skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one SF Chronicle article put it in describing CA Governor Newsom, SF politics are a lion's den that produces strong candidates for the national stage.

Which in perspective says not that SF functions well, but rather that it functions so poorly that you have to have immense skill to survive.

And like other established cities with some history, there is a vein of the upper crust - people whose parents owned property, went to the local prep schools and now own some property themselves. That's a thing that contributes to the quagmire, since it creates more complex entanglements than the basic economics would suggest. A lot of the tech billionaires have made moves to muscle in on this scene, which has perhaps helped it from getting too stagnant, but contributes to its overall incoherence.
She is actually employed at GitHub now.

https://twitter.com/jessfraz
I fail to see the proported hypocrisy with Rees-Mogg, of course Somerset Capital would establish an EEA entity, dont forget they have BVI, US and Asian based funds too.
have you seen the Dyson hair dryer? Phenomenal product. Who said you need a screw for anything (See the Mathematical Bridge in Cambridge).
Tangent from your tangent: people are really bad at this for their native language. They usually tend towards using language that would be understandable by a young child.

This biases them towards using simple, concrete words that are used in everyday spoken language, despite the fact that many abstract terms and jargon can be very easy to translate, while many terms that are used in everyday language (most notably common idioms) can be very hard to translate, and which concrete terms are used as analogies for abstract concepts can be very culturally specific.
4-6 years and still browsing the web seems unlikely. Take two devices I purchased in early 2013, an Ipad Mini 1st gen 8gb and a Nexus 7. Both were out of update range by 2016 and both struggle to browse "simple" web pages or by the same time.

With top of the line, first of their generation full x86 laptops; 5 years seems unlikely, especially during the web growth periods and Moore's law from 1995-2005 -- to even be able to reliably and securely run web pages.
Yeah, probably not much, but approximate to the ARPU for google, which I think is around $25 per year. Also, if anyone is interested in working on something like this, shoot me an email at the address in my profile.
Bubbles are real, but not only on Facebook. People will watch TV stations that have content that aligns with their world view. They'll read news papers that do the same. Listen to people who say things they like. This isn't strictly Facebook issue.
If you want to argue that there's no correlation between the Apple name and the quality of their products, you're going to need to do a comparative analysis between Apple and other manufacturers instead of simply cherry-picking well-known Apple product failures.
This is a good example of where that simple rule breaks down: piping it would only work when you are running a command and feeding its output to a different location whereas having it in SSH helps with everything so e.g. typing `ls` in a big directory, `cat`-ing a file, using `scp` on text, etc. benefits.
I see what you mean- thank you for the clarification.

Well, I'm not really the right person to discuss this issue since I can't claim to understand how the brain works. However, I do understand a few things about connectionist methods and it's my understanding that they are not very good models of the way the brain works at all (am I misrepresenting your turn of phrase, of "biologically plausible"?). In that sense, I doubt it's possible that a neural net would develop symbolic reasoning by dint of being in some way similar to a biological brain.

In general, my experience with neural nets and gradient optimistation techniques is that unless a great deal of effort is spent directing their learning, they are prone to learn whatever is convenient, which is very often not what the human users want it to.

For instance, see the following collection of anecdotes of evolutionary algorithms lerning whatever they please, rather than what the researchers were trying to teach them:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453

Or the descriptions of the difficulties of training Deep Reinforcement Learning models in this article:

https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

Also, while I'm a staunch symbolicist myself, I'm not 100% convinced that symbolic reasoning is "natural". I think it rather took a lot of effort to develop such systems and most people still have a great deal of trouble using them with precision. If you meant to say that symbolic reasoning should arise spontaneously in a neural network, I see that as very unlikely.
I quite enjoyed Ray Tracing from the Ground Up when I was learning ray tracing for the first time.

http://www.raytracegroundup.com/
he's been upset for a while at the EU's regulatory standards on vacuum cleaners, which he said were mostly written by his German competitors

he contested them in court and was ultimately victorious, but it took 5 years (and presumably millions of pounds) to win that victory

to me that seems like a valid reason to be upset
Product pricing isn't linear with features/abilities. If you want the best X per $ spent you'll almost always arrive at lower quality version. There are premiums to be paid for even minor improvements.
I have. Last time I bought a bunch of drives for a RAID array, I used the WD utility to test each of them. 1 of the 6 failed the test.
The main issues that prevents me to have an interest in Pharo are the following two:
- There is no real multithreading support
- It's not easily embeddable

I believe that there are attempts to tackle these problems but what is the status?
Mainly just apt-get these days.
Occasionally something is deprecated in the config file, but the release notes are very clear. Never had an issue and our omnibus install has been chugging along since they introduced enterprise version back in the days.
It's both. The latter isn't the intended use, of course.
Yes. Exactly.

But remember, this is how credit cards work anyway. These companies rely on people not paying their bill in full each month, paying high rates of interest. That pays for all this "bonus" crap and more.
How does this software prevent ballot stuffing / SPAM / malicious actors?
I have cable Internet with 20mbit/s upload which I believe is decent (unless you have fiber) means uploading 8 000 000 gigabits (=1 terabyte) would take 400 000 seconds, that's about five days and that's the theoretical maximum. At ten terabytes you are now looking at two months...
I've witnessed similar on two occasions. These were typical flakey SV recruiters were completely unprofessional and disrespectful of my time.

In fact the experience was so bad in each of these that I really felt compelled to write a review in the hopes that others might avoid also wasting lots of time.

Both reviews were taken down within 24 hours of being posted.
I personally hate using terms such as "poaching" or "gorging" to describe one company offering more money to a worker at another company or university to come work for them. You would think the professors/workers are being killed for body parts or kidnapped and forced to work in sweatshops instead of actually being paid more and being better off due to this transaction.

Underpaying people is not a right. Workers are free agents and if someone offers them a better deal, then they are free to accept it. Paying workers more is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Hilarious!

WaPo seems to have lost some of whatever political acumen they may have had.

A takedown is not the right response to this. And it's resonant with many people for good reasons, some to do with the President, some to do with our sick body politic, and a part of that illness is WaPo itself.

I am quite sure that stings. Rather than reach for a shallow DMCA salve, some levity, humility, and growth would do more than relieve a painful symptom.

Frankly, we need media to do more of the hard work.

And there is a bonus in there for them! Rather than feeling laughed at (which they are, in fact being laughed at), they could laugh with, secure in better managing and executing their important role in our body politic.

All of that, by the way, is precisely why speech of this kind is protected. Those who feel the impact of it probably should. And they do to our mutual benefit.
facebook

> fb is one of the first social implementation of b.j. fogg's behavior model + and engineered addiction, and the subsequent commoditization of likes and shares
It seems there will soon be a mass market solution: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/sick-of-the-noi...
Automated Internet Speedtests for Distributed Networks
I was on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Chat, as well as Friendster, Tribe.net, MySpace, and Orkut. True, Facebook didn't invent social networking, but it was significantly better than all of the others.

The messengers were different beasts; in fact, Facebook didn't get instant messaging for quite some time.

Facebook had two things going for it over the other early social networks - the UI was comparatively good, and they platform-ized early. Nowadays folks get angry about "apps that steal your data" but back in that era the apps were the interesting thing. Facebook itself didn't have an event planning system; you relied on third party apps for that.

Facebook also executed well in a way that the other platforms didn't. Friendster just outright failed to scale. But even the other platforms were stuck following the conceptual model of a dating website - they were all about customizing your "page". Zuckerberg gets credit for recognizing the value of a "feed of what your friends are up to" and shifting the core interaction, despite angry protests from entrenched users.

Saying "Facebook didn't invent social networking" is far too dismissive.
Flat design imposes higher cognitive load than skeumorphism
You can look at it as interest that's not disclosed or as a service fee for handling transactions. It's not obvious that an explicit fee for either would be lower.

I think people have claimed that when the experiment was
done by capping fees, things don't get cheaper, so your viewpoint may not be accurate.
Working my way through Alain Bertaud's Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities[1] at the moment and it's proving to be a really great resource for understanding this kind of thing and in the process marrying together a bunch of urban planning concepts and principles from economics. Also has some pretty great graphic design work on the charts and figures side of things and a nice layout wherein there are many small sections of 1-2 pages or less with condensed lessons.

Not halfway through yet, but I feel pretty comfortable recommending it if you're into the topic area of this article (urban mobility, how commutes+jobs shape urban areas, etc.).

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/order-without-design
> If someone invents a tool and sells it for a profit - who was exploited? Is it not possible for everyone to be richer than they started and also create wealth??

As I said, when, after the electricity bill etc. is paid, created wealth is split between dividends to heirs and wages to those who worked and created the wealth.

If in your hypothetical situation there is no split - if the person who worked and created wealth keeps everything - there is no expropriation.

The expropriation is the last few hours of work he does, of the wealth he creates - none of it going to him, the one who created the wealth and did the work. All of the profit going to the heir. But if there is no split, this expropriation does not happen.
Please thank those responsible on my behalf (and all of the others who study the numbers before purchasing drives.)
We should manufacture on the moon, then send steel cylinders at mach 5 pummeling towards humanity as from Thor in order to satisfy same day delivery demand (with no air brakes of course, to satisfy the malthusains).
Anyone have a good source of HGST drives? On Amazon, it used to be you could only get them from resellers and some comments complained about getting used drives. I basically stopped buying HDs from Amazon from resellers.

EDIT:

Example:

THEY ONLY WAY YOU CAN VERIFY THAT YOU DID INDEED RECEIVE THE FULL 5 YEAR HGST WARRANTY IS YOU MUST CALL HGST TECHNICAL SERVICE, GIVE THEM THE SERIAL NUMBER AND ASK IF THE DRIVE IS A NON-OEM, OEM OR REMANUFACTURED.

I have ordered expecting the full 5 year warranty, and verifying with technical service, have discovered - one with over 18,000 hours (from Crystaldiskinfo), several OEM's (no manufacturer warranty), a remanufactured and a full 5 years manufacturer warranty. AND once in awhile I get lucky and received as advertised - a full 5 year manufacturer's warranty.
One reason would be for trying out the environment, which represents a totally different approach to programming than the traditional file based and textual approach, instead of having your coding and runtime as part of the same environment, where you're communicating with live objects.
And they receive the lion's share of benefits from getting privileged access to legislators, better policing, lighter sentencing in the rare case they are charged with an infraction. The poor basically get scraps, no legislative voice, higher risk of death by police, higher rate of incarceration, and basically all the worst parts of America. The rich are doing just fine, seeing as we're effectively in the second gilded age.
I mean, it’s a map of commuting, so what else would it show?
It certainly has been in the past. I'm not sure it's true with the last few years' worth of MacBooks.
Agree. These days not owning a car can be either a sign of being extremely poor, or somewhat privileged.
Most changes to the status-quo will negatively affect the poor, because they are the most vulnerable.
It's remarkable how often companies expect their employees to be completely loyal and do a bunch of work for free, while also treating their employees like free labor and cutting them loose at the smallest disagreement.

I've started steering very clear of any company that talks about how important loyalty is, or how the employees are all 'like a family'. Biggest red flags for toxic management imo.
>Google tracks more of your data than Facebook

Yes, there are stories[0] that say they track more data but the difference is Facebook's track record for abuse. So far, I'm unaware of any harm Google has done with my history of search queries tied to my wifi MAC address (as another poster commented I should worry about).

>Google does the same X hence google is good.

No, I don't buy Google's "don't be evil" slogan.

>To me they are all equally bad and equally good.

I disagree. They are different in severity. I think Facebook in particular has repeatedly demonstrated a track record of unethical behavior. So far, I think the evidence shows Mark Z has a different set of ethics and principles than folks like Larry Page and Tim Cook.

This doesn't mean I give Google a free pass or that I'm not wary of them. So far, my "trade" with using Google's search engine seems fair and I will stop using them when proven otherwise. I can't say the same for Facebook.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-d...
> The problem with this strategy is you can never go back.

Reading all these stories about bad managers and stuff, do managers and employees take things personal in the US?

So if you leave for a better deal you actually will make personal problems between employer end employee?

Whenever someone under me quits for a better deal or another job that I can't match I tell them "good luck and thanks for the time you shared with us, if you change your mind, welcome back".

Same with salary negotiations, I usually ask them to give me "ammunition" that I can use against the higher-ups to get them raises, that is job offers at other companies, lists of stuff they have done and statements from other departments. Usually I manage to get them 5-10% raise but sometimes even more.

People work so much better if they are happy about their situation from what I can tell.
You'd probably have more effect mentioning that the sensitivity training is insensitive to people whose families are abusive, especially given significant groups of minorities are disproportionately affected.

(Personally as an adult who continues to deal with difficulties regarding abusive family, I would feel highly uncomfortable with "we're a family" rhetoric- this is the exact rhetoric abusers use when abusing their family!)
Yeah, I just checked it out and the topics seem like troll bait with toxic comments. People actually verify their identity with their employer before posting these things?
Nice link, even if I did write it myself. ;-)
> I imagine that this is a higher risk for virtualized servers in a public cloud.

I think it might be the other way around (at least in terms of virtualized servers versus physical servers, both on public cloud) -- it is easier to implement IP address and other filtering measures with virtualized servers than inside physical network switches. Linode and other virtual machine providers almost universally implement this filtering, but many dedicated server providers are not as robust.
Don't believe anything you read on the internet (except this).
The most important feature of your logo is that it have the name of your company in easily readable text.

A HUGE percentage of even the largest companies in the world have their name as part of their corporate logo.

Is your company bigger and better known than Disney, Microsoft, Verizon, Ford, Amazon, or Facebook? If not, you should probably think twice about whether your arcane little graphic will be enough for your customers (and even more importantly your prospective customers) to confidently ID and recall your brand. All those companies incorporate their name in their logo to this day.

Even the companies who can get away with just the graphic now--like Nike, Apple, McDonalds, etc.--started out with a logo that incorporated their name, in some cases for decades.

Here's the truth: text-free logos are the rare exception, and can't be confidently predicted. Your logo's job is to help people remember your brand name. Focus on that, and then, maybe, if the stars align, you can one day take off the text. But that should be an aspiration, not a design constraint on day one.
> I do think humanity would be served by a "real names" database by an entity we could trust to help us connect with each other. Unfortunately, that valuable info is currently held by an unethical company like Facebook. (My previous comment about this.[0]) They abuse their stewardship of the social graph which is why I adamantly avoid them.

You mean like the phone book?
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I'd imagine the concern is reducing the earliest part of a customer funnel. First they get the free users. GitHub has the network effects and most open source projects using it, so gitlab need to be better in other areas like having free private repos. Then they can upsell these people for features, or be in the mind of someone making a decision on an enterprise license. If the early stage of that funnel is cut off, they lose their chance to get customers to the more profitable parts.
Ask HN: Should Android developers have a commercial license to use Java in 2019?
Before Facebook, if I lost someone's contact information, and drifted outside of their social circle for a long enough time, chances were I would never ever see or speak to that person again.

Bear with me here... Was that such a terrible thing? I always dreamed about reconnecting with old friends, and then I did, and many times reality did not live up.
In Switzerland only very few people of my social circle own a car and the fast majority of them needs it for work. Compared to neighbouring countries having a car is not even that expensive.

It's just a lot more confident to use public transport mostly because it's cheap and just great.

I think people will learn to use public transport options once it's affordable, reliable and everywhere.

As counter example Austria where I know a lot more people with cars. Their public transport isn't bad but expensive and unreliable.
It was a joke that nobody seems to be getting, but I was implying that I pee unaware into the hand-dryers.
The question then is, would it be cheaper to replace that one drive or get the more expensive disks with lower chances of failing?
I wonder why Valve is bothering with this. People who use Linux exclusively are probably too small of a market right now for this to be a profitable endeavor. Maybe they're gearing up to revitalize SteamOS and Steam Machines?
It's really odd that he says that considering how different unemployment is today compared to 2008, where as in 1937 unemployment had consistently been bad starting back in 1929.
I downvoted you not to express disagreement, but because I think your comment detracts from this particular conversation. I suspect others did for the same reason.

However: Some of your other recent comments are spot on. The upvotes are on me. Try not to spend them all in one place.
Or... we just found the governmentally sanctioned attack vector?
FTAs aren’t magically more democratic. The loss of control of our own law was a major issue for New Zealand signing the Trans Pacific Partnership.

FTAs also bind countries to laws the citizens may oppose and even if changing a law is OK, it might still result in an expensive investor state dispute at a court of arbitration.
Truth of the matter is, Dyson doesn't have any major feature ability their competitor cannot copy. Sure their patented electric motor design might be more advanced 10 years ago, but not any more! IMO, Tesla makes most advanced electric motors in the planet, since Tesla open their patent portfolio, many Taiwanese ODMs are making them cheaply available. I am not even not talking about knockoffs. Dyson lost their edges.
Actually, using labels will help you. Historically it took me about a day to get to a zero Inbox.
You can usually google the book and find a pdf on the first page of results. The online codes some of the professor's require is highway robbery.
"Failed" as in "with an IO error" as in "got the wrong data back"?

Because if it's the latter, it could've been caused by some other part of IO stack and not necessarily the drive itself.
To get some juicy details try reading thelayoff.com of your employer or future employer. But remember take things with a grain of salt lol
FB is the most insidious echochamber.
it reverberates so intensely, that any abberent waveslengths of thought are saturated and harmonically amplified to match the echo, and its a tuned echo chamber.

All of the fixes, and improvements are simply retuning maneuvers to match the propaganda of the day, I wholeheartedly believe that cuckerborg will go down in history as one of the most despicable thought criminals of this existence.
I don't even understand the premise of bagless being better than bagged. I had a Dyson for a long time and cleaning out that container was always a huge mess. And it had to be done constantly. I've got a Miele now and it's quiet, cleans better, built like a tank, and swapping out the bag takes 20 seconds once every couple months.
No one has "innate ability" for programming. It's a human construct you have to learn.

Getting a job at these companies largely requires studying up on CS101 trivia and CS basics to pass stupid tests. It's practicing how to pass their interview process. It's not "innate ability and intelligence."
If only we had had indications that centralizing all reputation management into one or few places might have adverse effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
Not sure why you are getting downvotes, like half of the map doesn't ever appear on any of the lists, implying that half of NY state, for example, simply don't work.
It's a reason to be upset, it's not a reason to back a brexit campaign.