skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're misunderstanding. I'm not proposing that Facebook be _forced_ to allow third-party access, which would carry the risks you've pointed out. I'm simply proposing the federal government not aid them in their market dominance.

Facebook could still prevent third-party applications from functioning, but it would have to do so by methods inside of the HTTP specification rather than legal ones. For example, it could simply ban users who authenticate via a third-party app.
I don't think they're particularly cheap right now if that's the question
> The US military struggled for many years and spent huge amounts of money fighting insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan

They kill 100 fighters for one death on their side, and have control over the natural resources they want. I don't see the bright side for the opposite party.

> Trying to fight an insurgency on home soil, without the support of a tax-paying public? Forget about it!

That's a better argument. But that would assume the revolution would last. The local population would not have money or food either, but wouldn't have the supply chain or the reserve the military have.
I suppose it depends on whether you're thinking of an adversarial situation, or assuming sites that don't actively try to defeat the user's preferences.

Most news sites don't try to defeat my adblocker, to offer one example. It would certainly be in their interests to do so, but it's rare that they actively try. When they do, they usually try to block access while asking me to turn it off, rather than trying to sneak ads past it.

I'd probably stop visiting a site that actively tried to force video to play when I've asked my browser not to.
Register returns "something went wrong" (in a 200 response code :) ). Great site BTW!
Lot of people talking about third-party application development in this thread. It's also worth considering the opposite side of that, data portability. GDPR already requires companies allow users to easily export all their data [1], and if the US did the same it could really help mitigate the network effect social media companies use to hold onto their dominance (i.e. Facebook's properties)

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
Profile of Lyn Ulbricht, Mother of Silk Road Founder Ross
There is plenty left in the libertarian philosophy even if you take away the concept of idly sitting by, watching perverse, runaway growth. For example, ideas like bounding government power and reducing it to a few minimum functions and letting the market handle most things by itself. This does not necessarily imply letting the market go completely unchecked and requiring it to serve every need.

I think that decentralization of power is one of those profoundly libertarian ideas that is not often explicitly recognized as one.After all, a corporation in which power is extremely centralized is hard to differentiate from a government. Furthermore, if there is no one keeping it in any kind of check, what is preventing it from becoming a totalitarian government?

Markets work best when there is at least some level of decentralization. In other words, when you don't let any entity acquire a significant portion of total power.
Generally, while your insurer (health, auto, homeowner, or otherwise) would cover your initial costs, you would get reimbursed by suing the driver of the golf cart that hit you and they would either personally be liable or pay through their insurance company.
Of course ?

Yes it often makes sense to produce inefficient code for many business reasons (development speed, users don't care, easier platform to deploy to, etc).

However what Slack does would be nowhere near taxing for a modern computer if it were to be done remotely efficiently.
"hamburger menus are bad" vs. "no they're good" is such a silly argument to have - all you know about a UI that uses a "hamburger menu" is that there's an icon with three lines involved somewhere. You don't know what the application is for, what options are in the menu, or even the mechanics of the hamburger menu itself - for example on Windows the built-in "hamburger menu" control shows icons in compact state and can be expanded by default, which avoids most of the problems with options being buried, etc. It's frustrating that UI discussions tend to stay on such a superficial level.
Also, would Instagram have become the force that it is without FB's marketing, site reliability, i18n and anti-spam muscle? Just the flawless logins where a newly installed Instagram app recognizes that you're already logged in to Facebook boosted adoption likely.

If you look at the press reports from around that era, Instagram's domination was far less assured - Color got tons of funding, PicPlz raised $5 mil, the press favored Hipstamatic, and every day a few new apps with their own twist on photo sharing would launch.
News outlets do publish several days old "news" though.

I think the reader feels like it matters but it doesn't. If someone is "writing from $place" it seems more immediate, more authentic, more real? When really it wouldn't matter for most situations.
Except you end up getting equally naive journalists pushing equally naive articles analyzing the 1%, and equally naive academics doing the same, and the ultimate effect is that there's very little data and very little analysis on, for example, the 0.01%. And people like Bernie Sanders, for example, seem loathe to talk about them too. I imagine that people don't like to talk about them because of how powerful they are. And so all this talk about the 1% is actually a very useful smokescreen for the <0.01%.
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Just tax them and make them too expensive for constant use as is already happening. Banning something entirely is just another dystopia raising.
I think Intuit is just a scapegoat in this case. Incomprehensible tax code is a rich environment for corruption.
Serious question: when has banning any drug worked in the past? I watched quite a few TED Talks claiming there is data suggesting legalizing all drugs -- even those that are "objectively harmful" like meth or heroin -- has merits.

[Disclaimer: I smoked tobacco in the past (~10 years ago for a few months in HS due to social reasons) but I wouldn't care the slightest if they're banned.]

I don't think cigs are more harmful than meth or heroin. If countries like Portugal had success legalizing these hardcore drugs and using other sorts of policies to limit their harmful effects, why go backwards and ban them? I'm all for limiting harms of cigs, especially to children who are more susceptible, but is this really the right approach to solve this problem?

Again this is a legitimate question; not being sarcastic.
Can you elaborate? I actually love (forms of) this question. It helps identify if a person has the self-awareness to be a good team member.
Using OrientDB to Detect Fraudulent Spending by Government Officials
> It was a massive cash incinerator.

I mean, this is not unheard of in Silicon Valley.

Be it YouTube or some other company, truth is online user-generated video was bound to be huge given the growth in bandwidth capacity and improvement in smartphone cameras.

The fact that specifically YouTube is what it is right now might be because it operates under the Google umbrella. Had the acquisition not happened, I'm sure we'd have at least a couple online video unicorns feeding off the huge demand for video and supply of people wanting to share.
The coding equivalent would be overzealous linter rules. For example, sometimes linters demand that all variable and function names follow a project-specific capitalization convention, but I find that type of consistency is often counterproductive.
Probably? But then what's the alternative (assuming you agree with the decision to start with).

People are always going to murder, evade taxes, do illegal drugs. The fact that some people won't follow laws isn't a reason not to implement them.

I'm guessing that due to geography, Hawaii has the most chance in the US of making this work though.
I said "monopoly rent." It's a term with a specific definition that you would do well to understand.
Not exactly:

> If approved, the restrictions would only apply to cigarettes—not e-cigarettes, cigars or chewing tobacco.

Just cigarettes. Oddly, cigars are excepted. Probably just get a lot of oddly thin and long cigar sales.
The proposed bill doesn't ban tobacco, just cigarettes in particular. Oddly, cigars are not banned.
I personally don't get a lot of productivity gain from putting stuff into space. I do, using Slack, and I suspect a lot of other people do as well.
Also adding: Slack Helper eventually goes into a death spiral and uses almost all of the CPU under macOS. I have to force quit it every other day or so. Slack seems to have been doing that for roughly 2 years.

Slightly mitigating data point: Other Electron apps do this too.
MS office to Libreoffice will be a disaster. I used excel professionally and tried libre. Omg, nothing worked. Loading large didnt work, doing pivot table didn't work. People need to start using R, libre will be really bad
Toyota is becoming more efficient by replacing robots with humans (2014)
Struggling to feel sympathy when someone dies on Everest (2016)
He links to BurntSushi in the "Parsing Text is Hard" section!
I can see why some would be upset but, I just ain't seeing the problem here. The only reasons tobacco exploded in the late 19th and early 20th century were based on junk science, lies, and deception. Some patent medicine hucksters targeted tobacco distributors in hopes of getting their poisons into the cigarettes themselves.

Now we're down to "habit" and "it's always been here", which isn't convincing enough for me.
Artificially hiding discontent from their users, what could go wrong..
"The ban would go into effect progressively, starting next year, by raising the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 21 to 30.

Two years later, no one under 100 would be allowed to buy cigarettes. "

This is the most wacky way to ban it I can think of. This can possibly pass a challenge in court.
Only wimps consider goto harmful.
I write tools. I choose to write in the platform(s) of MY choice. Are YOU following yet?

TFA chose to write a tool in THEIR platform of choice. If you want something different, write it your fucking self.
ahh, neat! i assumed they didn't because i assumed levine would have said that in the article. maybe i just glossed over that part.
> The authors of the utilities seem to make a pretty good case on how GNU’s ‘true’ and ‘false’ are POSIX compliant, because their extensions to them are covered where POSIX leaves the behavior as undefined, and in fact it seems to be the invocation of ‘true’ with any arguments itself that is not in accordance to POSIX.

Ok, so undefined behavior is seen an escape valve through which the devs can change longstanding behavior in the interest of consistency with a newer set of interface standards they've devised. Fine.

But then this response from a dev on that mailinglist[1]:

> Note that it is a high bar to
change the behavior of something like 'true'.

Hm... now I'm slightly intrigued.

Did the change that introduced the standard "--help" flag and addition of locale-related code flow directly from the "escape valve" of undefined behavior in POSIX? Or was the undefined behavior merely a starting point for a much more involved discussion about whether to change a long-standing interface that could introduce subtle bugs in old scripts/programs that relied on implementation details of undefined behavior?

Edit: clarification. Also if someone can point me to a mailing list discussion that shows evidence of the latter I would be much obliged.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-03/msg...
Tiny screws are to blame for delaying new Mac Pro
I have done a lot of work in Postgres pgsql writing functions and procedures and the walrus operator is an assignment operator. Welcome all :D .
What does "UGC" mean?
>everyone is offline as soon as they close their laptop

That's the killer app for Slack. Not images or emoji or gifs or file transfer, that's just icing on the cake. The killer is that everyone is "online" even if they're offline. As long as your message isn't time sensitive, you can fire it off and when the person logs back in they will see it.

Everyone who says Slack is just IRC is ignoring the fact that IRC doesn't allow you to chat with people who are offline. That's the game changer.
AFAIR Portugal did not legalize drugs, it decriminalised them.
Anyone who has spent time here knows that the summer holiday has a very particular place in Australia's cultural heart. This is particularly true for people who grew up here - it's a vivid representation of joy & freedom.

This sense is rapidly being displaced by summer being a period of hellish heat, fire & flood.
Gasp First audio map of oohs, aahs and uh-ohs spans 24 emotions
This is all so awesome!

Ready to run is a new one to me, can’t wait to hear more about it. Is it supposed to be ready for 3.0?
Vec<char> or an array for instance - [char; 20] can (automatically) create a "slice" of type &[char]. This is true for all types (not just char).

The operator for this is for eg l[1..10]. It can also happen automatically.

&str is the same type as &[char] - just a renaming.

Still learning Rust myself, apologies if this leads you astray. Just do some reading on slices.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-03-slices.html#string-sl...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/slice/
While I am generally in favor of taking a very conservative approach to our impact on the ecosystems which we inhabit, you may want to reserve a little humility when saying things like:

> Sorry but you can't be one of the smartest human beings alive if you question settled science like evolution and climate change.

Climate change is not settled science. It's model building. It isn't really possible to set up experiments where you can control variables and test hypotheses (because there's only one Earth). In that respect, it shares more in common with economics than physics, chemistry, or biology. Everyone takes economists' projections with a grain of salt. Yet the complex inter-dependent ecologies that we call Earth are way more complex than the global economy. So maybe we should be a little more guarded in our statements about what we know about how climate works.

Just some food for thought.
This is proposed by a single legislator; they may not have considered the implications especially deeply. The text in particular bans cigarettes, but not loose leaf tobacco. It's unclear if any black market for pre-rolled cigarettes is viable enough to be worth the costs of a black market business.
Why? Do you have issues with their current app? I've never noticed any problems that I think it being native would solve really.
I don't really have an OSX computer to use it on, so it's not that useful to me. I could probably make the same or better in a few hours.

Not sure exactly what you mean by wrong or meaningless programs. (edit3) I'm not sure it's possible to write a meaningless SQL statement.

Edit: it seems like the authors don't see it as that useful. I think the page said they are still looking for use-cases, or something. Have you contacted them?

Edit2 (fta): "However, as of Jan 2019 we’re tabling the project until we have a concrete, motivating use case to inform further development."
Major DNA Testing Company Sharing Genetic Data with the FBI
Ouch :( Unfortunately, mobile Safari's viewport is full of those issues.

I reported a similar one to the WebKit team a couple of months ago:

* https://gist.github.com/Reinmar/91c70d2882523f47da7c49805042...

* https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191204

This is an issue with the viewport mechanics making it impossible to position anything in the viewport when the software keyboard is visible. This is something that every rich-text editor developer deals with and that's why none of them work really nice on iOS.

Chrome (Blink) behaves much better here – just like one would expect it to. This means that there's a pattern which Safari developers could implement in it too. Also, I talked about this with Safari's developer who worked on the current mechanism and I got the impression they weren't aware of how problematic the current implementation is for developers. So, big +1.
I built a full CAD-CAM environment in GFA that lives on to this day as the core of a lathe / mill combo with integrated software. It was an incredibly productive environment, the whole thing clocked in at 50Kloc and a few thousand lines of assembly code to make it run very fast.
Control4 Acquires Switzerland-Based NEEO
> You're right, we should have immediately banned all firearms nationally

Yes.
Physical Security: Apple MacOS Mojave screen lock glitch leaking whats behind it
Facebook Friendversary [video]
Oh, I totally misread that.
Tandy happened well before the Atari ST.
Programming on Purpose - best book I read on software design so far.

Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - explaing human behavior from many points of view, well written and mind blowing.
Mine came out pretty good. I'm impressed. https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png
In order to ensure a conviction, law enforcement needs to apprehend the suspect and seize the contraband in the same physical location. Otherwise there can be room for reasonable doubt at trial.
I don't understand your argument. The fact that you and/or your neighbor committed crimes against each other doesn't negate the crimes you have committed. You're both guilty and the police would likely arrest both of you.

That being said, whether your response in the original hypothetical is reasonable is not the same thing as whether it is legal or moral. In all 3 hypothetical actions, the act is illegal. In some cases, a lesser illegal act is justified to prevent a greater legal act but the specifics of that depends on the jurisdiction.

So you can block your employer's warehouse in protest for something but then why be surprised when the time comes to pay for it?

In this case, both Amazon and the employees have violated the law. The law the employees violated was a lesser law than the numerous laws Amazon violated. Amazon is very likely to face a lawsuit in court and lose--the French are extremely protective of labor rights.
Google beats Wall Street expectations in strong fourth quarter earnings
TBH, American states were supposed to be much more like sovereign nations than they are currently, so the construction feels completely natural to me.
Matrix at FOSDEM 2019
RFC: linear history vs merge commits
true once was, and IMO should be again, implemented as a 0 bytes executable.

Since then, it has infinitely bloated on most systems.

It actually began at AT&T, where they apparently decided to copyright the trueness. From there it went downhill, ever and ever.

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for this machine family to QEMU? 68k cpu emulation is already included in QEMU, all it needs is general support for the platform itself.
The Guy Who Sent a Hiring Manager a Shoe to “Get a Foot in the Door”
But the factors that grew this giant remains, meaning this will turn into a whack-the-mole where nothing changes but the name and owner of the company that reeincarnates the by nature centralized public service these companies provide.

I would suggest a partially privat solution. Meaning. The public owns such projects, once the investment was returned.
Sort of a lease from the allmende, that always returns -as rewards for the maintenance of investment.
And any company can temporary (1 year max) own this infrastructure, once it contributes signifantly to it.
A simple help dialog for Makefiles
I'm curious if the ban may have to do more with littering and pollution as opposed to simply the health issues.
Employee counts via Form 10-K releases (as of EoY each year):

2013: 47,756 (too lazy to look earlier)

2014: 53,600 (+12.2% YoY)

2015: 61,814 (+15.3% YoY)

2016: 72,053 (+16.5% YoY)

2017: 80,110 (+11.1% YoY)

2018: 98,771 (+23.2% YoY)

Source: https://abc.xyz/investor/

This does not include contractor, temp, and vendors
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The first and best /bin/true was an empty file — possibly the only bug-free program ever written.

The worst may be the System V version, which added a copyright notice.
Yes, you should need to make it open source. There's no reason to have a different backend for every town in the USA; less work for you to do and less money to be spent redundantly.
Cigarettes are actually enjoyable to a lot of folk. I socially smoke about 20 cigarettes a year and get enjoyment from it.

It seems it should be one’s own choice to smoke in private.
Agree definitely not cheap, but newfound liquidity for thousands of tech workers should, in theory, keep prices high or higher than they are today.
In psychometrics, the field that studies the same thing you're trying to do, the concepts you're referring to as "consistency" and "accuracy" are known as "reliability" and "validity".

It's somewhat striking to me that you seem so worried about these concepts but you don't seem to be aware of the normal terms for them. How much does TripleByte try to inform itself of the existing research in this field? To what extent does TripleByte seek to incorporate psychometric results about what kinds of tests are likely to have high reliability and construct validity?

And one more more specific question:

> what actually matters is accuracy (predictive utility of the interview)

What is it that you're trying to predict? You could be trying to find employees who will be good employees, which would put TripleByte in the business of credentialing, or to find employees who will pass interviews at other companies, which would make TripleByte a recruiting agency. In the past, Harj has been explicit that what TripleByte wants to predict is whether a candidate will successfully pass the hiring process at another company, regardless of how well that hiring process performs. Is this still true?
I can't take a programming talk seriously if it declares in giant font "Less lines are better" (slide 38).

Any C program can be written as a single line, with no linebreaks - that doesn't make it "better" by any metric.

Python is built around its readability, and slide 44:

> group = match.group(1) if (match := re.match(data)) else None

is anything but. 'match' is assigned after its first use, and it took me far to long to mentally parse what it was doing.
Full title: "Tasmania is burning. The climate disaster future has arrived while those in power laugh at us"
Doesn't look like anyone is winning really. If the military leaves right now, we'll probably just have ISIS 2.0 in a few years.

Urban combat is really painful for all involved. If it was like shooting goats from a helicopter wouldn't the conflict be over already?
Sounds a lot like Norton commander - I think it also did the 'change directory without clearing the command line' trick
JP Morgan to Apple: Buy Netflix, Estimated Cost at Least $189B
It could be your use of the term TERF which is pretty loaded and has been associated with calls for violence against women.
Not necessarily. Impressions are important too. Just because you don't think you noticed that annoying (random example) coca cola ad doesn't mean that it won't unconsciously influence your decision to put that into your tray instead of Pepsi next time you're at the grocery store.
IMHO Steven Wright was more consistently funny than Mitch Hedberg.
"Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?" - Mitch Hedberg.

Louis CK (in the leaked set) presented himself as transgressive since he was playing the part of a victimized white male who can punch up at snowflakes. Nothing he says is extremely controversial though except perhaps the 'asians are women' line, and at this point you can actually hear groans in the audience
:) i appreciate your comment though that sincere learners don't start out by complaining - i will remember to remind people of that on here more often.