skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russians have a very good way of dealing with people like that Tesla owner - Google for StopXam (aka. Stop the Douchebag) initiative. If you're being a douche by, e.g. driving on the pedestrian routes to avoid traffic or parking in a way that blocks a part of the road, you'll get a big sticker on your windshield. They record videos of those actions, lots of fun to watch.
The future is the Xerox PARC paradigm, not AT&T.
I'm not really sure how giving writers an opportunity to use their time as an investment demeans them, but perhaps I've read your post the wrong way. There are three ways to get people involved: 1. Pay them directly; make a system where they work for free for a noble cause; or let them invest their time now with the hope of larger revenue-share payments later. This latter way actually empowers contributors by treating them like investors.

I see no difference between an investor putting in $1000 in cash, and a contributor investing $1000 of their time, because all we would do with the investors $1000 would be to pay the contributors. In the case where the investor adds cash, as the company grows the investor gets the long-term rewards, while the writer just gets paid $1000 and has no long-term position. However, when the contributor invests their time, we don't need the investor. Instead, the contributor gets the long-term reward for their work as the value of their content rises. So rather than consigning contributors to a fixed wage and giving the benefit of their work to investors, we allow writers to invest in their own future. Of course, that all depends on whether they think the business will grow so that a decent amount of revenue can be shared.

As I pointed out above, many of the work-at-home workers need to get instant cash so this system doesn't work for them, and the Wikipedia people will work for free (the fools!). Our challenge is to recruit people who are willing to treat their participation as an investment. But if it works, they will make a lot more money than they would in any other system.
Show HN: Emoodji – Live emoji-powered emotion and facial tracking
Only 50,000 or so Polish Jews survived the Holocaust, the Germans have kept quite meticulous records and about 3.3M Polish Jews were killed during WW2.
Wolfram Alpha suffers a bit from that, I think: You can query a great lot of things but for many of them it requires you to a) know about that you can query that, b) knowing how to query for that, c) how to give options, parameters. The natural language interface sounds great and makes for awesome demos (like »Wow, they can actually understand that?«), but it's horrible for discoverability, especially in cases where you can try five different ways of saying the same thing but only the sixth would actually yield a result.
How important are human-readable slug components in a social platform's urls?
I'm working on a new social platform and we were discussing our url structure. I've noticed that sites like HN, youtube, facebook, and vine use only some type of encoded url fragment and that's it.

e.g. https://vine.co/v/e0mQeEep1IJ

Whereas reddit and others use an encoded fragment AND an optional human-readable component.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3oc22e/this_guys_facial_hair_makes_it_look_like_he_has_a/

Is it safe to use only the encoded fragment and not include the human-readable part? The only reason we considered the human-readable part is for SEO purposes but is that even important at this point?

Any info appreciated thanks!
It's pretty easy to consolidate reported public support when your government has nationalized the bulk of the media, and exerts economic and coercive violent pressure on the opposition press.
If only the british had adopted sauerkraut or other kind of acidic preserve high in Vit C as the cure for scurvy, Scott's mission might have been less of a failure.
"Continental Europe" is cherry-picking. Great Britain has effectively the same government. Post-Ataturk Turkey has effectively the same government. And Russia is no more in Continental Europe than either of those are.

(the fact that one of Britain/USA, Nazi Germany, or Russia invaded basically all of Europe in the post-1917 period doesn't help)
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Adobe's Monument Mode, eliminates moving people or objects from pictures
Two of the other million ways to do this are:

perl -ne 'print if length()<1024'
awk 'length($0)<1024'

Note that if the last line is not newline terminated then the sll and the awk solutions will add a newline, while the perl one will not.
I think this is a phase. It doesn't last past a few years. Marijuana becomes boring for people, just like other things.

Alcohol is far worse because you can become dependent on it in a way marijuana doesn't really allow.
What's a "pleb"? Someone who doesn't live in San Francisco?
Except now it's a right I can expect someone to provide minimum viable Internet for no or low cost.

In England you can get internet access via their computers for out-of-work benefits in JobCentres; there's other Internet access in public libraries; some hospitals and gp surgeries provide wifi.

That Internet is not great - slow, with quite a lot of limits, but it is provided.
You mean people who are born rich and poor stand an equal chance of reaching success in america? you should take a look at the nordic countries
New statespace, factor models etc in python statsmodels master
"Want to know why the command line is hard for plebs?"

Not really.

These type of comments are almost always pure speculation, based on one's own experience.

Here's one thing that is true: Everyone who uses the command line was once a "pleb".

Txt'ing is what its name implies. Typing short lines of text. (And anticipating a quick response.) Seems reasonable to make a comparison to using the command line.

IRC, or today's "chat", is also arguably similar. Typing short lines of text, and expecting a quick response.

I have wondered about this for years as SMS and later Twitter, and now "enterprise chat", i.e., typing short lines of text, became popular.

But winning a popularity contest for how people interact with a computer is not something that really interests me.

My prediction based on last 30 years of computing history is that command line interface is never going to disappear (that is one reason I stick with it). It is there for whomever may discover and choose to use it.

"They don't even know what they don't know."

Exactly.

And yet countless GUI lovers/CLI haters continually ask us to believe that some hypothetical user would _choose_ not use a command line interface when they do not even know that such a thing exists; they were never given a real choice.

Who cares what other users want to use? It is their choice, not yours.

Give them a choice a see what happens.

Experiment.
I didn't see that I could read the entire article.

“LIKE trying to fit a square handle into a round hole” is how Sejong the Great, a Korean king, viewed the practice of using hanja, classical Chinese characters, to transcribe Korean. Hanja recorded meaning alone, not sound, and only aristocrats knew it. So the king and his literary circle crafted an alphabet from scratch and started promoting it in 1446. Known as hangul, it consists of 24 elements that can be grouped into blocks of syllables. Some take the shape that lips and tongue form in speech. It is fantastically easy to learn. The 80,000 speakers of the Cia-Cia language are also being encouraged to use the script on the Indonesian island of Buton.

Hanja lingered for centuries after the introduction of hangul. Nobles scorned the newfangled alphabet as being for peasants, women and children. But after the end of over three decades of Japanese occupation in 1945, the governments in both South and North Korea promoted hangul fiercely, ordering that hanja be expunged from all texts and no longer taught in schools.

Today hanja pepper South Korean newspapers, while older South Koreans still use them to write their names. But hangul is a source of patriotic pride. As North Koreans were preparing this week to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party with the usual display of bellicosity, the South had a day off to celebrate something indigenous, brilliant and pacific—their alphabet.

The annual October 9th holiday, scrapped in 1991 at employers’ request, was reinstated in 2013. Woo Eun-kyung, a hotelier in Seoul, feels “pride and gratitude” when Hangul Day comes around. Kim Ki-beom, a young lawyer, frets that Korean is being “destroyed by alien words”. A national day, he says, helps to keep the language intact; he laments a preference for English signs on streets.

Still, Mr Kim admits the holiday is firstly a welcome respite from long office hours. It is also a way to entice South Koreans to splurge. One alien word now doing the rounds is beulfe, a conflation of “Black Friday”, America’s huge autumn sale, transliterated into hangul. The government has prodded 27,000 shops to slash prices in the first half of October to pep up sluggish consumer spending; in four days Lotte, a department store, sold almost a quarter more than a year earlier. Electronics and clothes are much in demand—another way for South Koreans to express themselves.
> Were you implying that the REAL military was defeated in the ME? Or, that they would somehow be unable to put down a guerrilla war?

The problem is that despite repeated demonstrations of the contrary, many people (including people who really, really should know better) believe that wars are only decided on the battlefield. The point of going to war is not to engage in set-piece battles and blow up a hapless opponent like Saddam's outclassed military live on CNN. The point is to complete a number of strategic objectives. If you didn't manage to do that, you lost.

If on top of that, you managed to engineer a power vacuum in a very volatile area, which subsequently created the conditions necessary for the emergence of the most powerful militant group to date, you pretty much scored an own goal. Bonus if your PR plan included saying "mission accomplished".
I think he's claiming that the official election results are blatantly not true, since they claim "99% of voters voted", but over 10% of the population claims to be voters that did not vote in the election.
It's interesting that the only theory that seems to be treated as inviolatable is the one that has big parts built on statistical, aggregate behaviour which doesn't hold on the small scale.
Don't forget, he came in on February 29th.
By the way, from the article: "The 80,000 speakers of the Cia-Cia language are also being encouraged to use the script on the Indonesian island of Buton."

Many Koreans regard the whole Cia-Cia affair as a farce, or a misguided attempt to "prove" the excellence of our writing system by advertising it onto people who would really, really be better served by adopting the same character system as everyone else around them (that is, the Latin alphabet).

If you can read Korean, here's a fascinating (though maybe biased) summary of the affair:

https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%B0%8C%EC%95%84%EC%B0%8C%EC%95%84%EC%...

> 한국인들은 과연 찌아찌아족을 위해 한글을 전파하고 있는 것인가, 아니면 한국인들 자신을 위해 전파하고 있는 것인가. (Are Koreans teaching Hangul to the Cia-Cia for their benefit, or for the Koreans ourselves?)
Not only an ally and a partner, it's common for the entire biological evidence process to be answerable to the Sheriff.
Buying government is a problem, but not a terminal one. True force is army. We can see it in other failed countries. Whenever government stopped being efficient facade for collecting money from producers, military stepped in and replaced government with complete disregard of previous arrangements. That tends to make the corporations skip a beat.
The Google example points at one mayor constraint of text-based UIs: either you severely restrict the language that people can use to query the system, or you will be dealing with a really hard, Google-size problem.
The article is definitely more detailed. But, I didn't see that picture in the article, and found the illustration quite expressive.
it is actually very interactive, and does draw people in to enter the information.
I think there should be a healthy mix between UI and Text to achieve a good usability which is what you and slack do
Isn't this called ChatOps? Slack acts as an hub for all the api wrappers. Ex: you should be able to type commands that execute on behave of you rather than ssh into your machine to type the same command. The title should read the future of DevOps is chat. UI is a different topic
"If it were designed that way from the start then there would be no question about the intention because it would just be part of the definition of Exception"

Heh, doesn't that argument apply currently? I think I was trying to ask, "when someone fails to think deeply enough about it, what is likely to give the 'correct' results"?
Alright, so some browsers like Edge will report the full screen width available even with scrollbar visible, because it fades out the bar after a while. You could've just said that.

That is understandable as a reason. Although i still think it's a pretty bad reason to use to force "smoOoOo--oOoth" scroll on everyone, instead of only browsers that are known to be broken.
Mental health care in India: restoring hope and dignity
One of my favorite stories about corporate influence appears in this article: how the "tradition" of the diamond engagement ring was created by a U.S. ad agency to prop up the falling price of diamonds on behalf of a huge South African diamond company:

N. W. Ayer & Son created one of the most recognized slogans of the 20th century, A diamond is forever.

Harry Oppenheimer of De Beers and Ayer president Gerold M. Lauck discussed a marketing campaign in 1938 that would change the falling price of diamonds at the time. The idea of engagement rings decorated with diamonds wasn't very popular in Europe, but interest in diamonds was high in the U.S. Because of this, Oppenheimer decided to promote the idea in the U.S. and told Lauck that, if Ayer's plan was successful, De Beers would have Ayer become the exclusive agency for its American interests. Ayer was motivated to propose that its campaign should move the American spending demographic towards larger and more expensive diamonds.

To successfully achieve its goal, Ayer suggested a reinforcement of the relationship of diamonds with love and romance. This proved successful, as both men and women were caught in the relationship of diamonds being a gift of love. The slogan created for De Beers remained memorable for many years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._W._Ayer_%26_Son#De_Beers
> […] When a woman becomes pregnant Markhor will fire her […]

Do you have another source for that? Your link doesn't appear to imply what you claim.

> And of course they'll be welcome to make shoes for us if they want to, since the conditions of such work will be much better.
People frown on building mountains of skulls, enslaving all the men of military age, and distributing the conquered lands and peoples to your officers and men these days...
How many ICE manufcaturers build gas stations?
That's not completely honest and not the main issue here, it's not about heritability and the IQ potential but the actual fixed IQ of adults.
People with higher genetic potential for intelligence are considerably more influenced by their environment and for longer periods than people with lower potential.

So unless we are talking about <100 and in many cases <90 IQ individuals the environment plays a bigger role than pure genetics in the final outcome, I've linked a very recent and very extensive study on that same subject.
Regardless of what else you read, try this one technique for manual testing. You're probably interested in getting more serious about testing because of a couple of major defects that you have seen in the software after your last release. Create a test plan document that walks through the procedure of verifying those defects are not present in the software. On each release, add to the test plan to make sure new features you've added work properly. As you work on the product, the test plan will grow. But it won't grow as much as you might expect, because often several new features can be tested just by making a couple of edits to the test plan.

The goal of testing is to prevent defects from surfacing in production. So track every defect that surfaces in production, so that you can watch that go to zero over time.

Whenever a defect comes up in production, edit the test plan such that you would have caught that defect. Now you won't be bitten by that class of defect in production again.

If you keep updating the test plan in this way you will see a dramatic drop in defects released to production. Once you've done this for a while, you will probably discover that your biggest source of defects released into production have to do with how different your test environment is from your production environment. So you will then start attacking that issue by setting up a proper staging environment, where the staging environment mirrors production as closely as practical.

Then you will start to discover that your biggest source of defects released into production becomes other things, such as little problems with your release methodology, which you can then address.

But the key concept here is: document what your test plan is, and continuously improve it. It's important to note that you must actually follow the documented procedure for this to work. If you write a document so big that you won't actually do it, you're doing it wrong, make a smaller document. If you feel like you only need to do 2 minutes worth of resting, document what you will do during those 2 minutes. You can start with an empty test plan and that will work, as long as you continuously improve your test plan. The same goes for the procedures that you use to deploy. Always follow the same procedure exactly as documented, because you will need to improve that procedure.

I have followed these procedures at a number of companies and in a variety of environments, and seen it turn chaotic messes around many times.

Once you have this process down solid, you can automate some or all of it. But the important thing is the overall set of processes around testing and deploying software, and the process for improving those processes. How much of it is automatic versus manual matters a lot less.

As for resources, I'd recommend books on continuous improvement. Because as you get better at testing, you'll discover that General process improvement is what you really need in order to cover the range of things that cause defects in production.
You have also now way to know if these 0.5ct/kWh are correct. And that article is actually sales material from the plasma fusion company. The wikipedia article on this topic suggests that no progress has been made since 2012.
road wear and tear goes with the cube of vehicle weight.

Large trucks cause 99% of road wear. Teslas will never be a siginificant factor.
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Well, people joke about Emacs being an OS. If you take them seriously, I think it's an example of an OS where you can run graphical applications but have a standardized way to run text-based commands from any app (using execute-extended-command, bound by default to Meta-x).

It's not really practical to use Emacs as your only OS right now, but it certainly has many of the applications I need day to day: a text editor (obviously), a web-browser (that can display images, but currently does not run JavaScript), a PDF viewer, email clients, feed readers, command shells, several videogames, etc.
> Additionally Russians can access all Western media whenever they like and they do so often, especially the urbanized population.

East Germans could get West German television.
Data Elixir #56: IPython plotting. Learning R. Making data work. Dark lies
Limited access highways should all be toll roads. It's quite feasible now, and clearly fairer and more efficient than gasoline taxes or funding from general tax revenue.
That is just one of many amazing things Peter Norman has said. My eyes well up with tears just thinking abut him.
There is no train station at my house.
Oh, I understand what he's saying, it's just that what he's saying is a distorted view of reality. It is not true that "unless you commit all your resources to do everything you can to help, you'll likely to be seen doing too little and become hated", and if he thinks that that's why people criticise those actions then he misses something very important.

People are saying that mutually advantageous exploitation is at least problematic and requires more thoughtfulness. Some, of course, may disagree, but this is a long-standing and interesting debate among philosophers. So, instead of feeling self-righteously and victimised he should 1/ examine reality more closely because perhaps things are not as they appear to him, and 2/ try to understand some of the good arguments against MAE.
I couldn't read it, the page would not stop moving. I eventually gave up and closed it.
I see this strongly related to many combinators in FP too.

(system command arguments)

flip -> (system arguments command)
curry -> (system arguments) command

# and for the humane touch:

thread (system (completing-read)) (completing-read)

etc etc

Oh, and BTW, GUIs didn't buy ergonomy, sometimes you need to open an application then the data (aka /tweet "bla"), early systems had a simple 1:1 map 'type' 'program' with an 'open-with' intermediate. Then they added 1:N ... One day it will be a tiny Hindley-Milner unifier ;)
A far simpler way to make transit cost competitive, for now, is to make transit nearly free, subsidized by existing road users (externality tax for the pollution/noise/etc), instead of making it fund itself.
If the author means what I mean, then he does a very bad job countering the good arguments in favor of profit => increased responsibility (i.e. against mutually beneficial exploitation), while at the same time he portrays a very important ethical standpoint -- one held by many of those who devote their lives to the study of ethics -- as ridiculous. Why? I suspect that's because he never bothered to read any of the serious discussions on this issue, so he's arguing out of ignorance. I don't think that paints his arguments in any better light.
I assume the syrup that was "siphoned" off wasn't literally siphoned. Either that or Canada has some very patient thieves.
Whether you’re white or black, protesting racial inequality always seems to come down to valuing the well-being of humanity as a whole over valuing your own well-being.

It’s in the same category of decision as economic games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Arms Race, Chicken, or Moose Hunt.
At the end of 2015, major breakthroughs are combined science & tech efforts involving so many players and so many small, incremental steps that we may even not be aware that they are just happening under our eyes.
It's OK to add the additional link as a comment after you post the article.