skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I originally responded to wasn't about white supremacy, but about censoring discourse. ISIS propaganda is as much "discourse" as white nationalist propaganda is, so why didn't you defend ISIS when it was deplatformed years ago? I realize that's kind of a gotcha, so I'll ask a similar question: given that it appears you feel that any deplatforming based on ideology is bad, do you criticize facebook for having deplatformed ISIS?

To pre-address your other comment, neither white nationalist propaganda nor ISIS propaganda necessarily includes calls to violence. So the incitement of violence standard applies to neither.

If not, what differentiates ISIS from White nationalists? Both are violent groups that wish to kill people different from them. As far as I can tell, one just looks a lot more like me. They're both dangerous, and we shouldn't let either recruit people on facebook. What is the flaw in that line of reasoning?

As for that case, it was dismissed earlier this month[1], apparently because the plaintiffs didn't actually have any examples of wrongdoing on the part of companies, and just filed the suit to raise awareness of freedom watch's advocacy[2].

[1]: https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/25495855/FREEDOM_WA...

[2]: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/distric...
That's unfortunate, but how can you be sure this was his motivation or reasoning for adding an internal repo manager? I'm only asking because I learned the practice from an engineer / CTO whom I looked up to greatly early in my career, and if I were to go work somewhere and push leadership to implement Artifactory/Nexus/etc., I hope people wouldn't misunderstand my intentions. Anyone pushing for something like that is naturally likely to be the repo administrator in the beginning, and that may look like hogging permissions even if the developers intent is something entirely different? Catch my drift?
This appears to be a thinly sourced article, based on a blog post opinion by someone who is a software developer and instrumented-rated (hobby?) pilot who has flown airliners in simulation only.

With due respect, not sure whether that constitutes enough expertise to to qualify and opinion as news-worthy?
Thanks for the elaboration. Could you help me further understand one more thing? When you say MCAS only listens to one, does that mean during the time when one AoA sensor fails? Or it always listens to one during normal operation?

Also, it does seem like Boeing dropped the ball here to not build further redundancy here.
And WASM remains to be battle tested in the wild, as in the juicy target of millions of black hats out there.

Forcing internal corruption of code produced from C compilers (like doing a stack out of bounds data overwrite due to incorrenct params size) is perfectly viable.

Yeah the exploit doesn't leave the sandbox, so what. It can still be used to direct the sandboxed code to produce other outcome from the called functions.
I don’t understand why techies are being blamed for this. I make what I believe to be industry median for a software engineer with 6 years experience. Let’s say I saved enough ($200k) for a 20% down payment on a million dollar house. The bank still wouldn’t qualify me for the monthly payments. Who are these techies who are easily saving for these massive down payments and high monthly mortgages?
AWS Lambda is down in us-west-2
P2P Mobile Carriers
The medium format quality definititely have nothing to do with it. A lot of people were shooting Rolleiflex in those times, the talent made the difference.
>Calling opposition to immigration white supremacy is the former, saying that there's a distinct probability that Facebook's enforcement of these rules will impact non-white-supremacist views is the latter.

So, you have historical evidence of facebook mislabeling things that are clearly not white supremacist as white supremacist?

If not, then yes, you're absolutely crying wolf, because you're ascribing the behavior of some entity to some unrelated entity, apparently based on geographic location (fun fact, the people enforcing FB's policies are probably in Austin or Phoenix[1], not MPK).

Also, your poll is outdated[2]. The numbers are back up. And looking at broader trends, more people identify as liberal than ever before[3], so all of this stuff that you think is causing this shift towards conservatism, or at least away from identifying as a democrat, isn't, since people are more willing to identify as Democratic and liberal now than in 2016 or 2012. I don't think these are related, but since apparently you do, I hope that this helps you understand that your reaction appears to be the minority reaction, and that this public shaming that you so despise is working.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...

[2]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

[3]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245813/leans-conservative-liber...
What he meant is probably based on the fact that if you are using double channel memory access mode then cpu can read from other module while first one is busy and since he said it was 6 GB so probably (4GB + 2GB) which means when you fill memory to 4 GB mark it will not have free module to alternate and performance will degrade.
But this is all in theory and highly speculative in practice you would probably see 10-15% ram speed degradation not a 50% as you would expect. So unless there were some other issues like mismatched ram frequency the statement that is has to be in the powers of 2 is not really a hard rule, to perform optimally you want it to be but it is not strictly necessary.
Don't know anything about extradition but the law specifically mentions putting in backdoors to aid foreign nations at their request.

It also notes that this can be for economic espionage too and isn't limited to national security (for the people who like to pretend that's not what their intelligence agencies are doing)
I'm working on similar things, and at the moment I prefer Redis and Postgres. Redis just got streams, a bit like Kafka, and Postgres has extensions for timeseries.
This seems appropriate:

https://xkcd.com/378/
Hello! Can I just ask, how did you learn to do the incremental bit of this?
> The government recognized this about internet services, and granted them immunity to copyright related suits in exchange for supporting the American value of free speech on their platforms. (This is a law.)

No, it's not. You seem to be mixing an inverted understanding of CDA Section 230 (which was instituted to avoid discouraging host moderation of user content, because prior to 230 exerting any such editorial control risked a host being treated as a publisher rather than distributor, with greater liability exposure for the user content) with the DMCA safe harbor (which, unlike CDA 230, applies to copyright claims.)
Hi!

Comparing to Selenium Grid - no programming needed, just use this extension to record them. Comparing to Selenium IDE - test maintenance is simpler and semi-automated, we have heuristics that adjusts to the page structure changes and avoids hard-coding UI element locations as Selenium IDE does.

It's a cloud service, we manage and update test environments.

It also saves your time when troubleshooting test failures - it's much easier and faster to understand why tests fail with the help of highlights and screenshots.
Really? It took me about 10 seconds to come up with this: "Hey tech dude, we need a version of iOS that unlocks the encryption on this device. Be a good boy and send us an IPSW that we can install on this nasty person's phone will you?"

You don't need to release it to the public. Build it on your local device and hand it to them. Nobody needs to know.
Sorry, I may not have been clear.

The point I was trying to make is that PVCs and afib are not mutually exclusive - they're just not related entities. The parent brought up sinus rhythm, and I wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page regarding the fact that PVCs and afib are very different things that can seem similar if the only data point you look at is regularity of the rhythm.
The article talks about expensive housing but doesn't mention restrictive zoning, presumably so all the blame can be put on "tech". There are lots of rich people in Houston, including thirteen billionaires, but houses don't cost $1 million because Houston has no density limits.
MCAS alternates between the left and right sensor each time the plane lands. With the Lion Air flight I think cycling the electrical power for diagnostic work caused MCAS to pick up the faulty sensor for two flights in a row.
It would help your case if you were to write, "It has been 14 years since the name changed officially, and I would appreciate it if people stopped using the anglicized name of our city."
It was changed. Flight testing showed that much larger trim was required for MCAS to function, and that was implemented. The failure was not reassessing the risks after that.
No, it preceededs Sun's decision by a couple of years.

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/03/22/happy-...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050525231654621
Would love to do this but you can't discriminate in 401(k) contributions based upon other benefits.

Certainly worth looking into.
Yours sounds like an incredible career. I've never worked with any developer who was past their 40s. What did you do throughout your career? Did you experience ageism or any hurdles based on your age? I saw in your comments you worked for MS, was working for a large corporate easier than getting involved in a startup or small business?
I'd take an all-American AR-15 restricted to semi-automatic fire over a rusty old fully-automatic Afghan Kalashnikov.

Not a California-spec AR-15 mind you, but a full bore, Screamin Eagle, Texas-spec AR-15, with a high capacity magazine and all the other bells and whistles.
Not anything I’d want to use. The closest is prolog. But at a higher level this is what Eve attempted to do.

Eve was built using the semantics of Dedalus which is built from datalog. I highly recommend watching Peter Alvaro’s Strangeloop talk about creating Dedalus - it’s exactly the same train of thought you’re onto. https://youtu.be/R2Aa4PivG0g
Modern fighter aircraft are often designed to be aerodynamically unstable. This allows the removal or reduction of control surfaces, design of an airframe that is shaped to produce a small radar signature, and by naturally being unstable the craft wants to move around wildly so it has increased pitch, roll and yaw potential.

The software is then used to automatically move control surfaces to maintain stability. This is a deliberate design decision and results in a stealthier, faster, more manoeuvrable aircraft.

Passenger aircraft on the other hand are designed to be as stable as possible, to ensure stability and control authority are maintained by default as a failsafe.

Changing the design of an aircraft that is assumed to be stable by default and introducing software to compensate is a very different proposition to building an airframe from scratch with the explicit intent of it being unstable.

The failure mode of an airframe that's presumed stable should be that it will at the very least be able to glide down a reasonable descent slope. The failure mode of an unstable airframe is pilot ejection and loss of the airframe typically, although military aircraft failure tolerances are quite different (the computer should be able to compensate for damaged components no longer responding as intended etc).

So in answer to the question, it's not really comparing apples with apples. I would say that a passenger airliner should be able to maintain reasonable balance without constant interjection of a computer.

But moreover, if a change in the airframe causes an imbalance that only software can correct, the manufacturer should inform and train the purchasing airlines and their pilots in these new software systems. The fact they apparently did not has caused the deaths of hundreds of people.

For that reason I'd say as a whole the 737-Max is excessively, perhaps criminally faulty.
Married couples.
That was most of America's weapons during the Cold War too.
Fighter planes have also higher incidents rate than airliners. By orders of magnitude..
Boeing offered the single angle-of-attack sensor as standard equipment, and charged extra for a second along with a “disagree” indicator that would allow 737 MAX pilots to “cross-check” a faulty sensor.

Unfortunately for the author that's not an accurate representation of reality. I'm a bit surprised as I thought that EETimes was a credible news source.
One comment I saw was that with Boeing aircraft when the autopilot is off you're fully manual. Unlike Airbus.

MCAS has control authority when the autopilot is _off_.
Some of the people you won't be hearing from on FB are here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_nationalist_organiza...
where X = white.
Empowering arduous local media sites deters fake news which is one of the most pressing issues for web giants like Google and Facebook. If Google/Facebook can inject money to fuel arduous journalism, it could help allievate the fake news problem looming over their products.
But it did say this: "For SAP, Oracle and PayPal, the majority of the employment reductions will be in software jobs."
Openly questioning the validity of the capitalist system is fine. Facebook shouldn't be banning people who don't like capitalism from their platform either.
If it is then it's management's responsibility for allowing that incompetence to exist. These sort of issues all come from the culture which is driven from the top.
ycombinator shouldn’t be the medium to discuss non technology period.
As an example of the seriousness of approach to stall, buffeting and proper recovery (you don't fall out of the sky like a rock, but recoveries take hundreds and possibly a couple thousand feet), this two year old serious incident in a 747 involving inadvertent stall while entering a hold, just had its final report issued.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a787699&opt=0
Boeing dropped the ball in many, many ways.
This article appears to be fairly thinly sourced. The one named source I can find appears to be a blog post by a fellow software developer who is an instrumented-rated pilot, however has flown airliners in simulation only. The article does not claim the source is a professional pilot or that they have ever flown the 737Max.

With due respect, I am not sure whether that counts as enough expertise to qualify someone’s opinion as news worthy?
Some of the people you won't be hearing from on FB are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_nationalist_organiza...
where X = white.
SV is ground zero and probably will be for some time, but the forces of present immigration climate are unlike it has ever been in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised if it topples SV's position as the innovation hub in the near future. In the past, immigration was a minor barrier comparable to other barriers founders and innovators face regularly, but one that needed to be overcome. Today, especially with the freedom of the global internet infrastructure together nationalist political climates, immigration is starting to look like a less and less savory distraction that doesn't even justify the effort needed to overcome it.
> 1 point

The story received zero upvotes from the HackerNews community :)
Yeah, "cryptographically secure" and "something you remember" doesn't mix well. 128 bits (say) is a lot of data to memorize. Having it be a real approximation to random doesn't help.

I suppose the pgp/ssh model of secure device holding the master key plus the ability to backup (eg qr code printout in a safe).

An approximation for phones would be a random key locked in the device with a pin, an the ability to transfer and backup keys as you mention.

Other than that - I've not really heard of gpg keys or ssh keys being brute forced - but that may be because by the point you gain access to the (encrypted) private key - you already have access to everything else?

[ed: for example there are 52 cards in a normal deck of cards, meaning each card encodes about 5.7 bits(2^5=32,2^6=64). You could represent a ~128 bit key as a sequence of ~23 random cards. Or add add a few checksum bits and use half a deck (26 cards).

Note, shuffling a deck isn't a great source of randomness, but you could use dice or a computer to generate the key - then map it to a sequence of cards.]
Dual income helps
That's absurd, not hiring a foreign national on security concerns is a daily event, can you name one discrimination case won for that?
> It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind.

It costs the ex-chequer a lot of money to fund such renames. In the midst of 600,000,000 people living below the income of $2 a day, funding renaming cities to rid of British heritage should be least of India's problems. Such vitriol has never done anyone any good and is a sign of society embroiled in misplaced priorities, imo.
Left out Imperva, which was bought by Thoma Bravo in January. 150 people let go while the CEO makes $15 million.

Mismanaged incentives - employees don't matter, just shareholders.
Are you a lawyer? If not, can you point to a legal expert explaining why a court would interpret the law as requiring neutrality, or as waiving the protection in the case of pre-approval or vetting copyright, or as requiring that the immunity is only provided in exchange for supporting free speech?

I read and re-read both the DMCA 17 USC § 512 and Section 230 of the CDA, and as far as I can tell, the DMCA only requires responding "expeditiously" to DMCA takedown notices and court orders, and the CDA has no conditions at all but doesn't protect from copyright liability in the first place.

In fact, the CDA explicitly states that its liability protection DOESN'T require neutrality, and extends to “any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected”. See https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230
One personal gripe I have is that the UX for reviewing a PR commit by commit is non-existent in Bitbucket. Github recognises that a commit is part of a PR and gives you next and previous buttons to move between the commits in the PR.

Draft PRs are also a great Github feature.
Ask HN: NFC Yea or Nay
No explanation. Just a yes or no/yea or nay/ Y or N/ 1 or 0
Total comp at FAANG and a few other big tech names well exceeds the industry median.

Anecdotally, of all the people I know who own in the Bay Area, it’s always a couple where both work in Big Tech.

For these couples, a household income of $400k is standard. That’s your answer.
It's a pyramid scheme and the top of the pyramid (which was always small) is shrinking.
If you and a spouse made a combined $400k/year (two people in software with 3-8 years experience) you could afford it.
That actually sounds awful, sorry for my naivety if this is just industry standard. But for such a mission critical piece to have no redundancy build over it is just poor. Especially that it's prone to failure since it's situated on the outside of the plane.

It just seems to be that this is some terrible engineering done on Boeing's end of not fully understanding the critical situation here.

Generally two failures:
1. a lack of redundancy in a mission critical sensor
2. a blind trust on MCAS's priority over pilots
> Collective control over the collective direction of the collective labor. Unions, at least in practice, are only good for the majority of the laborers and definitely not good for independent control over your own work.

The alternative is complete control by the employer. Sure, a union, as an institution with power, can likely limit some of your independence, but an employer can limit all of it.
Great initiative! This should encourage more Indian/ SE Asian founders to apply, since they no longer have to think about the time spent on the arduous US visa application process - and can instead keep the focus on building their company. Kudos to YC!
> the thrust is all below the aerodynamic centre of the aircraft

Just like 95% of airliners. In fact the Max engine thrust line is higher and closer to the datum than most.

The Max's problem is not thrust line, it is additional lift generated by the forward-mounted engine nacelles at high AoA which reduces stick-load and makes pitch-up to a stall likely. Nothing to do with thrust.
"given that software can't [ridiculous thing no one has ever claimed]" is plenty for a tell.
Because not everyone wants to communicate under a singular identity.
Idiomatic monads in Rust
I think the rationale is that if tech workers weren't so prevalent in the Bay Area or didn't make so much money, then these houses would sit empty long enough for the owners to reduce the price. That, and probably just a broader desire among many media outlets to depict tech as the Big Bad (TM). Chronic lack of supply and tax policy that incentivizes holding onto one's home for as long as possible isn't as compelling a headline.
F7 is the greatest PowerShell hotkey that no one uses any more. We must fix this
Yes. Perhaps my comment was a joke, you know...
Personally, my tinfoil hat theory is that it was concocted by the white house staff to create a political climate conducive to playing hardball the Chinese. Not one shred of evidence, of course, but it seems the most plausible thing I could think of.
So whose fault is the cancerous heap of flaming dogshit that is nodejs, then? Some manager managed it into existence?

No, it's the brainchild of an engineer. Somebody actually thought nodejs was a good idea. Face it, there are lots of really bad engineers out there.
interesting, is the writer of a comment entitled of the copyright on them? could you dmca this services?
Holmes is a small fish too. At the end the company didn't have that much cash, and no real IP worth a damn, so there's no collateral that makes anyone powerful want to step in, or any company at all to protect anymore. Just a person who likely broke the law and a lot of those same people that could have spoken up for her pissed of because she lost their money.
Their alternative destinations are pretty predictable, and their social networks are already closely monitored and infiltrated. The aim is to keep the cost of re-establishing their networks above that of tracking them.
VCs and Angels have picked up investments in India [0], and as a result, as far as India is concerned, YC has missed out on Unicorns, though, Razorpay/Cleartax/Meesho could be Unicorns in time.

[0] https://trak.in/india-startup-funding-investment-2015/ (URL says 2015, but the data is latest)
+1 on the speed issue. The entire UI is unbearably
slow.
They are mostly by folks that never did Android development and think they are free to use Linux code as is on the NDK.

Still, it will be a scenario similar to ChromeOS. How many people are buying ChromeOS devices to run Android apps?
>Just like 95% of airliners. In fact the Max engine thrust line is higher and closer to the datum than most.

Correct.

>The Max's problem is not thrust line, it is additional lift generated by the forward-mounted engine nacelles at high AoA which reduces stick-load and makes pitch-up to a stall likely. Nothing to do with thrust.

Nothing you've written here contradicts what I wrote previously, so I'm not sure if you're just aggressively agreeing with me, but I'll assume that this is the case. Yes, the aircraft is dangerous at high AoA, as I wrote in my previous comment.
> Leave your company, take your colleagues and start one with better conditions.

That company would last a month in China's gladiatorial business environment. It's not individual companies whimsically deciding to abuse the workers. It's the general intensities of the Chinese market (where you can't just invent something, file a patent and rest and count cash).