skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please excuse my brevity, I'm on a phone.

I think you are right about the "coalition" between liberals and leftists. I've noticed it falling apart for a while but not really been able to describe it. Talking with friends I previously considered liberal and being shushed for questioning or simply not knowing the current vogue in social justice discourse has been a really horrible experience.

Worse, I've seen that experience turn others into frothing radicals who then do the same thing to other people. It's a forward feedback loop of people entrenching their existing preconceptions.

It's a mess.
A true believer in absolute freedom and the free market (a libertarian) wouldn't be against James Domore's firing. It was the free market at work. The article says that libertarians and other conservatives are becoming oppressed, but the means of their oppression is something they support. They are being oppressed by the free market and by other people's free speech.
GP claimed that this feature is the "single best part of Go".
To be honest, it doesn't really sound illegal to me. Detecting fraud and collecting additional data when it is detected doesn't sound unreasonable or unusual - as long as it is specified in the privacy policy anyway.

That being said, I'd be very interested to learn more about why it would be illegal. Could you elaborate/source?
I love Rust but its type system isn't necessarily good at modelling zero-cost abstractions. After all, one of its nicest abstractions is the iterator interface, and that is by no means "naturally" zero-cost - you really have to trust the compiler to optimize the code back into a regular loop, and even though it's pretty good at that, it isn't perfect.
You might be a good programmer but the companies you worked for might just be terrible at keeping you. Many Software companies are always looking to fire or lay off employees (they often have a quota or stack ranking systems in order to churn a certain percent every 12 months), especially the toxic companies ones. Don't let that make you assume your bad at your job.

Try to find a company with a good work culture and High employee retention. Low retention always reflects badly on the company. And make sure to ask the hiring manager how many employees he's lost in the last 12 months. If he looses 2 or more employees per 10 (regardless of who left whom), then it's one of those places that always fires people or makes a bad environment, so watch out.
Could you describe what you perceive to be the difference between leftism and liberalism?
You get paid 3.13% every year. So you are getting paid closer to 94% for making that assumption. Plus you get some of the 94% paid out early, so if you were wrong about there being no terrible upheaval, you still got something out of it (hopefully you didn't reinvest the interest in more Treasuries, or keep it in cash).

So even when you put it like that - the odds don't seem too bad.
Various bits of data = Chrome password database.
Almost all “news” articles fit this description. Some of them are just more clever at concealing the sponsor.
Honestly I only use TypeScript for its lovely autocomplete. I'm pretty certain that JavaScript autocomplete could never be this good.
If you can't point out their leadership or organization, it probably doesn't exist.
Everyone is talking about software, and maybe that's because this goes without saying, but China's hardware production capabilities are just staggering. Embedded development has a hugely promising future, especially as microchips continue to add richer feature sets for lower power (and money) costs. And China has been taking that idea of the future and sprinting with it. 'IoT' is a popular buzzword, but IMO the success of companies like DJI better reflects China's growing expertise in blending together a broad range of technical disciplines, many of which are comparatively scorned by educational institutions in the US.

Lately I've been floored by the fact that ARM Cortex-M0 and -M3 development boards (48-72MHz, 8-20KB RAM, 64-256KB flash) cost less than $2 each. They blow 'Arduinos' out of the water by an order of magnitude on both cost and capability, as do the similarly-cheap ESP8266 WiFi development boards.

What ever happened to making useful things?
To me, it just seems like if a decentralized currency is the future, fraud protection might be a necessary component before
people jump on board en masse.

Otherwise stories like this make crypto currency look like the wild west.
What happened to James Damore and the surrounding events read just like other over the top SJW shenanigans.
Apart from stealing passwords which is definitely misuse of computing resources?
Not distinguishing between additive and multiplicative "more" makes this an unclear message. People constantly mix up rates (*) with absolutes (+), and reinterpret statements made referring to one as referring to the other.

"More people use the internet in China than in the US" - whether that's true depends on the interpretation of "more". This is intolerable and everyone with a mathematical background should strive to be clear on which "more" they are using.
How in the world do you propose to achieve equality of opportunity without equality of (many) outcomes?
More interesting to me if this could detect HIV within the first 30 days of infection.

I'm no expert but IIRC that's not possible with any test right now.
Yeah that would help - sometimes at work I make proof-of-concept demos... and I was thinking of making a timeline like yours but with images on a canvas as you zoom/scroll the timeline. So I was already planning to have to write a good amount of javascript.
Why on earth would yo want to sit next to the "boss"?!
On their attitudes and behavior, which I’ve also witnessed personally.
To offer one small piece of anecdote to the contrary: We use Clojure for most of our server-side code and picked Lacinia from Walmart Labs [0] to implement our new GraphQL API. It does most of the basics just fine, but its pace of development lags extremely, painfully far behind GraphQL server implementations in more popular languages such as the ones in Node and Python. To this day it still doesn't have support for custom directives [1], not to mention any of the other more bleeding edge developments in the GraphQL community such as schema stitching and live queries, all of which we would really have liked to experiment with along with the rest of the GraphQL community. We ran into similar issues initially when trying to use gRPC with Clojure.

We love writing Clojure and still use it everywhere where appropriate, but the size of its community and ecosystem is definitely holding back its ability to compete for adoption with other languages on the bleeding edge of new technological trends.

[0] http://lacinia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1] http://lacinia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/directives.html
> Messina envisions a potential one-time permission-based system where you could grant a friend access to Molly just for specific purposes and a set period of time, like finding a restaurant for tonight.

Now that's a cool idea. I've always thought Foursquare would crack matchmaking two people with a dinner place they haven't tried before. It'd be interesting to see if Molly's solution will work in other verticals like... recommending books, exercise classes, or something like that.
I went to Target when they (briefly) came to Canada and was surprised and delighted by the absence of music in the store. I'm sure some people were weirded out by that, but I found it refreshing and peaceful.
Procedural video game music in real-time
Soccer is the most boring sport to watch unless you're hammered or rioting. It would be nice if they had some screens up to distract the fans.
The link doesn't mention extraction of passwords
(speaking as a self-identifying liberal) - Some examples that a "conservative" person might give:

- "by definition, PoC can't be racist" - e.g. as an argument to shut down complaints of "reverse racism"

- white people must listen to PoC's before they can engage in discussions about racism (e.g. - don't force PoC's to engage in the emotional labor of educating you)

- you can't make assertions about the experiences of PoC/women/trans/non-binary people if you haven't lived as one

etc.

I'm not making ANY judgements about the truth/validity of the aforementioned "rules of engagement".

I try to follow these rules when talking about social justice issues. It's no skin off my back - but it certainly adds some limits to the types of conversations I'll participate in, and the kinds of things I might say. I don't think there's anything wrong with that - as long as I don't slip into outright dishonesty as a result of these constraints.

I think some of the backlash against social justice by conservatives comes from the belief that these kinds of constraints are unacceptable, and are concocted by stupid, illogical people.
See, I really don't think it's about liberalism vs leftism. I agree with the article. It's about those who think critically, and those who chose not to. Unfortunately, the Internet gives voice to both groups equally, and idiots tend to have a lot of time on their hands to be exceptionally vocal on Twitter or other forms of social media. Since journalism has suffered so severely in the past decade, social media has just taken off as a source for every tiny criticism which just gets amplified. And there's no attempt to see how deep this outrage goes because depth doesn't make money in journalism anymore. Manufactured outrage is driving the conversation because it's sexy and gets views.

Culturally, the underlying problem is that certain people have spent too long in echo chambers that have atrophied their ability to interpret criticism rationally or thoughtfully. It's to the point that it's gone beyond oppression olympics to outright witch hunting. Liberals are terrified of being accused of not being liberal because apparently not being a complete extremist in your beliefs means you're not dedicated or passionate about them or have no credibility. This is so unbelievable as to be absurd.

Journalism and discussion have completely broken down into whichever side can throw the most hate at the other. It's just complete nonsense.
Finer grained changes and git. When reading online or books, notes go in git. If you don't have time to type and just want to squiggle, try a wacom tablet and inkscape. If you have time, markdown all the things. Learn tools such as graphviz[0], mscgen[1], mermaidjs[2], syntrax[3] and wavedrom[4] to assist with clear communication.

[0] https://www.graphviz.org/

[1] http://www.mcternan.co.uk/mscgen/

[2] https://mermaidjs.github.io/

[3] https://kevinpt.github.io/syntrax/

[4] http://wavedrom.com/
They absolutely are. I have the complete wiring diagram for every piece of equipment I own.

As long as the ROM's in the master/cd players don't die on me I can replace every electronic part in them for decades to come.

Which is why I chose them, and why I'm buying more to fill the rooms in my house. I can control them, repair them and fit them to suit my tastes.
No, I recall a specific comment that they had to tweak the experiment to add a fifth cookie since no one took the fourth, then they saw the effect described here, lip smacking and all, with the fourth cookie.

Ah, here we go—I found where I heard it. It was in an episode of the podcast "Hidden Brain", called "The Perils of Power." It's an interview with the researcher who ran the experiment, Dacher Keltner. He starts describing the experiment at about 16:20, and explicitly discusses why they added a fifth cookie:

"Well this was where it's really interesting because the rules of politeness suggest you should really not be that uncouth person that takes the last cookie off the plate, and so we did pilot testing for the experiment and no one would take that fourth cookie—so that's why we added the fifth cookie: just to free somebody up to take that second-to-last cookie."

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/06/492305430/the-perils-of-power
Equality of outcomes contradicts equality of opportunity. Your question is a non-sequitur.
The Next Platform Has Been Pushed to the Edge
Other things in the paper

> AMERICANS, and friends of America, often reassure themselves about its relative decline in the following way

The decline is a myth; US is doing really well. US has a 3% gdp growth, which is huge when you realize the base is 19 Trillion! Contrast that with China, whose provinces just announced 20-30% fake revenue and putting the funny consistent 7% gdp growth in realm of accounting fraud.

> Uncle Sam may have ceded the top spot to China in exports in 2007, and manufacturing in 2011

Not with all of the protectionism and tariffs coming to hit China, from US, EU, and Japan. China can't get around import tariffs by shipping from Vietnam, South Korea, or Africa anymore. Solar panel and refrigerators now, steel and aluminum next. Apple's 300B investment amongst others will revitalize US manufacturing.

> China’s unicorns, a proxy for the next generation of giants, are in total worth 69% of America’s,

Xiaomi's 40B unicorn valuation is all the way from 2014. It's losing to Oppo and Huawei in China. Meituan Dianping is burning cash rapidly like Uber, same as Didi Chuxing.
What about US users who message with somebody in China? We just get caught up too? Yeah I realize we are all already screwed as far as privacy goes but giving personal messages to the Chinese government is another matter.

Could happen unknowingly when you send an iMessage to, say, a gmail address, which unlike a phone number offers no clue where the user is.
I'm counting different editions of POSIX-compliant shell languages (e.g. ksh93, zsh, bash, [t]csh) as different, as well as massively different editions of DOS (freeDOS, MSDOS).

Hence the approximating tilde on "~12". Reasonable minds may consider there to be many fewer, or many more, compatible interpreters.

EDIT: There also appear to be multiple compatible JavaScript interpreters--browser V8 (though not Node, oddly--it's detected as generic; I may send a PR sometime), SpiderMonkey, and older IE. I'm no expert on JS runtimes, though, so the differing results I'm observing may be due to something else.
Does this last sentence apply to the countries that have the Euro?
"The Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax staged with paid crisis actors."

"Volcanoes add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than fossil fuel combustion."

"Vaccines cause autism."

I have no fear that these ideas might be right. I am nonetheless loudly and forcefully against them. Spreading anti-vaccination falsehoods is literally a bannable offense on a scientific forum I run. If I were God Emperor of Facebook it'd be a bannable offense on Facebook too.
I suspect your circles are ahead of trash academic circles here in the US, at places like Mizzou and Evergreen.
Your position isn't too bad. You'll get better at the other skills, though it may take a few jobs.

Or, it could be the kind of work you are doing... I was never happy in Java on the web, did a some Java mobile back in the day and it was really fun.

Now I build stuff in python and it's generally not bad.
I wonder if the publisher even knew, or could ever know. It's presumably hard* to work out the counterfactual - how many more sales would have been made in the absence of the crack/keygen being available.

They do mention that they kept seeing repeated personal information being used on registration, but also that the cracked version was changed to use a different activation server. Confusing.

*or even impossible
Sure, but the over the top SJW shenanigans are shared and upvoted somewhere, amirite?

Or is this all based on SJWs you know in real life?
Show HN: Battleships – mindless podcast companion (with JavaScript source)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16412541

It sounds like they distributed a tool that goes through your Chrome saved passwords database and if the installer thinks you're a pirate, it sends credentials from that database back to the author. The author is now saying they used credentials they learned from this to break into a private website to learn more about how their DRM was being bypassed.

This seems so incredibly illegal, I can't believe they admitted that this is what they're doing.
Really cool idea, I look forward to my first intro ;)
> For example, black-scholes which values options requires the concept of a risk-free asset.

This isn't really true. The risk-free asset doesn't have to exist, we just have to agree on what its value would be. For example if Tesla sold a one-year bond paying 20% interest, and everyone agreed Tesla had a 10% chance of being bankrupt within the year, it's fair to agree the risk-free rate is 10% per year.

It's true that if the US government were at risk of defaulting on Treasuries, the market would be a bit of a mess. But it happens in other countries all the time and the markets eventually continue to function without an asset considered risk free.
Counterpoint, just for the heck of it :-)

How awful! One would expect the vicinity of high-level managers to have a lot of activity... people walking in and out for discussions, visitors throughout the day, high-level management walking around potentially asking questions which might pull a researcher out from 3-levels deep problem solving! Maybe what researchers need are comfortable working environment (desks, chairs, boards, discussion rooms) and the right amount of stimulation -- maybe a few discussions with colleagues to spark ideas, and not too much generally distracting bustle.

My only point is that it is far from obvious whether this seating arrangement is beneficial.
Equality of outcomes, typically, means very near equal income, access to resources, etc. in adult life. Regardless of their aptitude, skill, or individual choices, or even the work they do. It's a pipe dream because there's no feasible way to achieve it.

Equality of opportunity means we aim to provide everyone access to the same chances. Reduce the (present and historic) systemic discrimination by race and gender. Improve access to the basic tools required to achieve success (education and mobility). But we cannot guarantee that everyone will turn out the same (either by choice, fortune, or misfortune it just won't happen). It may still be a pipe dream, but it's far more achievable.
Not quite true - we're down to around 14 days with the latest generation of tests.

The ideal would be a rapid 'fever' panel that tests for all the viruses we currently pay a ton of money for. This sort of test could pick up early-stage HIV which, if symptomatic, don't feel much different from a cold/flu.

[1] - https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0215/afp20140215p265-f1.gif
People use inequality of outcomes as evidence of prejudice and forbid explanations other than inequality of opportunity or treatment as thoughtcrime. They argue for equality of outcomes in aggregate (ie in a distribution, when comparing different groups broken up by colour or sex or gender or whatever) by criticizing inequal outcomes as evidence of wrongness, a problem needing fixing.

To be sure, I think difference in outcomes in aggregate is a strong signal of unfairness in the system. But the mechanism of the critique, and its employment of thoughtcrime punishment, and ideologues' apparent complete lack of concern for inverted power situations (like when girls do better in school than boys) make me deeply suspicious of such people's motivations.
>What ever happened to making useful things?

Lots of things.

- The patent debacle that started in the Clinton administration
- Not enforcing anti-competition laws allowing companies to consolidate.
- Companies giving away all their IP to China in exchange for cheap labor.
- Allowing our tech manufacturing sector to rot on the vine.

The US still makes lots of useful things, they just can't make them within our borders.
Thanks. Whey too? I thought it was a by-product of making cheese (or paneer) and so would have little fat.
Initially I got the same vibe.

I could read it as "hey AI researcher, come here, and you'll be sitting and eating next to the CEO".

But then again, it talks about Google, Facebook and Overstock. So it's not so clear who has to gain.

Maybe it did start as a submarine article for one of the companies, but then the NYT reporter/editor asked around at other companies to see if this is common.
The story is that the bundle contains a piece of software that uses elevated privileges gained through the installer to extract passwords from Google Chrome, and then ships that data back to mothership. I am not sure how that’s not stealing passwords but I am open to interesting arguments supporting the negative.

The publisher pinky-swears that they only steal passwords from bad people. That is not an interesting argument to me.
> And the only way to have a zero-interest loan for a non-zero amount of time is setting the rate at zero.

This assumption is where things break. You could have an interest rate whose nominal contribution for five minutes that rounds down below 1 mil, the smallest unit of currency. A five-minute interest rate of 0.00098% would result in rounding the interest on $5 to zero. However, taken over the course of 5 minute increments through a year, and you arrive at $14.01 dollars:

$5 * ((1 + 0.0000098)^(12 5-min increments/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year)) = $14.01

Plenty of folks would love a 280% annual return.
yy.com I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YY.com
Like "neoliberalism".
Kinda off topic, but isn't it a better practice to not hire for specific technologies, but go for good fundamentals?
USD is a promise to pay a dollar to the bearer of the receipt. A dollar is an amount of gold, and so is a franc, a pound, a baht, and probably many others. Conversion of a thing into itself is not a conversion. There is no risk free rate, and the behavior of capital constrained by worldwide tax hunt cannot reasonably be called 'natural'. One more thing: banks can only have reserves after covering the totality of their demand deposits, which means that virtually all public banks are insolvent... You say they can sell some assets to cover? Fine! Let's see the selling, and see how many come out alive! I'm waiting!
I keep hearing this from people. I've just never witnessed it and no one seems to be able to point me towards anything, US-based at least, where this is happening or being called for by anyone with real authority and potential to achieve this feared outcome.
Just waving the whole issue away by saying "make it the user's problem" isn't very helpful. It completely ignores the very real problem that most people don't know what is good for them and worse, even the people who do know what is best have a million better things to do with their time than personally scrutinize each and every app they install. Perhaps, the actual solution is to delegate that responsibility to somebody who does have the time, knowledge and incentive to make sure you are secure.

I own an iPhone instead of an Android precisely because I don't want to be burdened with the task of determining if what I'm installing is or isn't going to backdoor its way into my phone. I trust that Apple will in most cases do the right thing. Maybe they won't every time, but the risk of that is less than the cost of time & energy required to play "deep dive into every fucking app I install on my phone".
Should have (2017) in the title.
This should have (2012) at the end of the title.
Attention has now been made a commodity, so good luck finding peace and quiet if you don't have the money to buy it
This is extremely rare, but when it does happen it's during movies where the applause won't detract from the experience - like, at the final explosion scene in a fun action movie.

> I don't understand why that's seen as appropriate.

Maybe we don't understand why you're not enthusiastic to see like, the Death Star get blown up.

No one here is applauding during like, art flicks.