skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not very familiar with the systems other countries use so I am genuinely curious which ones you are referring to here and whether they are comparable to the US. The US has a centuries long history of laws designed to make it harder for "undesirables" to vote. The US's racial and socioeconomic makeup and its history of oppression of those groups makes this a much more contentious issue than some other countries that historically have been very homogeneous.
Note that here the weights are evolved, not just the parameters. Gradient descent is not used at all AFAIK.
I realized the other day that wikipedia doesn't either. You'd think it wouldn't be all that hard to redirect in the year 2018, but apparently it is.
Thank god for buffers :)
“10 years from now we'll be asking..why we didn't gather and share more” data
This is bold and terrible idea. Affiliate programs encourage members to bring users, no matter through coupons or blog posts or other legit means. They have no idea if a user is coming because of a coupon or other reasons, how can they exclude this type of sites?

Besides, even if like you said a user is ready to buy something, there could be better coupons from rival retailers which bring the user to the site and look for the same product. Isn't this what a lot of retailers want? Using better coupons to bring users from competitors site?

There are many other scenarios, without considering those and just make the decision is really bad.
> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data?

Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the company tomorrow and put a facebook.tar.xz of everything they collected on archive.org or somewhere else.
You can trade entropy for order, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can trade any entropy for a particular set of order, like making a specific older person young again, or keep a person young forever.

I haven't read the full article yet but there's more to thermodynamics than just a see-saw of entropy and order; it is also a factor in chaotic systems and "time's arrow"--which is pretty deep mystery physics. Quantum mechanics works just as well in either direction, time-wise. Theoretically a photon doesn't experience time at all, and every electron is indistinguishable from another. But at our scale, many processes seem unpredictable and irreversible.

Even if you could catch all the smoke a candle puts out, and you add energy to make a candle out of it, it wouldn't be the same candle. We can take a broken egg, use it fertilize grain, feed the grain to a chicken, and make a new egg... but we can't just put the broken egg directly together again. And it might be impossible, no matter what the available energy, to keep someone from aging.

Beyond entropy and order, which are statistical concepts, aging is the matter of how the state of our body progresses. And managing state seems a lot harder than just measuring total aggregate order in a system.
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Another case is memory. If your working dataset is, say, 24 TB, you want a machine that can have that much memory and you most likely have bigger problems than how much each of your 8 CPUs costs.

With that kind of problem, you may want to abandon x86 altogether.
Just go to China.
Generally a huge fan of the way you're simplifying things here, just pointing out that this change makes YC more expensive for founders from an equity standpoint.

It's true that founders could compensate for this by raising SAFEs from other investors at a higher valuation, but that is likely to make those raises a little more difficult, so there is some downside.
Is it really that bad being a software/hardware engineer in Europe? I was thinking of entering via Holland (easiest work rights) and then after a few years try to work in France or Italy where it is almost impossible to fire someone, so I could retire on the job.
From your article: "John Mueller’s(Google rep) response deflected a straight answer"

It really depends on how you define site authority.

As the article you cited states:

“I am just labeling that unknown multiplier effect as a trust factor, that’s all.

That’s a realistic definition of Site Authority, as a catch-all for all the quality signals that Google uses in it’s core algorithm.”

At least in the early 2000s having a page on a high authority(however you define it) domain automatically guaranteed higher rankings.

So even today, it is pretty much impossible to outrank wikipedia on some mundane(non SEO worthy) topic even when wikipedia article is more basic, has less inbound links and even cites the more substantial article which is based on some random "low quality" domain. Obviously citation needed here...
> GPU microarchitectures are all about being a reflection of the hardware, amortizing a lot of traditional CPU components across as many threads as you can...

Is that so bad? I would think the point of the project is to demonstrate proof of principle, not to actually build something usable. So efficiency would be pretty low on the list of priorities.
What pressure can people realistically apply to facebook without help from labor?
Facebook is made up of individual people. Incompetent evil could be the protest of an employee who doesn't want to be evil but also doesn't want to get fired for obviously refusing an order.
They have? Doesn't seem so in my account. I've been using the green tick, red exclamation mark & co. for the better part of a decade since they've been in Labs. They still work for me. Should I be worried?
Aside from the fact (already mentioned) that YC investment brings other benefits besides the money: not everyone has friends and family who are willing and able to drop $150k on a baby startup.
... except seeing the test fail is how I know my test might be working.

It's trivial to write passing tests.
Thanks for the info. I need to look up the latter point, the difference between the two. Saw it mentioned in an article or book about Go too.

Looked it up, found these links, for anyone interested:

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/490

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11276259/are-data-races-...
Where Does Value Come From? [pdf]
Erm, what about test coverage? You could prevent committing untested code.
Share price will almost certainly take a major hit. It already has based on this news. But I don't think it is the end of Tesla.
Seems like the sad thing is that SV companies are actively making the world worse, not that reaction to this is negative.
A strong-willed mother can be found behind many famous people. Or at least that was one of the findings in https://www.amazon.com/Cradles-Eminence-Childhoods-Famous-Wo.... (A book I'm familiar with because my mother read it and applied its lessons in odd ways to her parenting..)

That is why on general principle I would expect his mother to likely be a cause for his success.
For anyone curious about this, it probably all comes down to an atomic compare and swap request:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap

It might be straightforward to do this with an ETag like Firebase:

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-conditio...

Not sure what this would require on their backend though.
Does it still have that horrible java build dependency?
You can't even imagine how tired I am of these anti-Facebook posts. It's almost as tiring as the anti-Google posts. Almost.

Anti-spam system screws up, some blue checkmark dunce on Twitter whores himself for retweets. The cycle of life goes on.
The Key Differences Between Android and iOS App Development in 2018
Better idea: if you release rarely enough, pin your dependencies, but upgrade them automatically after each release. This way you will have time to test and fix any breakages before the next release.
> From the mundane as to real bluetooth audio controls with playlist support and maximum audio startup

Could you elaborate on this?

My BRZ's stereo doesn't have playlist support, just your typical next/prev track, pause, and volume.

And what is "maximum audio startup"?
Oh. You're right. My bad. I thought that they are pretty focused on QBE switch and as Myrddin is still in quite early phase of development I thought it's not much of a difference. Well looking at public commits in main branches it seems that QBE development is not really active. Too bad. I hope that there's a flame remaining. I'm not tracking mailing lists either.

It's great to hear that a home grown backend is something even considered for future. I know that it's a long way there, but that's life.

Thank you for your efforts with Zig. From all the new systemish languages I find Zig with it's current momentum the most probable to become the C replacement for me.
Sure, let's all sling FUD around based on anecdotes and fake data. Let's shame people earning a salary working at a company and trying to solve real problems. Sure FB does some shitty things but honestly so does every large company out there. It's impossible to get to that massive size without breaking a couple eggs here and there.

People expect saints when saints are imaginary. The baseline to measure cannot be "perfection".
> Instead perhaps people could suggest a better language/framework that is more productive than Rails, and has had a long lifespan in a large codebase?

I’d suggest most frameworks are better than rails for long lifespans. They just frontloaded productivity, and it shows. The UI and functionality of github is largely the same as in 2010.
The Jekyll code base would need major refactoring to allow for the lazy evaluation when using `serve` (and it would break some plugins) and likewise for the parallel builds because this is done with `fork` (as Ruby doesn’t have proper concurrency with threads due to the global interpreter lock).

So rather than try to refactor Jekyll, it would probably be a better strategy to use my re-implementation as the basis for a Jekyll 4.0, I’d say it’s 95% feature compatible with Jekyll and only about 2,500 lines of code.

While writing it, I did want to reach out to the Jekyll maintainers to talk about this option, but it wasn’t clear to me how to actually get in touch with them (e.g. no jekyll-dev mailing list that I could find), and I didn’t want to open an issue about this.
> How would they do this if you never visit the site or download the app?

Facebook SDK is used in more than 40% of mobile apps. Devs do it for analytics and ads. The feature is called Facebook Audience Network.
Thanks to streaming fragmentation, BitTorrent traffic is suddenly rising
Well, assuming you don't get a place to enter your coupon code until checkout, that means you'd already decided that the listed price was worth it for whatever you were buying, right?
I used to wonder too why would anyone answer yes if that was really their intent.

I was told that this was a technicality: you plan on assassinating the president (or whatever the form asks these days) but you answered no. Now you can be charged for lying on your immigration document which gives the government a lot more leverage and opens more avenues to convict you (because lying is bad mmmkay). I don't know how much truth there is to it but it makes more sense than having the question hoping someone with bad intentions will have a lapse of judgement and decide to be truthful on the form.
Referenced article on TorrentFreak:
https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-traffic-is-not-dead-its-...
If your password is leaked, then you can still reset it. If your fingerprint signature leaks, you're out of options.
No, it's just being realistic. When a company gets to that size it's holy unrealistic to expect perfection and saintliness.
Granted, they aren't tracking your browser history, yet, in the manner I described. However, have you ever been to FB from a link? If so, you now have an FB cookie. Ever been to a website that has the FB like button, same thing. It's kind of like an STD. You don't know you have it, but it will follow everywhere. You can find out you have it, and try to take the appropriate actions, it'll just keep popping back up later in life. Now, they can track you anonymously. Whether they know it is you and link it to the shadow account they have or not, they still have data from a real person they can monetize. All without you having an account.

I'm definitely not giving Google a pass. I just didn't mention them ;-) Google Analytics, Fonts, whatever are just as bad, to me. I as an unsuspecting web user have my browser tracked from web developers using some free tools. I have no idea that it is occurring as a viewer. If a website puts in FB's like buttons, it is visible to me, and being in the know, I understand the repercussions of that site's decision. GA, Fonts, etc, are completely hidden from view. This is why I've used NoScript/Ghostery/etc throughout the years. It started with ads, but now I'm more concerned about these types of scripts.
I'll take a stab.

Two ways in which that could be so is -

Your society succumbs to accumulative negative side affects that lead to a civilization scale heart attack. Pollution, barbarians, (lack of) land reform, diversity zoo taxing coordination ability.

Your society is too rigorous at its maintenance - initially hypersuccessful but becomes overtaken by competitors that managed to bottle enough chaos to produce improvement without falling apart. Analogy being a very clean human would have an unhealthy immune system or homogenous microbiome - making them susceptible. China might be the archetype.

Were either of these what you had in mind? Both include predation but are almost at odds. The main idea might be that a society needs to exercise in many different ways to have a high adaptability score but not too much. This is in the zip code of what David Krakauer (complex systems theory) seems to worry about too. He seems to suggest that we should be teaching children and ourselves lots of useless skills (reading the classics?) because they could exercise our brains in productive ways - that the use of technology to replace human cognition can be a trap.
> Hrm, your statement seems to suggest upgraded versions are primarily security updates

Not in the slightest. But security updates are part of them.

> Good projects backport security updates (for LTS versions anyway), and new versions with new features come with their own new security issues.

There's a limit to how far back patches go, even on the good projects. Rails 3.2 hasn't received a patch in over 2 and a half years, and while there is some desire to backport security fixes, you're dependent on a single individual having spare time to work on it, where more up-to-date releases receive patches far faster, and are far easier to test and integrate in to your existing platform.

I've seen teams, and heard of companies, that are still running services on top of Rails 2 and the like. Now when they look at upgrading Rails the sheer number of changes is mind-boggling, and often represents a non-starter.

I'm certainly not arguing to keep up on the bleeding edge, but making routine upgrading part of your regular workflow is most definitely an important part of remaining secure.
This is a fantastic story. Parker's Back, as well.
I'm so glad an accused rapist will join the supreme court without an FBI investigation, while republicans are trying to bully google out of censoring the horrible shit said by the right.
> I think you're mistaking a single Functional CSS implementation (like the one used by the author) with the concept itself.

Honestly at some point what you describe I would just describe as normal CSS.

Functional CSS is classes based on their visual function rather than an abstract concept. This the definition. But the more semantic your names are the less they related to an actual visual function.

If on mobile you don't apply any padding then your padding CSS class is a lie. And if you don't call it "padding" in some way then it's not Functional CSS. I also think conceptually having a few utility classes like "print-visible" or "print-invisible" is not really applying Functional CSS as an overall concept.
"I would argue that 80% of all tech companies are doing close to 0 in making the world a 'better place'."

I can only speak for the tech co I worked for: Intel, for 23 years. Three sabbaticals, lots of worthless options, and 6 years without a raise that led to a class-action lawsuit.

Intel likes to circle-jerk about how they are making the world a better place. But it is a heavily fallacious argument. It's like a hammer company saying they provide shelter to billions. Upper management gets all lubed up at their BUMs (business update meetings) telling everyone how the next generation core with a 5% performance increase somehow makes the world magic. Intel now is just fighting off competition and praying for inertia and no disruptive tech.

It was nauseating. I finally had to leave.
You simply weren't that much of a concern. DHCP snooping takes care of that problem quite well.
For a little bit of context, from what I recall, the real push towards electronic voting in the United States came after the 2000 presidential election and the controversies that happened with paper ballots and the tight recount in Florida (eg "hanging chads"). (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/electronic-voting-...)

Paper isn't perfect and I think the thought at the time was pushing elimination of all of paper's errors. That being said, digital voting of course has far worse problems if you don't do it right (and it's pretty clear it hasn't been done very well in the US). In hindsight, that was a poor push.

I imagine it's actually possible to design a digital voting system that is fairly secure (eg air-gapped voting machines, secure data storage and transmission, integrity verification, redundant security features, thoroughly tested, and -- most critical of all -- paper backups), but it would be very difficult compared to designing a better paper ballot system, and probably quite a bit more expensive.
This is an excellent example of one of the three pillars of classic test theory (the basis of which such forms should be based), validity:

Is this parameter measuring what I want to measure?

This is an examplariously hilarious case of absolutely not. Saved.
First, if you use your own mail clients rather than the vendor's interface, you don't need to change apps when you change email providers.

Second, even if you do need to change apps, you don't need to change addresses if you have your own domain.
Hi All,

I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback and for trying meetter this week.

We will be closing demo account this week. You are still more than welcome to sign-up for early access here: https://www.Meetter.ai

Good luck!

Gene
The GOP is run by the 1% but they need a larger base to win elections. This is why they crafted a platform catering to the pet issues of low-income conservatives. They never actually deliver on their rhetoric because it's all just an act (Still waiting on the executive branch to institute H1B reform). They don't want policies that allow masses of poorer people to influence the results for the periods they are out of power.
Any time! And yeah, those links are excellent.
Oh, there are no bounds for human stupidity!
Did they just found their moral compass after 2016 or were they selectively applying morality when their platform being abused to spread misinformation in 2016 elections. Or when Facebook could not curb hate speech in Myanmar that had direct impact on thousands of lives. Or when Facebook ran mood manipulation experiments... or when Facebook decided to use 2FA type security features to show ads to users ?
Repent ye sinner and come join us in cybersecurity. ;-)
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While Google and Amazon both have their ethical problems and serious anti-trust issues, Facebook is in a league of its own.

Maybe, but at least Facebook doesn't actively try to manipulate you into believing that they're the "good guys" and "not evil". That's why, after all, my level of respect for FB is still a lot higher than for Google.
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That's the thing, if my test is green on the first try, I assume something is horribly horribly wrong..
Wasn't Facebook part of the class action lawsuit that sought to supress wages and colluded in anti-poaching between Intel, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe?

They may pay more, but they collude to make sure people couldn't leave without going far outside the bay. That's a monopolistic trait.

I agree they weren't putting a gun to people's heads but they were making the environment less available.
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It's similar in concept but the execution is different.

You could say the same thing about every side-scrolling fighting game.
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That's not what the graph shows at all. The graph shows that there is no statistical correlation between income and votes, except that lower incomes slightly preferred Clinton. The problem with this data is that it doesn't appear to be weighted by electoral college result, so we don't get to actually see what the impact on the election result is. And, even worse, the survey appears to include the question "Did you vote for Clinton or Trump" yet doesn't include that answer in the graph, so we don't get to compare the relative results. I tried to extract that result by using the male/female data assuming 50/50 representation, but ended up in a tie, and we don't get to know the bias of participants vs non-participants.
This is a fun book (published in 2001) about how a professor and his graduate assistant developed a world-class checkers-playing algorithm using neuroevolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie24

https://www.amazon.com/Blondie24-Playing-Kaufmann-Artificial...

(Edit) One of the funniest parts I remember is that they had to leave it running on a Pentium III for like a month or something.
Why are you so invested in the continuity of facebook?

Its like, "Doctor, why dont we just apply pressure on the tumor until it starts to grow at more reasonable rates!".

No. When you find cancer, you try to eliminate it.

Facebook is exactly this -- cancer. They have been aggressively monopolizing software for socializing so that they can arrive to the dominant position they are in now.

Until Facebook becomes more transparent w.r.t how they use the user data and until Facebook gives users autonomy -- they need to be regulated. We need to define constraints regarding how they present and manipulate user data and interactions.
On the other hand, Facebook is not a soapbox on a public place, it's a website owned and hosted by a private company which has precise criteria to decide which publications are more desirable than others.
The author describes the script in https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/limbo-on-the-cheap-e4cfae8...

"test && git commit -am working"

This seems like a recipe for a useless commit history.
Because this doesn't give you political points.
This sounds like a sure way to enforce a local optimum. If you can't make mistakes and break enough things at a time to change the architecture, in order to fix the architecture itself, it means your architecture is going to be extremely sticky, and there will be no chance that design mistakes will be corrected.
And also the venerable RollerCoaster Tycoon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(video_ga...
Isn't that redundant with DANE TLSA records?
We compiled details on this breach here, including some insights on the attack vector https://breachroom.templarbit.com/facebook-is-breached-by-ha...
Is there any evidence at all that vote buying is a problem in US elections?
I'd rather ban it all, but the idea that advertising targeted at children should be banned for various reasons[1][2] is not especially obscure.

1: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9984366/...

2: https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/ban-on-advert...