skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you read this story. It's entirely written in the second person. You get annoyed by that, because the story isn't really about you, it's about someone else. You keep reading anyway. You are appalled by the complexity of the social safety net and all of the needless bureaucracy, and how this makes people including you more vulnerable if something goes wrong.
Most likely not. For example, half of all Samsung phones are now made in Vietnam. China is gradually losing all of Samsung's business. The same will ultimately hold true for Apple. Ten years from now, the only companies that will still be making smartphones in China, will be their domestic brands.

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/english/news/industry/8785-sa...
I don't think it's fair to call it the "vaccines cause autism" paper. It didn't suggest a causal relationship. As usual, it was the fault of the media and public for interpreting it in that way.
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That cat-breeding/trading game is honestly the most compelling legitimate use case I've seen for any cryptocurrency.
See also the Patch-Match algorithm:

http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php

(Licensed by Adobe for noncommercial research use only.)
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How china spied on the African Union HQ it built
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Some might say the party never ended. :-)
Correlation does not equal causation. Funny examples: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Wait, so which was it – he used $5000 of his own money or the company's?

I'm surprised loaning money from the company is legal in the U.S., it's certainly not here. Probably because then you can fairly easily create a tax evasion scheme where you never pay yourself a salary and just keep borrowing money at zero interest and payment due long about five years after the sun explodes...
This is the kind of logic that ends up with things like a Java installer "helpfully" giving the user a Yahoo Toolbar in their browser or, for more extreme examples, Superfish and the Sony rootkit.
Don't know why you're getting downvote, the first part of your stmt might be debatable, but being harmless is reasonable and in the example of about:config, it's also useful for a smaller set of users.
I think it is about timing. Myspace didn't work out but Facebook did. Apple couldn't push its product until later. The reason people keep going back to 0 is that the current system is not the most efficient one. The process will repeat until it hits the right time.

At that time it'll gain momentum and thwart the current system.
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Yes, lets. From Crank it up article[1]: "In 1995, from Q1 to Q4, Netscape's revenue went from $5 million to $10 million to $20 million to $40 million."

Netscape was formed in April of 1994 so we are talking about 9 months after creation they had revenue of 5mil. First website was launched at the end of December 1990 so less than 4.5 years before. Blockchain is significantly older at this point.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2000/08/loudcloud/?pg=4
Red Hat cares a lot about getting rid of Docker. They're a major contributor to CRI-O [1], which is very similar to rkt.

[1]: http://cri-o.io/
I agree that C++ is bad but I actually find C much worse for projects bigger than a few thousands of lines. Reasons for this:

* lack of namespaces - all names with long prefix look the same to me

* just text based macros

* no generics

* error handling usually based on int constants and output function parameters - in big projects is hard to use them consistently without any type checking

* no polymorphism

* ton of undefined behavior (almost the same as C++)
The adverbial use is not so unusual: http://www.adamsdrafting.com/basis/
I read this more as "this wasn't an experiment and we've updated our procedures so we can't push things that aren't experiments through that channel", and hopefully there are no channels that they would use to push that game in future. They should have explicitly said that there aren't though, because I don't know if I trust them not to find some other channel they think is appropriate next time.
Shetland's overrun by fire and Vikingsagain
Taleb doesn't exactly cover himself with glory there. He's also not a specialist in the field.
"SHIELD was an inappropriate channel to use to ship this. We don't believe there is any appropriate channel for us to ship this other than an opt-in add-on in the add-ons-store, and will never ship software of this nature through any other channel in future."

As is I trust they won't use SHIELD next time (and have opted back into their studies based on the policy change), but my expectation is that next time they want to ship some garbage like that they'll use some other channel and marketing have probably already identified it.
> You could not have mitigated the uproar by "trying to answer a specific question" and "appropriately naming the 'study'". The biggest issue is that you are unable to realize that.

That’s not how I read it. What they’re saying here is “the fact that it didn’t try to answer a question is a red flag unto itself”. If it had tried to answer a question, it would’ve collected data, and the usual privacy process would’ve kicked in hard: is this an appropriate question to ask, are the changes narrowly tailored to ask that question, are we handling the data appropriately? On those counts, a version of Looking Glass that collects data would never have rolled out. Instead, by not collecting data, they found themselves answering an overly narrow question: does this impact user privacy? No, it does not!

Naming really was adding more fuel to the fire though. It’s a fine line between a surprise/Easter egg and being outright deceitful, and the cock up with the SHIELD test burnt through all the goodwill they might have here.
Easter eggs are somewhat of a software tradition.

This particular one didn't get complains because of a combination of reasons like:

- It is completely off-line (hell, it's only available on the "you're off-line" screen, where there isn't much else you can do with a browser).

- It's off by default (you need to be on a proper screen).

- It's a small and self-contained game. Doesn't impact anything else beyond a small area on the tab, which makes it just a step up from an animated GIF.

- It's just a joke, it isn't tied to any commercial franchise or brand, nor does it promote any ideology or organization.

- People expect less user-fairness from Google than from Mozilla.

Ultimately, the line is fuzzy, but Chrome's dinosaur is clearly more like an Easter egg, and Mozilla's Looking Glass is clearly more like a very specific extension/feature.
At that income, $2500/mo would be an unambitious savings target. $2500 minus living expenses, travel, savings for children's educations, etc. would be a pitiful savings rate.
All very lamentable but you read it and get a sense of someone who is largely passive and to whom life happens. Where's the sense of ownership and shaping your own destiny?
Where you come from, there's no safety net, they find you a shitty job to not pay you unemployment benefits. That's why you have to keep your own "personal safety cushion".

You upvote on hacker news and move on.
Indeed. When A is shit and B is shit then the result of your A/B testing is going to be the least shit of the two. At the end of the day it's going to be shit either way.

I'm a firm believer that you should never ask your user to make a decision or look over their shoulder. Not once ever. You should listen to their complaints and ideas when they come to you, then build your strategy on that. Be reactive, not prescriptive. That empowers the user, shows respect and results in a satisfactory product that benefits the user which after all is the end game.

Telemetry invades the user's privacy. Feedback does not empower the user because the user expects a reaction from it which is unlikely. A/B testing results in churn for the user which does not show respect, merely that they are a test subject.

Microsoft as a fine example could learn a lot from listening to their users rather than steamroll ahead based on collected telemetry and feedback data.

A fine example: People didn't want UWP/metro and still don't today. I have yet to meet one person who uses that side of windows 10. They wanted shit that worked, was faster and kept out of their way and didn't wreck the workflow that they had invested years in learning or had someone experienced close at hand to help them with it. 90% of the userbase just installs chrome and does everything in there as well so that stuff just gets in the way.
welcome to world politics -

US sold a Boeing 767 to China which was planned to be used by the Chinese President as the official jet, as expected, it is full of bugs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

Australia put bugs in the newly constructed Chinese embassy in Australia's capital back in 1995.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/the-chinese-embassy-bu...
Far-fetched conclusions based on a misinterpretation of "no free lunch" theorem. The theorem doesn't forbid intelligence which is universal only in our own universe, as our own universe doesn't give us uniform distribution of all possible problems.
It's a tragedy that the country of Nye Bevan and Clement Attlee has come to this.

I'm reminded of a quote that I think I first read in "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class" (NB strongly recommended):

"There’s been class warfare for the last 20 years, and my class has won"

Warren Buffet

Edit: I'm in the middle of reading "Citizen Clem" and what an extraordinarily capable chap Attlee was. Here's a good article on him in (of all places) the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3174009/DOMINIC-SA...

Edit2: Even Thatcher was a fan of Attlee: "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer. He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show."
It might make things harder, but it probably wouldn't end it entirely. These humans we have here are remarkably ingenious, have a high risk tolerance, and would probably come up with some way of dealing with it.
C++ is not more complex than its competitors like <insert two languages that have little in common yet C++ can be considered competition to both of them because it is such a complex beast>
So what if it puts them out of business? Being afraid of that just means that the corner shops really have nothing extra to offer compared to this except the unnecessary human labour costs.

This is nothing more than normal competition in free market.
Why bother? It's a great general purpose organic computer that you can power with sugar and fit into a head...but there's no reason that some other solution to the problem might be arrived at that works along entirely different parameters. There's lots of evidence that brain design has some deep flaws, extreme limitations and severe compromises. Look at the crazy stacked, hemispherical design of mammal brains -- nonsense!

Besides, if we need a brain, there's literally trillions of them already all over the planet. In fact they're so common they're already commoditized, everybody has one!
AI will make your smartphone even smarter in 2018
Are you ready to forgive them again? https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/24/update-on...
It will just fade out. We're already seeing companies that used to accept Bitcoin payments quietly dropping support. The "price" will stay high, but Bitcoins will circulate among fewer and fewer people; most people who hold some will forget about them and lose them rather than selling them. Look at what happens to collectibles, or land in Second Life.
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Though this is a solved problem for our field, if you're using a statically typed language.

You can't right-click on a gene and "find all references".
>If I copy your brain, you won’t be inside it, even if it’s effectively you, as far as anyone else can tell.

If you wake up tomorrow, will you be inside of your brain, even if it's effectively you, as far as anyone else can tell?

What if your awareness is reconstructed daily from the structure of your synapses? If you copy that structure, that copy is you, in the same way that you are now almost the same person as the one that went to sleep yesterday. (Quite like the movie 'The Prestige'.)
I'll take up the argument that they shouldn't have shipped, sure. Bear in mind that I myself don't actually care that much, but I do think we need devil's advocates for this sort of thing on occasion.

Easter eggs started at a time when software and games were shipped on cartridges, disks, or other media. If there was extra room available, it didn't affect the user experience to include them (performance was always very much in mind back then).

Today, however, we see a couple of changes:

First, apps and games are mostly downloaded. Easter eggs take up additional space, slowing down your download in the best case, and eating away at data caps in the worst cases. So you're already doing something that is somewhat hostile to the user.

Second, both Mozilla and Google position their browsers as fast and lightweight. Does including Easter eggs actually help further either of those claims? Most likely not. One Easter egg might not really impact performance at all, but at what point does it become a problem? There are probably different teams working on the browser, and if each of them are adding Easter eggs, how long before those start to affect performance, whether because it's cruft or because many users are on older systems that don't have as much memory as the typical developer is used to?

This at least bears consideration.
One could as easily interpret that the abolishment movements relation with the civil war has about as much validity as the relation between the first world war and the suffrage movement. I am not saying you are wrong, but that political writers tend to disregard facts and make interpretations that fits their views regardless if they are left or right, usually to the detriment of the truth.

> I have not seen the witch hunt described so simplistically

Out of all writing I have read, only two books that I recall described the witch hunts as complex causes rather than a simplistic prosecution of defenseless women. I see it so often in political texts I usually tick of a mental box when i see it.

When it comes to plundering, history don't seem to often show that its the most powerful in society that becomes victims. They can employ armies to defend themselves or buy enough influence to not become a target. Usually those that are targeted is those with resources to defend but that relies on social constructs for defense.

But to go back to the claim about liberal writers, I can recommend a book called Debt: The First 5000 Years. The author was involved with the occupy movement so not sure if that defines him as a liberal writer or not. What I found interesting in that book (outside of the overall focus on debt) is the description of bridge gifts, slavery and veils, each having a very different interpretation to common liberal views. Since the author is a professor of anthropology he also supports those interpretations with facts that usually missing when those subjects are being discussed in a historical perspective.

> Liberal writers tend to write history better than conservative ones.

It is very possible that liberal writers lie less and tend to be less intentional dishonest than conservative ones. Its a very different claim that liberal writers are usually right and conservative writers usually wrong.
3 times in, what, a year they've now tried deceptively foisting bundled changes (with commercial links) ... whoever is in charge clearly didn't get it and just thinks it's about implementation details.
Recent example: they open sourced Ansible Tower. They must've lost quite a few sales, but even after only a few months community contributions started flowing in.[1]

Red Hat really believes in the power of open source. It must be a great place to work at.

[1]: https://github.com/ansible/awx
I wish more companies had that kind of courage.
Looking at the current programming language space, it honestly doesn't look like the Python 2/3 issue hit them that hard in the long run. And while it wasn't popular it might have been the right way forwards. Python is one of if not the most rapidly growing language. In large part due to the data-science movement which for anyone I've talked to is based on Python 3.
I still occasionally talk to 2.7 proponents, who explain to me that they need to have this and that to handle all the complicated edge cases and problems in dealing with bytes vs. strings... Issues that you just don't encounter at all in python3.

If I had the choice of having a C++2020 with absolutely no backwards compatibility but a greatly cleaned up language or having yet another step down the path it's heading now, I'd chose the former even if it breaks backwards compatibility. But the language is going to follow the developers and they want to continue down the path where they get to explain again and again and again the intricacies and delicacies of rvalue semantics, exotic template meta-programming and what-ever the next big thing is going to be. All the while we seemingly still don't even have a clear road-map for providing simple modules.

I was enthusiastic back when C++11 hit and it felt like a great big push going on in the language development, I had the feeling that things were really going to take off... but now it feels like it just died out, and now there's nothing that really gets me exited about the future of C++. I'm worried It's going to get more and more complex and less and less used.
> Currently, privacy has to be enforced because people are not in control. For everyone to be able to choose a satisfying level of privacy, we need tools we can control and education

I agree. It's all about control. Which is why I rant so often about modern UI/UX/software design trends - they're all about disenfranchising users! The amount of control the users have over their software is being actively reduced everywhere.
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However you feel about it, the change is happening. People clearly don't think the ambiguity is as problematic as you do.
Oh come on. He's saying people are based in Russia which most probably will not extradite them into the US if they turn out to be scammers. So it has nothing to do with being Russian, but has everything to do with being based in Russia due to legal implications.
As usual, it was the fault of the media and public for interpreting it in that way.

Absolutely not. The paper was straight up fraudulent, written purely to push an agenda and quite possibly being funded by groups looking sue the vaccine manufacturers. Wakefield spent the rest of his career actively defending and championing the causal relationship way beyond even what his fraudulent evidence might suggest, and it was the media calling bullshit on his so called research that eventually got the paper retracted and him struck off the UK medical register.

Look, I love complaining about bad science reporting misrepresenting research as much as the next person, but this is very much not one of those cases.
Nginx Api Gateway with testing for continuous delivery
It is, couldn't be happier as a user.
Generally when running nginx as an api proxy it can be troublesome to get the routing correctly the first time, therefore testing is required.
This repository showcases how to do nginx api-gateway route tests using RSpec.

This repository also got a blog to explain it in detail:
http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2017/12/12/lightweigh...
Well that’s a step in the right direction but look at all the public sector IT work going to outsourcing companies who promptly offshore it.
Whether a pension is sustainable into the future is something you should factor in before committing to operate and provide pensions. It's obscene to make that commitment and then back out later and expect everyone to be OK with their retirement fund evaporating.

If you hadn't lied and set up the pension, they would have had advance notice that their retirement is entirely up to them. Instead, they get screwed out of their retirement and somehow the unions are the villains for fighting that.
Intriguing piece - really raises a lot of valid points about the future of these robo-advisory/investment platforms.
99% of smartphone owners don't need a smartphone at all.
You can do photos, calls, browse web and check social media on any feature phone.

The difference for that 1% is quite big in favor of android though.
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They didn’t just know each other:

“Ellison's idea was to buy Apple and immediately make Jobs CEO.”

“Jobs proposed what Ellison called "a more circuitous route." He would persuade Apple to acquire Next, and then join Apple's board.”

“After Jobs was CEO of Apple again — interim CEO initially — Ellison joined Apple's board.”

https://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11672932/larry-ellison-stev...
I'm not sure how effective that would be in practice. Total Tether issued as of the end of 2017 was about 1.3 billion. Coinbase booked over $1 billion in revenue in 2017; the amount of money going into them was presumably much bigger than that. (There's also weak evidence from price differences etc between exchanges that the bulk of the demand has been coming from Coinbase/GDAX.)
What 3 times are we talking about?
Nope I cannot find that setting. I previously searched for such a setting and could not find it. Nothing in the display settings relates to burn in sadly.

I have a Pixel XL if that makes a difference but I doubt it, as they are practically the same phone.

https://imgur.com/4ZWCUsR
Sure, the worst case would have a large number of re-calculations. But it seems like the common case would converge quickly.
Nassim Taleb criticized Mary Beard for supporting the historical revisionism of the BBC.

– "An exploration of life in Roman Britain shown through the eyes of a typical family." http://i.imgur.com/tg25juJ.jpg

– Sub-Saharan Celts http://i.imgur.com/WSHbj36.png

– A Sub-Saharan English Nobleman, 1215AD http://i.imgur.com/Y5WFtXO.png

– A North-African Norman priest http://i.imgur.com/5JHBzMN.png

– A Sub-Saharan blacksmith, Iron Age Britain http://i.imgur.com/XptrQDP.png

This is far from an isolated incident. Since then, the channel also casted SA Achilles, Zeus and Aeneas (the ancestor of Romulus and Remus).
Just some facts: Red Hat is #2 corporate committer (after Google and "independent") to Kubernetes[1]. With the acquisition of CoreOS Red Hat engineers now lead or co-lead 15 of the Kubernetes SIGs[2].

Disclaimer: I'm a Red Hatter

[1] http://stackalytics.com/?metric=commits&project_type=kuberne...

[2] https://twitter.com/openshift/status/958454802605846528
First bit of literature I have read in second person for quite some time. I actually really liked it as a refreshing change to the usual format. I feel like it lends itself to a deeper connection with the subject (in this case Tony).
The panel tariffs are a problem because it's possible the negative impact on non-manufacturing (solar installations, etc) will cancel out the benefits from the tariffs :( But yes, there are definitely things the government could have done to protect local manufacturing. I'm still not sure the steel industry could've been saved. At this point I think the real failure is that the government didn't do enough to help people trapped in dying rust belt cities. Unions can't bear the blame for that.