skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense. I would think a government would be perfectly capable of hiring experts. I would fully expect them to have different motivations than industry and academic experts, but I would think they could easily - and fairly cheaply - minimize some of Congress's stupidest misunderstandings.
Looked at your comment history and its clear you are either a xenophobe, or clueless.
In VPN mode I got 184.75.221.xxx - Toronto
In Turbo mode 107.167.108.xxx - US
I would love to see an "official" Cinnamon build in the way we have Xubuntu, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq6lypuUPeg
Internet Domain Name Services Scam (2015)
Someone else in this thread posted something rather nonsensical about switching to Commodore 64. I was just about to make a guru meditation joke when I saw that someone apparently beat me to it.

I'm running 16.04 with the Vagrant/Virtualbox image from atlas. I've tried getting it to work in the google cloud but had no luck there so far (it's possibly just the ssh key injection that failed, haven't had time to investigate).
Nice job, this is really handy !
There's no guarantee that re-releasing the mosquitos would undo the damage. If wiping out mosquitos causes some other species that relies on them to go extinct, we might not notice until another species that relies on them starts suffering too.
If you click the three lines/three dots at the top left, then "Appearance", there are a few options to customise the font and colour.
This is awesome! Can I request a search box at the top that lets me quick-search for something, and then hit tab or enter to "jump" to that one?
Thanks for making - it's so much more helpful than the over-9000 line bootstrap docs I am always using CTRL+F and trying to remember the name of elements on. Now I can just jump to the "card" section and scroll through everything really quickly to visually find it. Great job, will be using this.

But why, why, why, whyyyyyyy are you hijacking my back button, you evil person... please remove historystate, it's unnecessary for this site. Also, can you make the right/left arrow keys toggle between items in the preview box?
> Online searches in the dash are now disabled by default [1]

A welcome and saner default. I'm thinking of moving back to Ubuntu from LinuxMint (I was thinking of Arch as well but not too confident of being on the bleeding edge).

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes
Scheme could be a good language (for fans?) if it is not used interactively.
No, at least not for me. The HN website as is loads very quickly as it's extremely lightweight. Although it doesn't have the greatest mobile UI, the website is at least functional on mobile thanks to a minimalist interface. On my phone, the linked UI took a few seconds to load the articles and scrolling was so jerky I quickly clicked back to here. I'm on a budget smartphone using (fast) Wi-Fi.
Please just read the code.

I think it's rather amazing that you claim that Eclipse's immutable collections are memory efficient when they either

a) completely lack support for many important operations like appending and prepending, or

b) implement operations like drop and take by not reusing anything, but copying everything over.

None of the code written by people using immutable data structures would work with this API. It feels like it's an immutable collection API designed by people who have never used immutability before. It has this weird 0th-generation immutable == read-only style to it.

Yeah, if you use those collections as if they were arrays, then they might be memory efficient, I give you that.

But then why not use arrays in the first place?

And then the next question comes up ... why even bother with Java? Use Rust, and do away with the defensive copying altogether. Coding like this is just using the wrong technology for the job.
It's not a secret that the United States has its eyes on Eurasia, the land mass reaching from the Russian border eastward to China. The U.S. has been hatching plans for total world dominance since the 1930s and controlling Eurasia is key if this goal is to be achieved. It's hubris on an epic scale.

The U.S. centric media makes noises about countries Russia, Iran, Syria and North Korea as if America is just minding its own business and these pesky troublemakers are constantly circling and provoking the peaceful USA. Nothing is further from the truth of course.

It's truly fascinating that the long term goals of U.S. foreign policy not hidden from the public or the media. Think tanks and former high ranking government officials regularly publish books and essays discussing America's place in the world but for the most part these are ignored by the mass media and government and military officials are quoted at length as if their words are self-evident truths that can always be taken at face value.

The State Department cables released by WikiLeaks were dismissed by most of the media as mildly embarrassing gossip of little value. Yes, the cables include gossip and snarky remarks but there is much more to them than only that. The cables show what government officials say to each other and this is often very very different from the official public line. For example, they clearly and unambiguously show how the U.S. has been provoking Syria and fomenting regime change there since at least 2005. The cynical, Machiavellian methods outlined in the cables provide quite a contrast to the "democracy" and "human rights" line we hear so often. In fact, the collapse of Syria in 2011 is exactly what Washington had been hoping would happen.

But where is the media? Surely there is a story or two here. It goes to show that even in an era of ubiquitous personal technology that quite literally makes the collected knowledge of the world accessible to almost every human being on earth, the truth is as distant from the masses as it ever was. As coverage of the Snowden affair and the debacle in Syria has shown, the mass media is quite comfortable acting as the empire's propaganda arm while telling us how it takes pride in maintaining high standards of journalistic integrity and serving the public by speaking truth to power. So, yes, we are being lied to constantly. Critical and independent thinking skills are more important than ever.
> You're wrong on about three of those statements

OK. Do you have any supporting arguments? "You're wrong" doesn't contribute anything.

> note that the same hand wave

It's not a "hand wave". Those things are easily verifiable facts. You're new here, you might want to read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should talk to an experienced skydiver about what it's like to operate in 3 dimensions. I skydived long ago, and while I never got really great at it, I remember doing things "instinctively" to make or avoid something happening. For example, dipping a shoulder, especially without thinking about it, to move somewhere or out of the way of someone.

I guess bicycle riding is another example of making things happen in unnatural or differently constrained environments.
Maybe - getting DOS games to run on weird PC clones back in the day was really only an activity fit for masochists - or ten year old boys that reaaaally wanted to shoot some demons or play Warcraft...

The other thing is, if gaming is the gateway drug, for a lot of people the next step is modding, level design, botting, etc. The more black-boxy games are, the harder that is.
If a customer gets to know a good service provider via you, e.g. a house cleaner, they are likely to create a direct relationship with him/her, and skip going via your app the next time they need a cleaner. How are you going to get repeat customer orders for the same kind of service, i.e. house cleaning ?

AFAIK, this is one of the issues HomeJoy faced.
Why don't you just buy 101's and remove the curie chip from the 101?
Save with Inbox – Google Chrome Inbox Extension
Bounty: iPad (reward)
My MacBook got pick up by Guy? Any hacks to track it by serial number or Mac address? FindMyMac is on but must have wiped my SSD.
> Not that I'm disagreeing but you could have said "Newton mechanics has been the workhorse method for centuries and everyone has found that they work" then Einstein came along and dumped the apple cart.

You couldn't have said that. Einstein's contributions were solving real problems with Newtonian mechanics, where it was clearly inadequate to explain how things actually worked. The photoelectric effect was known for years before Einstein explained it with the first glimmer of quantum mechanics. The problem of a fixed reference frame for the motion of light was known for a long time before Einstein came up with relativity.

The situations aren't really comparable. Newtonian mechanics had major known flaws that people were trying to reconcile. They weren't tiny effects hiding near the noise.

I totally agree that investigations should continue until an explanation is found, it's just that people seem far too eager to assume that it must be something new, when with what's known so far it's overwhelmingly likely to be experimental error.
Nice job man, this will save me a lot of time on-boarding people.
Definitely slows down browsing but it is simple/easy/free so I would expect as much.
"some shadowy powers carefully select to make a mysoginistic getto to keep women at bay."

While some may claim this, it is not stated in the article at all and I don't think this is a mainstream opinion. Also the article actually gave detail about this shift in targeting with the SDC recruiting procedure - and it is clear it was about optimising the work environment - and not to exclude women. This also coincided with the rise of the PC which was targeted at boys - again because they thought they would increase their profits, not because they don't like girls messing with the boy hobbies (it even sounds ridiculous). As I mentioned in my first comment, what we have as a result is not everyone gets equal exposure to computers in similar conditions based on their gender and hence fewer women end up interested in the field.
I live in Germany. In general Germans are very privacy conscious, due to, as others have mentioned in this thread, experiences with the Stasi. Up until recently with the refugee situation, border control hasn't been too strict, and agents generally don't berate you with questions if you possess validate documents.

This pisses me off, and I wager a large portion of the German populace. Let's hope this goes down in flames.
How did you build it? Aside from using bootstrap itself, did you use any kind of tool for the docs? I really dig the style! :D
Indeed! And the release notes linked to a good resource on configuration changes requires for Nginx + PHP7.0:

http://dark-net.net/?p=125
Yes, but if you live somewhere that definitely surveils your communications or prevents you from accessing certain content, a VPN is a good way to browse as though you were physically located somewhere more permissive.
In the USA, the bureaucrats are shielded from individual liability when their actions are under color of their government job. And the government is sovereign, and can only be sued if it chooses to allow the suit.

Thus, almost nothing is ever done.

Hence, you see epidemics of prosecutorial misconduct, for example. Prosecutors go after people they know (or reasonably suspect) to be innocent, withholding exculpatory evidence, etc., just to score the credit of more convictions. Such people ruining the lives of innocent people are almost never (and I really that - it approaches zero) prosecuted themselves.
Nope: https://imgur.com/a/t9mUG
It's usually a bad idea to use somebody elses name in the domain name and their logo as part of your own logo. Phantomjs isn't a big organization with lawyers but I'd say their name and logo are still copyrighted.
Canopy Labs (YC S12) Is Hiring a Demand Generation Manager
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The role is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-growth startup focused on analytics. Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

(1) Manage Canopy Labs’ marketing automation and sales stack, including Marketo, Salesforce, MailChimp, and other marketing tools

(2) Generate weekly reports for review with the CEO, with a focus on marketing effectiveness (e.g., number of inbound leads, conversion rates, marketing qualified sales pipeline)

(3) Manage and coordinate a monthly marketing pipeline, including a) outbound sales e-mails to specific verticals, b) managing lead lists for outbound calls by sales development reps, and c) helping to optimize Canopy Labs’ SEO, landing pages, and related digital content

Learn more here: https://canopylabs.com/careers

... or email jobs@canopylabs.com with your CV/resume/etc.
Farewell io:format (Erlang/OTP)
I'm sure it's amazing, although I could never bring myself to sign-in. It always seems too "click-baitey". Sort of like "we have the answer but you have to sign in to get it". So I've always just let them have their answer and gone elsewhere.
Very cool, thank you!
Are you sure you're roaming? Or did you buy a pay-as-you-go local SIM? I'm unaware of any provider who actually discounts texts/calls while roaming. Three in the UK charge you the same price in some European countries but that's the best deal I know of.

Roaming is using your SIM outside the geographical coverage area of the home network.
Possibly, but that doesn't change the definition of "criminals".
It is a little bit difficult to find websites that represent Hungary's point of view in the controversial issues, though I'm pretty sure that the common presentation (that is biased towards the EU one) is not the whole truth...
Server side, there is an initiative to get rid of Intel as well[0][1] with a PowerPC based chip. It'll be interesting to see if it ends up working, but I think everyone wants to get away from Intel's high prices.

[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rack...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation
I like how fast and responsive it is.
Hope DigitalOcean and Linode will support 16.04 quickly. Can't wait.
There's a difference between debating the merits of communism and the tactics to get there.

I think communism is better for people than free markets because markets run on competition, which is in stark contrast to mutual aid, which is how communism works. There are of course many other factors that go into why I think communism is better than free markets, but there's many other reading resources on that. There are also market socialists who oppose capitalism, but support free markets.

Within the left, there are many different tendencies that people have developed to get to some sort of socialist economic structure. The main one we've experienced in the 20th century is Marxism-Leninism. This was developed by Lenin, and basically issues in socialism by the proletariat seizing control of the state and using it to suppress the bourgeoisie until the class no longer exists, at which point, the proletarian state withers away and tada! Communism.

There are also anarchist movements that involved destroying the state at the same time as seizing the means of production. See Revolutionary Catalonia or currently Rojava for interesting movements in these veins.

There is also democratic socialism, which basically involves communist parties getting elected into the government and issuing legislative changes that move toward socialism. This tendency is not revolutionary, but evolutionary. This is sort-of what has been going on in France and Greece. My opinions on this tendency aren't favorable, but to each their own.
I'm guessing there is a legal difference between a military action carried out within international law (such as it is) and a terror attack.
Profanity Regex not working
That fact it mentions Koko (A great example of Facilitated Communication) shows they have no real concern for science on the subject.

It's the one who "cried" when Robin Williams died, you can't make this stuff up (1)

But the original research looks interesting, but yes silly humans finding patterns to prove things they want to believe does not make science. Hence why intelligent people still say, there's no evidence yet it's language.

(1) https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/koko-the-gorilla-cries-over-robi...
Yeah but you mainly hear it from the right, who usually claims they believe in the free market, but then wants special treatment for all their business interests under the law. If you believe in the free market, go ahead and compete with cheap labor elsewhere in the world by specializing. If you don't believe in the free market, stop calling all your political opponents socialists like you think that's a bad thing. (and by you I mean right-wing America, not you)
You can always do `sudo do-release-upgrade -d` (for development version), but it should work in the next 24 hours.
"[Quora] recently reported that it has 100 million monthly visitors... with 15 percent from India."

Interested in knowing the ratio of questions:answers coming from Indian users.
The Gestapo used the same – and worse – methods as the Stasi did, and in the 1980s, when the general census was planned, the Stasi's exact methods weren't well-studied in the west. The 1983 census decision mainly evolved around theoretical threats (panopticon effect) and the provisions of the German constitution (basic law), which was made in the immediate aftermath of WW2 and grounded on the concept of inalienable human dignity.
I didn't know that Randi had retired and that the prize had been withdrawn. Very sad. It's the end of an era.
Maybe in 2060 we'll discover that NOT radiating our brains was killing us. You can't just arbitrarily guess which things are dangerous -- you have to raise legitimate scientific questions.

It's amazing we're not all dead yet, isn't it? messing with everything like we have, vastly extending expected lifespan and years of health...
Is it a XPS 2016?
I agree, the front page should be filled up by the top post by default without a first click, but then that page might be a 404 under HN which is even uglier?
eggs...bacon...waffles..
That doesn't really have much to do with islam, though.
It will fail. Money will be embezzled, it will be captured by power brokers, contracts will be given to OUR people. Even if the prince is sincere.

Look at the corruption that EU projects have ...
Looks great, super useful! Can you possibly load it up with bootstrap 3?
Crows are extremely intelligent and they live quite a long time. When I was a kid I went on a vacation with my family to a cabin by a lake. A man living in the neighborhood had a pet crow. The crow would get cosy around our dining table that was outside trying to grab some food, so my mother chased it away once. After that for the next 2 weeks we stayed there the crow would fly over every day and take a shit on my mother's laundry. There were 5 people in the family, but the crow would always pick my mother's clothes. This is a true story.
> Numpy: "Fix transpose(arg)...add broadcast..."

Does anyone know if there are some milestones in sight regarding packages which use numpy? e.g. "working scipy or sklearn".

EDIT: BTW I forgot to add: tremendous thanks to PyPy team for your continued work on this project. I benefit from it and always look forward to the next release!
>> their newsrooms are filled with reporters and editors of various political leanings.

Depsite what most people say, this is the case for FoxNews, but you'd be hard pressed to convince any Liberal of this fact.

Also, people frequently confuse a "commentator" with a "journalist"

Commentator - Karl Rove

Journalist - James Rosen
For me I can read more quickly without jumping back and forth between pages is more important though, all on one page is really nice.
It seems fairly established that profession with highly unequal ratio of men and women tend to have a minority gender with a much higher exit rate than the majority, caused by the majority harassing the minority until they assimilate, quit or switch profession.

The next step should be to ask why women working in a female dominated profession are harassing the men in the same profession, or why men working in male dominated professions are harassing women. Maybe if we could figure out a good answer to that, we could turn the tide of more work professions becoming gendered with unbalanced ratios.
They wouldn't hire anyone who thought that "seeing eye-to-eye" was a prerequisite for academic rigor. They released reports that were highly regarded for their rigor (the article even mentions that). So if they were given the responsibility of researching the effect patents has on the tech sector, that's exactly what they'd do.

I find it disturbing that you'd actually want an OTA that only hires people that agree with you. That's not their purpose.