skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is worth more just for the political influencing alone. It's known within certain circles that they manipulate the voting system so that articles of their choice reach the front page.
> Vuvuzela is secure against adversaries that observe and tamper with all network traffic, and that control all nodes except for one server. Vuvuzela’s key insight is to minimize the number of variables observable by an attacker, and to use
differential privacy techniques to add noise to all observable variables in a way that provably hides information about which users are communicating.

Someone watching all traffic will know that you're using Vuvuzela, but won't be able to figure out who you're communicating with. In Tor, generally if someone can see all traffic they can rapidly trace communication links-- it's encrypted, but the fact that you send packets and induce a chain of a few other packets to the target is a dead giveaway.
What incident is this referring to? I can't find anything via a quick search...
My building is circa 1900 and all-wood construction and doesn't have any of those problems, aside from being able to tell when an immediate neighbor is running a washing machine on high (the wood floorboards are all nailed to the same long joists and carry the vibrations across).
I'd like to see a 5x reduction in those limits but awesome idea.
It is a business, so I imagine the fairness goal ultimately serves that end. Expanding the rating system probably has to be driven by demand and there has to be a cost/benefit trade-off. Can anyone comment on the comparability of Michelin star ratings between cultural regions?
>Communication between a Deaf person and a hearing person is a two-way street, and this tool really only addresses one of those streets.

Could have not said it better myself.
Steemit is interesting to me, but I'm not sure I'd want something that's so focused on users making money to replace reddit.
We also paid all cash for our place. Looking at what our bills are currently, and adding a mortgage to it, I think we'd be living much closer to paycheck-to-paycheck if we had that over our heads. Very happy that we lived frugally for several years and were able to build up enough savings to pay for our place outright.

The key in our situation is we went for a townhouse, which for whatever reason seems to knock 30-50% off the asking price. I guess people really don't like stairs and living immediately next to people.
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (FreeBSD Mailing List) (1999)
Seconded. I actually read "The Blind Watchmaker" first and that had just as big an impact on me. As someone else said, no going back after reading it. It also gave me the confidence to realise I was actually an atheist, not an apologetic agnostic!
It actually works pretty nicely. I put some more uncommon keywords such as 'enlightement' and it generated a happy face with an eye in the forehead. I'm impressed.
> Per-script max size: 50KiB

That is quite small actually... My application (internal use, not consumer facing, so no panic) has a single packed script file, that is around 100KB.
The benefits of being an apex predator.
* The Selfish Gene - our bodies are vessels for DNA as they travel through time. Also colony insects and birds are fascinating.
* Thinking Fast and Slow - study after study shows that we exhibit so, so many cognitive biases, as our minds take shortcuts. there are some things you can do to recognize and mitigate these biases.
Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing.
That's true, for teaching purposes it does help to simplify, as long as people know that they're not playing by the "real" rules (so when they play again without you, they play correctly). I don't remember the specific details, but the times I've seen it be an issue are when people give different answers to a question since they've each deduced different things about the board state.
That would require Bitcoin to be free from economic/political interference first, and given the the block size debacle and concentration of power with the Chinese miners, that's not the case.
No I’m saying that things don’t fall from the sky. People make everything, and basic human dignity and justice demands that no one is just entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labor.

The revenge tack you take is also misguided. This is all about basic human dignity and people feeling like they deserve all this stuff from workers the world over, just because they live in a first world country. Or just because they live period. Being alive doesn’t entitle you to anything, and that’s probably where we disagree, because my guess is you think being alive entitles you to health care, and food and housing. But if that was true, and everyone took that entitlement, then where would all the actual stuff come from? Where? As I said, it’s the height of privilege to act like these things are human rights, because in doing so, you deny the workers who actually produce things common, basic dignity and equality.
+1. Thanks. My local library has a copy on hold for me now :-)
This sounds exactly like the kind of Reddit alternative we need. Most competitors right now seem to think Reddit's biggest problem is their policy against user harassment and hate speech (even though this is barely enforced at all).

Just based on your blog post, you seem really in tune with what the real problems with Reddit (and social media as a whole) are in 2019.
I spent a lot of time on helping out others. I'm perhaps a little quick on ruling someone out.

But i blame it on tight deadlines and multiple team members + seeing a pattern that works.
Yes its work. But you know what is also work? Cleaning shit from others the whole day.

I also can imagine selling stuff is draining or catering for others.

I'm valuated more because i'm more needed and a company can make more money with me than without me. This still doesn't make it fair.
Ok, I'll bite.

Because men fundamentally suck at writing code and creating great software products.

Women put rocketships on the moon, cracked code (WWII), oh yes and invented programming languages. The algorithm Google's built on? Discovered by a woman.

Men gave us Ad based platforms and a bunch of cheesy bro products to rate hot chicks. Wow. So not impressed.

Software is a pink collar profession. If you want male-dominated to the roots, go into hardware.

By the way, male nurses and teachers get affirmative action and there are female trade groups.

I'm not sure why there's a problem with inviting a bunch of women to get together and talk about their areas of expertise. Given the history, we'll likely solve some interesting problems.

So I heard about this comment thread in one of my forums for women in tech. I think the main gist was sigh. We think you are either trolling for dollars or stupid.

Factually, historically, and socially you're incorrect. So I took one for the team and corrected the record.
"Health > Happiness > Work"

I started the year out with setting my priorities in this manner and holding strictly to it. If it doesn't obviously fit into to one of these columns it probably falls under "Unnecessary pleasure-seeking"
Custom User Authentication in Istio
This is news to me. I didn't realise Dawkins' theory had been so thoroughly refuted. What's the evidence for this?
You do not build up a tolerance to ketamine if you follow the treatment protocol, which dictates a lower dose (around 100mg, give or take for body weight), and one infusion every 3-6 weeks.

Source: Been having regular infusions every 3-6 months for 3 years, and it still works for me.

I can't say this enough: experience & anecdotes based on recreational ketamine use /do not apply at all/ to clinical use.
> The other thing is that tests have proven people trust more if you offer a warranty or even a money-back warranty.

Personally, in my own purchasing decisions, warranties mean nothing to me (They're a huge hassle, and I've never had an experience with warranties that didn't make me feel like I've been ripped off) -- but money back guarantees mean a huge amount.

Buying something without trying it first is a very risky thing to do. A money-back guarantee (particularly a no-questions-asked one) removes that risk from me and makes it much more likely that I'll take a chance on a product.
80000hours
Firefox isn't exactly stagnating - Servo has a lot of promise for performance.
Posts and comments are all contents. Offensive posts will not spawn inoffensive comments. In WPD you can probably get more upvotes by being more offensive. From what I've seen there, it's usually the ones trying to call for basic decency being downvoted.
I agree! I also firmly believe that Dale Carnegie cared deeply about the reader he modeled in his head.

In the context of Dale Carnegie, I think that a genuine connection requires the active involvement of two people interacting with one another. For all that the emotions involved are unquestionably valid, I do not consider the genuine emotion one person feels for an imaginary other person to be a genuine emotional connection with another human being.

Bach, to my knowledge, did not like to rattle on about the importance of synchronous emotional engagement.
* The Selfish Gene - our bodies are vessels for DNA as they travel through time. Also colony insects and birds are fascinating.

* Thinking Fast and Slow - study after study shows that we exhibit so, so many cognitive biases, as our minds take shortcuts. there are some things you can do to recognize and mitigate these biases.

* Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The lesson on the surface is that you need to practice/work to become good at anything, but the deeper message for me was that everything is basically preordained. People are acting based on what's logical to them, which is the sum of their experiences. Since we can't control what happens to us, we aren't really in control of what we do either. I mean, the future is still wide open, but looking back, everything happens for a reason, and those reasons are pretty much out of our control. I'm not entirely certain that was the message Gladwell was trying to portray, but that's how I've viewed life ever since I read that book.
What word would you use to denote the concept "to know what you need and advocate for your needs, to take care of yourself"?

What is the difference between "need" and "want" and why is that difference important?
Honest question, because I’m a bit confused: the 40% is good or bad? It seems comparable to my old iPhone SE, is battery life so much worse on the newer generations?
I wanted to love the XR, but it was too big.

I’d prefer a 4.5” phone, but ended up with an iPhone X as a kind of cheaper, smaller, currentish iOS device.
A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.
"permenantly", except for the bug where about 1 pageview in 10 it still redirects you to new reddit. I think it's something related to improperly configured (server-side) caching or something.
And white people in the U.S. are also not homogeneous. So what?

The U.S. has multiple metropolitan areas that each has a larger population and more ethnic diversity than the smaller European countries. And that's before you even consider the country as a whole.
This one did it for me, too. I was utterly, utterly changed by it. It's a new story for humankind. A story with a much bigger potential, a much more hopeful arc, with a future of unlimited potential because it goes beyond humankind toward a community of life that has its own larger reason to exist.
What about when you adjust for stagnant wages?
My favourite one is that at some point there was a lot of piracy happening in a forum. Someone would post "Hey, I'm looking for <Game X>, thanks", and someone would reply "Here's a link to the zip: <link>". Sometimes people would reply "the link is broken", or "thanks", or "the zip has a virus".

After fuming for a couple of days, I discovered that you could post to this forum without needing to register, and that you could post via a simple HTTP form post (this was before REST APIs). I figured that if the website couldn't be taken down (guess which country hosted it...), at least I could make it less useful!

So I wrote a bot that would periodically scan for posts asking for zips, and post replies with bit.ly urls that went nowhere. It also scanned for replies to posts that contained links, and randomly replied "the link is broken", or "thanks", or "the zip has a virus", all using a simple text generator with phrase templates, an username generator, and a game name generator.

What I didn't anticipate, but was obvious in retrospect, was that the bot started posting fake replies to its own fake posts. So for a few days, my bot was essentially running the forum by itself!

I eventually fixed this, as hilarious as it was. To get around IP blocking and rate limits (which I'm unsure I ever actually found), I distributed this bot to a handful of fellow indies whose games were being pirated in the same place as well.

I don't remember how or why I stopped using this, or whether it ever made any difference to our bottom line, but it was a silly source of entertainment for a few weeks :)
Chrome feels way slower than Firefox and the only reason keeping me from making the jump to Firefox is laziness. I'm too lazy to find alternatives for all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc, but Firefox feels way faster.
Don't just quit when you are becoming older. It is getting harder to find a new job and you are in risk of earning less.
Linux has TLS in kernel right now, with userland cert handling. Barely anyone is using it though.

On the other hand there are some really nice QUIC implementations in Rust, and running in userspace has security advantages.
You could have gotten some good pocket change for selling that old of an account.
>Furthermore, I'd say on a global scale /r/politics is pretty much dead middle,

You have either not been there enough to see it for what it is, or been there too much.

/r/politics is far-left. I'm sorry if that offends you. /r/latestaecapiatlism is extreme-left.

The middle is in the controversial comments on these places.
Consumer Packaged Goods
Just published one as a reply to a sibling post :)
How many customer support teams have the agency to be able to make changes?

If you are working in customer support for a company that won't fix problems, a user telling you about a problem is just another problem.

Often customer support really really know about the problem, they just can't do anything much about it...
Oh man. Seems like the side-effect would be that you have to refresh the site to let your eyes have another pass through the animation.

Either that or it's forced you to develop a razor sharp visual memory of short weather animations. :)
Slightly off topic but I deeply wish I was half the man my library suggested.

Then again I've got no excuse not to be.
Wow, is it really that difficult to click "launch profile in a new browser"? I mean I know we're all becoming spoiled brats over time, but to consider a click or two "unusable" is truly beyond the pale.
Nassim Taleb, not Massimo
On Paul Graham's topic of "unicorns hiding in plain sight", I think news aggregation/discussion along the lines of Reddit is today's MySpace opportunity: an incumbent that could easily be bested 10x.
arms race between verification and obfuscation will go on for a long time.

It's worse at the top. Theranos. Madoff. MMM. Better Place. The entire binary option industry. Scams are getting bigger. Billion dollar scams were rare in history until recently.
It's because Reddit displays the upvote totals. Anytime you set up something that looks like a scorekeeping mechanism, people are going to start treating it like a video game and chasing high scores, with all the attendant showboating and bad behavior that leads to.
well HTTP/2 makes a lot of timing assumptions as well. just that it happens in user space.
First-Class Timeouts as a Cure for Event Handler Poisoning
Debugging Random Program Behavior
I went on to read more than a half dozen books by this author, all of them were equally amazing and thought-provoking. I wish I could like this entry times a thousand.
The book emphasizes this fact. If you don't actually care about the person you're trying to influence, if you aren't acting in what you believe is their best interest, they can tell (usually). We have marvelous words in English for this, like "smarmy" and "skeezy".
> Bear in mind this is the extremely idealistic neoliberal take.

Yeah it certainly is
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Twist it the other way around. What used to get you the top of the line, now only gets you the lower-cost model.
I ended up getting an 8. I love the size and after trading in a 6s was on $399. I don't game, and as fast as this thing is, it should last quite a while.
I know, I just didn't think this for the first few pages.
Modular homes are virtually indistinguishable from ground-up-stick-built homes, and are most definitely not prefabs.

https://www.wausauhomes.com/ and http://www.wisconsinhomesinc.com/ are a pretty good example of what you can do. Either they typically ship in 3-6 sections and are stitched together on-site by your framers, electricians and plumbers, or they ship wall and roof segments that take 2-5 days to stitch together. From that point on, it's the same process as your standard custom home, excepting that the frame was built in an environmentally controlled environment.

Edit: they're definitely not what you are referring to by "cheap" though. You'll probably save a bit of money over totally custom, but not along the lines of a tiny home either.
Could have probably sold it for $50-$100. (Yes, this makes reddit worse)
Nobody is barred from learning online, they can request a meeting to discuss coding. As long as they plan the questions in advance and don't interrupt every 5 minutes for a new question.

But programming involves so many questions if you are staying. It would be best to let them learn documentation and let them read open source code.

If you want to spend 24/7 on teaching coding, you should have a different profession :)
the US legal system relies on prosecution and defense both functioning. when expert testimony comes into play, that means there should be prosecution and defense experts. unfortunately public defenders are underfunded and frequently inexperienced, and can't/don't get opposing experts to review evidence.

many of the state lab testing scandals would be discovered years earlier if defense lawyers regularly had things retested.
A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander.
This is the original "pattern" book. About architecture and living spaces and exactly what makes a good place to be in so good.
The Boy Crisis, Warren Farrell.

I discovered the dire situation of men, with health and social conditions that top women’s problems by a factor 50, but we’ve never heard about. Funny thing is the guy is still a feminist in his approach (give men what used to be only given to women), but finally seeing men in a society where we really carr a lot when women face a problem... it changed my vision of life and humanity.
Open Source at Its Best: TypeScript and DefinitelyTyped
I agree with the author, the lesson really is to take the documentation seriously. I think a lot of people might not be in the habit of doing that, because they find the documentation of many projects lacking, or because it’s easier just to read some walkthrough where the work is already done and they can just copy paste the commands. It’s important to fully understand what you are doing in all cases, not just ones touching cryptography.
I find this sort of slightly gloating incredulity at just how "obvious" the things a company ought to be working on are to be surprising. You have almost none of the information required to make informed judgements about whether or not Reddit's product team is incompetent (maybe they're doing way better than they should be under the circumstances?), or whether they're focusing on the right things.

There are definitely problems with the user experience, but framing it in absolute terms and kicking off with a sweeping statement about the perceived incompetence of some people who are presumably bright and talented is… weird.
Programming: C Traps And Pitfalls. Most programming books are focused on the happy path; in reality we spend most of our time in the unhappy one, trying to fix or debug something. That book made it a lot more hospitable to be in that state.

General non-fiction: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds; http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

It's surprisingly relevant today and many of the anecdotes are fun. Helps you have a healthy skepticism but also acceptance of fads.

Fiction: Pratchett. Hilarious and deeply humanist at the same time.

Fiction and politics: Ian M Banks; fully automatic luxury space anarcho-liberalism. With lasers.
It's something I didn't realize until recently myself. There are several things Europe does better than the US in, but earning power is not one of them.
OK, it might be a bit embarrassing to post this, but I'm going to say Marie Kondo's "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up."

Not so much for the tidying part (though I did find that extremely helpful), but the whole idea of only keeping things in your life that "spark joy" (not an exact translation by the way - "spark excitement" or "spark meaning" are other ways I like to think about it) has had a profound impact on me.

I realized there were lots of things in my life (much more than just physical objects) that I had just sort of accumulated without thinking about what I really like or if something was good for me. I found the benefit of "practicing" this concept without mundane household objects allowed me to have a stronger sense of what I really enjoy in the more important aspects of my life.
If a company's product or service is bad, there's no amount of free stuff that they could offer that would improve my image of them.

What does improve my image of them is if they acknowledge the problem, treat it (and me) seriously, and make a credible-sounding promise that they'll fix the problem in the future. If all that's done, giving me a refund or replacement will further enhance the company in my eyes, but if it feels like they're just buying me off, it doesn't.
Someone getting down to 40% on the XR would have a dead battery on the SE. Your usage is lighter.
Existing Conditions is probably my favorite bar in the world. I think nowhere else can you get (relatively) unpretentious drinks that are as perfectly executed. (And if you read Dave's Liquid Intelligence, you'll know why.)
I would say you'd have to compare them to similar schools in the area or similar areas in the U.S. Between income range in the surround neighborhoods and population density you should be able to come up with a decent comparison, I would think.
How do you propose a scientific study be done of the end result with a billion confounding factors. Further the people on trial are heavily predisposed to be actually guilty to start with supposing we aren't just picking random people off the streets. They are the opposite of a random sample. Using nonsense to "prove" that the actually guilty is still false even if the ultimate answer was known by other means to be correct.

The logical thing to validate is the actual underlying science that is vastly easier to tease out and test independently and scientifically if we haven't even tried to disprove something it has limited merit and historically if its proponents resist even trying to prove it it is almost certainly hokum.

Wherein the means to test and validate the means we are using to deprive people of their freedom and sometimes their lives represents a fraction of the budget of the criminal justice system we are guilty of malpractice as a society.

This isn't something you can casually shrug off.