize this blog post. Sure, ads are often annoying, but the point she was trying to make is that this pattern is somewhat harmful.
I wonder how/if academia will be forced to pay more for talent as well, I know many labs where people have been for years on h1b's...

The growing protectionism policies by governments, will make the global market for skilled labor more lucrative as companies and organizations will have to pay more for talent (and to keep it).
Why is it not relevant? Because it is a woman or because she used the word triggered?
This after the fact measurement heavy method of optimizatization method often doesnt work in these systems because it is more often death by a thousand paper cuts than a single line of code.

You won't ever notice yourself going off the track even after youre done you likely won't notice.

I do a lot of latency and throughout sensitive work, and far more often the bigger problem is losing a few tenths of a percent on each poor decision in your hot path. It becomes very very difficult to fix.
So really, there's no way to block ads?
Definitely, I think support is crucial. I work around people who have victim ID experience (reviewing abuse material with the goal of locating children) and strongly share your respect. It’s so impactful in the lives of the victims, but you are exposed to a very dark side of humanity and are unlikely to know the eventual outcomes of the children’s lives.
Then she doesn't like the product.

If you're not paying for it, you are the product. You are a faceless, nameless consumer #320981093, with preference code hash #AB7ZXJAL. We have determined that, when lumped into this preference code, you have a click-through advertising rate of XY% on said preference hash. We sell this, and you.

Your 'triggering' doesn't matter, neither does your mental health - we don't care about either because, again, you are the product.

If you get depressed about this enough for our algorithm to detect, you will be moved to preference hash #WNXI802N, which will include advertisements for antidepressants and churches into your mainly bra-based advertising stream. There is a delta of ZA% in your net worth to us, because your click-through rate is now BC% {higher or lower}.

This data is aggregated again and incorporated into our quarterly financial statements. Thank you for being a part of The Machine.
I believe this highlights a problem with the web in general: ads are a blight and should be excised from it entirely.

If some ad-supported sites have to go under, well, that's just the cost of social progress.
What if you actually want to view the content on Instagram? There’s a ton of it, much of which is only available there.

The author isn’t saying they don’t want ANY ads, they just don’t want these specific and unnecessarily sexualized ads to be a huge chunk of the ads they see.

That seems totally reasonable.

I mean if every other add in a normal woman’s magazine was in almost completely undressed woman do you think they WOULDN’T get complaints from their readers?

If huge percentage of the ads that men saw on Instagram were extremely tight speedo’s being worn by models do you think they wouldn’t hear complaints?

This seems entirely reasonable.
Sending in armed officers with the assumption that the victim will disobey direct police orders and get himself killed is a mental gymnastic that only lies within your head. It does not belong in the courts because there's no way to prove intent without evidence. Conjectures are not accepted in court.
You will find dishonesty between managers and workers. This is because workers try to get away with things, and managers are paid to catch them.

You will find dishonesty between executives and shareholders. This is because executives are paid to lie about performance, and share holders exist to punish them.

But this is just as systematic as it is human.

Dishonesty is rarer among workers. Their gossip is honest, and hence cathartic.

Dishonesty is also rarer among the executive team. For running a company can only be done with facts, and in almost all cases of corporate scams, the executives were all in on it. And even the whistle blower would have had to known the truth.
You have to make sure they get the message the first time.
I think she kind of answered here own question here.

She’s said that she’s purchased yoga equipment and bras in the past, so it makes a lot of sense that she’s seeing these ads

Facebook’s algorithms take a look at all people who buy certain things, and look at similar things they also buy, as well as a host of demographic information to key in on it more

They don’t do a perfect job. Facebook is not nearly as omniscient as people think it is. Trust me, I have some relevant work experience

As for the ads themselves, they’re selling an ideal, not a product. If they ad just had a picture of a bra on a table with nobody wearing it, that ad would be less effective than if someone conventionally attractive was wearing it. That’s not going to change, because it sells more of the product.

As for the body types, I think my sister (an accomplished Nuclear Engineer) put it best. Women often complain that they’re being pushed by advertising to conform to a certain body type. That’s valid. But those same women often then come to the conclusion to shame women who worked hard to have their body look like that.

My sister feels its an attack (attack might be a strong word here) on someone like her, who puts in serious effort to her health and body, in addition to the hard work she does as an engineer and a mother. Why is she the bad guy for putting in effort. Why cant some women have bodies like that, and some not?
This is addressed in the last paragraph of the article.
I think that her point is... why? What’s the point of this? What is the long term societal impact? It’s not just that she wants to avoid that crap, but that she feels she shouldn’t have to.
Stop & Shop has this in some stores and I've never seen it in use. Sounds like regular self-checkout at the register is preferable to being treated like a criminal "just in case".
Probably not for the general case. Voting rights are almost irrelevant to the average shareholder in public equity (including institutional holders unless they have large blocks). If they truly disagree with management, they'll just sell instead and put their money elsewhere. It's both less work and less risky than trying to force change - management can ultimately simply say "feel free to vote us out if you disagree" knowing that that is extremely unlikely to ever happen because it's so incredibly rare that a large enough group of shareholders in a listed company feel strongly enough to go down that route.

Large institutional blocks will probably be structured this way because the cost of doing so is low so "why wouldn't you?". In fact there are companies out there where this is already the case as they have similar rules in their constitutional documents and the large blocks do indeed work that way.

There are actually many examples of companies where some shareholders are disenfranchised in one way or another (e.g. family ownership with special rights, minority listings, this type of scheme, 51% "Russian Dolls" holding companies, etc etc). Generally where I've seen these type of rules they serve to strengthen management against shareholders and entrenches the agency conflict to the detriment of the company's value over the long term.

Realistically, in a more typical listed company with a diverse shareholder base the only realistic option shareholders have is to force management out. The irony is that this rule acts to stop this from happening or slow it down and insulate management from that threat (further entrenching the agency conflict between shareholders and management).

Investors who are in the business of more actively engaging with management and strategy tend to do so away from public markets because it's not really that great a strategy unless you can gain significant control in terms of %age stake - so Private Equity, VC, family ownership, etc mostly tend not to be things that happen in publicly listed companies.
Instagram is a great product in my opinion and the OP seems to like it to. She just wants a way to tailor the Ads experience so that she doesn’t have to keep seeing things she’s not interested in.

Why would you suggest that she leave Instagram? That’s silly. Rather, hopefully this gets enough discussion so that Instagram makes a change that gives the user a bit more control.

And don’t bother with the “But you can email your friends photos!” - that’s equally silly and just makes people who suggest that look incredibly out of touch.
This year has been the year of blockchain for me. I have worked on several blockchain projects.

Documentation for blockchain tech is not that great, so I created a screencast for ethereum / blockchain devs:

Utube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA

Website:
http://eattheblocks.com

Looking forward to keep posting one new video a week. Hopefully it will help more devs to come in this industry :)
The self checkout stations are open 24x7, while there's typically one a few human cashiers on duty while most of the staffed stations empty (even during peak after-work shopping times, I've seen unstaffed checkout lines, I guess the store doesn't want to pay to stay them all for a 90 minute peak).

But self-checkout lines are always open.
If someone finds that what they wrote did not express precisely what they meant, then making it clear is perfectly reasonable. It happens all the time in reasoned discussions.

You might have had an arguably tendentious point if you had made your comment immediately, but once aswanson had clarified his position, it became a straw man. Rational discussion moves along, and flogging a dead horse that's left the station has no part in it.
> What more of a red carpet welcome do Americans need?

This is a great point, which I'd counter with: marketing. Ever notice how many locations around the world advertise to come bring your business there? Or holiday/vacation there? Same idea.
The article also links to [1], which explains why Amazon has no profits.

[1] http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
Reminded me about the dice-o-matic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14806986
Android do not use a real JIT (no inlining) so it's mostly an AOT,
and removing the Iterator allocation require to know the real class of the iterator.

I'm not a pro of Android, so i wonder if the AOT system of Android (ART) has an option to provide a profile like you can do with gcc. It seems a better idea than to have to rewrite all the codes, third party codes included.
Why are hackers so all-or-nothing when it comes to customer feedback

Why do you think they’re a hacker? The mental picture I have is some seventeen year old who might have written some code that a compiler won’t puke on, and ergo they’ve got the world so figured out that not using a product is the “easy” answer in their mind.

Now, once they grow up (chronologically or mentally) and produce software people actually use, perhaps their outlook will mature.
If there is higher supply of a good then the price goes down and the amount of the good sold goes up. This is entirely symmetric to higher demand leading to higher prices which results in more supply.

People will not buy mud pies unless the price is so outrageously low that they can use the mud for their garden. The opposite equivalent of a mud pie is a product that nobody will produce except at an outrageously high price.