skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did until 2015 [1].
The UK government estimated that cost over GBP 12 million.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34508500
Oh please. Nitpick much? The party line in both parties was anti-privacy. Yes, there are more good apples in the bunch on the left side of the fence. The GP’s point still stands. Your reply comes across as very defensive and in denial. While technically correct, it is absolutely dishonest to try and portray the Democratic Party as a whole as actually giving a damn about this issue.
I almost never downvote except for posts that are egregiously outside of HN community standards, and certainly wouldn't downvote you here. But your comment does seems pretty irrelevant to the issue of their IPO (for the record, I loathe Dropbox for political & technical reasons not pertinent here). If you're getting downvotes, it may not be because people disagree with you, but they might consider you're adding noise (as am I by commenting on your noise, admittedly)?
I used "tend to be" rather than "are". Obviously not all women are like that. There is, however, a large volume of research indicating hypergamous tendencies in women. As I mentioned above, this used to be uncontroversial, but now seems subject to revision, without any facts being presented to support the revision.
I did find the line at the top "With more than 50 percent of the population estimated to be a minority by 2044..." funny - doesn't that make them a majority?
Do you think the type of abuse that EA received was appropriate?

The answer is: Absolutely not. Remember when Mass Effect: Andromeda came out and the facial animation system was broken? Some enterprising players looked through the game credits, found a woman they thought was responsible for said animations, and personally harassed her about it.

If you think this abuse is limited to complaining about loot boxes, you're wrong; it isn't.
While political stories like this are often flagged, I think it's a valid HN submission since a significant number of people in the tech industry came to the US from underdeveloped countries and went into tech because coding is a fundamentally meritocratic job - your code either works or it doesn't, and your computer doesn't care where you came from or what you look like. This comment, which isn't being denied and was reportedly made in front of numerous credible witnesses, seems likely to have unusually significant domestic and international repercussions, even by current standards.
They probably have already received the cease and desist letter from the 'other Ripple' (https://ripple.com/)

....seriously what were they thinking?
It's exactly that kind of code that most benefits from discipline about interfaces. Writing a few thousand lines of code to do something hairy is quite feasible and indeed fun -- as long the result exports a simple, non-leaky interface.

But if the interface leaks: e.g. if it alters some state, if some edge cases aren't covered or some of its internal dependencies have to be visible on the outside then the mess ramifies through you whole system and is a burden on any code you write, change or read.

Mathematical code often fits this model well. Implementations are frequently very hairy because of the calculations involved plus mathematically inelegant bells and whistles required by the real world. But since these things tend to be calculations, their interfaces are often no more than "call this function, get or result or an error, with no side-effcts". Very clean.
I think it just happens when younger folks do the interviewing, they don't know how to interview so they grasp for what they know.

Just seems that every big firm does it. Recently I had a take-home assignment - spend like a week at night working on it only to be kind of insulted by the folks who interviewed me. They didn't even spend 5 whole minutes looking over my work. I was far more frustrated with that than I was being asked to implement a Linked List in front of someone on the spot.
Your network and your networks network. For most indie-hacker-y type businesses you should be close to the problem and know people who want a solution.
Cheap labor?
How about this?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/loadtabonsele...

Firefox used to have this option natively. It was removed some day.
How about we put it this way: Both Chinese and US consumers lose when their respective governments engage in arbitrary protectionism. You can find his comments "ironic" all you want, that doesn't mean his complaint doesn't have any merit.

It's like if Kid A complained about how getting bullied by Kid B's older brother sucks and you're like HA your complaint is laughable and insane because Kid A's brother is a bully, too!

If you presented evidence on why it's reasonable to suspect Huawei for being complicit in espionage in their hardware devices (and why other countries don't seem to be that worried about it), then you'd have a compelling counterpoint.
> Project Veritas (James O'Keefe) is known to be a unreputable source, with numerous judgements against them going back years, and members may not want to use this as a starting point of discussion for an already highly contentious discussion.

O'Keefe is a scumbag, and you have to very carefully evaluate the content of his "undercover" videos. I was considering also submitting the video, but decided against it because so much of the questioning is framed in a way that is clearly designed to make Twitter look bad.

At the same time, there are some pretty damning quotes, regardless of framing. It seems clear that the accusations that Twitter targets conservatives should carry some weight based on the statements of some of the engineers and the content reviewers, and at the very least Twitter is not doing a good job of communicating their policies to the content review team.

But unfortunately, as you say, O'Keefe is fundamentally toxic. I would expect a lot of flags for this reason alone. The video also doesn't lend itself to careful analysis - there's a lot of editing, and there's conclusions you're definitely supposed to draw. I think that's unfortunate, because I think the larger story of the role tech companies are playing in politics (in terms of their influence on people's speech) is one of the most important stories of the decade.
Maybe we need physical switches for the microphone and the camera.
I hope so but this type of finding has been wrong before. See the recent discrediting of liquid "brines" on Mars:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910351...

Until a rover or other probe tests it directly, I'll remain skeptical.
The argument your side used to take was to attack the traditional family structure, calling it a force of oppression. I’m glad you’ve come around to accept that the traditional family structure is vitally important - this is a basic truth that we old stodgy conservatives have known for a long time; it’s comforting to see a Marxist in our purview.

Now as for the nonsensical rant about capitalism, I’ve had that debate about a thousand times, so I don’t see the point in engaging again - it’s not like we’re going to change each other’s minds.
The verb for this procedure is "pith": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithing

Works with lobsters just fine, and seems like the way to go.
Do you need to constantly network so you can get a new job as a doctor if your next big release fails and your employer / project folds?
Unless you pick up a $100/$200/$300 rebate for buying through your carrier.
Nope. Because it's not all the same minority.

There will be no majority, and whites will (initially, at least) be a plurality.
It's ok to be an asshole because it's over the internet? These people wouldn't say what they're saying to others in real life.

It's a serious problem with online interactions, especially in the gaming field where people get unreasonably passionate and there's a lot of sexually frustrated young men needing to vent their anger.

Hell, I've been an asshole here on HN, I know I have been, it's so much easier to be without seeing someone's face.

It doesn't make it ok or acceptable though, and unfortunately I feel I have to downvote and speak against you because what you're doing is defending hate and evil. It shouldn't have to be a cost of business, it's not business, it's an unfortunate side effect of the free and open and anonymous internet. It doesn't mean we should accept it though.
> a politically convenient assumption

The centuries-long existence of slavery, segregation (which was brutal oppression, including lynching), and racism isn't an "assumption", but indisputable fact. Occam's Razor is not a real arbiter of truth, but in this case it cuts the other way: Racism is the simpler and blazingly obvious explanation, backed by endless reearch and even the most casual observation. You really have to work to contrive explanations that don't include systemic and structural racism.

> poverty

Another outcome of those centuries.
> They left the back door open for two months.

There's a difference between "left the back door open for two months" and "the back door was open for two months because the person assigned to verify it was closed told everyone it was".

> If "good written procedures" weren't followed, what good is that?

How do you know they aren't being followed? How many layers are enough? If a process breaks down, what's your first signal?

> allowing every freaking company to police itself.

CRAs don't police themselves, they're audited and regulated already.
Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
It might indicate this well in text, but in speech it'll be "the Tesla suit", which I could reasonably believe to be one of Elon's crazy ideas.

It's a simple misconception to correct, though.
I'm sure this is worse for game devs but I think it affects anybody that creates customer-facing apps. The culture of rudeness and entitlement among customers today is very deep rooted. It's one of several reasons why it's smarter to build B2B businesses.
Can Stellars be mined? I received some before 2015 when they were giving it away for free. Now I'm happy that I can turn them into BTC and withdraw cash...
For a while it has been possible to manipulate browser history with pushstate and popstate, including the URL that shows in the address bar. I believe that for a while now it has been possible to fully imitate a conventional website on a single "page." (A while ago, I worked on doing this on a job where we had to keep a websocket open at all times.)
Death threats and abuse are a non-starter, but working on making more addictive games-cum-casinos should probably come with polite disdain. Given that so much in gaming has become a money grab from kids and people wired to gamble is, a shame.

So... death threats? Doxxing? Abuse? No, never.

Respect for a good job well done? Also no.

Hunting “whales” for vast profits is a good business model, but so is selling tobacco or opening a casino. I don’t know that pandering to addictive personalities, the young, the inexperienced, and the impulsive is a very good use of anyone’s talents. Worse, it’s going to turn s generation off the medium once they realize how abusive it’s becoming.
Wouldn't the slippers cause WorkSafe issues?
> The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds

And by "worse," the author must mean more boring and less scandalous.

tl;dr: The author went to a VC party; saw a celebrity, but no sex or drugs; and went home. Despite that, he wants to use it to put his allyship on display.

There's nothing to see here.
I thought Chrome already does this natively. At least in the Google search results I think.
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Humanely killed cows taste better than ones saturated with stress hormones. Finding a similar effect in lobsters may do more than trying to convince people to do the right thing.
Yawn. A lot of professions deal with this. I work in high frequency trading, and i get told I'm the Devil by people multiple times a week including major publications. But i love what i do and nobodys unintelligent abuse is going to change that.
Grandparent has been deleted and I can't see it

Go to your HN profile and turn 'showdead' on. It hasn't been deleted, users flagged it.
The images are impressively detailed, but first impression is probaby. Water? How do they know from a picture of a cliff?

Water has been confirmed by spectroscopy, thermal imaging and (previously) radar.

From the article:

"Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that the bright material is frozen water. A check of the surface temperature using Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera helped researchers determine they're not seeing just thin frost covering the ground.

Researchers previously used MRO's Shallow Radar (SHARAD) to map extensive underground water-ice sheets in middle latitudes of Mars and estimate that the top of the ice is less than about 10 yards beneath the ground surface."
Not all of the games involved were mtx-based. One was more like "you screwed up the IP I love, die!"

edit: Also, it is profoundly unhelpful to the discussion to say what you said, which is basically "Well, what did you expect, a pat on the back?"

We're talking here about abuse, not constructive criticism. Here's an analogy: Nobody expects an Oscar for working on Transformers 6, but personally subjecting them to online abuse for it is totally unacceptable. There's no need to come into the discussion and remind us that Transformers 6 is not likely to be a very good movie.
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I lost 90 lbs while increasing my bench press to 3x5 180 lbs doing keto last year (I weighed 360 lbs to start.) I also (kind of by accident/laziness) ended up doing IFT for most of this time so I would only eat from 11:45 AM to 7:45 PM.

I personally found protein shakes or hard boiled eggs to be an easy way to start the day when I did eat breakfast. I have tried the coffee before at cafes and didn't like it, didn't think it was some kind of miracle upper too (compared to say coffee.)
Flappy Bird? Ahh, blog post from February 16, 2014
As the author mentioned changes in rent are a huge factor. Did the date of closures coincide with a new lease which can range from 1 - 10 years. Seeing a distribution of the age of the restaurant when closed could show them.

The other huge factor is cost of labor. Maybe looking at the minimum wage could be another feature. The news usually has those articles about how restaurants are struggling and the incremental minimum wage increase will hurt their business. It'd be interesting to see how strong of a factor that is in restaurant closures.

Also factors that could be tough to get but important
* Cost of the ingredients like meat, vegetables etc..
* General Economic conditions, are consumers going out to eat?
Not yet! I just made the route in December
Whether it’s acceptable isn’t the point. If 70% of people do it, it’s acceptable. If .1% of people do it, it’s not - but if you’re taking .1% of a very large number, the result is untenable for those on the receiving end.

This is a problem -without- requiring it to be acceptable behavior.
You will get undercut because AWS storage is extremely expensive and nobody sane actually stores data with significant amount of traffic there. The outbound network traffic fees are enough to make your strategy unprofitable.
Then there is also the fact that you're wastefully storing 3 redundant copies of an erasure coded piece of data when you could just store 3 erasure coded pieces of data directly without any redundancy.

What's most likely going to be profitable is buying crappy consumer HDDs inside external enclosures and shoving 60 of them into a single chassis. The reliability of the storage medium doesn't matter with something like filecoin. Node failure is not just an edge case. Filecoin has to account for it by using erasure coding to survive the loss of nodes.
Yeah. I'm so disappointed every time I watch this video of candidate Obama debating president Obama on government surveillance... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8
Me too! There's all kinds of weird tiny neighborhoods around that I've never heard of until I started this
> the outcome is more a feature than a bug

What outcome is a feature? You seem to be saying that the outcome that minorities are dying is a feature, but I strongly suspect that the comment just needs clarification.
Hey Brian! It's all good...graphing bikers unite!
Ugh, I was so hoping for more political posts...
Mark Zuckerberg's post on this change: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104413015393571

Facebook press release: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-bringing-...
> Things that are actually health promoting, like having a full-time parent to care for the kids and primary breadwinner, eating right, exercise etc are boring and don't make VCs rich.

Fair enough, but there are also plenty of conditions for which these things don’t work adequately, and we absolutely do need to encourage research. I think this is a great move from YC.
I mean, kind of?

Not to and with patients, but certainly to and with other docs and healthcare executives. The age of “I open a private practice and work there until I die” came to an end about a decade ago. Never mind requiring a constant stream of referrals. I have to network pretty constantly.
Do you see that the submission is [dead]? Shadowbanning means that the article is killed but the system "lies" to the author and to the autor the post looks alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

These post look like normal flagged and killed post, where everyone (including the author) can see they are flagged and killed. (You can enable shoedead in your profile, to sea [dead] posts.)
> here are only three nontrivial complexity levels (2, 3, 4)

The four colour limit is only for planar graphs. Dependency graphs need not be planar.

Also there is a very well understood connection between software complexity and graph colourings: register allocation. If you model variables as vertices, and place edges between variables that are required at the same time, then assigning locations to variables is a graph colouring.

I think this might generalise: the number of graph colours tells you something about the maximum number of things you need to keep track of simultaneously in order to deal with one locality in the graph.
This reminds me of an article I read a long while back (I don't remember the title..) that basically argued that by lowering the barrier of entry to your content, be it a game, app, etc., you make it such that others have nothing to lose for slinging mud. IIRC the same article did a study on online free-to-play and subscription games and noticed that games with higher barrier of entry, be it with price or even a lottery system, tend to see more civility in their communities, since people have something to lose if they are banned.

It would be great if someone could link that article in or something.
What I said was that everything from abuse to rudeness is simply wrong, and I made that point unambiguously, twice. You are right that I think there should be consequences for abusive practices, but reasonable ones, like what I’m doing right now. Making people feel worthless, insulting them, threatening them... is evil.

As for the people who send death treats over pure design choices, I have nothing, but sympathy for you.

Edit: No excuse for abuse, and I agree with your point about shitty movies. It is worth pointing out however, that movies don’t generally attempt to become lengthy addictions which siphon potentially ruinous sums of money over time; there is generally no attempt at behavior modification for profit.
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Here's a few more:

Ethics of computing: explaining and considering the principles of free software, practical reasons for respecting software freedom, and reviewing corporate-minded disclosure policies such as so-called "embargoes" on when security flaws may be revealed by independent actors who haven't agreed to keep secrets for businesses. Plenty of discussion and debunking of the latest corporate-written news stories.

Reverse engineering protocols and file formats: we are saddled with a lot of network protocols and file formats that need to be documented so we can write fully compatible free software. A free software Skype client wouldn't protect any user from the calls routed through a central Skype server, but it would allow users to tell their Skype-using friends and family to consider switching to a free software client where their calls aren't copied by default by Microsoft (a known NSA spying partner).

Writing documentation for IT professionals and non-technical computer users: too few people I know in IT jobs write documentation at all (even something as trivial as updating a ticket explaining what they did to resolve an issue). Some IT pros don't use complete sentences when they speak or write leading to unclarity and needless confusion, and further exacerbating an 'insiders club' mentality. This is a course aimed at showing technically-minded people (or those who aim to become such) the value of speaking clearly, writing clearly, and committing things to writing instead of depending on memory and verbal "hand-off" between IT professionals.
The FBI did not need a warrant to search that phone. The owner (the shooter's employer) gave them permission.

Obama didn't expand surveillance on his way out (several surveillance programs stopped under his watch, including both email and phone metadata collection). You're confusing an authorization to share information, which allowed a more thorough investigation into Russian meddling, with authorization to collect new data.

Your first link doesn't support your claim that Obama quadrupled funding because that didn't happen. https://fas.org/irp/budget/

And we all know that Obama released Manning over the objections of our current President.
I frequently use Ctrl-tab or ctrl-shift-tab more than once at a time. It makes sense to preheat tab for a while after first usage of this shortcut.
That's a cute page, I personally use cbc.ca here in Canada because it's only 5 letters and always HTTP only.
Hopefully I won't miss the deaths of any of my friends now.
Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what telescopes see
There is tremendous evidence. Here are some of the first search results for "Huawei espionage":

[1] Former head of CIA: Huawei engaged in espionage for Chinese state:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/0719/Former-head-o...

[2] Huawei spied, US federal jury finds:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/huawei_spied_us_jur...

[3] U.S. Suspicions of China's Huawei Based Partly on NSA's Own Spy Tricks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/us-su...

I agree entirely with your point that there is fault on both sides here. That's precisely what makes it ironic (see [3], in particular!). A better analogy would be that Kid A is bullying Kid B, and in response, Kid B starts bullying back. Ideally, this causes Kid A to "get a taste of his own medicine" and stops bullying Kid B.

That's how I hope the situation will end up, at least.
I'd love to see a React Native style kotlin library to enable cross-platform UI choreography using native widgets. Having done some RN stuff lately, the prospect of going back to go back to Activities and view controllers seems very dreary (I'm with Andy Matuschak on the superiority of the React model). Ditching the whole javascript toolchain for kotlin, gradle et al, while keeping components and UI-as-function-of-state, would be very appealing. I wish I had the chops to create such a library myself.