skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd like, we can step through a lot of threads that have nothing to do with either of us and find factually wrong comments upvoted and factually correct ones downvoted. You seem to think that I'm making that criticism for personal reasons, when it's not personal. I'm aware of my own dumb statements that have gotten upvoted, so it's out of reflection if anything.

It does not bother me that unpopular stuff is downvoted (who really cares?), but it's a real dynamic. You said it yourself, if you want to craft a comment to be popular, there's a way to do that; it's not especially hard to figure out what to say if you spend time in various forums.

Maybe the issue with the upvoting system is it gives more credence to a baseless comment having value or being correct, when it's about popularity. From a social perspective it seems like a really great way to spread misinformation. Why would you not care about that?
For most people it's not spam.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezu...
Why did you purchase a phone with an OS provided by what you believe to be a deeply unethical company?
Yeah, I put a good pile of reverse engineering work into this thing at one point - used Flare and Flasm along with a lighttpd proxy to replace their swfs with my own.
Downcaser – I knocked this up over my lunch maybe it'll be useful to someone?
The argument is absurd, because anyone more powerful than you can and will take your property by force unless you have the backing of a society.
Lebanese Government Hackers Hit Thousands of Victims
Is that law strictly adhered to or is it a kind of “I’m off work in 5, meet me out back” kind of thing?
Upgrading a create-react-app project to a SSR and code splitting setup
The SoftBank deal will make Kalanick a billionaire.

I wouldn't exactly call that a "fall". A lot of bad behavior but it seems like that behavior is being rewarded handsomely.
Back in my day we tortured ourselves for years attempting to forfifll out dreams of sustaining ourselves on our own creation, these whippersnappers don't understand the sacrifice. - entrepreneurs from the 2000's in 30 years.
If they only raise prices by 10% it will cost them rides and drivers to Lyft / taxi etc. It's hard to say how much market share this would cost them, but you can't assume their numbers are going to be static with a price increase or they would have already increased prices.
Here are the top 20 cities for Amazon HQ2
Frankly Google needs to be broken up. They pulled the "we're a cool company doing ethical and interesting stuff" for far too long." They are too big to exist.

I wonder if Matt Cutts is still shilling for Google, talk about losing respect.
Venezuela was democracy. Indeed, Chavez was elected democratically. It eroded. The institutions were weakened. It is now an authoritarian regime, willing to stay in power no matter the costs.
Can I finally play Heroes 3 on my mac? :)
Will be tried tonight.
Ratesome – search engine for opinions
Yes but from experience in the 1980's the punters realy did not like being nickel and dimed on pre internet based services Prestel, Tymnet/Telecom Gold and so on.
Well, Venezuela came to socialism by democratic means. The socialists were kept in power (the first few times) by legitimate democratic means. And while they were in power, they were doing just what you said - stripping the rights of the people layer by layer, to the point where real democratic opposition was no longer possible.
if viewed in a hex editor, this same block of patterns repeated over and over again...seemingly to be an effort to overrun the buffer....

0x00007B90: A5CCBACD 8774CCB4 CD81CC8D CC92CD8C .....t..........
0x00007BA0: CD84CC86 CC8FCD8B CD97CD86 CC9BCC8F ................
0x00007BB0: CC8ECC95 CC87CC82 CC94CC9B CC92CC92 ................
0x00007BC0: CC86CD91 CD9BCC86 CC8ECCBD CC84CC8B ................
0x00007BD0: CC91CC88 CD9DCC81 CD81CC81 CC84CCBE ................
0x00007BE0: CC85CCBE CC86CC84 CD82CC86 CD9DCC89 ................
0x00007BF0: CC85CC87 CD8CCD9D CC81CC88 CCBFCC9A ................
0x00007C00: CC82CC86 CD8CCC90 CD9DCC82 CC9ACC80 ................
0x00007C10: CC93CC9B CD84CC89 CD82CD8A CCBECD8B ................
0x00007C20: CDA0CC83 CC8ACC8E CD98CC89 CD97CC80 ................
0x00007C30: CD80CC8A CC8FCDA0 CC80CC80 CD84CD80 ................
0x00007C40: CD8CCD92 CD92CD91 CC90CD98 CC83CC88 ................
0x00007C50: CD84CD9B CCBDCD9B CC84CC8D CDA0CC8C ................
0x00007C60: CC81CD97 CD8BCD86 CD9BCD91 CC8ECCAA ................
0x00007C70: CCA7CD87 CD95CCB1 CCA8CCBC CD9CCCA6 ................
0x00007C80: CCA6CC9D CCAFCCAA CC97CCA0 CC9ECD85 ................
0x00007C90: CCAACCA4 CCB2CCAB CD8ECCAB CD89CD8D ................
0x00007CA0: CCA2CCA8 CCAACC97 CCACCCA3 CCBACD93 ................
0x00007CB0: CC9ECCA9 CD87CCA8 CD96CCAF CCBACCA7 ................
0x00007CC0: CCB1CCBB CCA3CCAE CCABCCA7 CD96CCBA ................
0x00007CD0: CCAFCCA9 CCA0CCB2 CC96CD95 CCAACCAD ................
0x00007CE0: CD9ACCA8 CCB9CCB9 CCB0CCA0 CD88CCBA ................
0x00007CF0: CCA9CD9C CCA3CCA1 CCA0CD8D CC98CCA1 ................
0x00007D00: CCAFCCA1 CC9DCD87 CCA6CC9D CCBACCBA ................
0x00007D10: CCAACD9A CCBACD8D CD88CD93 CCB1CCBC ................
0x00007D20: CCA1CCB1 CCB3CCA4 CD9ACCB0 CCA9CCB2 ................
0x00007D30: CC9DCCAC CCADCCB9 CC9ECD89 CD89CD9C ................
0x00007D40: CCA5CCA8 CC9DCD89 CCBACCA2 CC9CCC9F ................
0x00007D50: CCA5CCBA CD8774CC B4CD81CC 8DCC92CD ......t.........

The author comment at the top of the page says,

<!-- hello, this was written by Abraham Masri @cheesecakeufo -->
<!-- I discovered this bug in like 10 minutes -->

If the entire code in the page was whipped up in 10 minutes, then a large part might well be some repetitive copy-paste of a core part...Not exactly sure what this core part does...but given the obvious lack of printable ascii characters (code is way above '0x7F' ), it looks that it could be some unicode type of thing, which then is a bit reminiscing of an old iOS bug back in 2015, as described at this link,

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/37eaxs/um_can_someo...

also notice the high frequency of 0xCC and 0xCD throughout the code, which are respectively Breakpoint and INT on x86 architecture -- with its 0xCD's always followed by a single byte whose value is less than 0xA0 -- possibly x86 was used as author's development platform...
Seattle has the insanity of having obligatory bicycle helmet laws. No city has ever had a successful bike-sharing scheme with laws saying you need to wear a helmet.

No city with that law has ever had any amount of cycling either.

Medellin has plenty of hills and cycling, London has plenty of rain and cycling. Rain and hills won't kill you, unlike the pollution from cars
The bandwidth at which they produced new flash games was amazing. They were pretty detailed too. I can't think of any html5 gaming community website that even comes remotely close to them.

One of my favorite events with Neopets was participating in a global takedown of enemies during war. I spent so many hours with that website.. from tending my shop, training my pets and tricking out their pages w/ HTML, to collecting map pieces (I remember the economics w/ Secret Laboratory Map Pieces exploding when people realized how valuable they were)..
Moving Our Startup from LA to Austin and Joining Sputnik ATX
>Under hyperinflation, money no longer works. It doesn’t store value. It just stops doing the basic things people expect money to do.

This is a funny way of looking at the problem because it frames money as if it were some sort of robot that did things by itself.
Testing responsiveness of dist. storages when leader is isolated from the peers
Venezuela has been defaulting on debts since November and the last junk debt traders have finally walked away. No more credit. Venezuela has apparently sold off the last of whatever national assets buyers were interested in; they worked through their gold reserves in 2016-2017 and nothing new is on the table aside from a dubious cryptocurrency scheme and some clapped out PDVSA oil rigs. Venezuelan oil production is collapsing for lack of operating capital and Venezuelan tankers are being seized in foreign ports by creditors. This is cutting off the last meaningful source of foreign currency.

At some point, probably in the next several weeks, the subsistence diet of the Venezuelan military is going to fail and the "Bolivarian revolution" in Venezuela will finally end. But only after having stunted at least one full generation of children.
I was hoping the Twin cities would get a nod. Maybe it could still happen if Amazon buys Target. Denver makes a lot of sense. It's a nice place for executives to live, not far from ski resorts which makes the winter bearable. Los Angeles would be great too but traffic is a nightmare. It might make sense for them to be close to Hollywood as well. You'd want to be in the South bay since anyone with money will want to live near the beach.
Advanced Persistent Threat actor conducting global espionage from Lebanon
Ah right. I don't live in the city so I hadn't really kept up with developments after the bid for a casino location there was rejected a few years ago. Presumably, if that was a legitimate bid at least someone thought you could move a lot of people in and out of the area. Traffic still isn't great around there but, yeah, you're right on the Blue Line (which is... OK I guess) and you're practically next door to the airport.

If it happened, good luck if you've been living in East Boston because it's relatively cheap, albeit somewhat gentrifying.
Malls and freeways aren't really financially tenable, long term.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/7/americas-suburb...
Fixed in the latest beta: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/17/apple-seeds-ios-11-2-5-...
"My point is that the problem is largely one of perception."

That very well might be true, but that's Detroit's problem to fix, not Amazon's. Amazon doesn't want to have to deal with that; they want a place that they can get people to come to day 1.
If you have to stop and think about every bad consequence of any of your actions on your phone, then at some point the phone loses its usefulness, and becomes a nuisance.

The device should think for you, not against you.
> I wish though Plasma Mobile would get rid of those archaic on screen buttons, and would adopt SailfishOS style swipes navigation. Or at least they should make that an option. KDE is after all well known for customization.

I wish they won't, as it's hard to get right. In my personal opinion the Sailfish swipe UI was one of the probable reasons it failed in the market -- it was hard to explore, and error-prone to use.

Meanwhile the N9 swipes felt just right to me, so I think it's about having enough UX expertise at the design team. Which open source projects famously are short of.
Default on is outrageous. It's clear the average person doesn't know how to access and manage even some of these settings, much less understand what they do or be able to understand what privacy violations will continue despite turning something off in one place.
yep, somewhat similar experience

my interviewer was 15 minutes late to the call, didn't even know what position i was applying for, didn't ask me at all about the assignment they made me do, then ended my call early because they had to be somewhere. already knew i didn't get the job but didn't even get back to me until a month later.

person still works at uber. pretty high up now. i guess i'm glad i didn't get farther given all that came out afterwards.
It was a major consideration from the standpoint of local and state government here. With both Target and Best Buy headquartered here, it would have ruffled a lot of feathers if Amazon would have received a bunch of handouts that homegrown companies weren't getting, especially since Amazon is completely dominating them both. There are also statutory limits on what incentives the MN state government can provide, on the order of 7 figures and maybe some limited tax breaks; I'm sure it didn't move the needle at all.
> I can't imagine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_State_Area

I searched and found no way to disable it at the time. I don't re-do that search on a regular basis so I can't say if that's changed since then.

And no single annoyance is a huge issue, but when you view this in the larger context of Android's cacophony of distracting annoyances it starts to become mildly infuriating. Everything you do, Android seems to have some way of pestering you about it. Your phone starts to feel like a telemarketer in your pocket.
It didn't completely lock up on W7 FF 57.

The lock ups came in waves but was able to close the tab when it was unlocked.
The problem remains if you wrap the division in a non-zero check. Or maybe the interval [-1,+1] is already kind of a lie, i.e. x is known to be in the interval but you additionally know that x is non-zero when you are about to perform the division. The example is just meant to illustrate the problem that using a single interval is not good enough to track error bounds in the general case.
Exactly! It makes me laugh in the article that they have to point out the sidewalks and say that "most" of the pictures happen.

Only in the US does this happen. Such a weird, unhealthy, wasteful, polluting country. So happy to not be from there.
If GM manages to build self-driving cars before Uber, why wouldn't they just acquire a third tier Uber competitor (someone small enough that they don't have to pay for tons of existing users, but big enough to have made a reasonably functional app), kick out the human drivers replacing them entirely with self-driving cars, then undercut Uber's prices driving Uber out of business?

It would be much, much easier to get close enough to Uber's app functionality to compete with them than to get close enough to a self-driving car to be able to use them for millions of riders.
Another Uber employee here. I can confirm that whereas opinions of Travis were a mixed bag, Dara is pretty much universally liked. He's very serious about doing things the right way, and him taking the initiative to address the previously-under-covers 2016 leak gets my utmost respect.

I got in just a month before TK stepped out, shortly before the Holden report, and Liane Hornsay and Frances Frei joined. Since then, the company implemented a crisis hotline where you can anonymously report abuse, it ran courses about what's considered inappropriate behavior, and there's a huge overhaul going on with regards to the cultural values and the performance appraisal process. Frances was particularly vocal about the inadequacy of the top 3 bottom 3 system that was in place before.

I mentioned this before elsewhere, but when Liane had a board member step down the afternoon after he made a sexist comment in a all-hands meeting, it spoke volumes about how serious they were about setting new norms at Uber.

I also recall seeing an email a few months ago that basically said that whoever was working on any competitive intelligence project involving spying was to halt all further work effective immediately. The culture of doing things right is definitely becoming a thing.
> You can only do that if the transaction is atomic, which requires that the tickets and money are on the same blockchain and exchanged in the same transaction.

Yes, they should be on the same chain, so that the transaction is atomic. This is trivial to do in Ethereum (and other blockchains, presumably).
This looks awesome and I can't wait to give it a whirl with my kids.

I am, however, a little concerned about one of Dijkstra's "unpleasant truths"[0]:

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

I'm not qualified to interpret Dijkstra, so how serious of a warning or truth is this? Is he just generally polemical?

[0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW...
Did they fix the default menus looking like their counterparts in Windows 95?
> My memory is terrible enough that I can't do those things myself.

One could argue that your memory is terrible because you know you can rely on those services.
You are both anecdotally and factually incorrect. Go on LinkedIn and set past company to Uber. Most engineers (and nearly 100% I personally know) are either at Netflix, Facebook or Google. These companies in fact set targeted recruitment tactics in 2017 for Uber employees. I got emails from every company imaginable when the Susan Fowler report came out.
Well, if I remember correctly, a product of an irrational and a rational is still irrational, right?

If so, here's a simple argument: If you have N rational numbers and I have K irrationals to start with, I can produce roughly N*K additional irrationals. Since we know at least two irrationals (pi and e) we can make at least twice as many irrationals as rationals.
I almost feel like there's a slight trend away from technology just _quietly_ doing its job, and instead wanting to be noticed/the centre of attention. I've noticed it with Windows - I've started getting "Defender has scanned your computer and found no threats" notifications, and I've had prompts to rate default apps (not sure if it was Groove Music or the default Photos application on Windows Phone). It also happens on Xbox - I've been part-way through watching a DVD only to get a notification "Use Cortana to do X" (which was doubly frustrating because it was foreign language content and it covered the subtitles).
I've been at a couple of companies where a large number of employees wore company branded items. I was flabbergasted to learn that the clothing items were not swag but purchased items. Of the 2 companies, one had world wide name recognition, but the second definitely did not.
Concur completely. The practical alternative - an iPhone, is worse in other ways. In the history of general purpose computing, never ever has a company sold hardware to the customer transferring ownership rights to the customer, and then locked the device up to apps approved by the hardware manufacturer, going as far as taking a 30% cut. How this is flying past regulators is anyone's guess, and as more time progresses, people will begin to think that running apps on hardware they own is a privilege, not a right. Ludicrous!!

So, the choice between an ever spying phone and one that you cannot run/publish apps of your choosing is a hard one. However, with the right configuration, Android can be made a lot less intrusive, retaining the ability to run the apps of your choosing
I think that's what I said - I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me?
Show HN: React component using CSS Grids for dynamic layouts
IMO, the legal network and a reputation of always suing airlines are the most important things in this line of business.
For example, if you are seriously delayed while departing from an EU airport, you are entitled to a compensation. Inside the EU this mostly works, but consider the case when you live outside the EU and the non-EU airline basically tells you: "sue us".
I'm currently using the services of one of their competitors to try and extract 250 euros from one small airline that thinks that because they're outside the EU they can delay a flight for two days and not pay the legal amount.
Google is deeply unethical company because it follows you from the restaurant to your bedroom, literally. Google knows your sexual orientation, your friends, your hobbies, your political orientation. And they do it so they can show you an ad! Image any other multinational doing this, and there would be riots on the streets!
Ethics and Civics taught in schools and universities would be ideal as well.
Here's a tweet (I know, right?) with a bunch of resources: https://twitter.com/JimmyRagosa/status/953667960681443335
I grew up in Raleigh and go to NC State. I'm very skeptical that RDU is a better location than Newark (NJIT, Stephens, Rutgers, Columbia, NYU) or Atlanta (GTech, UGA).

The talent is here at UNC and Duke but airport and local public transit is the weakest point.

With that said, I'd love for them to come here as long as they maintain salary parity.
People in this thread are clutching their pearls about invasion of privacy and are going on about how they won't do any free work for Google yet hardly any of them has voluntarily given a dime to Google in return of the tons of services they get from it.

Where do you think all the reviews come from? Who puts information about traffic cops on Waze? From a million monkeys smashing keyboards?
Deeply unethical because it asks you to leave a review?
I suppose because SMS/messages is tightly integrated with the operating system. It goes from the baseband, through the kernel.
Lack of affordable options?

My banking app supports only two platforms, one of which is too expensive, and the other is made by Google.
Repeal of Glass-Steagall act actually allowed the government to somewhat step away. Some of the well capitalised commercial banks were able to absorb the losses of the investment banks by buying them out when the price was low, and then making more money once the panic ended.
The problem is the cities citizens. Northern European cities such as Copenhagen are pretty quiet, despite their high density.
The Woodlands, TX is the closest thing in the US. 2,500 people/sqmi 100k town outside of Houston. Started in 1974. At least as far as large scale current corporate city developments.
Amazon Studios to cut back on indie films in programming shift: sources
I'm curious how WINE accomplishes that, since my understanding was that the reason it can't be done on Windows x64 is because there is no way to switch the processor back to 16 bit mode from long mode. Is this incorrect or does WINE just go ahead and emulate 16 bit x86?
WhatsApp launches its app for businesses
But does that mean Google stops collecting the data? Sure, no notifications, but will they still know what restaurant I just walked past?
Eh? I have Chrome disabled on several devices (Pixel, ASUS Zenpad, Nexus 7) and the OS works just fine. You need to have some default browser set to avoid apps crashing when they attempt to open links, but Firefox (or any other browser) will do.
They also need product managers, vendor managers, inventory managers, analysts, planners, forecasters, operations managers, customer service agents, human resources, legal, research scientists, security, marketing, IT, financial operations, as well as the world's most overweight and useless middle management layer ever seen.

Even in Seattle, programmers make up well less than half of Amazon's personnel.
Or maybe these services provide us augmented cognitive abilities beyond that of a disconnected human.
I agree with the sentiment but unfortunately we've never found a way to implement real socialism without creating a massive permanent welfare underclass that does nothing and a sclerotic self-serving bureaucracy to support them.

Most people are not little philosopher kings who work to advance a grand vision of life's unfolding in the universe. Most people just want to do the minimum to get by until they can get their next dose of entertainment. I hate to be such a cynic, but I have eyes.

Social democracy (Europe, USA to a lesser extent) is a hybrid that basically works but you still have to make money in that system.
Mexico did this in the 1980's. It didn't work. It is strange that countries make the same mistakes over and over. I suspect that the Netherlands went through this centuries ago.
Carl Icahn seeks revision or termination of Xerox-Fujifilm deal