skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great as long as you've got a culture which tends towards trusting LGTM's. That's not inevitable; you can just as easily get to a point of escalating nit-pickery.

However, even if you get to a point where most PR's get waved through, it's still inefficient in the sense that finished code ends up sitting around in a queue, waiting for its LGTMs before it can go to production. That can add days of delay, for no added value in the majority of cases.
> 119 tiny plastic containers of allergens were taped to her back over three days of testing

> Winston's health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, paid Stanford a negotiated rate of $11,376.47.

> She made the argument that her doctor had told her the cost per allergen would be about $100

$48K is some phony list price that doesn't matter.

Maybe that's higher than it should be, based on the comparison to averages and medicare, but I don't see where the shock comes from, as she (+insurance) was billed 99% of what her doctor told her it would cost.
Is this true?

Edit: holy moly it is! https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/ed-sheeran-may-be-the-worlds-...
Or just reduce/remove tuition and student debt for uw colleges. That would be a very interesting experiment
Stunning new species of sea slugs discovered
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That Google is editing people's comments, and that's the real problem?

I thought the article was insightful and brought up a relevant issue, and I'm not sure what boat you claim it's missed.
Here are the 20 games shipping with the PlayStation Classic
> Although one could standardise a mechanism for transferring record-oriented files over HTTP

Or you could just provide a simple API over HTTP, whether an actual REST system or a single endpoint one or two params with well defined inputs that can be accepted (a CGI, basically). Why bother formalizing some standard when the tools to handle this are so ubiquitous (Apache+$LANG on the server, cURL or wget on the client)?

> SFTP doesn't include any support for record-oriented files, only the stream-oriented files used on Unix and Windows.

That's because SFTP isn't really FTP (in the protocol sense) at all. It's just a specialized shell started after an SSH session/tunnel is created.

That it includes FTP in the name is really just marketing because they wanted to supersede the real FTP. In that respect, it makes sense for them to just cover what 99% of the users of FTP needed and stop.
How to detect plaintext passwords stored in Google Drive
I reiterate: if it's not obvious within 5 minutes of poking around the app settings, I'm uninstalling the app. If they cared about user autonomy they would have a note in the app settings explaining how to do what you suggest at the OS level.
Typically when one makes an assertion and has a link following it, one assumes that link backs up that assertion. But in this case, I guess you'll just repeat your original assertion?
It's a pretty easy question to answer: Yes, they do. Look at the engagement in terms of likes and replies on almost any video. Clearly people are reading and participating.
It's nice that phone numbers are so stable these days.
I lived in WI for years and have family there.

Everything mentioned in your post is relatively recent. If you go back even a decade or two, a lot in WI government was working well.
I would like to wholesale get it off my phone but I find that other apps require fb login and so I have to reinstall it... I really do not want it on my phone and I also reject their recruiter inquiries every other month too.

Every once in a while I get an alert about a birthday for someone I met once when I was in college 20 years ago... one day I'll figure out how to shut all of that off it's really annoying.
When anyone technically inclined tries to explain the difference, laypeople just hear a lawyer saying: "Well, they don't do exactly that, but they do the entire list of other things you could ever brainstorm that are in the same class as that. And a dozen more gross things you are just learning exist as part of this clarification."
And Hacker News comments are any better? The core issue becomes: who do you trust? If you read the comment and blithely accept what it says without thinking about it, you'll fall for any scam that comes along. You need to examine the ideas within the comment, compare it with other information (from hopefully different sources) and then come to a conclusion as to it's veracity. It's part of being in a society where freedom of speech is a right (a US centric viewpoint, since that's where I'm from).
Worms...

Cut their balls off, they live longer [1]
Starve them, they live longer [2]

Any volunteers?

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(06)00237-6
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1474-9726...
Off topic : Ben's articles on Stratechery were pretty much only becoming about one or two things only i.e Bundling and Aggregation. I am happy that from the Instagram's CEO article to this one all of the posts did not disappoint me at all and are not a unhealthy repeat of the same themes and or theories.
And not a moment too soon.
My guess is this is of interest to us because it sounds an awful lot like UBI. But, I think the key difference is that the money is connected to parents, who presumably have a standard for how it's spent. If E.J. ended up spending it on drugs or other perceived vices, there's a chance the money might be cut off. The point of UBI is that it is 100% no-strings-attached, which has a different dynamic. That dynamic is one that concerns the anti-UBI people.
> Imagine if that subsidy money was used in education

It is not the money that is lying around with government, ready to be spent. It is something that government could have collected if factories were built and they paid all the taxes. And I am not sure, they are getting built without squeezing governments on taxes.
I'm on Android. I have no doubt something like this is possible there as well, but again if the app doesn't explain to me how to do this then it's obvious they have no respect for my agency and I'm uninstalling their crap.
Last quarter IBM had free cash flow of 2.2B. They spent 2.1B of that on stock buybacks and dividends

You can't really hide your lack of R&D or missing long term vision with numbers like that.
Improving regional rail in greater Boston can also serve as a key to improving the housing crisis that the city is experiencing, especially if some of the suburbs served by regional rail can be convinced to re-zone for higher density mixed-use development in an area around their commuter train stations.

> millennials who’ve rejected suburban life to go car-free or car-light in the city

I'm one such millennial living car-free in Boston. I would gladly move to the suburbs if I could complete all my ordinary day-to-day tasks (commuting, grocery store shopping, hitting my favorite local restaurant, etc) without touching a car. But the fact is, aside from the commercial/residential zoning divide, having these stores in walking distance is not economically feasible without a certain level of density that American suburbs just can't fulfill. America's strange obsession with big lawns and single family housing has shut down the dream of living without a car everywhere except for the urban cores of the few top metro areas in the country. Furthermore, this dispersed suburban housing style is enforced by local zoning ordinance (& requires supermajority of town vote to change zoning rules in the state of MA)!
YouTube down?
Looks like Youtube is having issues. Videos alternately display "We Are Experiencing Errors With Our Servers: Please Try Again Later" or "This Video Requires Payment To Watch".
Special Projects – Magic UX
Agreed - it's scheduled for 2020 and it looks like it's just on the books to be negotiated away in that deal. Not a bad idea though, it's a free concession that they didn't have before.
> 3. They bring the C/D players to do the actual work.

The Cavalry and the Indians.
I wrote a script:

# ~/unfuckfacbook.sh
#!/bin/bash

sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts
sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts
sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 m.facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 m.facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts

sleep 30
say "Hey asshole, get off Facebook"
sleep 30
~/fuckfacbook.sh

~/fuckfacbook.sh just undoes the hosts file work

It helpped for a while but at some point I had to just commit to not checking it. I have some legitimate business I have to do on there sometimes (I'm a musician and I need more side-guy gigs), so I post updates from insta (which is less addicting to me) or if I open it I commit to not scrolling and browsing but just checking alerts.

It's so fcking creepy though... I mean, I'm legitimately an alcoholic but I can (when I want to, which is usually all the time these days) at least not _start_ drinking... but if I stopped drinking for a couple of days and the bottle of scotch in my cabinet sent me an email trying to get me to drink, I'd have to pour it out.
There's a difference between killing people and (legally) avoiding tax. I care about innocent people dying, but I couldn't care less that greedy governments get less money (they don't deserve any money to be fair, considering how bad of a job they're doing).
Article states other states are suing.
> Anecdotal obviously, but I'm surprised at how pervasive the "Facebook listens to your conversations through the app" rumors are, even among the more technically literate.

They were slurping up text massages and collecting call logs, IIRC. So the rumor isn't too far from the truth.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/faceb...
Show me your spreadsheet
In most ways, other messaging technologies are superior in user interface and ease of use. The only real advantage of e-mail is its universal nature. I keep hoping we get an open source server that can federate just like e-mail, has a decent client on a couple of platforms, can handle calendars, and has some form of greeting to ask permission to send messages to a specific address (obviously override-able by a sysadmin on a "two people on same server" basis).

I have been playing with workflows lately (in relation to agents) and wonder if that would be an e-mail replacement.
Same. I deleted Facebook a couple years ago when it was revealed that it was reducing battery life by a double digit percentage even if you never launched the app -- its background processing was that greedy. Anecdotally my phone definitely lasted longer once I deleted it.

The mobile web version works for those rare occasions when I need to check it on the go. I'm definitely never installing their app again; I simply don't trust them to prioritize my needs over theirs (even in regards to mobile resources).
Can any advantage even be fair, under such an angle? If it's legal, it's "fair". Hence, laws are being updated to level the playing field, that is, to remove the advantage which to the lawmakers looks excessive (as in making traditional industries fail) and exploitable to the benefit of the local economy (they will pay because it's still profitable).
I believe the real issue is Google itself manipulating the comments for their own ends -- to make money and market to you. Bots fooling kids is not something they care about.
Interesting analysis, for me the takeaway was that he is 24. Going anecdotally, most people who are 24 think money can buy happiness; and it makes sense since most of them have:

1. Some form of debt

2. Lived off their parents or lower wage work

3. All of a sudden get paid thousands of $$ (assuming it's a high paid full time job, which this person seems to have)

As we grow older, I think our perspectives change (mine certainly did). It's the same argument that we no longer played with dolls/toys/action figures when we are in our teens.
It's one of the biggest problems that I worry about with the internet. Yes, public key cryptography can prove that "message x came from source y". But nobody's figured out a way to prove "source y is a person" or even better "source y is definitely the person they say they are".

I like the approach projects like Keybase and Stellar are taking: Building a decentralized network of trust based on existing, real-world trust-based relationships.
I believe this will be solved by science in the packaging.

For basics, there could be hot/cold pads at certain places in the packaging to condense the steam away from the food.

For advanced stuff, you could imagine certain parts of the meal actually being cooked on-route. For example, imagine a raw steak being shipped with two hot metal plates which spring onto the steak 3 minutes from delivery. As you open the package, the steak is still sizzling!
Notes:

1. the percentages changed because the total numbers dropped. I.e., it's not like there's going to be a ton of white collar jobs. It's more like there aren't going to be a ton of jobs, period.

2. And even then, this is a Foxconn representative who has every incentive to mis-characterize. They're basically just saying whatever they think is best to say at the moment. Not even 3 months ago they were pushing hard on an ad campaign about manufacturing jobs. Then the projected manu salaries dropped and now they're saying that the avg salary will be higher because we'll hire so many tech people. All while hoping (1) gets lost in the exchange.
A new survey of more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users finds that 44 percent of users ages 18 to 29 have deleted the app from their phones in the past year.

Overall, 26 percent have deleted the app, while 42 percent have taken a break of several weeks or more.

Something's off. I don't know. How many people are we talking about? 80 millions? In the US alone? Really? We need more source here.
Pretty much the same experience. Maybe just add:

They bring the A++ lawyers to tell you that not having database corrupted / application crash / buttons click fail wasn't specified in the contract and that in their opinion the software works as agreed.

Seeing the IBM letters still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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The point is that the average person doesn't get $28000 a year. A landlord won't raise the rent of the author just because he has more money.
Yeah used to be it'd be the opposite. We'd try desperately try to migrate everyone to using something like Messenger (eg: AIM or ICQ) because we couldn't count on our number remaining the same.
It's not clear to me that you'd actually need to manually label individual images for training. The work of detecting and marking the censored regions is left to the user, so the model just needs to be good at inpainting. There are probably enough specialized sites to get a decently-sized training set with little effort beyond writing a crawler.
>All I see is Republican's dug in and using tactics such as voter suppression and corporate handouts. Is that what you mean?...

Well, yeah, there's that.

I guess I didn't even go into that stuff in my post on Wisconsin's corruption. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18329653)

But really there's so much out and out criminal behavior that goes on here that I really don't think something like a really bad Foxconn deal should be entirely unexpected.

If there's an opportunity to spend, 1 billion, 2 billion, 4 billion whatever in state tax dollars...

I mean, yeah, in a place like Wisconsin, you have to pretty much expect that there are going to be some irregularities. It's just how things are done here.
It almost always turns into a snowflake the second you start using it, at least in my experience.
I think it's of interest to us because wealthy people so rarely speak so candidly about their wealth and the advantages it gives them.
> They're also roughly 100 years old (depending on definitions). They're reinvented and reshaped their business many times. "Two new broom handles, two new brushes" but it's still the same company, as they say. I'm afraid I find it ludicrous that IBM would actually end up in anything resembling financial failure.

People were saying the same thing of Sears 10 years ago...
Whenever I meet with any of the big(ish) players to to assess a product I spesifically ask them to send engineers instead of sellers.

If they send sellers after that we usually just ask them to leave and send the engineers. I've seen quite a few pouts but it's impossible to get accurate product information out a seller, they just tell you what you want to hear.

I've never been in contact with IBM before but I'm not surprised about your experience.
Business as usual
Strange that people who have so much money to throw around waste their time on paper checks. Maybe it's intentional, in hopes that the child will feel a consequence of losing a check?
Or, ask yourself can you make it better so it's more enjoyable going forward?

I've had this experience a few times; horrible code base & practices, but I've managed to make it better (and tell my colleagues how to do better going forward) and it's been great ever since.
It's not really disinformation, just a slight inaccuracy. For years they were collecting text messages and call logs:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/faceb...

Not quite "listening to calls," but not too different either. It shows you where their heart is.
I really like your sandbox idea.

Also OP should discuss concerns with their supervisor.
it was only 3k though after everything was said and done. not as much scratch as the title is posted. yes the original charges pre insurance are ridiculous but thats everything.
I believe there’s a new edition in prep.
https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations
And I'm not sure the assumption of a normal distribution is even correct. Players will naturally get better at a game the more they play it. Most measures of skill available to a game will end up picking this up more strongly than anything else. The end result would be automatically banning anyone who has been playing the game for too long -- this would be terrible for retention...
Author here--it sounds like you're talking about YouTube banning comments on certain videos? If you're talking about YouTube changing the content or social proof on individual comments, that sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
I deleted the app over a year ago as well. Best move ever.

I replaced it with a shortcut on the home screen to the mobile version of the Facebook website in Safari. I use the AdGuard plugin on iOS to remove the primary reason I was getting sick of the Facebook iOS app - the FORCED "Stories" banner at the top of the news feed.

Not only is the newsfeed much lighter and cleaner on mobile.. but ads are blocked, notifications are "opt-in" (the shortcut on the home screen doesn't show notifications), analytics are probably less detailed, and I don't have to deal with that shitty stories bar taking up the first quarter of my screen every time I open the Newsfeed.
FWIW, the allowance of 7 million gallons/day from Lake Michigan is apparently a "0.07 percent increase in the total surface water withdrawals from Lake Michigan", according to the state's Dept. of Natural Resources:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/25/dnr-...
Using ports other than 443.
Only 100 of those are sensory neurons.

Only two neurons are for memory (interneurons as the neural substrates of mechanosensory memory).
For that $60/yr you pay for Xbox Live, you also get $700 worth of games included with the price. Every month you get two or three free games, usually older AAA games like Assassins Creed Black Flag or one of the Halo or Gears of War games. This month you get Hitman Blood Money and Overcooked for free, which are both great games. Xbox Live is only the cost of one brand new AAA game per year, and again you get games included that you can download and play forever, so it really offsets the cost.

You also have better anti-cheat systems (get caught cheating on PC, you have to buy another copy... get caught cheating on Xbox you have to buy another Xbox). I tried playing CoD4 on PC when it came out and very quickly switched to Xbox because I didn't want to have to install an aimbot.

But that's ignoring all the games that exist on PC that you do have to pay money to play online...
I would but I cannot delete it from my phone :(

I still use it on my desktop.
Putin is forever!
Lessons in Failure: Removing the Old Debugger from Firefox
Your friend's friend says the Facebook app tracks conversations. Do you

a) Vaguely agree that Facebook is awful, and removing the app is a good idea,

b) Start explaining how a detailed log of every app user's location, time spent reading each story, typing speed, searches, lists of other apps used (or in use), full lists of contacts, calendar events, text messages, phone call history, photographs, nearby WiFi networks and battery statistics can be combined with website-based Facebook use and tracking cookies on other sites, allowing Facebook to create a detailed profile of each user, and that's why they showed the creepily-relevant advert.

I would usually choose (a), unless the discussion is specifically about data privacy. (b) is not literally listening, but it's close enough for a casual discussion.
The exception being you can bet that a stadium for a billionaire will get built. If the stadium is not built, the deal is usually off / no incentives.

Who the hell knows what Foxconn is actually going to end up doing. Somehow that seems worse.

I'm not saying either are good deals, but the contrast is surprising too.
Perhaps some of that 28,000 could pay for some upgraded hosting.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company to boot...
Technically speaking they’re all Delaware C-corps ;)
The article made it seem like it was for living expenses at one point which are typically monthly things? Perhaps they just got lazy and kept the same mechanism going. It doesn't matter if it's lump sum or monthly to the IRS, as you indicate.

Other potential reasons:
- Banks do this for free via their web apps and it's easy to set up. Other services charge for larger one-time fees / wire transfers
- SWIFT tracking if that's a factor?
- A 28K one-time check would require branch access. Typically anything at a smaller dollar level is OK and under the monthly limit / single-check limit. If you don't live near a branch this is helpful (though one-time exemptions are relatively "easy" to negotiate.
- Returns / payouts on capital might generate this cash on a monthly basis?
It should also deflate as the economy grows. Wrt the problems of deflation, it may or may not cause some, but it doesn't really matter because people who don't want to participate in Bitcoin don't have to. They can still choose to use inflationary stores of value.
>In the digital age, the influence and reach of these important intermediate groups has been decimated

I'm not sure that's a bad thing. Those intermediate organizations have been biased in the past and seem to have become increasingly biased to the point of becoming useless for those that want to focus on facts rather than opinion & commentary.

We know that widely available information is generally good for democracy. This could actually be a step in the right direction, but there is some adaptation that society has to undergo in order to efficiently filter the new influx of information.

Whereas before there was inherent trust of published info, I think a general skepticism over new information is likely to develop.
It's so she doesn't get the 28k at once and spend it one something stupid, like a new car or a designer handbag.

Her parents might also be getting her bank statement monthly and check what is going on.