skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me very sad. When I read about Vaunt I was very excited that finally someone was making a wearable that provided a lot of information quickly without needing something as clumsy as looking at your watch. A quick glance and done without the overt signals of looking at the wrist.

I played with Google Glass for a few days and loved having it. The audio I could do without, the camera was not very useful to me... But the heads up display was phenomenal. I was hoping to recapture that in an inexpensive wearable like Vaunt and suddenly it's gone.
This is a great article for demonstrating how mean and median can be used to manipulate perception.
You would have to store login data on your PC somewhere. 2FA wouldn't be possible unless you had some kind of interaction with the script at runtime.
http://archive.is/Seejz
Some argue that the recent FB and Instagram API neuterings are in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. However, last September, Facebook silently neutered the ability for people to gather posts from public Facebook pages via the Graph API, which was damaging for FB Page research: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1838195226492053/
Not viable, graphene isn't strong enough.
No, the GP has the right idea. The availability heuristic also causes emotionally-potent events to seem more recent than they were, because they're "available." Because recent events are easier to remember, our brains assume incorrectly that easier-to-remember events must be more recent. When, really, there are other reasons an event can be easier to remember.

This is the logic behind the "climate of fear" the media creates—every time a tragedy is made into a huge news story, it becomes semi-permanently available as an exemplar to your brain of that kind of thing happening; and then, when you try to figure out when the last time that kind of thing happened was (which is, in turn, a heuristic people tend to use for how often something happens) the highly-available exemplar in your mind makes you still feel like it "just happened" even if it was years ago.

(Or, to put that another way: everyone in America who was alive when 9/11 happened, still thinks of terrorist attacks against the US as happening far more often than they do; everyone in America who was born after 9/11 has a better-calibrated estimate. The scope of the tragedy—and especially of the reporting of the tragedy—caused it to be "too available" to people, permanently biasing their time-scale and frequency estimates.)
Because they were only a risk to themselves.
Well, it's not a Facebook replacement for the masses. It's more of the alternative in the way that Linux used to be an alternative to Windows long time ago. Linux was a nightmare for the majority, but for tech-inclined people (with a lot of spare time one might add) it offered a lot more safety and power, at the price that you had to learn how to set it up and use properly first. Same applies here. If you share data that shouldn't be shared it will not protect you, but if you know what you're doing it gives you a lot more control and safety.
Running a Government Department on Ruby for Over 12 Years (slides)
Maybe one should be able to put a subreddit in 'unmoderated' view and see what's getting moderated out so the community has a little more transparency. Yeah, you'll have to wade through some sewage, but at least you can opt-in on occasion to make sure you're not being unwittingly moderated into an echo chamber.

I think this hits on the underlying problem I see with Reddit and similar forums, though. Look at the evolution of subs like /r/LateStageCapitalism or /r/FatPeopleHate or /r/Incels or T_D or TRP or Flat Earth or Broneyism or whatever. I don't think in all cases the communities started out as extreme as they eventually became.

I'm not defending their original charters by any means, I just think there's some kind of sociological reality or formula these subs are tapping into that allows them to purposefully moderate/evolve into echo chambers and bring a community of followers along with them, to a point where the community even starts to self-moderate to the extreme -- but they don't just start out that way.

It's almost like you can take some ridiculous idea or some interesting but archaic belief system, build some interest in it using humor or shock value, then once you have an audience with critical mass slowly turn it into a cult without anyone noticing, like the boiling frog analogy (hmm, the irony of that comparison just now struck me). I almost want to try this myself with something absurd just to prove the theory.

And I'm sure this isn't a new concept in sociology or anthropology and there are people researching how it works at Internet scale. Can anyone point me to what it's called?
CloudKit is using Cassandra/Solr:

- http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p540-shraer.pdf
Seconded. For those of us without Facebook accounts, it would be lovely if someone wouldn't mind pasting (or gist'ing) the content of the OP, please.

Edit: Thanks, @vichu.
The making of Mark Zuckerberg
I moved four hours away from my family when I was 22 years old. I moved from a small town where I had lived all of my life, to a larger city with better opportunities.

Military families move constantly. I have a friend who was constantly being relocated for his job. It happens.

If the job market dried up where I live now, I would pick up and move with no second thoughts.
Then the other option is to do a small take home test. Are you ok with that?
I think Citus is not really ACID.

Spanner (and to an extent its less mature OSS descendants Cockroach and TiKV) has more comparable goals, but is fairly different architecturally. For example, FoundationDB only requires N+1 replicas instead of 2N+1 to achieve N failure tolerance (even lots of databases with much weaker guarantees are in the latter category!), doesn't trust clocks at all, doesn't lose performance when transactions cross replica sets, and uses optimistic instead of pessimistic concurrency.

Also FoundationDB (and TiKV) make a distributed, transactional key/value store available as an API, while Spanner and Cockroach expose only a relational database layer. FoundationDB is designed philosophically with the idea that you want to have a single storage layer to manage operationally but should be able to mix and match data models and query engines above that layer.

On the other hand, FoundationDB doesn't currently have any full fledged high level database layer available. Someone will probably dig up our SQL layer (which was AGPL, I think) but I wouldn't really recommend using it in production because there is no active development team. Someone will probably try porting the SQL layers from TiDB and Cockroach.

Maybe Apple will open source more stuff in the future, but let's not get too greedy!
Extreme polarization is good for page views.
Originally, FDB was a DB supporting 3 models:
- KV
- Document
- Graph

It seems the announcement concerns only the KV one. Someone has information for the 2 other ones?

Thank you.
Now they can ride the "if we were not legit we would have actually done the scam thing but we didn't so we are legit" wave for a while.
That's true of most political subreddits. Try putting a pro-capitalist comment in /r/socialism .
You’re missing the point, it’s not about being pro/con either topic or prudishness.

Porn and white supremacy constituencies are similar in the context of a VC backed company whose trajectory is tied to an equity event. That is that they drive lots of engagement and probably more time on site.

Reading the article, the author’s point was that pursuit of growth at all costs creates bad situations like echo chambers for racists.

Other sites like Stackoverflow avoiding this sort of situation by being intelligent and strategic about pursuing growth.
> novice users

Non-programmers, really. Most people who write in Paper see the markdown as a shortcut, not the underlying truth. This sort of interface for Reddit comments would lower the barrier to entry fairly substantially.

Leaving `#` characters at the start of headings would annoy people more than the ¶ marks in Word. "Why is there this gunk in my text? How do I get rid of it?"
There was also Correct the Record - CTR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
It’s analogous to an open hose with a few bad actors, in that case yes shut the hose and create a better one
Terris in sed
There's no shame in it. Same thing happened to me last week, and I was furious about it. I've resolved not to take any more live coding interviews, on the grounds it is uninformative, degrading hazing. We're composers, but we're being tested as if we're live concert pianists. Then companies complain that there's a talent shortage! This hurts everybody, and it needs to stop. For my part, I will refuse to participate any further.
That definition morphs by time and company. At the last place I worked the IT department was the devs, dbas, net admins, and help desk.
Thanks to DARPA we have things such as the internet, GPS, Siri, and autonomous vehicles. Not to mention the DoD provides us with the security to pursue private ventures.

Go pound sand.
The problem is that a majority of people are just absolutely manipulated by their emotions and dive head first into the feedback loop designed by social media to provide an addictive stream of never-ending engagement.

Wow, harsh. My sense is that the problem is that these other sites are simply not very findable, and Google search results have been getting steadily and measurably worse over the last several years.
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reddit - anarchic garbage = metafilter

metafilter has 12,000 users, not mansions, yachts and tennis star wives. No one is asking metafilter mods about reddit, they're asking people who got rich off reddit, because they respect people who get rich, not people who have well-run, wisely-moderated forums. This is because well-run forums are common, and reddit.coms are not.
Can't blame them, it is a tricky business now.
I do agree to some extent, I mostly despise the mass medias. Especially when you're tech saavy and with the web, they're mostly blurry and late to everything. Also they do create emotional bubbles on stuff that do absolutely nothing (say greece debt, which was the end of the world, then onto the next fad). So I often wanted to disconnect from this. But still my surprise about that event I missed was high and genuine. Maybe I could "quantify" that as higher surprise newsfeed process :p
I don't think it is unreasonable within what I said to differentiate the industry that supports data collection and archiving as a broad process (e.g., those you describe) with those that seek and intent specifically to collect and operationalize data about people without fully informed consent.
EarthNow promises real-time views of the whole planet
Thinking that the government shouldn't step in so that businesses can experiment with whatever they want is an interesting viewpoint when the regulation your pointing out as bad is one to keep this business from hurting others.

When the Wright brothers tested their plane they only put their own bodies at risk. When swarm is throwing up satellites too small to track they are threatening every other satellite and space station in orbit.

Should chemical companies be allowed to ditch their experiments into the local river because it let's them iterate faster? If the answer to that is no, then why should swarm be allowed to throw anything they want into a position to damage other orbital craft?
Who decides what is "trolling"? I think there should be moderators but that it's possible to see what moderators have done and impossible for them to actually delete posts. That way each person can decide if they are happy with the moderation being done.
"Plan to throw one away." This was one of the major thesis statements of The Mythical Man Month, by Fred Brooks. It's one of the hallmark texts on software development. I don't disagree with what you are saying - that we need to be cognizant of time and money - but there is a scary shift happening in software where more emphasis is put on time-to-market above all else, where we are boiling the frog of consumer expectations. Millions of people lose their personal financial information in a hack, and the entire population just shrugs their shoulders. I'm left wondering if this would be the case if we put less emphasis on continuous production deployment, and more on the care and quality of our processes and systems.
Netflix has considered buying theaters to gain an Oscar edge, sources say
Yes. I strongly prefer an offline test, if it realistically wouldn't take more than a few hours.
I mean, they're people. I'm still close friends with a few of them, and I didn't like some of them. It's no different than working with anybody with a disability or an illness (or kids, or elderly parents, or any of the million other human things that can make you a less-than-full-functionality worker bot) - you make the necessary accommodations, work around issues when they arise, and live with it. Specifically, it involved toning down a bro-y, combative work environment (which was a change that I really appreciated).
In my experience it's hard because there are usually a couple of pieces that are kind of broken or don't fit right. I usually have to make a compromise somewhere to finish.
Assembling Ikea furniture is easy in the sense that most people can do it eventually, but it's kind of tedious, easy to make an annoying mistake that requires backtracking and often stressful. People elsewhere in the thread mentioned assembling it with kids around, and often you're putting it together at a hectic time because you've just moved or need the furniture ready and the house clean before having guests, etc. Enough people have had these experiences that the meme is popular.

I don't personally care for mayonnaise. I think the memes are popular precisely because mayonnaise is so popular. A lot of the anti-mayo memes I've seen complaining about mayonnaise are about finding it where you don't expect it or ordering sandwiches without it and still getting it. There are fewer memes ranting about less common ingredients like Buffalo sauce or hummus because you don't have to go out of your way to avoid those.
“Up to x% faster” another marketing term that used to work.
Oh totally. Fizz Buzz shouldn't take you the whole 45 minutes, so the remainder is just a conversation where I dig down in their experience on a hunt for bullshit.
Question for the FoundationDB gurus that are hanging out on this thread: How well does it deal with spotty connectivity? I'm asking because I work on mobile robots, and WiFi and/or LTE connections are always coming and going in unpredictable ways as the vehicle moves about it's environment. Reconnecting every few minutes is normal.
To me the problem usnt fizzbuzz, its “find all matching subtrees in a binary tree” in 45 min at a whiteboard.

I dont need to hit the book to write fizzbuzz, and i could probably code up dfs and bfs without prep but i dont walk around ready to retake my undergrad algoriths midterm. Especially when i really dont even know what the topic will be.

Im aware that the question i posed isnt terribly difficult and perhaps it does say somethingabout me that i need a bit more time to refresh my data structure to do this at a whiteboard.

But i do want to be clear that fizzbuzz is not representative of the 5+ hour whiteboard grilling ive gone through at nany of these interviews.
Trademark is not the same thing as copyright. A work might be affected by both, but "put it under a CC license" does nothing to make the trademark freely usable. To make the trademark freely usable, they simply have to abandon it or create a liberal trademark policy like Mozilla's or Wikimedia's (or even CCs).

(IANAL.)
Requires iOS 11 or higher.

I'll try it some other time. I'm just not ready to give up 10.3.3 on my 6S yet.
Private Intelligence agency #LocalBlox leaked 48M personal data records
Most of the very interesting publications (including The Atlantic) I've found have been through Longform.org or Digg. The latter might be remembered as the site that came to a demise the same time as reddit's rise, but they've since reinvented themselves to become a curator of news features and other amusing tidbits, picked out by reasonable editors (on average).

That said, all this is for nought - what is it that we actually do with said day to day consumption? Ever since I started asking myself two questions for any issue - 1) "What's the issue/problem?" 2) "What am I going to do about it?" - I've realised that most of what I pick up is largely for pointless entertainment and time wasting (not to mention that very few friends truly care about me knowing more "stuff"). With that in mind, I've started to curb my news junkie habit with the goal of focusing on more important stuff.
I bet Palantir still has access...
I think it's very reasonable for the subreddit about Canada to be moderated as a "safe space" free of racist ramblings.

The problem with even mild forms of censorship, is that bad actors can combine it with emotional manipulation and media manipulation to push their own agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofV6cJzILA

Right now, bad actors on the far left are using outrage as a tool to push their own authoritarian agendas. In this, they are aided and abetted by the far right. Both extremes thrive on outrage, especially the outrage that comes from intellectually dishonest censorship.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiRnbNT5uE
I think it's important to distinguish between individual abuse and systemic abuse.

Every one of those agencies has had, in their history, at least some cases of individual abuse (e.g. one particular individual abusing their power). This is unavoidable (because these agencies employ humans, and humans are assholes sometimes) but as long as the situation is appropriately handled at the organizational level (the responsible party is reprimanded in an appropriate way, e.g. let go, tried, ... and practices and protocols are put into place to deal with and prevent these kind of situations) this is OK, because the agency operating is still a net win for humanity.

Most people who are paranoid about these kind of things are so because the media loves to pick up these stories and hype them up and spread fear -- but I don't think it's that much of a problem.

The thing that's really a worry (and that media usually does not report on) is when abuse happens in a systemic fashion, e.g. agencies bending the interpretation of the law to extend their reach. Incidentally, this is exactly what palantirs software is designed to help with, because it can actually enforce these rules.
That's not responsive to what I said. Can you re-read my question and address it directly? There were no speed limits when cars were invented, either.
> Requiring homework is a great way to deter the kind of people companies should be most interested in hiring: those who are not actively looking for a new job.

Yeah. I was pretty interested in a place recently, my initial chat with them seemed great and everything, but I lost interest when they gave me the homework test. It's not that I resented the homework -- hell, I've even worked in a place that had a take-home test which typically resulted in a good signal for a candidate's ability. I just didn't feel like doing more programming shit after doing it all day at work.

I think to make this idea work for candidates that aren't actively looking, a company needs to make it clear what they're offering beyond "we're hiring". Employers have been so in control for decades now that they think they should just be able to hang that phrase out there and get what they want.

(And nobody cares about foosball and free soda as perks anymore, we all know that shit doesn't cost anything.)
Just financially, but never intellectually at least. ;)
How does this compare to redis?
https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
Amazon filed a patent to de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions, sell data to police
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IME, there isn't much reading - one follows sometimes sub-optimal pictures to determine the initial state for a step and the final outcome/exit criterion for the same.
Perhaps what he's trying to say is, "I like money and power."

"The logic" in this case is a proposition about how beings behave. That is, "We can build the largest prison system in history, give law enforcement unlimited surveillance powers and not expect massive injustices." That is simply wrong. Human beings are not like that.
China’s children are its secret weapon in the global AI arms race
Conway's law doesn't make those claims, but this has been tested by researchers and industry giants (a Microsoft team published a paper on this a part of a Vista retrospective) and those papers do make such claims.
I suggest you find and watch some crash videos. You are not in as much control as you'd like to believe. A lot of the time, one bad actor creates a scenario in which the others have no chance to escape.
I'm intrigued by the on the spot performance aspect, so I wonder if anyone has performed a skit at an interview. It's a tempting idea. Some people are intrigued by live performance, especially the kind with constraints like this, people like Frank Abagnale for example.
Ask HN: How to validate a business idea before building the product?
I'm working on a B2B product in a specific niche (http://www.untab.io). Before spending a ton on development or marketing, I'd like to get some indication of whether this is a real problem beyond my own circle of friends and colleagues.

There are some standard ideas on how to find potential customers - e.g. through social networks, personal connections, etc, but I'm curious what has worked for others. Do you cold call? If so, how do you find the right people, especially in larger companies? Do you use paid advertising? Post on social media?
You're mixing up liberal with libertarian.
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I think my favorite part of the build process was when we frobnicated libstdc++:

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/Makefile#L...

And then there were the hijinks we went through to build a cross-compiler with modern gcc and ancient libc (plus the steps to make sure no dependency on later glibc symbols snuck in):

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/build/link...

Ahh... now that was a build system.
Cooks do a stage after a phone / in-person interview where they work in the restaurant for a day or so (multiple days if they are expected to work with different people).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(cooking)
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The other, other option is just refuse to do either. I get all my work from friends I've worked with in the last 20 or so years. I mean if a company insists on these hiring practices, and they continue to get bad applications because of it, the probably aren't going to be around for long anyway.
> Google search results have been getting steadily and measurably worse over the last several years

I have an inclination to agree, but how is that measurable?
Take-home tests. Lower-stress environments for coding tests - working on their own hardware, working remotely, no panel interviews, no actively combative/aggressive interviews. Also, cool aspect of that: all of these options will make the interview process more appealing for everyone. And if the justification for angry/combative/aggressive interviewing is "well, that's how our culture is", I would say the company has a bigger problem to fix.
Yes, I'll admit to that to some extent, but it's a toxic environment when a subreddit like that regularly appears on the front page yet disallows any sort of significant discussion. For similar toxicity reasons they hid The_Donald from the front page, which I'd say is about equally as toxic. So why's the treatment different here?