skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Another possibility - CIA just sponsors random stuff to promote confusion in enemy ranks. Then claims it was for Cold War purposes.

I don't think this is the case here. Can't speak for the US, where it might not have mattered much, but in post-war Europe the arts (fine arts, writing, etc) were very important in left wing politics and a serious social force to want to control.

To the point that such art was a popular phenomenon, not something isolated -- people, including younger people, were hungry for those things (from the way 60's US kids were hungry for rock music et al. Artists played a prominent role in culture, were celebrated in the media, participated in demonstrations, influenced politics etc. Edit: think of people like Aragon, Sartre, Gunter Gruss, Duras, Montand, Beuys, Brecht, Godard, Antonioni, Theodorakis, Dario Fo, and countless others etc.

Now, of these artists there were 2 major divisions: those loyal to the party and the communist cause, and those critical of USSR and more into intellectual euro-communism etc.

CIA managed to fund and nourish the latter, more easily tempted by modern abstract expressionism, pop art, jazz, etc, which, while more progressive in stance, it was also more watered down and didn't pose any major political threat (the way USSR influence did).

>Adam Curtis spoke about Russian government vocally backing various organizations, some hostile and some friendly to it. That way people are never sure who to trust, because even opposition is funded by gov.

So, just like with the US and lots of opposition parties, "independent" organizations, NGOs, etc. Only the latter is doing it in other countries too (funding various groups in favor of its interests, and even some seemingly against). And unlike the US government, foreign governments can and do fall because of such schemes, or at least their domestic policies can be heavily influenced by such foreign intervention.
> Europe seems like an interesting country indeed

Yes, indeed!
Commit history maybe?
As someone of roughly the same age, now with kids, I'm glad that the younger generation seems a bit more sensible. Possibly a case of extra disposable income and social attitudes needing some time to catch up to the realities of it.
I think distribution would be a big factor here as well. Ideally manufacturers would like to batch shipping as well, which may require some minimum number of orders from a particular area for a particular type of car.
you should take a programming class at a local community college. Next go to the job boards and search on the various languages and see how many jobs. Also, if you switch to computer science as a major you can look at co-ops or internships.
As the author of the Selene scheme and the talk i should add some clarifications:

Selene is explicitly not intended for high-stakes, binding votes to elections. It amy be suitable for some forms of election, e.g. of officials of professional bodies, student societies etc., in the way that say Helios has been used. I want to stress that I, like many, in the verifiable voting domain do not advocate internet voting for serious elections. we currently know of no scheme that provides sufficient levels of verifiability, coercion resistance and usability.

A primary goal of Selene is to make the verifiability step as simple and understandable as possible. In contrast to most existing E2E verifiable schemes voters do not have to handle encrypted ballots to perform the verification, they simply look up their vote in the clear on the WBB using their private tracker. Of course, making the verification so transparent, as opposed to the usual practice of checking the presence of an encrypted ballot, has its costs in terms of receipt-freeness and coercion resistance, but we have tried as far as possible to mitigate these.

The scheme does use some fairly sophisticated crypto but as far as possible this is all under the bonnet as far as the voter is concerned. Of course, to understand the arguments for the security claims would require at least some superficial understanding of the crypto, but my guess is that most voters will not be that interested, or will be happy to accept the evaluation of experts.

I don't believe that it takes 59 or whatever slides to explain the key features of the system:

there are constructions, transparent to the voter but verifiable by expert, interested parties to guarantee

that no two voters get the same tracker.

There is a mechanism to notify voters of their tracker after the trackers and votes have been posted in the clear.

The fact that voters learnt their tracker only after the posting of this information helps mitigate the obvious coercion strategy: ask the voter to reveal her tracker.

The notification is set up in such a way that a coercer voter can fake it to appear to reveal an alternative tracker, pouting to the coercer's vote.

verifying your vote is simple: look up your tracker and check that the vote alongside it is correct. and this is of course in any case optional, voters can just vote and go.

much of the content of the slides is just discussing the background, contrast with other E2E schemes etc.

A paper describing the scheme in detail will be available shortly. I welcome feedback.
Tried it, Nice.
But feel few laggy when scrolling list view on searching movie & display about 10 items.
wait did it work at some point? I joined late but by 2003 joking about how low quality outsourced stuff turned out to be was already old.
The vegans were right all along.
In Western Europe it was very much wanted and played a very important role in the cultural life. There were artists that were icons the way a singer like Dylan was in the states...
Charles Edison's executive education
Yes, my question is how can you achieve the .js url to output different json blob depending on the url argument passed. E.g. The same url when passed the following argument returns the output of an article.

https://watrcoolr.duckduckgo.com/watrcoolr.js?o=json&l=12023...
I'm not a CSO, but I do run a security consulting firm. You're welcome to ask me whatever you'd like and I'll do my best to answer. Ask me here or via email and I'll try to help.
You just knocked a strawman down
Well, the troubling thread here is that that may not be posssible using the amount of blood Theranos collects. Then the question becomes not only why is their valuation so high (which the public doesn't need to care too much about) but "how well do these traditional tests work with Theranos samples?"

That the answer could be "not very well" (and we haven't heard otherwise) is what's most troubling to me.
> You certainly cannot legislate away their property without compensation. What about the jobs? That is no small number. With those go all the local taxes, benefits, and such as well.

Whoa. Nobody is "taking over" the dealerships. What is being discussed is changing the laws that protect their monopoly.

Modifying the law to allow Dis-integrated deliver of sales and service is not going to mean a massive loss of jobs. Dealerships still have huge services businesses that will continue to thrive.
That's what had to happen with FCC repealing local monopoly protectionist laws which ban ISP competition. How is this any different?
Create Smart Links Using TagHelpers in ASP.NET MVC 6
That's the link in this post so yeah, I read that. It covers most of the stuff that happens inside the Postgres CLI which is good, but I also need to know about the things I can do directly from the Linux shell.

How to backup a Postgres DB?

mysqldump -u user -p DB > dump.sql

Import a DB from the Linux command line?

mysql -u user -p DB < dump.sql

How to run a command directly from a shell script?

mysql -u [user] -p[pass] -e "[mysql commands]"

When managing systems, this stuff is more important to me than the actual Postgres syntax.
Why would a custom order need more capacity? Either a buy a standard model or I buy a custom model. The assembly line is basically the same, just a few different input parts. The assembly line will be rolling out the same number of cars per day. The difference being my custom order got sent to the factory and the next car started on the line was my car.
It uses a redis cache? I wonder if future version could use a global cache somewhere on the internet, and use cloud solvers. Seems like you need a redis cache per version, but that shouldn't be hard to do -- or just add a version key to each cache request.

Seems weird to have this type of tool as a local tool rather than a cloud based tool.

It would be neat to have a service you can query with a snippet of IR, and it gives you back an optimal version of it. One can continually increase the side of these snippets as you get more cloud resources.

Having statistics on which patterns are common, even if they are not optimized would be really interesting. You could then use these statistics to target future optimization research.
I seem to detect the familiar odor of negative PR wafting over this entire series of articles. The New Yorker has one of the most famously rigorous fact checking policies in journalism. Things rarely ever slip past them. Companies like Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp have immense amounts of revenue to lose to a new, more efficient entrant like Theranos. No surprise they would go negative to undermine a new competitor. As far as the company ferreting out journalistic mistakes and correcting them, the onus should be on the media to get the story right.
How good is super optimization? Is this available in current compilers in some form?
Ask HN: First attempt at React.js, how did I do?
It's pretty funny that the article starts with "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" repeated three times. Maybe the language isn't the only cause of mistakes.

More seriously, the author makes the pretty decent point that certain classes of errors should be caught automatically. He uses buffer overflows as an example (near the bottom). I agree with his conclusion, but call out a hidden assumption. Does "automatically" include only the compiler? Of course not! We also have static analyzers, automatic test generators, and other kinds of programs that can help with this. We can and should use those, to improve correctness without either cluttering up the language or adding performance-robbing artifacts in the executable code. While it's true that C and C++ make it harder than it should be to write and use such tools, the languages and the tools need only a small nudge to improve that situation dramatically. They don't need to change their essential natures.

This "unbundling" of other language-related functionality from the compiler toolchain is an important possibility that should not be overlooked. "Do one thing and do it well" and let the user decide which things to do in which order. There are plenty of other good reasons to develop or prefer other higher-level languages. The kinds of problems the author cites are almost irrelevant.
Has diversity lost it's meaning
They made large investments under laws they lobbied for and made by politicians that were paid for. I have no qualms reversing a horrific abuse of lobbying and actions of unethical state congress members. They got to benefit from this farce for decades, it's time to shut it down.
>"without having to ask a philosopher"? What does that even mean?

I am at a loss as to how to be any clearer, but perhaps that's because I am looking at the whole sentence in the context of the thread. Could you be more specific about what problem you are having with it?

There was a time when people doing science were considered philosophers; at the same time, some of them were considered astrologers or alchemists - Newton was active in both of these fields, and that was not, as it seems to some people now, an aberration or contradiction. These philosophers / astrologers / alchemists synthesized the scientific method, but the modern philosophy of science is descriptive, not prescriptive: philosophers like Popper and Kuhn were describing the scientific method as it had already been developed by practicing scientists, without being led there by academic philosophy. The historical role of people, who now are or were then regarded as philosophers, in the early development of science does not imply that current science is behoven to current academic philosophy.

Your attempt to conflate philosophy and science raises the question of why a university would need an independent philosophy department, and I think you would find its members to be the ones most strongly defending its existence. If you were to go to the top of this thread, you would find that the distinction between science and philosophy is being made by pierrec’s philosopher-student friend. If you want to argue that there is no meaningful difference, perhaps you should first persuade the people who identify themselves as philosophers.
Popular Social Media Tool Buffer Reports Losing Nearly Half It's Social Traffic
Cool shit in Foundation 6
There's a very informative XMPP XEP[1] with mobile considerations that touches on what you said (although that analogy of yours is great!). Where my problem lies is: even if I was the cleaner at Whatsapp or FB I'd be making noise about battery life, I'd do everything I could. Put another way: I struggle to understand how a company that is about mobile doesn't put being a good mobile citizen first and foremost.

It's not that hard to open a TCP connection, or heck, even a WebSocket. HTTP 1.1 is clearly the wrong application to use here.

[1]: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0286.html#power
> Never recommend outsourcing of CUSTOM projects that is. Cookie cutter solutions it's obviously a different story...

The thing is that non-technical people may not recognise what is custom and what is cookie cutter.
> those who think "outsourcing" means "I tell you the idea, and you do all the work"

What mystifies me is people will laugh in your face if you try this outside programming, but are taken seriously almost exclusively by the programming field, even decades after its acknowledged most projects fail. Clearly other forms of enlightenment have failed so far; maybe extreme sarcasm would work? We've tried everything else and it hasn't sunk in yet...

So I've got an idea. Psychedelic accordion music. Awesome huh? Now unfortunately I can't play the accordion, but I'm sure I can just take advantage of some poor person on the other side of the planet who can play an accordion and currently can't afford to eat. On one hand I have to move fast and break things so I'll need to hire the first accordion player I ever meet, on the other hand I need to appear to be pinching pennies so I'll need to hire the cheapest accordion player on the entire internet (and what could possibly go wrong with that?), and on the third hand I could only hire ivy league grad accordion players who live in only one town but then I'd have to complain constantly about the small supply and high salary demands and extreme groupthink ... Eh I'll get the cheap guy, what could possibly go wrong.

I've got another idea, I'm going to disintermediate the legacy plumbing industry by positioning my new unicorn as an intermediary (err pretend not to notice that) in the lucrative and exciting excrement removal field. Unfortunately I don't know anything about plumbing or sanitation or building codes, but move fast and break things, and I can just hire some people who know what they're doing, I'm an ideas guy you know, so I deserve all the rewards. True, the guys who told me they know plumbing, also do not know plumbing, and we're a little unclear on what flows downhill or uphill or whatever hill. But that's OK because our unicorn's iOuthouse shipping rate is going exponential. I even greenwashed my product by making it out of organically grown free range hemp cardboard, which is a good selling point for the tens, maybe hundreds of potential customers. Oh wait, did I say that? I meant tens to hundreds of millions of potential customers. I also integrated "social" and "chat" by implementing "long line to the bathroom" although the lawyers claim professional sporting events have prior art. Oh well off to collect the billions I'm entitled to, got an IPO to arrange!
'Digital sensor drug' shares health data, prompts ethical concerns [audio]
"Yes you do get the 'angry drunk' phenomenon"

If you want to find them it's pretty easy here in Scotland - go to the wrong place at the wrong time and its practically guaranteed.

See: "radge"
What matters obviously is how many cars can they roll out in a day. Sure, from the time your car starts to the time it rolls out is 24 hours, but how many other cars came out in the same day? If the average daily demand for custom vehicles is significantly higher that the daily production capacity you get long wait times just because the job queue is backed up.

So yes, 'manufacturing time' is likely not the issue, it's 'manufacturing capacity' that will bog you down.
Actually, I think this is much cooler on Earth, where it can "defy" gravity :)
Why Go is a poorly designed language
Hence why one profits from being a polyglot programmer instead of focusing in just one.

I never considered myself a "X Developer".
Yes, promoting dribbling on paper.

Legislators and bureaucrats do it all of the time.
Init Scripts Considered Harmful
This is how the fuck I read that into what you wrote, and I quote:
"In a state of nature, to refuse to work is to commit suicide, at a rate proportional to the hostility of your environment."
...
"So, no. There is no choice about working."

It seems pretty clear to me where I got it from. You are definitely fine with letting people live in misery at the best. It's pretty simple, there is no "actual what the fuck" about it.

Funny that you comment on nature, when civilization has made a lot of the horrible things that have to be dealt with in nature a lot less relevant. In nature animals are violent to each other, and will kill each other even of their own species. By your logic you must support killing each other, otherwise your argument about nature would be totally hypocritical.

The more civilized a place the more people can do their own thing without worry of harm or their needs being met. What you wrote below has nothing to do with a basic income. A basic income will make people less afraid of moving employers for example, making parasites that employ people in hideous conditions lose power. Threats from those psychopaths will have a lot less punch. That is a massive gain.

A basic income does not look like it will not alter how much people work. As an example, the MINCOME project showed that the only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less in an actual experiment with a form of basic income, the people who work will still work. I will not repeat other sources here, any reader can look it up if they want.
I see an even bigger problem. Most people hate car salespeople. I hate car shopping and mattresses are even worse because the salespeople's incentives are very unclear and they clearly dick around with people. That perception isn't going to change overnight (and the salespeople's tactics would be tough to change quickly), so I won't pay for it any time soon.
This is a terrible argument in support of franchise dealerships. If people care so much about being treated poorly by the manufacturer then they can go to a private dealership and pay thousands in markup to have someone smile at them through gritted teeth.

The idea that tension between manufacturers and the shitholes that are dealerships will somehow translate into tension between the manufacturer and buyers is ridiculous. Why would the $15/hour salesman be affected by this at all? He wouldn't be.
Yeah, start a journal or blog. I've maintained a journal (journal.alexmacgregor.com, runs on tumblr) for a couple of years.
>the left promotes that all cultural advancement only comes from the left, nothing culturally worth anything comes from the right.

The right promotes that idea too; or rather, that all (gov't sponsored) cultural advancement only comes from the left.
I know from first-hand experience that this isn't the case.

Obviously T&M is the preferred contract structure for the service provider, but many projects get done on different metrics (fix-price, result-based, T&M with upper/lower bound etc.). It's quite a competitive industry, so a big client can negotiate for a different contract structure if the project allows it (obv. not for bodylease stuff).

Also, your assumption about labour-cost arbitrage isn't completely true. Many external consultants (incl. developers) make better salaries than internal staff.
I like Logitech, I use the older MX but it's still precise and reliable.
The Tide Turns on Big Outsourcing – on cloud, agile, and rebuilding skills
Wordpress or Squarespace. Both are hosted. Wordpress is especially nice as you can export and deploy your own self-hosted site with all of your content later.
Show HN: Neal – react components for startup landing pages
Manage your business address in social networks
In the movie Cradle will Rock, there are several fictional scenes about the real-world mural painted by Diego Rivera for the NYC Rockefeller Building. The mural was subsequently destroyed after a disagreement about Lenin, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_at_the_Crossroads. In a key scene, Nelson Rockefeller asks Rivera to remove Lenin from the mural:

https://youtube.com/watch?t=68m51s&v=rqPE0YYgwjI

Rockefeller: This is not a revolution, Diego. This is United States. It's
not Russia.
Rivera: And I am Diego Rivera. Not Frederick Remington.
Man: You understand that it is entirely inappropriate to feature
a communist leader in the lobby of a Rockefeller Building?
Rivera: No! I believe nothing in art is inappropriate. I paint what I see.

Later, in a conversation about replacing "socially conscious" art by funding "abstract" art:

https://youtube.com/watch?t=104m09s&v=rqPE0YYgwjI

Rockefeller: I wouldn't have had this problem with Picasso or Matisse.
Cardinal: We can control the future of art because we pay for the future
of art. Appoint people to your museum board who detest the
Riveras of this world. Celebrate the Matisses. Create the next
wave of art. You have the purse strings, it's quite obvious
you have the power.
Rockefeller: Cultural power. To pay for the Matisse.
All: Celebrate colors. Celebrate form. Portraits. Countrysides.
Men on horses. Sunsets. Nudes.

https://youtube.com/watch?t=107m43s&v=rqPE0YYgwjI

Cardinal: Nelson will fund the new wave of art. A traveling exhibit
throughout Europe, highlighting American artists.
Mathers: Non-politcal.
Rockefeller: Yes. Abstract. Colors and form, not politics.
Cardinal: My papers will hail it as the next new thing. Canonize the
artist. Make them rich. And soon enough, all artists will be
doing the next new thing.
Mathers: You think? Something about artists, they always get socially
concerned.
Cardinal: Sure, but they won't get paid for it.
Rockefeller: They won't be seen, they will have no influence.
Mathers: Rather than starve, they will adapt, it's survival.

The New York City MoMA, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art#History

"The idea for The Museum of Modern Art was developed in 1929 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan ... When Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson was selected by the board of trustees to become its flamboyant president in 1939, at the age of thirty, he became the prime instigator and funder of its publicity, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street."
Thanks for that. Do you ever stagger releases to your customers? So some of the schemas are migrated to support new features before others?
Remember that this was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan in over 1000 years of known quake history.

It hit in a pretty ideal spot to generate a big tsunami at the reactor site.

Maybe the reactors "should" have been engineered to handle this situation anyway, but keep in mind that this event is an extreme outlier.