skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I binged it, and it took me to this zdnet article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-e...

So the author of that observation is Sergey Brin himself. Lel.
That's only true if the employees get a large enough stake in the company and it's structured in such a way that they can't get screwed by the owners.
But in this case the media companies are not the ones publishing the photo, Twitter is. The embedded data was never produced or even passed through their servers. It is loaded directly from Twitter.
I don't get why people go after these virtual things
There are a lot of retail employees who support families. He probably didn't make that much money. Retail is anything but relaxing.
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I had not heard of Getty Images prior to today, but I now associate them with breaking the internet.

I don't like it when people do that, so if I ever find myself in the position of needing to buy stock images, now I've heard of Getty Images and I'll make sure I pay someone else.
I often use Google Images to find actual articles to read. It happens like this: I search for a combo I'm looking for, only the pages that Google finds are not exactly about what I'm after. From the images I can see immediately if the article at least contains some relevant information for me.
It seems to have worked to Waterstone's in the UK, which was similarly on the point of death, and recently managed to return to profit with that sort of strategy. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/balancing-the-...
After reading through the entire post, what I found lacking is a break down of what percentage of actual visitors & unique message senders were abusive.

It appears to be extraorinarily low. One in a thousand visitors or so. There's no question she was being abused because she was a woman. From what I can tell by their stats, that abuse appears to be coming from literally a handful of bad actors over a month's time, with many of the messages deriving from single persons.

So the question is: how do you deal with one bad person out of a thousand? I can't imagine there's any scenario, any technical implementation, that can eliminate abuse down much further than that no matter what you do. If you assume that even 1 in 100 men are going to be assholes, abusive, whatever, it's nearly impossible to stop them from behaving badly. You can take action after the fact, including in both anonymous and registered account situations. I also see no cultural scenario where you can pre-emptively stop that guy from being an asshole until he identifies himself through behavior.

One consideration would be pre-screening the chat for abusive language, abusive actors. That might catch a couple of the particularly bad examples. When a post is sent, you have to check it before it reaches the support agent. That's not difficult to do, except in the most heavily dodged scenarios of character replacement (s3x etc., some of which can still be pretty easily caught). Monsters will be monsters, there are at least a few options for dealing with them.
I don't think the UX necessarily has to suck. Three observations:

1. Just because we have 128 bits doesn't mean we have to use them all right now.

2. As anyone who's familiar with data compression knows, there are ways to represent some values in convenient forms and other values in less convenient forms.

3. There is a trade-off between ease of allocation and ease of use. Maybe we shift the focus toward ease of use if we want wide adoption.

With the benefit of hindsight, one way the IPv6 rollout could have been done differently is to have initially restricted ourselves to 40 bits of the address space. Thus we'd have started with addresses that look like (say) A.B.C.D.E instead of the current A.B.C.D.

Such a (hypothetical) system would be easy for an end user to handle, and most importantly that could be enough to get us over the hump to IPv6 adoption. Longer addresses would be valid, but they just wouldn't be assigned until later.

Of course, this is not quite how IPv6 works. But they do have a syntax that allows omitting zero values, and if addresses were assigned so that more of them were zero, it would make the UX better.
I won't say the safety argument is meritless. But it is not the whole story.

Companies also use software to exert control over users and extract more money. By moving functionality from hardware into software, they can use both secrecy and laws like DMCA to restrict users' knowledge, ability, and rights to repair and modify their stuff.

The safety argument only makes any sense because so much of the system has moved from hardware into software, and this often makes the product worse, not better (e.g. your Jeep example). Compared to hardware, software is brittle, unreliable, complicated, and exploitable. However, it allows for the feature creep that marketers love and, perhaps as a byproduct or perhaps not, it transfers legal and operational control from the "owner" to the manufacturer.

If you are as committed to user freedom and well-being as you are to safety, then I urge you to modularize your vehicle design so that the safety-critical software you describe, such as auto-guidance, is completely separate from software used to, e.g., diagnose and repair mechanical problems. Then you can keep restrictions around the first kind but not the second. It sounds like, based on frustration with John Deere, you may be rewarded by the marketplace.
He doesn't really mention that the reason chess players and musicians can take more with each glance at a position/page is that they see in chunks, not individual elements - that comes from learning the patterns, e.g. in chess "short-castled white king with pawn on h3", in music "C7 chord with melody on the 7th" etc. It's just like adding more layers to a neural network, each layer building things from the elements of the previous one. Or like us reading a page of writing - we don't have to look at each letter like a beginner reader, and barely at some individual words. I guess looking at a C for-loop is like that for someone who's seen 1000s. Apparently chess masters don't look at more positions and moves than a beginner; they just see so much more, and intuitively only look at the best moves in a position (mostly anyway).

Learning to improvise jazz seems different to Franklin's method, in that you don't listen to a jazz great's solo, put it aside and later try to reconstruct it; you have to play it exactly, writing it out if necessary, and play it over and over until it starts to become intuitive; until the muscles learn it. And that must be done with many different solos. And copying just one person just makes you a clone of them. I guess learning programming doesn't have that essential element of imitating the styles of individual great programmers, although maybe for some people it does.
When you slice it even finer you find that 99.95% of people were murdered zero times, while 0.05% of people suffered 100% of the murders.

They try to make it sound like a statistic about geographical crime distribution, but it's mostly a statistic about sizes of counties.
The rust compiler provide huge guaranties no other provide, like for memory safety. This has a performance impact.
Yup, I have. It’s usually hard, stressful, customers are assholes, work is part time and unpredictable hours, and pay is horrible.

Have you?
Standardebooks link for the lazy, and discerning:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto...
The EFF write-up is quite misleading. The district court does a perfectly reasonable job of explaining the difference between a hyperlink and an embed tag, namely that the latter results in the content integrated into the webpage instead of taking you to a separate site. Contrary to the EFF write up, focusing on the “coder” is not misleading. The choice to embed a tweet versus linking to a tweet is in fact what someone writing HTML code would make.
Yes, not having to do physical labour is better than being forced to do physical labour as a worker or peasant. The new problem for most people is how to eat less and get a little exercise. But this is a better problem.

I like rsync's main point though about the immune system maybe requiring usage and callibration (gojomo mentions the hygiene hypothesis). Perhaps one day we'll determine the precise amount of these required (if any) for us to be healthy without being bothered by too much sickness.
> While 600,000 men lost their lives in the Civil War, some 1.5 million horses and mules also perished.

Horse is an animal. I find it highly disturbing to compare their 'loses' to actual humans.
Its more than sexism. It's misogyny. Or sarcastic emulation of misogyny, for trolling. Which has the same impact on targets.

However, it's hard to know how prevalent these attitudes and behavior are. Because observations aren't independent. One asshole posts on some chan about a fun target, and then his friends compete with each other. And it could even be scripted.
> guarantees everyone a job

What if the economy evolves in such a way that most people are unproductive?

What if the cost of creating a job (creating a jobs bureaucracy, administering it by assigning jobs to people, making sure they show up to work, etc.) is actually higher than the economic value that those jobs generate?

In that case, 'jobs for all' would just be a subsidy, or UBI, with many more steps, no?

I agree that giving people a share of the means of production makes sense. We should experiment with granting a share of equity to all citizens and sitting an equity floor.
I doubt they go out of their way to delay the order, simply because that isn't the most cost-efficient thing for them to do. I would assume that they just have a priority queue of orders to process, and sometimes that queue gets backed up and takes a few days to clear out the non-Prime/expedited orders.
This is one of the most painfully ignorant things I have ever read.

There is absolutely no such thing as "all states are defined". This has nothing to do with the language. There is nothing magical about a "higher level language" to safeguard from failures. At best you could be referring to managed languages, where memory access and exceptions are controlled and the extent of a aborted execution is predetermined - but still not immune to just closing a process when they misbehave. That is precisely what a process should do. Nonetheless, nothing in this bug report indicates that the system is acting in an undefined manner. The library that failed may have, by design, been programmed to close when font rendering reached these conditions. We don't know if this was a signal abort or an intentional if (bad_outcome) close()

Any level from the most managed sandboxed level to the most host level process may fail, regardless of the language used.
That's what government services and the electoral process is supposed to be for. If you're one of those who believes that the electoral process is broken though (and I count myself a member), then I guess there aren't many options. Philanthropists maybe.
SteamVR literally lets you build for Vive or Oculus with identical code and builds (using Unity)
I told two diabetic friends about the results showing that metformin significantly reduced cancer. They looked at each other and then one said "I've got a closet full of that stuff; I never take it!" Turns out that neither were using metformin, but picked up their prescriptions religiously.

Next time we met they were both taking their metformin, although intermittently and apparently somewhat reluctantly. One of them was late for our meeting. In way of explanation he said that he had taken a metformin tablet just before driving off but, on the way, a fart proved to be untrustworthy: he had to drive back home and changed his pants.

I've heard the drug termed "metfartmin" b/c of its effects on the GI tract.
> Also, the lenses fog up.

If you get fogging at the beginning of the session, that dissipates later, try putting the headset without the phone on top of your head for a few minutes before you start using it. You can spend this time downloading updates or new things to try or just goofing off. It will allow the lenses to come closer to your body temperature so moisture from your breath doesn't condense on them anymore.
Google Drive stopped working today (after months of sync errors), sending me to
I'm on a "regular" Google Apps account (ie, grandfathered into the old free one aka gmail on a custom domain).

I can use this fine, with some gotchas:

It'll only allow different users on the same gsuite account to connect. I can't, for example, invite a personal gmail account or an account on a different gsuite domain.

We use Google Meet at work for meetings, which also supports "Casting to a meeting", but that requires gsuite as well.
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Users are the goods, not the clients, of Google.

Remember: if you get a service for free, then you are the merchandise.
I admit that even simple articles often have nuance that many would benefit from better exposure. Yet, a limited attention span would seem to be eclipsed simply by have better options in the vast sea of material not yet seen.
Sum types are one of the best things, as they empower very good `match` style conditionals.
> In other words: learn to mathematics

That breaks the HN guidelines by crossing into incivility. You'd stopped doing that on HN, which is great, so please don't resume.

This comment would be better if it (a) dropped the rude bit and (b) made the distinction from disjoint unions more clearly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just tried it and it seems to work even though I don't have an Education account. I don't have any modern Android devices though so I just casted one tab on my laptop to another tab on my laptop.
So, this is basically a technical argument based on a technical implementation detail.
These mostly are considered irrelevant and frequently fail (see, e.g., napster et al)

It's true, fwiw, the ninth circuit did reject visual incorporation tests in favor of a physical transmission test.
This is, IMHO, silly, and only some courts have chosen to follow it.
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I did IT support at a car dealership where some ancient line-of-business software needed a public IP for every Windows desktop it ran on to function properly.

No justifiable purpose, sure, but I can only imagine the tons and tons of legacy line-of-business crap out there with assumptions like this.
> The choice to embed a tweet versus linking to a tweet is in fact what someone writing HTML code would make.

Duh, HTML is code now?

Tell twitter to remove the feature, then.
http://socialmarketingwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09...
In a world where you have a massive backlog of good content, yes. Unfortunately, I struggle to find content which is both high quality and easy to learn from. Do you have suggestions?
This sounds like an excellent idea. However, what about choice of material? We pick a musical piece to learn because we enjoy the tune and how it sounds. How should a beginner choose which code to memorise?
Install docker on your Dev box.
Then do this:
https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/
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No there's not really another option for conservatives if they don't want their everyday tech built by left and centre-left people. But the article says "turn against them".

"turn against them" !== "stop using their products"
Agreed, but that does not negate the overall point of the post.

Which is that Barnes & Noble is currently digging their own grave, and that this did not have to be so.
A lot of this has to do with the target audience you're drawing: meme makers.

Meme makers are all pretty much going to be unsocialized and autistic douche boys & gamers and who seek to make memes for 4chan or Reddit. They're trolling, so obviously you're going to draw terrible people.

If your site was selling expensive fashion items, you're going to see a completely different reaction.

Know your audience.
I try not to overuse the reference, but "Anatomy of a Search Engine" [1] is so deliciously prescient and ironic that it's hard to avoid. It's funny how hard Sergey and Larry shifted once personal fortunes changed their motivation.

[1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
I think anyone remotely familiar with the internet won't be surprised by these outcomes. Of course the occasional reality check is always good.

I wonder to what extent plucky startups expect abuse when they put pop-up chat dialogs in their products. I imagine it's inescapable that some percentage of your user base is going to see it as an invitation to respond poorly. Something door-to-door salespeople and telemarketers learned long ago. I suppose abuse filtering is still an unsolved problem waiting to make someone rich.
Came here to say exactly this. It's time to embrace DuckDuckGo, I made the switch about 6 months ago, thought I would hate it. Expected the UX to drive me nuts after so long with the Google interface, but it made no difference. It's a really solid drop-in replacement.
These chat messenger pop-ups can be quite annoying, the example on the site mentioned is typically 'in your face'.

What's particularly frustrating with this one is that there is already a prominent speech bubble icon in the corner of the screen that suggests they have a chat feature - if I want it. It doesn't need to crack open after a second and slap me.

I am not defending the obvious misogyny here but I think an experiment that starts out by peeing off its subjects can not be fully objective?
Unfortunately not... Most ham interference is ignored by the FCC unless it's especially egregious and extended (14.313 MHz being one example)
Isn't majority of books for them? Anyway, try Asimov if she is closer to 14. 14 is when that stuff is still interesting.

Edit: why the fuck would someone downvote this?
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I think it's more like:

person who really wants the job but is kind of underqualified > person who is highly qualified, but doesn't really want the job (unless the money is right)

edit: I'll add that, for CEOs who should all look amazing on paper and know how to sell themselves, maybe willingness to do the job for less than market is a better signal than most
I suspect that you're deliberately missing the point, but I'll tell it to you anyway.

It's not about the percentage of visitors that were abusive. It's the number of people who were abusive when they thought they were talking to a female vs. a male.
He just had a very Feynman-like way (or Feynman had a Franklin-like way) of seeing the world. He sees confirmation bias, the dangers of saying yes, the power of positive thinking, failure as a teaching tool, the power of a nebulous "them", habit chaining ...

But my favorite quote/section is on his 13th virtue, humility. Frankling was told by a friend to stop being so proud, and so he introduced a habit of always being extra modest when espousing his opinions, adding "I imagine" and "perhaps" instead of "undoubtedly" and "certainly." Anyway, he goes on to say while it wasn't a total success, he felt he'd been pretty successful in habituating that modesty for 50 years, but pride is a hard thing to subdue, "for even if I had completely overcome it, I would probably be proud of my humility." !!
Or it could be a pattern repeated over thousands of years that requires serious intervention.
I don't think this is anything new at all in itself. Chats, anonymous comments, forums, public walls, etc just allow these weirdos to express themselves out of that place of theirs that is unattached to reality.

Already in the 90's there were a few handfuls of pesterers of the similar kind on IRC. There would've been more but IRC was such a nerdy tool underground that only a few of them ever found themselves there.

But the phenomenon has there for a long time: it's just that before internet there were few places where you could do this in public. I think most of the similar chatter must have happened between male friends of young age, hanging out and exchanging comments on hot-looking passer-bys and maybe wooing after some or alternatively yelling bitchy remarks.

Even this wouldn't be tolerated in better parts of the town. But on the internet, all you need is a text input box.
C code only got fast thanks to 40 years of optimizer improvements, taking advantage of UB.
Variable Order
What would the statistics look like if they used equal-area regions? And what would they look like if they used equal-population regions (maybe Congressional districts)?
I wouldn't exactly call this unsubstantive... though maybe it was a bit aggressive towards the OP.
Reminds me of this article: https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/interesting-codebases-159f...

A curation of good codebases by someone who studies a lot of them.
It may also be that people are more likely to assume it's a bot if it's a female, given that almost all chat bots claim to be female.
I have a friend that had a _very_ similar experience when changing her LinkedIn profile photo. She's an expert in her industry and the vast difference in the lack of patronizing comments and unsolicited weird messages was pretty striking.
Honestly I’m surprised they are still around.

Don’t get me wrong I love the stores, and it’s sad to lose nice things. I’m not happy about it.

But don’t blame the new CEO, blame the old CEO for doing nothing for a decade as the market transformed around them.
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I mean it's hard to mistake the site for Steam itself with the "Open source rankings of Steam games curated by the players" tagline, plus they link to Steam.
One difference is that most other clerical jobs don't depend as much on long-term focus and flow, and so allow much more work socialization and frequent casual chatter. That difference matters heavily to those for whom such socialization is important. It neutralizes the pain of confined spaces and boredom for such socially inclined people.
Wow, good point. OK, I've pondered this for a few minutes now so as not to respond without thinking. I genuinely do find it amazing that intelligent people believe Trump is president because of the Russians, which I think is what the original poster was saying, although I might be missing something subtle.
Building a cash reserve in the business is important, if you're hoping to sell the business in a leveraged buy-out.

Basically, someone buys B&N by using the B&N cash-at-hand as collateral.
Wow.. Never done it myself, nor any of my friends, I never realized that this was such a huge problem.
I read articles in the past but I always though they were exaggerating.
Like I can't believe boys can be so rude online.

Thanks for making time and writing the article and including the comments.
That and the target audience.
It seems interesting, although in the Best Seller List I would post a All-time list, of course, the more time you are in the market, more quantity you sell, but its interesting to see a Counter Strike Global Offensive with 4x GTA V (In Steam).

Good job.
Long ago, when I still thought of Google as a good company that made good decisions for its users, I never had the impression that I'd done an exhaustive web search until I searched on Google. Now, searching Google always gives me the impression that I'm searching a heavily filtered, AI-curated subset of the web. I switched to DDG recently, and so far the results give me that impression that I'm searching 'the whole web' or something like it. I suppose it's inevitable that Google was ruined by becoming so enormous, having to be all things to everybody, especially its shareholders.
That seems to apply to children.... I mean you should add some safeguards, to prevent the code from being modified by children messing around, but I dont think this would apply to an adult farmer trying to modify his tractor.