skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the extra security results in a strange TSA agent getting to enjoy some surprise dick pics, well that's the price of freedom Jerry.

I wouldn't say that someone has 'freedom' if they're being forced to possibly have their body visibly exposed to strangers against their will.
You can still get around it by disabling javascript completely. Will load a text only version.
I go on reddit every single day, and I have never seen a post on the front page advocating for the genocide of an entire religious group. I've seen a handful of posts linked from /r/againsthatesubreddits, but the irony is that the only reason those posts made the front page is because they were linked from the meta subreddit.

That being said, for posts of that nature that do reach the front page, I stand by what I said. If it is the policy of reddit to be entirely noninterventionist and simply allow the communities to self moderate, that is completely reasonable, and I don't think any of those views should be interpreted as being encouraged by reddit.

The obvious question given an open platform should be why exactly would a community like that be able to exist successfully within a system that votes content up or down?
Great Insight, Shitty Platform For Blogging Though. The multiple adds for the Same product gives the whole site the feel of a Facebook clickbate site.
I did an interview a while ago. I first had a 30 to 45 minute chat with the business owner. After that he called his tech-lead into the meeting who was going to ask me technical questions. He was going to do a white board thing, something with a linked list or something. I refused and asked him what the value on the whiteboard interview was. "To see me think". Why wasn't he present during the first 30 to 45 minutes when I talked about all my experience, he could have seen me think then.

I have interviewed quite a bit because I work as a contractor. Most companies I have interviewed with have no idea what to actually do during an interview. They just copy stuff that they have read about on the Internet. Oh, Google does puzzles, well...

Interviewing is broken.
In a modern society, disallowing to fly doesn't give full movement rights for a person. You are much less likely to travel to Europe if you have to use a transaltlantic boat for example. :p
I do have Firefox set to allow installing and running of studies, and I am happy for that to happen. However as the page you linked says
> Firefox Pioneer is an example of an opt-in SHIELD study.

I do not want to opt-in, instead I want it to stop asking me to opt in.
How Skin Care Became an At-Home Science Experiment
I don't exactly know what the goal here is, but if the goal was to reduce the number of symbols a human needs to look at (e.g. for confirmation codes etc) then this is abysmal. 48 ascii characters reduces to 40 emoji, even though emoji occupy 2-4x the bits as ascii?
hidden partitions, and/or storing all your important data off-device are the two pieces of advice that get suggested the most.
>Coca Cola. A liter a day...

I am stunned. 1L of Coca Cola = 840 calories @ 234grams of sugar. That's 18 Tablespoons. Or a bit more than one measuring cup of sugar per day in addition to whatever else you ate!

1/3 of an adult's typical days caloric needs consumed as pure sugar. Since you were a child, it's likely you were consuming more than half your daily calories this way.
Which probiotics are you taking? There is a huge variety and not all are created equal (or even similar).
I don't think that's so easy or a good enough solution for everyone, but I agree it's a good tool. In particular, I think it would also be more effective if we had better internet accounts, which were more transversal and could be used with more services.
The study to which you refer described a minor observational link, did not differentiate by ethnicity, age, or socioeconomic status, did not indicate what artificial sweeteners were under consideration, and--being sloppy but presumably at least baseline-honest researchers--made no indication that they believed there to be causation between diet soda drinking and these conditions.
Are you under the impression that I’m calling him “dumb” as some sort of political strategy? I’m just describing the facts as I see them. Pointing out that it works for him is not any sort of argument against what I’m saying.

Of course his dumbness has appeal. That’s why he won. That doesn’t mean he’s not an idiot.
How to win friends and influence people. Helped me solve some approaches to handling people in general and highlighted a few approaches that I had been taking that were actively causing me problems.

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald Weiberg. [1] Helped me understand why technical problems are rarely just technical.

Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers [2]. Practicing some of the techniques in this helped me get my foot in the door in a job long ago where one of the interview scenarios was "This is broken, go ahead and fix it.". I recommend reading this for anyone working on a code base that's been around for a while.

--

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Mar...
> Wasn't expecting to gain karma with this comment, and I absolutely wanted to "derail the thread"

Fortunately, this is a moderated forum. Your prejudices towards Greek organizations may or may not have a valid basis, but taking the entire discussion into an ideological brawl is a disservice to all.

> tech companies continue to have terrible work environments for people of all walks of life

Agreed. Please don't make them worse than they already are.
I don't see the connection between the quality of the tooling and whether or not there's strong moderation. HN is pretty strongly moderated and reddit inherently allows for very strong moderation. Do you think HN is not strictly moderated or that reddit does not allow for strict moderation?

I'll agree that reddit doesn't seem to expose easy to use moderating tools, though.
I can't answer the broader question, but I did attempt to use the XMPP gateway for a little while. Many features were implemented in ways that made them hard or impossible to follow when viewed via XMPP (threading was a big one), and there were a fair number of bugs. It very much felt like a tacked-on feature as opposed to something they would have expected to be used in a meaningful way.
I wish I had an elementary conceptual explanation for why this association exists. It's a simple calculation, but hard to describe without resorting to equations. Maybe the best I can say is that when one writes down the energy function for a quantum mechanical system of many particles, it has a form which is _strongly_ constrained by special relativity. The variables which describe the creation of particles are perfectly paired with the variables which describe the annihilation of particles. For bosons, these variables commute, just like ordinary functions. For fermions, these variables anti-commute, picking up a sign when you exchange them. If you repeatedly exchange these variables to rewrite energy function as vacuum energy + energy of 1 particle + energy of 2 particles + ...., you discover that the fermions contribute negatively to the vacuum energy while bosons contribute positively.
Twitter has keyword filtering at the user level and it's magical.
It is though. A mutable state layer written on an immutable backend still has all the pitfalls of a native mutable data structure.
When they contacted me to write for them I did a bit of research I found enough horror stories to not follow up. In fact it just confirmed the feeling I got as a reader.

Go with Manning, PragProg, NoStarch or even (with some caution) O'Reilly if you want quality content.
Freedom of movement was a privilege in the old soviet union. Maybe we are slowly becoming the USSR?
"Coon town is obviously offensive, but easily avoided (ie, not a problem)."

It is until it starts to leak.

"I casually followed the Leslie Jones incident and don’t see the problem."

I honestly cannot see how one can see the incident, and cannot see a problem with thousands of posters telling an African American woman that she's an ape.

"The brigading seemed easily avoided by Jones"

That is blaming the victim.

"So both your examples seem easily solved by client filters to not force speech in faces."

Except they're not.
Sadly it hasn't been updated for a while - yet still has many open bugs. Seems it's inactive.

I would love a linux equiv of LittleSnitch so I installed this last year but found too many bugs/issues.
Surveillance Self-Defense https://ssd.eff.org/
As a european a non-walkable city seems like an oxymoron to me (although I have travelled extensively in the US so I do know what this is referring to).

A friend of mine lives in the docklands (a new area in east London with a massive amount of new flats, having undergone substantial redevelopment in the last 10 years) and regularly complains about being a 20 minute walk from any shops or retail space.

Why would you want to live in a city that you can't walk around? If you're not going to live near people (and the associated economic/social activity), why not live in the countryside where you get the benefits of space, fresh air and open space as a trade off?
One thing that I didn't see mentioned in the article are drinks like La Croix. Those seem to be taking the place of soda for a lot of people.
Barcelona's are shorter, include a variety of buildings per block, and are generally ringed by retail. Example: http://www.densityatlas.org/user-images/139-1.jpg

Le Corbusier was building single taller buildings, surrounded by empty lawns. Example: http://scd.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/france24_ct_api_...
What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage? [pdf]
> "One woman who shared her story with the ACLU told the Guardian that in the last year, she has twice had her electronics searched while flying within California. The 64-year-old, who works in nonprofits and requested anonymity for fear that she could face further scrutiny from TSA, said that on one occasion last year, TSA agents pulled her aside to pat her down multiple times and eventually asked to see both her iPhones – a work and personal one."

I suspect it would be very revealing which nonprofit is involved here; this kind of harassment through scrutiny is a classic tactic against progressive groups.
It depends on the discussion and I’d need to see the link. While obviously calls for violence are illegal (FBI steps in), there are many possibilities where the discussion could be useful (eg, convincing people to better understand refugees).

Largely I’ve been desensitized to complaints about TD as typically it results in hyperbole (eg, election was a direct threat to people’s lives).
We've already got people with the correct worldview in charge of curriculum and personnel. The problem is that there are still dumb-dumbs that sometimes think there are valid alternatives to our worldview. That's why we need better education.
There's a lot of artificial help, in the sense that souvenirs, confidants, talisman, etc. supply.
Not to mention that those people could probably read who were exposed to a multitude of knowledge, more than the average field workers, anyway.

What I find really curious is the question how many people could actually speak a powerful language at all, instead of mumbling, calling names, pointing and gesturing.
My intent was to describe the system (social media is a hyper-efficient anarchic consensus-based information exchange), and a root-cause for undesirable output...

There may not be a solution that preserves the open internet, if this system is fundamentally incompatible with social realities.
We've been using EnvKey since nearly the first day it was launched, and it has really made key management for our project and team easier on a massive scale.

Prior to that, we were looking at Vault or the AWS baked in key management solutions, but all of those were extremely tedious to set up and maintain. In total honesty, we migrated over to EnvKey within about 20 minutes (from over 30 secrets stored in server environment variables and .env files. Adding new secrets for new services takes a few seconds, and there is no need for us to redeploy elastic beanstalk instances when we do. EnvKey is definitely one of the 'top five' third party services that we integrated with for our development work, and we are still on the grandfathered free plan, and received no incentives for posting this, other than being a grateful customer.
You can move, but not necessarily in car. Or on a plane. And you can't walk on the highways or near the rail road tracks or in the road. And you will be stopped if an officer sees you walking alone on a country road. And that's probable cause right there. Don't go wandering in the woods, lots of privately owned property there as well.

I'm sorry, you said something about moving?
copy-everything != copy-everything.
clever compilers can reuse addresses of variables for as long as they are not written to, and still call it a „copy“. Eg structs in Swift are most of the time not copied, but rather referenced. Even copying is quite cheap nowadays. Waiting on a trap or semaphore, THAT‘s slow.
The EFF does: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/digital-privacy-us-border...
Reminded me of this book I very much enjoyed about Stuxnet - "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Stuxnet was a targeted attack directed at Iran's nuclear program. Quality, not quantity indeed. Super interesting to learn about these things!
I think the author meant free political expression. If you think about it most political activism (at least of the in the streets variety) happens in dense urban areas.
That's a great article. Really describes how we Americans really are, and how we expect some modern marvel for whatever ails us. Really explains how snake oil salesman are allowed to exist.
Interviewing is a different skillset than most development positions ever use; you can be a good developer but a terrible interviewer. You'd be great at the job, but you get rejected in favor of someone else that put some more practice into skills that are applicable to interviewing (i.e. whiteboard programming, working without reference material, etc).

You go into the interview, having not studied. Your twin studied and ended up being more impressive during the interview. Out of the two of you, who will get the job?
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If dick picks are fair game I think we should all be required to strip naked and submit to cavity inspections for the security screening process. Because that's how we've managed to keep our prisons 100% contraband free.
Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers
Go home.

Take out your wallet.

Take out the driver's license, and put it on your dinner table.

Put your wallet back in your pocket.

Now, step outside your home and go buy a gallon of milk.

That's my criterion.
I'm not saying the UK's way is the way to go. But trying to handwave away the problem of toxicity with, "It's just people who can't handle' differing opinions" not right either.
Algorithmic/centralized vs Human/community moderation is the largest divide between Facebook, Twitter, and Google vs. Reddit, HN, Twitch, Mastodon, etc.

I’m thoroughly in favor of the latter. Algorithms can be used as tools to aid human moderators, but context, discretion, and diversity are important. In the case of bad communities, you have a much more tractable problem in terms of tracking/banning/avoiding what goes on —- as both a platform and as a user.
Open source and making money can be orthogonal
Yeah, Nextdoor is astonishingly vile given the non-zero chance of actually running into one of your fellow members at the grocery store.

My hypothesis is that Nextdoor primarily appeals to those who already have that kind of territorial "they're all out to get us" mindset since territoriality is literally what the app is about. It's the angry "get off my lawn" old man of social networks and it attracts exactly those kinds of people. Mix in some Internet depersonalization effects and you get something pretty nasty.
The goal is it's funny.
Having lived in Boston/Cambridge and a bunch of "middle of nowhere" cities in places where the weather means you stay inside a lot during certain parts of the year I disagree with the premise of this article.

More people in the same or less space leads to less freedom. Walking doesn't have that much to do with it.
Freedom of movement no more guarantees your right to purchase a ticket aboard a private, commercial flight, than freedom of speech guarantees your right to post to a private, commercial forum.

What freedom of movement does guarantee, to be clear, is that you're:

1. allowed to own your own plane;

4. allowed to fly said plane over pretty much any American airspace, other than specific little zones cordoned off by the military;

2. allowed to have your own airfield to launch and land your plane;

3. allowed to use the airfield of any American airport to launch/land your plane (at least in an emergency.)

With your own plane—just like with your own car—you have freedom of movement in the US.
eggdrop didn't make the bot list. how the world has changed.
Reddit and HN are both missing two key ingredients on the moderation side: Transparency and accountability.

There's nobody watching the watchmen, essentially. That leads to a lot of frustration, anger, mistrust, and abuse.
> taking a device for some amount of time and giving it back doesn't qualify as a (4th amendment) search

If it's optional and I can and will refuse, fine. If it's not,and I'm not attempting to cross a border, they can get stuffed.

For domestic travel, they do not need to examine the data - only the physical device needs to be examined to rule out security risk. They can do that non-intrusively with imaging and chemical analysis technology.

The idea that someone could claim that a limited intrusion into the contents of my communications isn't an intrusion at all is absurd.
If you're looking for a long-term investment trend that will last for many more decades to come, invest in companies that produce water, coffee, and tea. All the displaced soda sales are going to them.
I think the reverse: Keybase should be aiming for a minimal feature set and allow for extending it.

If people want to mess with cryptobullshit, that's on them, but the more code that's active and doing stuff, the wider the attack surface is. I don't want it and don't need it.
Well, that's because reddit is simply a platform, right? reddit undeniably has tools to allow for strong moderation. see /r/AskHistorians for a perfect example of this.
Show HN: Gel – N64-like software renderer in C
I've completely cut out sugar too and it's intriguing how the body responds. I once accidentally sipped my partner's coffee (filled with sugar) thinking it was mine and I actually gagged.
This is an excellent article. From the Wiki article on the Dalai Lama[0]:

>Since the time of the fifth Dalai Lama, his personage has always been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet, where he has represented Buddhist values and traditions.

This explains the interest by the Chinese Communist Party in wanting the Dalai Lama spirit to stick around. If he goes away, then political turmoil is sure to follow.

Also, this bit reminded me of an episode of Mike Judge's King of the Hill:

>They present a number of artifacts, only some of which belonged to the previous Dalai Lama, and if the boy chooses the items which belonged to the previous Dalai Lama, this is seen as a sign, in conjunction with all of the other claimed indications, that the boy is the reincarnation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama
Your comment is confusing because they only mention two common string types, and then clearly explain the difference between the two (coming from someone who doesn't write any rust):

> We’ll first define what we mean by the term string. Rust has only one string type in the core language, which is the string slice str that is usually seen in its borrowed form &str. In Chapter 4, we talked about string slices, which are references to some UTF-8 encoded string data stored elsewhere. String literals, for example, are stored in the binary output of the program and are therefore string slices.

> The String type is provided in Rust’s standard library rather than coded into the core language and is a growable, mutable, owned, UTF-8 encoded string type. When Rustaceans refer to “strings” in Rust, they usually mean the String and the string slice &str types, not just one of those types. Although this section is largely about String, both types are used heavily in Rust’s standard library and both String and string slices are UTF-8 encoded.
I mean sure, my parents grew up knowing that the secret police was listening to every phone call and opening every letter, but it was fine because you know, whatever keeps the motherland safe I guess!
My company has gone through three different milestones and issue apps. Sure its mot manually exportable but thats why we pay for data entry staff.
Sorry, I don't know anything about EAS integration at Netflix.
A small resource, which may help you - http://thescipub.com/PDF/jcssp.2016.178.190.pdf

I am currently (and for some time actually) interested into the same problem. Summarization of text. It is a hard one to master. Not a lot of work has been done. I will be happy to be of any help.

(Bonus - a recently published paper about extractive summarization - https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04439)
yes but you could say that of cars too (and courts have ruled mandatory DUI tests legal)
Ah, no worries.

I'm not sure if you're thinking it would be web server dependent, but NGINX is the bigger share of the market. (Ideally it wouldn't matter what the web server is though).
At that point you might as well advocate for the NSA to preapprove all text messages before being relayed to the recipient (provided that isn't already the case). Maybe the TSA could sell that as another perk to get through security faster. I'll take more privacy over a fake sense of security, thank you.
It's also a classic tactic against conservative groups.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...
"Dangerously minimizing?"

Yes. Pretending that the problem of toxicity is just people who can't handle differing opinions is to be willfully ignorant of the problem. As such, a reasonable conversation can not be had.

"And you lack imagination and historical hindsight if you think the concept of "toxicity" can only be wielded by whatever you consider to be the forces of light. So to speak."

Nowhere did I say that in the least.
I kind of took your first sentence and started replying to it by saying about what you said afterwards - I thought that was your main point! My typed reply:

> Do not feed the trolls only solves the problem in smaller communities, or at least only just holds off the effects of the troll (topics spinning out of control, pointless arguing, accusations and recriminations) until they can be moderated. Its not a solution for a community, and never has been.
I Thought We Were All in This Together
A gallon? You're not free unless you can specify a metric unit!
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