skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think the censorship happens in a pretty biased way. There is still a lot of very problematic content in places like /r/The_Donald that just gets let slip because there are so many users and the mods are very influential. Other political subreddits like /r/socialism however, even if they have a lot of users, will get treated much more harshly by site admins if they are ever reported.

Similar things happen with discourse on facebook and twitter, where calls for ethnic cleansing by white people are often overlooked, while angry posts by people of colour that offend white people will get deleted or get users banned. It's really no wonder that US politics has gone the way it has when there is so much McCarthyism embedded in the moderation of these public forums.
Obviously, this is the same compare banana with pineapple. As linus live, linux will never be microkernel.
Not only used in South Africa, but I had a similar thought as well.
The revenue generally goes down over time, while copyright tax goes up. At some point the two intersect and that is where it doesn't make economic sense to continue paying for copyright.
I've always found huge success in the mornings and huge flops in the evenings.
I think the questions were also horrible. Watching two days of testimony it seemed only Congresswoman Dingell from Michigan had any grasp of how tracking technology works.

My big takeaway is that we need more engineers in congress.
>>Hacks are seen as "good" C programming, and encouraged, so this kind of thing happens.

Perhaps among new developers. Us old-timers who have to maintain this stuff have learned to avoid "clever" code rather quickly and admonish those who write it. Elegant, to me, includes "easy to read and understand."
> Zuckerberg claimed not to know what "shadow profiles" are

Did he really claim outright to not know what they are? Anyone have that quote from the testimony?
They wrote a compatibility layer and run modified Linux drivers inside their hypervisor. That's separate from the Linux kernel that they use to boot and subsequently manage the hypervisor.
Armchairing but it seems likely that some of the data can be reused, for example historical data like maybe country of origin, residential addresses, etc.
I've often thought it would be useful to encourage developers to make at least one project for an old computer or games console before they make anything more modern, just so they learn about the importance of constraints and what not. Maybe after that they might stop trying to throw resources at problems to make them go away and start thinking how their code actually works.

I also believe game designers/developers should work on at least one retro game or mod for similar reasons. Teaches them how to actually design levels without thinking about the artistic side, and (thanks to some brutal moderation requirements on the sites hosting this stuff) forces them to get better at game design rather than just walk through Steam/the app store's non processes.
Does he just have some cognitive dissonance, is he covering up, or does he really not understand how his business operates?

I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

-Upton Sinclair
Automated Canary Analysis at Netflix with Kayenta
I'm a creative professional and I, along with other people I know, still prefer to remain on Apple platforms.

I guess now you have to argue about and form a consensus on the definition of "professional" huh?
When you're ill, you have no choice but buying medication whatever the price asked. $84000 represents more than an entire life of salary in Africa. So essentially giving a monopoly on medication to a company is equivalent to giving them slaves
This dissertation goes into great detail on this topic: http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~tojot/papers/TowardBetterCompu...
Transforming data with zeros
You can query spreadsheets with SQL (and probably should)
I find it bizarre that they single out fishing as a job that's likely to be automated away. I don't see this happening any time soon. Fishing crews are already pretty streamlined, and many things on fishing ships are mechanized. I can see automation replacing more of the post-catch processing on giant factory ships, but I don't see robots costing many other fishing jobs in the near future.
Agreed. The successful consultants I knew have the ability to get along with business people and understand their needs. The actual technology skills seems secondary. You have to be good at tech but number one is people skills by far.
Yes. I talked to them about an adjacent vertical but they were super focused on the potential employees/contractors market. (This was about a year ago, so maybe they've changed their focus a bit.)
The demo on the website is pretty interesting, especially with the amount of information they can get. The "previous salary" was pretty interesting - is that something that companies actually check?

Also, is there a risk of abusing this? What information does Checkr need to run a report, and how do they verify that the person they are running the report on is actually applying for the relevant position?
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> I use iTunes 10.6.3 and sync to an iPod.

> That keeps track of play counts on both devices, lets me make smart playlists and playlist folders, and syncs music, contacts, and calendars all over USB without any cloud services prying into my personal data.

I use the latest version of iTunes and an iPhone with the latest iOS on it, and still use them in exactly the same way you describe. Like you, I prefer to have complete control over my own data, without passing it through third-party cloud services. So far, Apple has not taken away the ability to do this, despite their heavy marketing push for iCloud. (I literally have never used iCloud at all for anything, ever.)
>The problem with saying it’s the tax code is that there are so few else who also became that rich

The whole point of the article is that there are more ultra wealthy now than there ever were before.

>Personally I think it’s luck

So what, some people are just luckier now?
The files you get from iTunes are also unprotected. Artists can choose to offer lossless format, in which case iTunes will give you the files in their proprietary format ALAC, but there is still no DRM and you can easily convert to FLAC/WAV.
Here's how Zuckerberg's testimony works:

1. When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows.

2. When he says he knows, and that the answer is "more AI," he doesn't actually know.
Quite a few paralegal jobs have been removed simply by adding document search capabilities. Automation that cuts the work down by 50% can have huge impacts even without dealing with all the edge cases.
Exokernels aren't necessarily ascetic like a microkernel.

And Linux on which L4?
I listen to music all the time (my Spotify end-of-year stats are terrifying), but I think that's conducive to productivity rather than an impediment.

Podcasts are different however, I'm not sure I could listen to them in the same way
Part of the tedium is only having a few registers so programming in assembly begins to resemble solving the towers of Hanoi puzzle. But, it's certainly something every programmer should give a try at some point, if for no other reason than just a mental exercise.
Maybe that's outsourced to another company that does a ton of calling? I agree, I'm also very curious the various ways they obtain data.
> We want friction in communicating. Not only do we want it, we have to have it.

This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not
thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what
you are doing.

Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
> Does he just have some cognitive dissonance, is he covering up, or does he really not understand how his business operates?

He's covering up. He has an history of doing that.
Goldman Sachs asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
You raise some good points...a ranked feed is certainly also not perfect...but at least you got the flexibility to do all the things you proposed.
I do recall hearing live that he said he wasn't familiar with the term "shadow profiles." This may have been honest, I hadn't heard it before this hearing either, but then again I'm not the CEO of Facebook, so his answer is certainly troubling
Would a land value tax be priced on farms as well? I wouldn’t think so, else you risk pricing farmers out of business. Have you noticed how many wealthy people own vineyards? Put some greenhouses on it and call it a farm.

The wealthy are clever, or they can hire some downright clever people to help them. Better solutions are needed.
As a Go dev that learned programming via Zed Shaw's learn python the hard way, I have to say this tutorial made me want to learn rust.
I've bookmarked for later, once I'm done learning dart/flutter.

Thanks Donovan
So when they recover the cost of R&D they should align with the the cheaper price?
Also, what's the email address used for? Is it compulsory?
I'm not sure how you're defining optimists and pessimists, since more time for artistic passions and inventive endeavors almost certainly also means spending more time watching TV or otherwise finding and making entertainment.
Anyone care to comment on why this is interesting (I don't want to read it before I know what it is about)?
How to transition to Emacs as a python editor
It would seem pretty nigh-on inconceivable that someone could build a business as successful as Facebook in hoovering up ad budgets, but to have no idea how they did it.
> alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die

Thanks for reminding me of that.

That got me thinking that there should be a subreddit for old internet stuff. And, of course, there is: [1], though sadly this is almost all memes from the early web days, not pre-web. There's also [2] and [3], but they mostly seem to focus on current BBS and Usenet needs, not on the BBS' and Usenet of the pre-web days.

There's also:

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/AsOldAsTheInternet/

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/
I think the biggest thing is the HUGE disconnect with what people think Facebook is doing, and what Facebook is actually doing.

I think the whole point of this is to raise awareness about of the scope of Facebook's data collection-- It's unfathomably enormous.

If more average people had a better understanding of what Facebook was tracking, they'd be outraged. Zuckerberg's goal in this was to keep the wool pulled over their eyes. That's why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy / tracking settings.
Here’s what the new Gmail looks like
Or maybe more engineers becoming aides or staff to these politicians?
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Zuckerberg reluctantly acknowledged that Facebook gathers information on people who aren't signed up for Facebook for what he said were "security purposes."
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That's a pretty disingenuous way to phrase Zuckerberg's response to a question of whether Facebook uses cookie tracking for logged-out users. Which of course it does, and it's of course used for security purposes; one has to be able to unify sessions from people with multiple accounts to do the most basic of bad-actor tracking against the most basic of attack scenarios.
Fair point. I can't speak to the regulations or ethics here. But in practice, with the number of ICs being activated daily, I doubt a low-level employee at an on-demand startup really cares or notices if the background check was run today vs. last week vs. last month.

Even if it has to re-submit each time, given the volume of reports Checkr runs, it could negotiate such that the marginal cost of running a report decreases each time it is run for a given individual.
The only way I've found pair programming to work is if you have a junior dev drive, and a senior dev "coaches" them.
So why should anyone trust him? People should use open source social networks that can be audited.
Sounds about right actually, good call.
So Long, Yinz: Why Midwestern City Accents Are Fading
The certainty of quantum randomness
Ted Wilkinson has a data-based TED Talk that goes over some of the negative affects of wealth inequality[0].

I used to assume other people being rich caused no harm to me, but turns out that on a societal level, there's decent evidence that it does hurt us.

It's also worth noting that it would be dishonest to present the options as current system or no distribution vs. total redistribution. The argument is generally for more distribution than we have, but way, way below full redistribution.

Full redistribution would be very harmful to society as a whole, but there's evidence for a significant gain to increasing beyond the current level in the US. Wilkinson focuses on the evidence that this is true more than he does the causes (iirc -- it's been a while since I watched his talk), but it's not hard to come up with some possible reasons -- regulatory capture on the high end, dead-weight loss from losing the productivity due to malnorishment, insufficient education, insufficient healthcare on the low end. (Malnorishment and tropical diseases clearly results in productivity loss in poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa, but even in the US, simply providing multivitamins to "working-class" students for three months did very little for most, but for 17% of them boosted the IQ 15 points. What do you think funding that would do to the economy 10-20 years from now?)

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10706232
The nice part of evolution is that most of the times you can see some leftover of the intermediate steps. For example, for the eye you can find animals with different complexity of eyes from a simple flat photosensitive area to a full eye of vertebrates (or cephalopods, that have a different but similar eye design).

So in most case you can get some people to specialize and understand the simple models and create concepts and tools to understand the more complex models.

In electronic circles you still have floating around a lot of mini-integrated circuits with 20-50 transistors that are easy to understand. And you can learn to group individual transistors in mall groups that do something useful (for example limit the output current, simulate a resistors, amplification, ...)

Then you can learn to decode the intermediate models with 100-1000 transistors, and then the models with a few thousand of transistors, and then ...

So, it's very suspicious that there are no animals with a minibrain with is finite automata of 3 states.

There are also some cases where all the intermediate steps dissapared, for example the transition form prokaryote(bacteria) to eukaryote (animal, plants, protozoa, ...) And IIRC nobody understand the intermediate steps. But there are some clues, many structures are shared between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, mitochondria are probably trapped bacteria (they have their own DNA and too many external membranes, ...)
Organizer here. We tried a theme last jam and it didn't go so well.
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> (Zuckerberg reluctantly acknowledged that Facebook gathers information on people who aren't signed up for Facebook for what he said were "security purposes.")

This sort of information gathering is necessary for DDoS/Spam/Fraud prevention and so on. I'm not saying I trust Zuckerberg wasn't hiding something else, but also I understand why he didn't want to publicly comment on the heuristics they use to combat attackers.

Although at this point I don't know why Zuckerberg would be obfuscating if they really have detailed advertising profiles on logged-out users. (What would said advertising profiles be used for? Selling them to other advertisers?)
I think the gap in this case is not as wide as you think given that it is only looking at this one image. Had the network been trained for one art style in particular it may be able to pick up on that detail similar to if a person had studied many paintings in that style.
Do share, should you end up with something others can enjoy.
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> When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows

I don't think we have reason to believe the CEO is deeply familiar with all the strategies FB uses for session unification and user tracking. It's a fast-moving field with a lot of technical detail that a CEO doesn't actually need to keep day-to-day tabs on.
Didn't he confound PayPal.
"I'll have my team get back to you on that" sounds so much nicer than "I plead the fifth" doesn't it though?
Taxing the rich seems to be one of the hardest things in the world to do.

In the US at least, the rich (top 1%) pay almost 40% of all taxes. Look at the top 10% and it's 71% of all taxes.[1]

Why do you say it's hard to tax the rich?

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
The Mueller worship never ceases to amaze me. This is a man who was key to spreading the lies about WMD in Iraq that led to the most disastrous war of the 21st century, who horribly bungled the (still unsolved) anthrax investigation, leading to the suicides of multiple people he wrongly accused of being responsible, and oversaw Bush's construction of the surveillance state. No matter how much you hate Trump or think he is guilty of a crime, you should keep in mind that Mueller has been an incompetent agent of the police state for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTDO-kuOGTQ
> and no distro has removed multiarch support, and likely won't.

My only concern is, that with general dropping of 32-bit, multiarch versions of packages will be bitten by bit rot, because no one will be maintaining them.
List of resources to learn distributed systems
The reason PC and Mobile hasn't converged is because of the lack of good inputs that aren't mouse and keyboard. As long as there's no good way to input text on mobile, there will never be a convergence of those two verticals.
Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates are the world’s most favorite human beings, survey
Can you link the article about Google tracking you even when location wasn't on?

I am curious because I more or less came to that same hypothesis, but had no hard evidence. I noted before that when I turned on and off location services, the GPS lock was near instantaneous (i.e. when I turned on location, Google Maps located me with GPS precision immediately. There could be other ways of how this happens, it was noted in another post of mine, but that had still had me a bit suspicious. I replaced Google Play Services with microG recently (https://lineage.microg.org/). I then saw that it was MicroG, NOT the OS, that had control over my location, and MicroG still tracks my location when Location is off(https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...).

While none of this conclusively points to Google Play Services tracking me when it is off, the way that Android is set up makes me very strongly suspect that's what they did.
Not funny, it's just an email harvesting website masquerading as a joke
I know what they look like, but I also know about services like Sift Science. I used "deterring" rather than stronger words for a reason. On a couple of former teams, I had to deal occasionally with spammer scum.
“We gave AString a number of ease-of-use improvements that make it easier to work with and encouraged engineers to replace std::string”

Are you absolutely sure this itself won’t become Foundational technical debt? You seem overly confident, given the metrics, that replacing std::string is a good decision.
I was doing something similar:

var downvoted = document.querySelectorAll('.comment > span:not(.c00)');
for(let i = 0, c = downvoted.length; i < c; i++)
{
downvoted[i].style.color = '#70798C';
}
People could still use nicks.

That's basically what the old internet and old BBS systems were like, before anyone cared to track and spy on their users.
alt-truth, that made me chuckle. I should `#define alttruth false` and then replace all instances of false with alttruth for an April 1st commit.

But I understand that mentality. I see myself as a very logical person compared to the general population, yet when my doctor tells me I need to lower my cholesterol, I ignore her. What does she know? What they taught her in Medical school, and I don't trust that at all. She doesn't have the time in our rushed 10 minute appointments to debate me on the subject, or even give me a recommended reading list.

I feel the need to do my own research on the subject by reading medical papers but I haven't had the energy or inclination yet. From what I have bumped into over the years, it seems your basic HDL and LDL numbers don't say much about risk of heart disease or stroke.
Fat shaming is pretty effective. It worked on me and others in my peer group. I don't like being fat and I don't like being around people who are fat. It's unhealthy and unattractive and represents, to me, a lack of control and discipline. I look at someone who can't give up Sugar the same way as someone who can't give up cocaine, as a person who needs help. Possibly in the form of an intervention.
No. There is no need to be able to do this.
Really could be entitled: "^A(?nother)? ?(?/w.+ )?flaw in Comcast.*$"
The most fascinating thing about human behavior is that in spite of what people know, they still trust Facebook.

Hell, I've been a Facebook app developer. I'm deeply familiar with the breadth and depth of information Facebook allowed an app to harvest ca. 2008 or so.

I still use FB multiple times a day because I don't care about my privacy vis-a-vis the things I post there and that my friends post there.
Well, that mostly sounds good ... except your actions seem to contradict your words?

From what I can tell, he wants to look at porn, and he thinks there is nothing wrong with it. Whatever the conclusion of your conversation with him was, he is obviously not convinced that he shouldn't, at best he ends up expressing agreement because he is dependent on you. The only reason why he now does it without you knowing and without any possibility of discussing with you when he sees something that disturbs him is that you force him to, not because he agrees with you. You say that you are not authoritarian, but your actions say the opposite. Either you are exercising power or you are not, whether you dress it up in nice words, doesn't change whether it is authoritarian.

Now, you constantly repeat that you want to protect him from danger, and I guess some of your authoritarian behaviour may hinge on that. After all, authoritarian action is somewhat justified if you know that without it, harm will follow. The problem is that based on what you have written here, you don't know that. You have referenced some extremely unscientific ideas and sources and shown some biases that suggest that you are not rationally evaluating the actual risks and dangers of your child's wishes and your authoritarian responses, but are probably more acting based on your own emotional response. The danger that you are imagining most likely isn't there, but the damage that you do by restricting your child in order to protect him from this imaginary danger is real, both in that it is damaging his trust in you, and in that you are making him internalize that his probably perfectly healthy sexual curiousity is a problem that he has to fight against.
> I think this is the biggest part, and less the "sleep in your car while you commute for 5 hours each way!" which sounds fucking terrible.

I'm actually looking forward to that. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "dying in your sleep."
> If, say, US would pass laws that allow them to tax everything that touches/ does business with a wealthy individual - that would make it very hard for said individual to avoid taxes

Who would pass these laws; politicians, right? The same politicians who are influenced by lobbyists, right?

You might then outlaw lobbying but the wealthy would just find another way to bring influence, wouldn’t they?