skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, its not a discussion after hundreds of strangers have been pulled in. Its more of a mob? Its disingenuous to talk about free speech on the web, deliberately ignoring how virality is a new thing and its not working out well to ignore what it can do
This is a bad design by nginx, how many people configuring a web server are thinking to themselves "I better check which version of OpenSSL I compiled with in order to set the appropriate TLS versions?". I'd guess approximately none.

The correct design would be something like:

tls_minimum_version 1.2;

If they feel a compulsion to do so they could add a maximum version, but with a default of (none) and an explicit warning that this probably isn't what you wanted to change.
I was under the impression that retail order flow is mostly useless to HFT and they make money on large institutional moves - retail investors just don't affect the market enough for it to matter.

Is that a wrong assumption? If not, seems like maybe RH is just taking advantage of the rebate for not much benefit to Citadel?
You seem to have some reasonable answers about tesla, what do you think about tesla's increasing sales & production of model 3 producing postive cash flow, since they are now in the mass production and away from the thrashing around trying to increase production phase (and hopefully not digging a hole and burning it kind of like the poorly executed early "production hell"). If they make & sell 50k model 3s per quarter at 60k and make 25-30% margin, that's $750 million (50k60k.25). That is approaching a sustainable business if they produce $3 billion a year. Take out say a billion in infrastructure spending (new stores, super chargers, etc), that looks much better than losing 700 million a quarter. I thought they were losing money because of wasteful production ramup.
It's almost like other people are humans just trying to do their jobs to feed themselves and their family.
It's like he has caught on to a kind of a zen thing. It is almost as if he isn't even there, while presenting about a technological topic at all. That is just the media for him to get an expanded wisdom across. What that message is is hard to identify. But there is a glance of it at the end of inventing on principle. It's a lot more profound than what the talk seems to be at the surface.

I really wish he would publish more frequently
He has inspired me greatly.
> Some of those overtures are going to be unwanted, but the men basically have to try to find out.

Sexual overtures at a bar: okay.

Sexual overtures at a sex party: very okay.

Sexual overtures at a house party: prob okay.

Sexual overtures at a grocery store: eeeeh maybe if you're really hot and she gives you the look.

Sexual overtures at the office: very not okay

Sexual overtures at a VC event: way not cool.

Sexual overtures at an office party: not good.

Sexual overtures at an official after-party of a business event: nope.

Sexual overtures at the after after party with those 10 people who wanted to party some more after a business event after party: depends, read the room.

It's about context. Don't be a creep.
Instead of mass voter manipulation of voters through the establishment media? Nobody would be in a panic at all if Hillary had won.
In many states, you have to show proof of residency to vote, so there's taxation without representation.

Expats can vote in federal elections in the last state they were resident in (or born in). I'm not sure what jurisdiction they get to vote in if they've never lived in the US (i.e., foreign-born US citizens). Expats that lived in the US and intend to return to their former residence may also vote in state and local elections.
I'm pretty sure this is more related to a rather radical shift to a more industrialised agriculture the recent 40 years.

Grazing land and more importantly meadows are simply gone. According to Wikipedia, England and Wales have lost about 97% of their hay meadows. Meadows are artificial, but they increase the biodiversity significantly.

Neonicotinoids are probably also to blame.

Climate change must be negligible in comparison, but it seems that everything can be blamed on climate change. War in Syria for instance.
Hi Takuya, glad you are doing well with your app. I feel honored that I'm one of 3 feature users on the frontpage :). Even though I don't use inkdrop currently. I may try it again after v3 is released though

I have been following your development blog for some time (v3), I agree with your priorities in better image support and tables. I made a similar plugin with image resizing support on a different notetaking application, using a jquery slider. I use it everyday. It might be of interest to you. http://vincentmtang.com/2018/06/29/adventures-in-writing-a-t.... The implementation I made is significantly less maintenance too, setting image sizes per image upload is time consuming IMO. It uses a `max-height` and `max-width` property initialization you set, and goes up from there. It is (3) on your blog. It does make it difficult to make responsive image size between devices, but you could always let the user define custom media queries in settings and set a `max-width` or `max-height` property for mobile devices. It really depends on information density of images.
Did you really need to bring race into the topic? The word 'diversity' has an actual meaning, you know.

The comment you're replying to was very clear in that they were talking about career and background diversity -- as in, VCs have their money for diverse reasons.

There were like 5 bullet points about it, making it crystal clear what kind of diversity was being discussed.
Ah, YC's one that got away - https://www.quora.com/Why-was-SendGrid-rejected-from-YCombin...

>Apparently, only one partner, Robert Morris, reviewed the SendGrid application, and he gave it a highly negative score, calling it a "spam company."
We're talking about whether the actions here constitute fraud. Take your example and test your actions against the elements I posted above, and see whether a plausible case can be made. I don't think they fit, so that's why I said no.
Why not? It's for sure a meme, but it's used sincerely in many places as well. Let's all mourn in our own ways, and not judge others for mourning in theirs.
Sad to see the news. I always wondered where Microsoft would have been technology wide if he stayed as CEO.
> proactively seeking candidates for racial diversity

What is the difference in practice? If we proactively filled all of Harvard with disadvantaged races and didn't accept any asians, would you still be saying the same thing? Proactively helping one race is the same as hurting others.

Maybe there would be a difference if Harvard was helping disadvantaged races only at childrearing-time instead of at application-time (the definition of pro-active), but they're not.
Heap object representation in SpiderMonkey
Sad day, he was one of the first to recognize the importance of neuroscience and to fund it.
What "ideas from his 2007 book" are those? I read the book and my conclusion was that there was nothing new in it. (Sorry if this bursts someone's bubble)
Still completely reckless in my opinion to deploy any autonomous system without LIDAR or some other long range, night time capable sensor.

Even if it's not reckless their competitors will offer low light and night time autonomous driving which will be a major advantage.
This was much easier for me to follow / less politically divisive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/1...
Do you understand how repugnant you sound implying that some men need to use businesswomen as captive audience for their sex drives or they won't get sex?

Let me remind you that a work setting is nothing like Tinder, nothing like a bar, nothing like any place where trying to get laid is considered OK.

You wouldn't ask someone if they wanted to shag at a funeral, would you?
You can get used to any salary in few months. You could be earning 2x as you currently are and feel exactly the same after a couple of months.
There are only so many slots. If you’re giving extra points to greens that’s equivalent to taking them from purples if there are a fixed number of places to compete for.
It's surprising that only 55% voted yes considering how many spend a lot of money for nothing (nice pictures of items that may come) and still voted "no".
The two sides in this context are men and women.

Which group do you think black men belong to?
Oh I agree, I just think it's absurd to cast a pall over all men. As if to say that all men are equally guilty and all men need to take equal responsibility for solving the problem. It doesn't work that way. Some men have far more power than others. Some men do far more harm than others.

It's just as difficult for a man to stand up and oppose his boss as it is for a woman. More so, in fact, if he only heard about the harassment but never witnessed it. When people's jobs are on the line, it's not hard to see why we have a culture of silence.
I posted the Silicon valley range was about 120 to 160, with a high of 190....

and got downvoted.

from the article:

Online hiring platform Hired released a report on Aug. 25 analyzing 31,146 interview requests from 1,848 companies made through Hired’s platform during the first half of 2016. Their findings show product managers consistently get the top salary offers, $133,000 on average. Software engineers were offered an average of $123,000 followed by designers at $115,000 during the second quarter of 2016. Analyses of H1B work visas and Glassdoor data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants arrive at similar conclusions.

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next time, don't be so ignorant.
Those "debts" uncollected are just as much real to a credit agency or a bill collector as a late truck rental or motel overstay. I'm pretty sure there's some forced arbitration language in their contract of carriage, so the recourse you're counting on in practice just isn't there.

If you keep a rental truck an extra day, it may or may not disadvantage the rental company. You might be saving them storage costs because their small lot is already full, or you may be scaring off a customer because they are out of stock of the truck size wanted on the extra day. Or it may make no difference at all.

United's point (which I disagree with in its entirety) is that reserving the seat then abandoning it deprives United of the ability to get a good price for it from a customer who instead books with say, Delta, because Delta has room enough to sell at a lower price point. Yes, that's less profit than they would've liked, but McDonald's can say the same ("less profit than we would've liked) after an armed robbery cleans out their cash registers; doesn't mean it's legal.

A slightly less inane argument is that United, finding its thrown-away flight prematurely full, will now fly a more expensive 737 instead of a CRJ to accommodate more passengers. Then, finding the plane full of no-shows, United suffers damages in the form of higher leasing, fuel, insurance, and labor costs, because of a false representation on the person(s) booking the extra ticket.

This argument only exists because airlines make private resale of tickets impossible. Fix that and both sides will have less reason to kvetch about this.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s Statement on the Passing of Paul Allen
would you like to take the opposite position on a portfolio of retail investors trading for free on their mobile phones...HFTs, like ummm yes please!
GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen
This is a great comment:
“We continue to have teachers despite there being tonnes of books on most topics people want to learn.”
It's the other way around. Retail flow is uninformed. Many crossing opportunities as well. It's extremely valuable to hft folks.

On the other hand if you're trading against a hedge fund... You don't know what info they have. You also don't know when they'll stop buying or selling. Their orders could come across multiple days. You don't want to touch that stuff
:-( RIP
Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App Store
Mistress of a New World: Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”
Another fast-food scenario:

I want a Big Mac, 2 cheeseburgers, a soft drink and fries.
Using prices from https://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/ , I have two options:
a) Big Mac meal ($5.99) + 2 cheeseburgers ($2.00) = $7.99
or b) 2 cheeseburger meal ($4.89) + Big Mac ($3.99) = $8.88

If I order option a, McDonalds "loses" $0.89. Am I committing fraud?
In my experience this kind of thing is becoming less common as time goes on, but granted it's a long-tail of behavioral change.

A lot of organisations (at least, ones I've talked with) are starting to look realistically at how they handle things like proxying and traffic monitoring in a world where they can't reasonably MITM HTTPS sessions any longer.

Reality for most is, they're starting to realize they can no longer paper over a people problem with technology, and are starting to look realistically at how the issues they were addressing via MITM can be solved in softer ways.

Genuine high-security environments are a different matter. If you absolutely have to safeguard against data-loss events and such, there are a wide variety of other techniques available such as full air gapping, or maintaining full end-client control at the tail of the tunnel so you never need to peek halfway along the pipe. The other common need for MITM is to police time-wasting behavior and perceived risks of staff web activity, and those are better solved via good old fashioned people management.
> retail order flow is mostly useless to HFT and they make money on large institutional moves

This is incorrect. Retail volumes are smaller. (This also makes them less risky to fill and offload.) But spreads are wider.

I worked on an algorithmic derivatives desk many years ago. We paid a well-known national broker lots of money to get their options flow. Their customers were notorious for forgetting to exercise slightly in-the-money options, putting in misplaced limit orders, putting in market orders for illiquid names, et cetera.

Robinhood has its hands on the money of a generation that was too young to lose money in the last crisis.
Technically, the Supreme Court decides whether it has jurisdiction.
The default includes TLSv1.2 (along with TLSv1.1 and TLSv1). So the default does and will continue to use TLSv1.2 with browsers that support it, and will still work when browsers disable TLSv1 and TLSv1.1
I met Allen down at Scaled Composites. He wanted to shoot people into space for fun, which I totally respect. World needs more like him, not fewer. RIP.
I am floored at how you can miss how the context of these advances make it abhorrent.
They spent over $100,000 on ads during the 2016 campaign. You can't deny that the voters were manipulated!

/s
When I was a kid, programmers - the elders, those whose lives and achievements had been described in all my introductory books - seemed to be immortal, because all these people who changed the world and created the wonderful universe of computers and software - they were all alive then (at least those I knew and cared about). That time is long gone now... and we are no longer immortal. We have lost so many of our kind. And today, we have lost yet another titan.
R.I.P. Paul Allen. The world will remember you. And the kids of tomorrow, and the day after that will still discover our wonderful world reading books mentioning and revering your name. Alas, in the past tense now. Goodbye.
> If one person says "chocolate ice cream is the best because it has so much flavor" a merited response isn't "chocolate sucks, vanilla is pure flavor". That is just an opinion.

A flawed analogy. A more faithful analogy would be someone claiming "chocolate ice cream is the most preferred flavour the world over", and the article's response is akin to "they didn't even ask people if they liked vanilla". That is a proper response to the original claim. Even if he were to add a flawed analysis like, "over half of the 50 people in my neighbourhood preferred vanilla", that doesn't change the fact that the core of his rebuttal is still correct.

You are correct that the article's math isn't definitive, but it doesn't need to be (and he should have left it out IMO). The article claims that the book is simply a narrative backed by anecdotes, and if that's the case, then all the reviewer needs to do to undermine it is present an alternative narrative that's equally or more plausible, which he did. This narrative is justified by actual data and so is already more than the book (allegedly) provides.

> These number could be explained in many other ways including but not limited to that more men in the workforce leads to less complaints, more white-collar jobs leads to less complaints, more unbalanced gender leads to less complaints, tech companies handle more complaints internally or that there isn't actually less complaints when properly analysed.

So it sounds like you have mostly the same qualms with this review as the reviewer has with the book. Except a) the standard for books should be higher than book reviews, and b) if you disliked this analysis, then you won't like the book which the reviewer claims is even sloppier, so he succeeded in conveying that you wouldn't like this book.

> Here is a study finding that sexual harassment is a problem in workplaces and professions similar to those in SV

No one's denying that women experience sexual harassment. They no doubt experience such harassment in every field. The questions surrounding STEM specifically is whether harassment or other such sexist factors meaningfully affects female retention. That is not so clear, and as I mentioned earlier, women have staked their claim in even more competitive and aggressive fields.

We should endeavour to reduce harassment and sexism everywhere as a matter of principle, but the loud saber rattling implying that harassment entails lower engagement, particularly at the levels seen in STEM, is simply unjustified.
> US Constitution holds that any Federal official can be impeached..that includes US Congress members not just Fed Court Judges.

No, the US Constitution does not say members of Congress can be impeached. Only "the President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States" can be impeached (Article I, Section 3). Members of Congress are not "civil Officers", they are elected representatives. Each house of Congress, according to the Constitution, can expel one of its own members by a two-thirds vote (Article I, Section 5), but that is not the same as the impeachment process (which requires the House to vote to impeach--bring the charges--and the Senate to try the case and vote on whether to convict).
My parents went hiking/camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dad was having trouble swallowing. On returning, they went to the doctor and he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He seemed the picture of health. In 5 weeks he died.
It's never free. You're always paying somewhere. If not explicitly, you're paying via spreads or rich options valuations when you're buying...
Also referenced in the news article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/10/04/app-sca...

Has anyone else had issues with these deceptive scams in the Apple App Store? I feel like there should be a watchlist of scammy apps somewhere to warn users.
I'm not sure what this comment has to do with the article. This is about targeted ads telling people they could vote by text message or that their polling place isn't safe. What does that have to do with "mass delusions" and "academic cycles"?
The counter argument is that while it is still causing many ills, it did not "destroy the fabric of society" or something like that. The thing is that many people enjoy drinking alcohol, so finding a good balance is difficult.
Good lord I'm sorry for your loss.

It's shockingly common, too. A close family friend saw progress from an experimental treatment against stage 4 pancreatic cancer (she basically stole some eighteen months of her life back; this cancer at this stage is notorious for being a quick and agonizing death sentence), but despite success in shrinking the metastasized tumor population down to just one, she had the misfortune of her cancer mutating such that the treatment was no longer effective.

She was felled two weeks after that discovery.

I'm so, so dreadfully sorry for your loss.
Really? You approve of Republicans in both houses and the governors office wholesale impeachment of an entire Court? Does the fact that the Governor get to appoint replacements not suggest some sort of power grab going on?
>This belief is based on flimsy evidence and on a mountain of bias...

Isn't that pretty much all political beliefs? Facebook is not so different from any other individual or organization in this regard.
make more. eventually, you hit a wall where you have to move to buy overpriced shit, that fits your new "salary".

What do you think a billionaire does with his money? How much shit can you buy before you simply, run out of shit to buy?
DLBCL is a very aggressive disease with a 5-year survival of ~60%. he was a relapse case from 2009. I'd say he took great care of his condition to have extended his survival to almost 10 years.
> physically correct ice cubes in drinks

I cannot stop laughing at this. Meanwhile Elite Dangerous is iterating effectively. The difference in philosophy/approach between the two teams with somewhat similar end objectives is stark.
Gradual Typing of Ruby at Scale (Sorbet by Stripe)
EIT Health Partners W 1Mby1M Accelerator to Train  100 European Entrepreneurs
You can try out Sorbet here: https://sorbet.run/
L.A. has gotten new-improved mosquitoes recently:

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-aedes-mo...
It seems that Trump being in power has been a negative force for Facebook. I wonder if there is a legitimate business incentive for the company to manipulate the distributed information to provide an anti-conservative bias
I agree; however, after the MVP is built the execution continues... and a hard part of that phase in the execution is actually getting customers and raising money and he had already done both. So, he had real value beyond the idea. I think we can all agree that some ideas are better than others, and the idea was on the better side of that spectrum too.
Wow, so sad. Like Jobs, he dying young is a loss to humanity.
Realize your role is to make the business more money, productive and/or efficient. Engineers that spend their time on problems that matter are the ones that are decidedly 10x. Not wasting time on issues that don't matter is more critical than anything. So many super intelligent people I have met spend their time on issues that won't advance the business, and doing so makes you average instead of exceptional.

If you want to be exceptional, worry about what you need to produce to make the business better, not what is important to you. That makes you more valuable than other engineers and makes you a 10x engineer. At least this is my experience and hence opinion.
What is your concern around this? I'm not aware of what this implies as being a negative aspect to using Snips. Please elaborate when you get a moment. :)
If you are an investor you look elsewhere for a date.

If you actually need to worry about something being considered sexually harrassing, you definitely need to reconsider how you approach women. It's really not that hard, I've dated numerous co-workers over the years and never had any fears over that or issues when we broke up. Be polite, not over bearing and be respectful. The time will either present itself to ask or it won't. If it goes your way, great. If it doesn't move on.
I would say yes, because I don't know of a better learning resource for "learning web develeopment", especially for somebody starting at zero, teaching oneself, than the Rails Tutorial: https://www.railstutorial.org/book.

Rails aside, what would be the best tool for "learning web development" starting from zero?

I ask because people ask me and so far I've been sending beginners to the Rails Tutorial.