skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political correctness and affirmative action are based on the idea that pretending the world is an ideal version of itself will eventually make it that way.

In reality though, the world is a complex place and the ideal pretend version can only be implemented in a carefully controlled environment such as a movie, a theatrical presentation, a video game or a situation where all participants agree to or are pressured into behaving in a way in which that pretend world is real. When the rest of the world leaks in, it is impossible to maintain that pressure on everyone.

About the best we have so far is "safe search" since pornography and obscenity follow fairly regular patterns. Political correctness though is constantly evolving and requires a trained academic to determine if each piece of information should be censored or allowed. Ideally in the future we'll have google glass and advanced AI classifiers constantly scanning our vision and providing us with tape delayed audio of the outside world in order to present the world to us and filter any politically incorrect content 24/7.

For now we have to do it ourselves and ignore any inconvenient facts that may make maintaining the illusion difficult. This constant struggle to deal with cognitive dissonance can be tiresome and one should restrict oneself to heavily moderated news feeds and not using search features for now. To create the carefully controlled virtual world in an interface to the rest of the world such as Google is an overwhelming task because you would need a highly sophisticated trained AI agent to maintain that illusion and to even invent information, such as lists of Nobel award winners from disadvantaged peoples, in order to maintain the illusion.
The Case of Missing Dark Matter
Back in 2003, I would've found it absolutely inconceivable to not chat with my HS classmates on AIM. For me, even bigger than MySpace dying was AIM dying. It still kind of blows my mind. AIM was the way you got social cachet back then. Everyone was on AIM. Young people were on AIM.

I am completely convinced that FB will go the way of the dodo in the next decade, and it will take Snapchat and Instagram with it.
The Guardian is generally a mildly left-ish, middle-class-ish kind of paper. I would say in the UK it tends to conjure up an image of a well-meaning, slightly naïve, hand-wringing sort of readership, though of course it’s base is likely wider than that.

What particularly makes it stand out is it has quite an open comments policy; it quite often publishes fairly ludicrous points of view from a variety of commentators. I’d say on the whole that’s quite a good thing, though it does tend to result in some absolutely preposterous headlines from time to time.
LoL probably about 30MW for the whole country.
I like the concept but here are some issues:

True (01) / False (00) - I assume that you will not support hexadecimal notation (00)

How will you note when its a textual semicolon from a string separator. IE: "a":";","b":"1" vs. a;;b;1

How do you tell a numeric value from a string character? IE: "a":1;"b":1 vs. a;1;b;1

Nulls what is test or is null: "x":null vs. x;000 < is this a string value, a hex value, or a null?
Not sure why this was downvoted. It's a good (and correct) point.
> Similarly, Google might reasonably infer that if someone is searching for their own race, sexuality, or religion, they're probably more interested in information or support groups than porn.

Sure, if they have data to back that assumption up. My interpretation was that the parent commenter wanted them to make assumptions just based on politics, which I think is a bad idea.
With 1 to 10 people you know what exactly who does, his weak and strong points etc. They also know you personally and possibly trust you. You also manage by talking to people personally and you have direct control over pretty much everything you decide to. You see impact of your decisions pretty fast and directly. It is easy to make exceptions and situational decisions.

With 1000-10000 you never seen most employees faces. You have no idea what they do whole day. They don't know you either and likely don't trust you. You manage by making general rules and by talking to few people directly under you. You dont see impact of your decisions directly, you have to guess from hints and long time.
> So the prefab parts are just going to put themselves together in the factories? Then walk themselves to the job site? And erect and inspect themselves?

This is "blue sky" thinking - but what if, just imagine - the bricks were each a robot?

That is - your house is a robot you live in. Maybe it could even reconfigure itself as needed. Complete science fiction at the moment, and may never be practical - but who knows?

I get what you're saying though - there'll always be some kind of jobs for humans - but they might be the low-hanging, anyone can do them type of jobs...
How We Saved Hundreds of QA Hours: A Non-Coders Experience with Calabash-Android
Why not a 1,000,000,000x engineer? There, I win.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the random secret key must be synchronised somehow, surely? I'm talking about in the case that someone gains access to all your synchronised data.
What exactly is declining? Their MAU, Time Spent, # Advertisers, and Revenue numbers are all increasing (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/). Maybe they're just declining in eyes of SV bubble residents.
> "...our brain is not building one model of the world. It’s building thousands of models in parallel!"

Isn't this discussed in Minsky's "Society of Mind"?
Ask HN: How to find companies that need new workplace due to expansion?
How do you determine companies that are outgrowing their existing work places due to expansion and may need new office / warehouse?
I'd be very interested to hear in what way you think GKE is nicer to work with, care to elaborate?
Honestly, I was not aware you could convey so much emotion in a simple cartoon. This is just outstanding work.
You have to be smart enough, and humble enough to recognize when someone else's vision is what your company needs at the moment. I'd imagine that a good CEO would be able to both simultaneously provide the direction of a company while also accepting input, on how to actually get there. Navigation, and steering are two different things
It's crazy how nearby the horizon looks on the moon in these. It's just right over there.
Ford sells hundreds of thousands of vehicles a month. I wouldn't put them in quite the same boat as MySpace.
“using advertisement to peddle overpriced junk to the uneducated masses” using advertising to sell products? like every single company ever? also that is their point, they sell a physical product (what you bitterly call junk) that’s it, unlike Facebook that deliverily hides or obfuscates the fact that its customers are really the product, and before you start saying that they never lied because it is in their T&C, tell that to eldery people who simply join to see the photos of their grandchildren, they can easily simply chose not to buy an Apple product because of the price tag is visible at plain sight, but the price for Facebook use is not so easy visible.
http://musicsuggestions.ninja
use sshuttle -dns $server
Does astrology actually posit a mechanism? I thought that part was left unspecified.
No, all Prius prior to model year 2017 used NiMh batteries. Some in 2017 were starting to ship with Li-ion batteries.
It likely did not, I edited a few times.
I was mistaken, one is already written, but not merged.

So we're already in bikeshed mode ;)
If Google's human inputs have racial bias that is certainly something that should be fixed. DuckDuckGo has safe search on by default.

> That a query for an innocent term such as 'black girls' even with 'safe search off' should not result in a bunch of porn.

I don't know what results the search term 'black girls' should return. If you just search for it, it doesn't return any porn for me. If you're seeing porn, your search results make reflect your search history since Google will customize your results based on your search history. Interesting.

That being said, it should return whatever people are searching for. We must be careful not to cross the line from fixing mistakes to politically correct moral censorship.
A 'Duty to Hate Britain'
How Walt Disney Imagineering, Nvidia Building Millennium Falcon Attraction
show us wordpressers and drupalers how to separate shit? good luck with that.
As horrific as it was, the NYT's "Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards, Indictment Says" bizarre headline actually made by day :)

I had to do a double take and check that I hadn't been redirected to The Onion.
> even on Wikipedia

Did you edit Wikipedia / add a reference to the paper?
Dan Rather, after offering sage advice[1] to Mark Zuckerberg regarding the recent FB/CA drama, concluded with:

> This is about Facebook's survival, pure and simple. If you don't change things, people will leave faster than you can say "MySpace".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObNf_gUXxE
That doesn't make sense. By your reasoning, Google is reselling your location data by allowing Android apps to access it after getting your permission.
various stir fries are great for that
Bricklayers are probably safe from a robot that can perfectly replicate human bricklaying skill. What they're not safe from is whatever machine-built module that can be easily assembled by unskilled labor on site replaces brick walls.
Maybe UKIP leader Nigel Farage could make one more visit and give him a 4g Modem and then forget why he went there in the first place.
I have a sneaking suspicion that with every dissolved monopoly future monopolies get stronger. They must religiously case study all prior cases and strengthen the right areas.
I would almost guarantee you that the general public (as well as tech people, judging by the comments I've seen here) has no idea how Apple is different from everyone else when it comes to privacy/security, despite their attempts to talk about it wherever possible. It's simply too abstract and only reveals itself in acute ways when these breaches happen.
I don't believe you unless you can give me a real statistic
Show HN: Fund$nap – Personal finance app made easy
IIUC Mastodon is a twitter alternative; https://diasporafoundation.org/ is more targeted at replacing FB.
Thank god. I initially thought anybody could do it.
Have read the ULA?

The Apple Privacy Policy was updated on
January 19, 2018.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

What personal information we collect

* When you create an Apple ID, apply for commercial credit, purchase a product, download a software update, register for a class at an Apple Retail Store, contact us or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, and credit card information.

* When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Apple will use such information to fulfill your requests, provide the relevant product or service, or for anti-fraud purposes.

* In certain jurisdictions, we may ask for a government issued ID in limited circumstances including when setting up a wireless account and activating your device, for the purpose of extending commercial credit, managing reservations, or as required by law.

BTW: How your iPhone is tracking your every move

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/11056373/How-y...
I've taken two Sabbaticals on my own, self funded:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/leaving-full-time-jobs/

However it was a struggle to get work this time, which is probably more dependent on the market I moved to than anything else. I decided I probably wouldn't make this jump again unless I had something lined up.

I liked that she was able to delay her start on this project and she away even given unpaid leave from her employer. This might be a great option the next time I decided to take time off to work on BigSense.

I know a professor who is trying to get me a fellowship at his university back in Ohio. If I could get one of these three month grants, combined with a fellowship, I could probably line them up with after I'm through with the big project at my current job, to make a nice transition into moving back to University and working on my PhD.
For some reason I'd not considered HN compromised, but considering the nature of Ycombinator and their investments, it's probably safe to assume that all my activity here is 'out in the open'.

All my comments and writing style, all my alts, and all my opinions are compromised, and it's more a matter of 'when' than 'if' as to the leaking of this data to entities that I emphatically do not want to know all this information.

And linking this information to my person is probably easier than it already seems in my occasional thought experiments.
The latest changes to the international building code include some rules allowing masonry under wood, which is why there's an explosion of midrise apartment buildings in my area at least.
> The move came after Assange tweeted on Monday challenging Britain’s accusation that Russia was responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian former double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury earlier this month.

So it's actually not so wrong to think that Russia is not >proven< guilty after all.

I doubt that here, on HN, most of us would go so deep with conspiracy, but rational thinking did not lead me to the conclusion that Putin is responsible this time.

Of course we don't know the whole story, but shouldn't people like Assange reveal it?

Also, why would the UK-Ecuador relations be in danger of a tweet of a fugitive?
If that delays things by X years, then that mean X times 40k people will die.

That's the tradeoff.

Yes these rules and regulations are important, but are they worth X times 40k lives?

Perhaps one could argue that they are. Just as long as you are honest about the trade off of "I am willing to sacrifice 40K times X lives, because this issue is THAT important".
Journalist writing article
I hope I'm not offending anyone by intruding on this forum, but I'm a journalist whose beat includes Silicon Valley.
I'm hoping to write a story getting perspectives from Bay Area coders and others working in tech on the all the issues that have been written about and debated in Silicon Valley in the past year.
It seems to have been a remarkable 12 months, with the upheaval at Uber, issues with fake news and political advertising on social media, and now the focus on data privacy with the news about Facebook.
I'm really interested in what people who work in tech or are studying computer science make of all of the cultural and ethical discussions now happening about the tech sector, the demands for politicians and regulators and media pundits. Obviously tech isn't the only industry that has come under fire, but it's unique in that there is a sense of optimism and idealism about the ability of technology to improve lives that seems to underpin so much of the industry (as compared to Wall Street for instance.)
I'd really be grateful to speak to people who are open to sharing their perspectives. While I'd prefer to speak to people on the record, I'm open to speaking on background to those who are concerned about how sharing their thoughts with a journalist might impact on the current jobs careers or career opportunities.
I think I’d mainly be interested in talking to people who work/study in the SF Bay Area.
I'm trying not to torque this too much, so I'm pretty open to hearing a variety of opinions. Maybe all of this is a lot of noise to some people. Perhaps others see it as a sea change. I'm really just interested in getting perspectives of people working in an industry that has come under so much public scrutiny recently.
My email and twitter handle is in my profile. Please be in touch. Happy to share more info about me and my media outlet and the story I'm writing, just wanted to keep this post (relatively) short.
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The Empty Piety of the American Press
We were having a discussion about this at work and figure it's worth pointing out any potential regulation will affect the industry as a whole. That's obvious of course but I get the feeling some of those who are pro-regulatory forget there's more than just Facebook that would be affected.
One last challenge. Can you do all the setup without being root?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/651/. For someone who spends his time distributing leaked government documents, he sure has a … peculiar understanding of how the law works. (At least, how it works 99.9% of the time).
>I don't think so, it's just a cheap car. It is well above state minimums (I think minimums are 25k/50k and it's 100k/300k). It includes comprehensive coverage but with a $2k deductible (mostly just useful for rental cars since $2k deductible is most of the value of the car). It has been as low as $20/month in the past.

That's crazy cheap. The cheapest I could find for state minimum in Georgia was $60 and that was answering the questions as a perfect driver.

>I specifically mentioned that they did.

But the numbers don't add up. There's no way you spent just $300 in 60,000 miles on maintenance. Oil changes alone would be $300ish. It should also be a brake job, new tires, and things like new wipers. On top of that you replaced an alternator, battery, and a belt change?
According to the first sentence of the article, gravity is one suggested mechanism.
I'm sure it is a moderate downvote?
Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?
> No. It absolutely should be allowed. Sites like the internet archive exist to preserve internet data.

For now. But one day they'll come for those archives too.
I just posted some anecdata. I wonder why you get so worked up about it.
> carcinogens such as sugar.

Has any major medical body ever classified sugar as a carcinogen, or is this bro-science?
I wondered whether "17 miles" is a good estimate for how far I am from a cow, and now I'm trying to do a sort of Fermi problem in my head and realizing I'm out of practice for bad job interviews.
“What I cannot create, I do not understand” – Richard Feynman
On Google I get the same results as the writer of the article for 'black girls', on Bing I get a bunch of porn. So it looks as if Google has permanently adjusted the results for this particular query.
facebook has this “trending” section where they show ~3 trending news headlines with a little blurb under each. It’s usually near the top. On the right sidebar on desktop. And yeah it’s often times very depressing headlines such as those. You don’t get that?
Then we should just fix or abolish the senate. It's incredibly undemocratic.
Yeah, I should proof read :-)
"Just", "Obviously", "Basically", "Essentially".

Just remove these words from most prose. I essentially do this to my prose and when I'm editing others'. It basically doesn't change the meaning, and obviously improves the style and tone.

If it were obvious, you wouldn't be saying it. If you can dismiss it with "just", you're probably being too defensive.

Respect your reader. Always. These words do not convey resepct. Remove them. Your readers will love you for it, and that should be your goal.
Snack Attack Robby the Self-Driving Robot Delivers Food to GTC Attendees
HackerNews often snuffs out the websites it links to -- the "hug of death". Damn it. Guess I'll come back in 20 minutes.
Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more?

Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.
Composing Serverless Functions: Getting Started with Fission Workflows
So, if you get an email notification about a service you rely on for critical infrastructure, make sure you follow up on it to be sure there are no critical impacts, rather than tossing it aside after a casual glance without understanding the impact.
Well, their widespread acceptability seems to be declining, as indicated by all these articles and quittings lately. Presumably widespread quitting of users would only come after, not before, some high profile upsets and mistakes.

And # of Advertisers and Revenue are proportional to how people think they're doing, not how they're actually doing, and would presumably only decline after a mass exodus.
Your description does not seem to be consistent with my reading of the laws that are referenced from this page: http://azbikelaw.org/speed-limit/
Cars also get replaced regularly and have practically no network effect (for the typical user).

Every time your Tacoma frame rusts out you're presented with an opportunity to switch to a differen't company's product.
Because a blog at scale is still a complicated piece of software? You need to implement caching, DoS protection, security - something a hosted blog vendor might have experience in.
Am I the only one that finds this page clunky and awkward to navigate?
Deciphering an Ancient Medical Text with the Help of X-Rays
Well it was based off Harvard's yearbook which was called facebook. At least that was my understanding.
Incredibly.
I'm sure the next “better” McDon't will just microwave burgers prefab'ed many kmiles away.
Except, post Brexit and post Trump, it has become something of a parody of itself. The headlines seem to be intentionally troll-baity of late?
This kind of defeats the point of 2FA. With your current setup, if anyone accesses your vault and gets your password they also get your 2FA key.

At that point it’s no longer two-factor, it’s just two steps in the same authentication.
>DNS leaks can be prevented by using a generic DNS provider such as 8.8.8.8

You mean leaking to Google doesn't count as leaking?

Your namespaces suggestion is interesting, but easy and foolproof?
Sure, but there’s potentially a large gulf between “some people attempt to rationalize astrology by saying” and “astrology says.”
Watch the video. The victim was not "distracted."
They are a container company, not a scale your blog + scale your database + scale your cache + scale your security company.
This might be the worst version of this type of page I've ever seen.
No, in fact literally the only other top level comment says the same exact thing.
Whole reason I came here to comment.
This is a great example of how not to implement a scrolling website
I think it's possible we're actually in violent agreement due, in part, to our different result set from Google. Even "incognito mode" doesn't return for me the set of salacious results reported by the author.
Oh, hey! I was gonna say, your writing style seems familiar for some reason but I knew you by your previous handle. Nice to see you're still around
Himynamesunny
> if the Russian Embassy bought political ads on Facebook, I think that would be fine

Definitely not if they were political ads for a US election. It is illegal for foreign nationals without permanent resident status to participate in election campaign activities in that manner[1].

[1] https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/
Google Chrome will finally support casting local files
I think the turning point was the acquisition by Murdoch. Up to then nobody was taking much notice.