skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patent reform is fundamentally about business interests, which are non-partisan. Some business want more patent protections, others want fewer. None of them care whether it is a Democrat or a Republican who makes their desired reforms.

Groups like the EFF try to make patent law into a civil rights issue. They'll regularly frame the issues as being about big corporations misusing patents against "the little guy", often a sympathetic figure like the activist and language learning site admin here. They try to get ordinary people riled up about what patent law should be, often by misconstruing facts and simplifying current patent law, which can be quite nuanced.

Actual patent disputes are always between businesses and always concern financial interests. There is always one party who doesn't want to pay licensing fees or wants to do something that the other party doesn't want to license. The businesses could negotiate a deal where they would all make money, or the allegedly-infringing party could "invent around" the patent, but for whatever reason they can't agree on how much money each of them should make and they decide that a lawsuit is a better course of action.

In any case, some businesses will give money to the EFF and the EFF is happy to present views that are compatible with those businesses' interests. Everyone else is just taken for a ride.
That’s why every app has a privacy policy. Technology can only limit access and use cases so much, beyond that you need to rely on regular old legal agreements to provide further guarantees.

This works fine for HIPAA, FERPA, etc., and it works fine for email. No need for anything new, beyond more OAuth scopes.

Edit: I created tickets for more Gmail API scopes. If this is something you care about, star the tickets or whatever:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111096405

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111084656
promoting people out of engineering and into management is among the worst things that an organization can do
I've had to start disabling notifications on just about everything due similar tactics across the app-o-system. Facebook spam was getting nuts; phone vibrating at 2AM because somebody I haven't had contact with in years has updated a picture? Google has even been getting really bad with TV show episode availability updates for shows I have never watched or searched for? Or is that some other app? I think the shark is well below us on notifications.
Quora seems to be on a similar path. Lately the mobile site launches a card directing users to the app store that can’t be dismissed.
I like to think of Voat as 'redditified' 4chan.
I thought it was don't optimize the code prematurely, but at the architechture level, scale and performance must definitly be defined at design time.
I love LineageOS and pretty much most of my devices that can run it, run it. This includes various older Note phablets and Note tablets. It is pretty fast, remains up to date, has great privacy controls, and the Google Apps (one of the biggest power hogs, IME) can be slimmed down or omitted if necessary.
I almost read it as ‘self-serving’ startup
Install a redirector extension (https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect) to redirect reddit.com url to old.reddit.com
This is some bullshit. Trying to exert such rigid control over educational outcomes by favoring people based on their race? Talk about unfair discrimination. It’s 2018 (aka $CURRENT_YEAR), haven’t we grown beyond this fruitless social engineering wheel-spinning?

In a sane world, this kind of legislation would be shot down with cogent arguments from smart and knowledgeable lawmakers. The only reason such ill-conceived ideas become law is because our republic is essentially a popularity contest, and people will apparently vote for a politician who, without thinking things through (or indeed thinking at all), will gladly push legislation rife with feel-good buzzwords and catchphrases of the moment. All that matters is getting (re-)elected, fairness and justice be damned.

It’s no wonder these folks are marching. This is naked social control from ideologues. Fight against it!
>I would argue that since both Mysql and PostgreSQL are JSON document stores with mostly the same capabilities when it comes to querying and aggregation...

I agree with your overall argument of PostgreSQL & MySQL >> MongoDB(for querying and aggregation). But in all the experiences I’ve had doing analytical work with both; Postgres easily comes out ahead. If you’re starting from a blank slate, I’d definitely recommend it over MySQL. Just update/feature addition rate along with the better community quality are enough for me to prefer Postgres over MySQL.
Twitter is arguably successful so why would you consider their decision to be folly? It worked for them.

Startups have limited resources. If you devote them to solving tomorrow's problems then you'll be beaten by someone who devotes their resources to solving today's problems.
A lot of email-based projects use tools like Patchwork (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/) to provide a web interface to patches. I agree that it's still a really suboptimal experience compared to e.g. GitHub.

(disclosure: I'm an occasional Patchwork developer)
This is an very good example of why 'people of color' is red herring no one believes. Asians, both yellow and brown, are out performing whites. Blacks are under performing everyone and 'latinos' are doing either ok or pretty badly, depending on if you split them according to skin color.

The issue in America has been and still is why are blacks doing so poorly?

Dressing it up as anything else does no one any favors.
they need to make money
> [1] anyone know how to write star-nix on hacker news without it making everything italics?

Only have one single * in the entire post.

[X] Not sane

[X] Already complained

[X] Issue acknowledged

[X] Complaint filed probably over a year ago at this point

[X] Given up; incentivized to build alternative to HN (know what I want, but currently have no time unfortunately)

EDIT: I added Unicode checkmarks to my post, and they got eaten. [X] Cherry+icing on cake - seriously, wow.
Woolen fabric – woolen coat – woolen blankets – woolen yarn
I'm no scientist and you may well be right. But I'm skeptical of your statement that "much" of the blast would be directed upwards. If you look at the pictures of tank explosions, they often show the entire room flattened right to floor level - not a big hole in the roof and minor damage everywhere else.
The poster.

> You retain the rights to your copyrighted content or information that you submit to reddit ("user content") except as described below.

> By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

> You agree that you have the right to submit anything you post, and that your user content does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary right of any other party.

The individual users retain the rights to their comments and posts and so on, Reddit just gets permission to display them.

So, a mod would probably have to gain permission from every user before federating, legally speaking.
It was an awfully written blog post, which I mistook as an article.

I agree with the ridiculous assertion, given that I’m to be ashamed and the top reply to my comment includes the line “I'd take something with an angrier tone, like an appeal to fire the school principle and ban him from teaching for life.”
While I think this is ridiculous. My general take is you gave consent with the login page, it's not the API providers fault they misused it. You should have been more careful about who you trust.

But with that said, I often considered it to be a good idea to allow users to see what data is accessed by apps.

I'm working on an app that as a service to the customer allows them to see exactly which records each authorized app accesses. And also flags access that includes fields that are considered personal via GDPR.

It's a way to be able to account for which users you gave access to a specific customer's data to. I kind of like the feature and all it involves is a logging operation that gets imported into the database with an app ID, date and document ID and true/false if any of the field's were sensitive. Though I suppose if our use case had a lot of read heavy clients it could be a problem to manage all the data.
Why does CMU admit more mediocre candidates if they eliminate demonstrated interest? Visiting campus doesn't really say anything about how talented/hard working a candidate is -- all it does is signal that they have enough money and time to visit.
Call me crazy, but what if you just funded all public schools sufficiently that the advantage of going to the "good" school was lessened? Is that too socialist?
7,500 Strangers Just Bought a Crumbling French Chateau Together [2017]
I think attributing the difference between HN and Reddit to design choices is inaccurate.

The biggest difference is that HN has only a tiny fraction of the number of users that Reddit does. HN feels pretty similar to the way Reddit felt ten years ago when it was much less popular.
HN is completly flawn by marketing actions. This isn't new but it's now very bad...
Personal Flying Machines of the Future Won’t Look Much Like Jet Packs
It was wrong decades ago when the Ivy League had a soft cap on the number of Jewish students admitted, and it's wrong now when schools effectively do the same for Asians. They can nudge-nudge-wink-wink "Holistic approach" all they like, but when the data show an Asian student needs 120 more SAT points to get in, it's hard to see anything other than racial bias or de facto quotas.

I don't say this out of self-interest, I'm not Asian. If anything, these quotas help people from my background. I don't care. They are deeply unfair and antithetical to the American values of equal opportunity, fair competition, and not judging people on their race, gender, or creed.

And the students being pushed out by these rules are not rich or privileged. The rich and privileged kids in New York are in private schools that cost more than a luxury car for a year's tuition. Many are children of first generation immigrants.
Even better than that it adds them as an autofill suggestion in the numeric keyboard https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/ios-12-makes-easier-use-t...
I mean, I have installed a third party gmail client. So the app can read my email. And that means the developers of the app have access to my email. Which is why I think very carefully before install third party gmail clients!
That's...how this works. Right?

I'm a little confused honestly; how is the headline not just a fancy way of saying "Google supports third party email clients"? Or even "Google supports IMAP"? Wouldn't the real scandal be if they didn't?

There's always a tension between freedom and security here, but I'm honestly not at all okay with the balance this article seems to be advocating.
2 Percent of New York City’s Buildings Emit Half Its CO2 Pollution
Bitcode is not required for iOS apps.
Instead of debating the criteria for entrance into these elite schools, why not look at what makes them such great schools and replicate that elsewhere? Sure, in so far as being surrounded by top students who study all the time improves the environment, the current elite is likely to remain the elite and the admissions criteria should still be discussed. But if the gap between the quality of those schools and the others wasn't so vast, it would no longer feel like the difference between being guaranteed success in life vs. being doomed to failure.
Not just the soccer ball but the whole crew compartment.

http://www.space-shuttle.com/challenger1.htm
Here's another, more critical take on the plan:

https://quillette.com/2018/06/27/bill-de-blasios-plan-to-pur...

I think it's terrible. It's robbing poor kids of a rare opportunity to get a first-rate education, to make elites feel better about themselves.

If you insist that the racial demographics of the schools match those of the city, a much better way to do it is to keep the admissions test, but simply take the top N% w/in each racial bucket, rather than globally.

Otherwise, if you get rid of the test completely and pulling evenly from every school, you are guaranteed (1) you will not create an environment w/ the truly elite (2) you are replacing standardized tests, which are fair, with the whole teacher-grading-system, which is wildly inconsistent and generally a better measure of who behaves and who sucks up than who is academically worthy.
"Capitalist enterprises produce the bulk of services at the moment."

All. You meant all the goods AND services. Unless you count the kids living on a commune who sell berries at the farmers market.
They're fighting a headwind, for sure, but if the argument you're making was absolutely true, we'd all be using AOL today.
Oh hey thats a good idea, thank you!
>When Reddit stopped allowing non-email-verified signups and conveniently locked everyone out who did have a non-email legacy account, the writing was on the wall.

While I haven't verified it, I recently read a post that they didn't stop allowing email-less account creation, they did add a dark pattern around it. I believe it was someone like an email prompt and next button, but allowing the email field to remain empty.
you're not normalizing for enough, and you know it.
If you are on iOS, I recommend scheduling Do Not Disturb at night.
“Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism”

― Murray N. Rothbard
Not without root, that is.
The good high schools in this article aren't good because of funding. They're good because they only let in the top 1% of kids.
Hey look it's my high school
Because it has nothing to do with the funding and everything to do with who is a student there.
>All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep, and they're toast

I doubt it. Unlike Digg, Reddit has community lock-in. If your content is generic memes and videos and general-interest news articles, then you can switch without caring too much if everybody else follows right away.

But if you’re in a small city sub or the sub of some niche hobby or interest, then it matters a lot if everybody else agrees to move. You want to be where the other people are and it’s really hard to get an entire community to organize somewhere else. A site that can pull 20% of a small sub’s users isn’t 20% as good. It’s useless.
Your points are good. I did not intend to suggest that software developers should make the kind of decisions that lead to "mangled and indecipherable set of 'critical sections'". More that developers who understand their tools at a lower level are likely to choose architectures with better computational efficiency. Simple things like acyclic ownership, cache locality, knowing when to use value vs. reference semantics, treating aggregate data as aggregate instead of independent scalars, etc.

Often these choices do not present a serious dichotomy between readability and performance. You just need to make the right choice. Developers who understand their tools better are more likely to make the right choice.

My main argument is that this kind of background knowledge should be more widely taught. Performance is often presented as a tradeoff where you must sacrifice readability/modifiability to get it. I think this is not true. Choosing good data structures and program structure is not mutually exclusive with having "a very extensible and malleable implementation".
Same here! After repeatedly getting redirected to an app and mobile version of their site, i began asking myself why i put up with this on Reddit and not elsewhere.
Similar experience. We have even a 9350 at our company which only crashes when we run geth (the Ethereum node). My 9365 cannot recover the native audio if I don't "gently" disconnect other audio devices like a USB headphone or a bluetooth earphone (when it works). Sadly, I cannot find an alternative form factor notebook.

Nowadays, I am amazed by how well my mobile phone works (Android) and sometimes I imagine that it is better to extend Android to the desktop than the reverse. I am saying this with frustration by the way.
It’s not what’s so special about the American workforce, but what’s so special about American Capital. And the answer to that is that standing behind their demands is a massive, belligerent, military empire, with a long history of toppling or refusing to defend countries that don’t play along.
You cannot "parse" proverbs to your liking, they have usus. No one would say that to a smiling person. I believe it's ever being said now only to children, who burst with laughter after whispering around or on hearing the word "toilet".
And clearly this proverb is irrelevant to the topic, since we "parse" US smiles as happening for an obvious reason - social convention.
In one particular application, the required backend calculations were so difficult that a workflow with a queue system was created that would give around 3 seconds as an upper limit on the request time before negatively affecting user experience (it involved ajax stuff happening in a complex in-browser image processing studio).

The type of neural networks being invoked on the images have a state of the art runtime of maybe 1 second per image, after pulling out all the complex tricks like truncating the precision of the model weights, and using a backend cluster of GPUs to serve batch requests from the queue service, which adds a huge degree of deployment logic, runtime costs, testing complexity, fault tolerance issues, etc.

The naive way, using CPUs for everything and not bothering with any other optimizations, had a latency of about 10s per request. Definitely too slow for the final deliverable, but it allowed us to make demos and tools within which stakeholders could guide us about what needed to change, what performance issues were changing, usability, getting endpoint APIs stable, etc.

It would have slowed us down way too much to be practical if we had tried to keep an eye out for making our whole deployment pipeline abstract enough to just flip a switch to run with GPUs months before that performance gain was necessary or before we’d done diagnostics and profiled the actual speedup of GPUs for specific use cases and accounted for the extra batch processing overhead.

And this was all just one project. At the same time, another interconnected project on the text processing side had a latency requirement of ~75 milliseconds per request. And it was the same deal. Make a prototype essentially ignorant of performance just to get a tight feedback loop with stakeholders, then use very targeted, case-by-case profiling, and slowly iterate to the performance goal later.
Eh, HN feels the same way HN felt ten years ago. I don't have the same feelings about Reddit. The only difference to me is there's actually some subtle sort of connection I feel here, that goes deeper than the number of upvotes. Maybe I'm selecting my own bubble to exist in, but here I feel like I can at least have doubt over that. Design choices, hacker philosophy, actual usage demonstrated practically - that all lines up from my perspective.
People have really turned up the Facebook hate in recent months.

I find it laughable that the author considers Zuck to be a more powerful person than the US president, who can effectively end life as we know it with the push of a big red button. I assume Putin and Xi should probably outrank Zuck too, along with many more world leaders and probably some other CEOs too.
Tesla will be profitable by September, says Gene Munster
I was curious about your example of expressing and validating that a sort function returns a sorted list using the type system. I found this paper [0] by McBride, McKinna, and Altenkirch about using dependent types in the language Epigram to do exactly that. I have only scanned it, and it remains to be seen if it truly is too "difficult to figure out how to express or understand the resulting specification." Hopefully with more research it will only become easier!

[0] http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psztxa/publ/ydtm.pdf
Maybe he does, but I don’t... what do you mean, “normalizing for enough?”
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Public charter schools (at least around me) receive much less funding, and yet have better facilities, test scores, etc for this same reason.
it's frustrating when kids have to use browser for their homework while game is readily available all the time. kids unlike adults, is hard to focus when distractions are so easy to access, especially games.

the only way out might be a thin client environment with opera as the browser, in fact, i just downloaded opera, have not touched it for years.
> Why does an older person cost more?

Let's take an example case where two engineers are working in a second tier city earning $85,000 per year in salary. One is 25 years old, one is 53 years old. The company covers the entire cost of the employee health insurance. The health insurance for the 53 year old will cost a minimum of 2x what it does for the 25 year old. The cost of health insurance begins to aggressively increase after roughly 38-40. By the time the 53 year old employee reaches 60-63 years old, the insurance cost is now 3x that of the 25 year old.

The 53 year old will solidly cost an extra $6,000 to $10,000 in health insurance on top of that $85,000 salary, versus the 25 year old. The 60 year old might cost $12,000 to $18,000 more in health insurance.

All of these figures are minimums, the numbers get much worse if you have a nice health plan.

If you're in a second tier city paying your engineers $85k, $15,000 per year in extra cost buys a ridiculous amount of training to improve the 20 something engineers.

If you have 20 engineers, over ten years the cost of employing all 55-63 year olds, versus all 20-30 year olds, could easily be a minimum extra of $3 million in just health insurance costs (with a total salary over ten years of $17 million). The more likely cost is far higher.
The entire doctrine of Disparate Impact, and Affirmative Action which is borne from it, is one of the most illiberal policies in America. I really hope a constitutionalist Supreme Court can reverse this madness.

On Affirmative Action in specific, here's a great interview from Sowell about the unintended consequences that arise from the awful policy:

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