skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These people really do behave like characters from a third-rate movie script that gets rejected for being too over-the-top.

At the point where you're actually hiring consultants for a PR campaign to improve the public image of war, should you not be thinking: how far have I strayed from the pack?

I could totally see a misguided yet defensible attempt to convince the public of some specific war you really like, such as Iraq. But just any war, generically?

(That's not to mention that no amount of psychological profiling could ever make a dent in the public's attitude towards war with the budget John Bolton could muster. Those facebook ads are, after all, competing with quite a few high-profile war movies every year, not to mention history books and grandparent's stories)
Flags affect ranking (which might be what you're getting at), but they don't change the number of votes displayed.
Design by Google
JSON Comes to CockroachDB
I think the theory is FB gets to keep data on who liked/followed/interacted with the page/content, which is still valuable data to mine for profiling the users. A true removal of an account should result in all interactions with the account and its content being removed as well, which I really doubt is the case.
You're talking about heat.
Factoring in 5-7% annual return on investment, it's only about 25-30k per year, not 50k. (Given P(0) = 0 and P(n) = P(n-1) * 1.07 + $25,000, P(20) would be $1,024,887.31.) Perhaps still a bit high, but not too far off, especially considering that the second child probably has a lower marginal cost than the first.
That's correct, Maps crowd-sources data if no owner enters stuff. You can even see "Is this your business?" sometimes if the owners haven't bothered to do it. Which, I mean, fair enough.
Connections connections connections - that is what it is all about

We’d met Drew the year before. [...]
Adam Smith’s big brother in MIT’s
Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
He came to the afterparty at our house
[...] I remember him being likeable,
earnest, and very energetic.
This guy had a similar experience. I think your options depend on how much you think you can recover.

https://youtu.be/vtcXBYSSElQ
Your notions of history are incorrect. There were certainly periods of deprivation, particularly after the Industrial Revolution and before the New Deal in the US, but other than that, no, people were not owned so totally by their employers. They did not need to work as much to earn as little.

Between 1950 and 1980, the average wage of the lower 90% of the economy rose by 75%. Between 1980 and 2010, it rose by 1%. And during 1980 to 2010 we experienced the introduction of computers into the workplace. Average worker productivity skyrocketed at an absurd rate. Yet, every penny of that advancement and more was scalped by employers and shareholders. People are not being greedy in expecting more. They are intuitively sensing that they are being exploited more and more heavily every single year. No increase in productivity is ever reflected in increased earnings or free time or anything like that.

The notion of the New Deal was that 1 person working only 40 hours a week should be paid enough that they could raise an entire family on it comfortably. Do you think that could be done today? No, it couldn't. If you've got a couple kids, and you only have 1 40 hour job providing the income you are completely boned. You're poor. We have been racing backwards, and we have gained literally nothing for it.
Meltdown and Spectre: Analyzing Performance Impacts on Intel's NUC7i7BNH
We do not control and may be unable to predict the future course of open-source technologies, including those used in our offering, which could reduce the market appeal of our offering and damage our reputation.

This is a really cool risk factor that I've never seen before in an S-1, exciting that more big public companies are willing to accept the risk reward that comes with contributing to open source:

If open-source software programmers, many of whom we do not employ, or our own internal programmers do not continue to use, contribute to and enhance the open-source technologies that we rely on, the market appeal of our offering may be reduced, which could harm our reputation, diminish our brand and result in decreased revenue. We also cannot predict whether further developments and enhancements to these open-source technologies will be available from reliable alternative sources. If the open-source technologies that we rely on become unavailable, we may need to invest in researching and developing alternative technologies.
Hogwash.

His spiel is not "don't worry". His spiel is "don't despair, don't be paralysed. Things have gotten better, and with determination and sensible policies we can hopefully keep making it better."

You are right that there are "intellectuals" whose spiel is doom and despair, and Pinker demonstrates (as others before him have) just how misguided they are.

Your misinterpretation is one of many that Pinker explicitly anticipates and answers, for example here:

> The fact that many measures of environmental quality are improving does not mean that everything is OK, that the environment got better by itself, or that we can just sit back and relax.

> So you’re saying that we can all sit back and relax, that violence will just take care of itself.
Illogical, Captain. If you see that a pile of laundry has gone down, it does not mean the clothes washed themselves; it means someone washed the clothes. If a type of violence has gone down, then some change in the social, cultural, or material milieu has caused it to go down. If the conditions persist, violence could remain low or decline even further; if they don’t, it won’t. That makes it important to find out what the causes are, so we can try to intensify them and apply them more widely to ensure that the decline of violence continues.
He's off to a fast start.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-nor...

It pisses me off that we have the optimal mix of stupid and evil running the country that we could have a nuclear war decades after we thought we had gotten out from under that shadow.
> some like spotify requiring it.

That's why I never used spotify.
I'm not sure where you derived your comment about gut-feelings from.

Do you have an example of precedent for one country's laws being enforced on a company with no business presence in that country, without there being a law or treaty in a country the business does operate in that mandates compliance with the foreign law?

I don't think anyone would dispute that if the US were to make a law requiring US companies to comply with the GDPR for EU users, that law would apply to US companies. My point is that absent some measure by the US government, EU laws are not applicable to companies without business presence in the EU
A sneak peek at the upcoming version 3.0 of Mayan EDMS NG
besides himself of course.
TLDR: github has a new feature that allows you to require X number of people to approve a PR before merging to a protected branch.

From the title, I initially thought this would be an article about why you should have multiple people reviewing PRs, which sounded ridiculous (obviously we don't all have the time/resources for that).
He should have known not to offend jewish people. In a country where you can be imprisoned for questioning history (the Holocaust specifically), it does not surprise me an anti-Semitic joke leads to inprisonment.
The main benefits of PCF are not cloud vender lock-in. Where I saw it used, they weren't even on AWS, but using PCF to migrate to microservices. Microservices were written with in Java with Spring Framework, another pivotal product. Pivotal consulting also taught them how to do pair programming, agile, and other "modern" software techniques.
Does this mean this is just a research project that Uber doesn't actually use in their cars yet?

From https://eng.uber.com/sbnet/

"By applying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and other deep learning techniques, researchers at Uber ATG Toronto are committed to developing technologies that power safer and more reliable transportation solutions."

"CNNs are widely used for analyzing visual imagery and data from LiDAR sensors. In autonomous driving, CNNs allow self-driving vehicles to see other cars and pedestrians"
Before they went bust, some folks at Rhythm 'N Hues publicly talked about using it. It has pockets of usage at ILM, there are lots of software pockets though in these big design firms. Not all bitmap and vector tools are Adobe.

Unreal Engine has been pushing Blender a lot too, and attracted hires from ILM, they mentioned this a lot in their video podcast.

A lot of the time you only know a company is using something like Houdini because they pay for the promotion or give the customer a big license discount.

"Here at X we used Y for Z."
I’ve been wondering: Does FB really delete data, or do they not somehow keep it and just flag it as deleted? So they are able to use it for analytics and keep my ad profile sharp..
I hope GDPR will shed some light on this, I guess they will not take the risk going forward.
The typical path to determining causality for a variant is: Variant -> (Gene expression or some other molecular-level phenomenon) -> Phenotype. Actually, associating a variant with a phenotype is the easy part, determining what happens in between is much harder. Another hard part is determining which variant does something since variants are highly correlated with each other.

I am not sure I understand your question exactly so I'll give a few different answers. One is that I see no difference whether the phenotype is behavioral or some disease occurring below your neck. It all depends on the statistics and effect sizes of the phenotype and how good a predictor "race" is.

Another is that actually it is much more difficult, obviously, to determine causality than a correlation, regardless of what you are correlating with what.

And a final answer is that we generally consider a causal relationship between genetics and a phenotype proved with acceptable levels of error if the two are correlated, and we control for all the environmental variables we can, and the correlation remains. You can also look at heritability with twins separated at birth and raised in different environments and other such experiments to control for environment.
What's Dropbox?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it dates back to C? And # is used as includes / other first compiler steps? And the hashtag on twitter is a reference to this.
It’s a good example because that’s what they’re saying. With GitHub you’re not limited to editing through the web UI. With Figma you are.
Something like Figma backed by data you control would be fine.
These are pretty bad, to be honest. Hard to parse, cluttered and too much emphasis on looking 'unique'
It's not wrong to be that guy, if the page design is the top discussion topic then the design has failed and gotten in the way of the content.
Yeah maybe, but I don't think he really cared. I hope more people care about the corruption in this sort of industry after this.
> Consumers "voting with their wallet" very seldom accomplishes much,

Boycotts might not acheive much, but there is a much broader class of consuemers voting with their wallet and we usually just call it market forces.
The goal of censorship isn't, usually, to control information as such. It is to enforce certain behaviors. People on Hacker News has the wrong idea about how authoritarian states work, largely based on cold war propaganda. But it's not really a discussion worth having on HN since any attempt at framing it in a way that people could understand would be accused of shilling. You will have to find some other way to get that information.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
It's a popular topic on Hsu's blog. Here's a few earlier posts that dig in more:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2007/01/metric-on-space-of-geno...

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-all-in-clusters.htm...

(I'm not an expert, and my opinion is formed from following that blog.)

In terms of your example, I'm not sure what "there is more genetic diversity among Africans" means. What is the measure of diversity here? Why would we necessarily expect that measure to mean "more races"?

(I didn't downvote you, by the way. Not sure why so many people on HN seem to enjoy downvoting any discussion on certain topic. :/.)
I acknowledged upfront that the tourist could well be correct. That addresses the possibility that it was merely sloppy wording with that intended meaning.
When I deleted my account I was shown that screen, and I have to admit, just the thought of my friends missing me made me feel sad.

And then I couldn't remember the last time I interacted with any of them on facebook and went ahead with my deletion.

Pure emotional manipulation.
I'm pretty conservative, not a socialist at all. The free market is better at allocating and exploting resources. But we shouldn't confuse that with allocating them "fairly" or "based on merit." A lot of the allocation is arbitratry and capricious.

It's just the best we got. And I support a generally free market because I think overall even the losers are better under our capitalism than everyone would be under equal socialism. We just have to correct the flaws in capitalism, like fixing market failures and providing a saftey net for people.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. I imagine after the many facebook posts these past few days, many people downvote or flag them immediately.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Dropbox is the first app I'll install on any new device. It works on all relevant platforms and is getting more and more integrated with other platforms (Google Docs, Office) all while remaining platform agnostic. Once I reach my free limit (roughly 7 GB) I will gladly pay for their service.

Congrats to Drew, Arash, and the Dropbox team!
Replying here as I don't want to sign up on medium.

The blog indicates they believe

SELECT * FROM table1, table2 ON table1.id=table2.id;

is being parsed as:

SELECT
result-column=*
FROM
table-or-subquery=table1
,
join-clause=ON table1.id=table2.id
table-or-subquery=table2
join-operator= EMPTY!!
table-or-subquery=EMPTY!!
join-constraint=ON table1.id=table2

This is not correct, it is being parsed as:

SELECT
result-column=*
FROM
join-clause=table1, table2 ON table1.id=table2.id
table-or-subquery=table1
join-operator=,
table-or-subquery=table2
join-constraint=ON table1.id=table2

In other words, because the constraint is present, both tables are part of the join clause, and `table1, table2` is just another way of writing `table1 JOIN table2`.
I hope that at some point American society as a whole will collectively reflect on the fact that it appears that swaying public opinion is not hard. What are the implications of this in terms of having a republican form of government? If collectively we can be swayed, or nudged in such a way that we will back certain policies then in what way are we free? Each of us tends to think we have free will and that we make our own decisions but it's clear that, statistically speaking, this isn't true when speaking about the population as a whole.

Of course attempts to say public opinion have been going on for thousands of years but what is new is the scale and ease at which this can be done. It was much harder back when there were hundreds of independent newspapers and when information exchange was much more costly both in terms of time and in expense. Now that vast amounts of information about hundreds of millions of people have been collected it's much easier to influence opinion.

What implications does this have for free speech? For instance, should algorithmically generated text garner the same free speech protections as I do? Should a couple of companies be in charge of the vast amount of data collected about us?

I'm reminded of an Isaac Asimov story about the future where only one person votes for President. The person has been chosen by a computer as being representative of the general population and he/she has the sole vote.
Outside Voices
There was no fraud. The DNC emails show that staffers of the DNC disliked Sanders and strategized how to respond to his criticisms _of the DNC_. At the time those emails were written, Sanders had sued the DNC and had been publicly attacking them.

One thing that does not appear in the emails anywhere is any hint that the DNC tried to manipulate the outcome of primaries or caucuses. That's what "election fraud" means.
>>The same with drugs, you don't want smack and cocaine being sold in Boots.

>Not sure what a boot is,

Boots is a chain of pharmacies (also "health and beauty") stores in the UK. Probably pretty comparable to the US Walgreens or CVS chains.
I am not the GP but I totally agree and the same goes for NSA employees. They have proven they are okay with violating the privacy rights of a billion people.
CODEOWNERS is a good start, but it only works for the main branch, which means that it doesn't really work well with the Git Flow (https://leanpub.com/git-flow/read). Keeping a different CODEOWNERS file in each branch would be suboptimal, because that means cross-branch merges become a touch nasty. Perhaps if CODEOWNERS was extended to allow matching against rules that also include the branch to be merged into? Alternatively, if that might break existing CODEOWNERS files, doing the same in a MAINTAINERS file might be a viable solution instead.

I think the constraint-solver method in Gerrit is pretty neat, although I could see integrating that into GitHub and devising a non-painful UI for that as a major challenge. However, if they managed to do it, that would be an insanely powerful feature to have, especially for larger or more complex projects.
The Lost Kids on the Line
I wonder if Red Hat's S-1 said anything similar.
I think that it would be ok option but for various reason I think it's only acceptable again if you can opt-out by direct payment.

I think that currently this is issue where both sides are partially quilty. Content creators are creating "dirty tricks" to get profit from their work. On the other hand users expect to everything to be free. Users have this huge gap in their head between "free" and "so-cheap-that's-almost-free".

Just as side note: if we wouldn't need this all high-tech for converting "free users" to $. Maybe some of great minds could think how to solve real problems... instead of "How to sell next fucking Nissan".
A lot of times I think people don't understand that the statements, "the vast majority of people have had there lives demonstrably improve because of science and technology" and "because of science and technology there are huge risks that all of that progress could reverse" can both be true.
I thought my account was deleted for years. I randomly started getting FB emails about a month ago. A few days ago I was emailed about being tagged in a dead friends picture. Bye Zuck, I hate you at a personal level.
He trespassed. This is not a Good Samaritan case where he trespassed to save a drowning child!

He should be processed by the system, and let the court of law judge him.

It's Canada we're talking about, he will have a fair trial, it's not Turkey where he would have already been imprisoned/tortured/"suicide-ed".
I'd like to share two observations about your response:

1) Your implicit argument that the police exist to punish people for wrongdoing, not to help rehabilitate people back into society.

2) Your argument that the solution is entirely on the supply side (don't be a sex worker!), while ignoring entirely the demand side (don't patronize sex workers!). There are many sex workers who are the victims of trafficking, however there are no sex work patrons who are such victims. As such, enforcement actions against patrons can be similarly effective, and it does not have the side effect of transforming trafficking victims into criminals

I feel this combination of responses is very common, and very sub-optimal.

Additionally, your comparisons to organ harvesting, suicide, and a lot of drug law strike me as unthoughtful. It is legal to donate organs. Laws against suicide are rarely enforced. And drug laws are a failure, thus it seems unwise to put them forth as a model.

Your argument that it is acceptable to make any sort of facilitation have incredibly steep punishments also strikes me as a blow against justice. Crimes should have punishments that are aligned with the severity of the crime. I do not believe one could argue that one is being just, when one says that we should make something like "selling condoms to a prostitute" a crime with very steep penalties.

These are bad laws. Your counter-argument, that it is fine to have horrible, unjust, and ineffective laws, so long as they have good intentions, does not change my mind. Nor do I think a wise person would ever seriously proffer your nonsensical position.
> Why is Obama considered black?

It's obvious that's he's black and Caucasian. Why he's called black in America while in other places he'd be mixed-race is a product of American culture and his own preference I imagine (many mixed-race people decide to 'identify as black', meaning culturally).

But the label he's given does not change his underlying race.
Not fair for Shkreli, but he brought it upon himself. He made such a spectacle of his situation that prosecutors and judges had to hit him hard. They would have been highly criticised otherwise.

Also, Holmes had so many high power people associated with the company that the media would have had a field day reporting on that and it would have been highly embarrassing for them. I'm sure they all helped her get the best deal.

My view is that they both broke the law so they should have gotten time.

Lesson learned, if you get in trouble with the law don't poke the bear.
But now India has its own billion-person digital platform: the extraordinary “Aadhaar” biometric ID system, which includes almost all of the nation’s 1.3 billion residents (and whose creation Nilekani oversaw). It is the only one of these massive platforms that is publicly owned. That means it does not need to make money off user data. It’s possible to imagine that in India, it will become normal to think of data as personal property that individuals can keep or rent or sell as they wish in a very open and democratic free market. India might well become the global innovator for individuals’ data rights.
Sounds very sensible. I plan to make it a point of emphasis during my next job search.
FB is among the last places I'd look, and would not be impressed by that being the only web presence for a small business. Seriously, seeing such induces an involuntary "ugh".

Putting up a website is trivial & cheap, and looks a whole lot more professional than one on FB. As a customer, I'd look for it by a Google search, and go to the "official" site. Put the hours there, and an easy link to a popular mapping site.

Frankly, having followed social media since dialup BBS days, I find Facebook a surprisingly crufty/poorly-made site. A core design has been hacked up to wedge in whatever new features. A new site could easily provide a next-gen UI, better putting common content together, better assembling a feed, saner advertising, and pointedly avoiding "censorship" ... only thing needed is that "tipping point" for migration.
Particularly after the flamethrowers. I'm sorry, I mean the not-flamethrowers;)
This guy is such bad news. Even though I'm pretty anti-Trump I had thought for a while that one good thing about him is that he appeared to reject the Bush era neo con stuff. That even though we wouldn't have a democrat in office we wouldn't slide backwards toward the Bush nonsense. This is so disappointing.
Was kind of hoping it was obvious enough that it didn't need one.
When Cars Required a Special Wardrobe
I was under the impression that it was popularized by IRC #channels