skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why the downvote for OP.

A variant on the same joke: I had a friend who used to occasionally say

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!"

which always made me laugh. I laugh still but less, because our surveillance society has now reduced the vague "they" to government/police agencies who seem relentlessy devoted to shredding any concept of privacy that ever existed in Western thought.

And the OP is right: the revelation of so much previously-unrevealed surveillance by government and law-enforcement can only, to someone who is from suspicious to paranoid, increase their suspicions or in some cases _prove_ (to them) their fears. When I was a child I feared because my parents told me that "God is watching you!"; today I fear because God knows who's watching me! At least, in the case of "God", I understood his intentions.
In my experience, Yahoo finance data is not reliable. In one case, I noticed that the stock price is incorrectly adjusted for dividends for all shares trading on a particular exchange.
Free correct data is hard to obtain.
Not just the ongoing stigma of mental illness, but the near-total destruction of our mental health infrastructure in the US since the 80's. We've seemingly made the choice that unless you're fabulously wealthy or connected and can afford exceptional private treatment, your major options are to be a family burden, in prison, or indigent.
Small merchants probably pay north of 2-3% to some intermediary provider (I hope a future regulation will cap this as well). I still see almost no merchants that don't take credit cards here though - likely because when card use reaches a critical mass you 1) lose too much business if you don't accept cards (I can go 6 months without touching cash) and 2) The amount of cash shrinks to a point where there marginal cost of the next cash transaction is also pretty high, e.g if you do 1000 card transactions and only 10 cash transactions in a business day then each cash transaction has to carry 1/10th of the cost of cash handling for the day.
> People aren't willing to make their party accountable.

Consider the possibility that party politics and bureaucracy are set up to perpetuate their internal power structures and make outside interference costly. It's "their" party in the sense that constituents are blamed for the failure of the political system but the system is set up so that no individual can constructively engage with the system without incredible sacrifice.

I think this is a crucial criticism of liberal democracy. All political systems proscribe action taken outside of their logic, but their logic is set up to preserve the power structures that define that logic.
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I think he is referring to social echo chambers, ie. twitter/facebook/reddit and so on.
Maybe, but panopticlick is still able to fingerprint me to the point where I'm unique.... over 17 bits of identity in my browser (means you can identify me in a pool of up to 2^17th people).

Try it yourself.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

(click "Test me" then "show full results"
This is true, but it's just as true of all the Ruby code out there that raises strings instead of error types, and all the exception-handling code that catches everything and then halfheartedly tries to disambiguate.

The language problem is that laziness is enabled. The real, practical problem is that programmers are lazy.

It would be nice if at some point the standard library would be scrubbed of string errors. But for the most part, the standard libraries errors that are sane to disambiguate are disambiguated, either with error types or helper functions.
Anesthesiology is another money maker, and probably no more vulnerable to ML/AI disruption than Radiology.
This is utterly nonsense. The settings there are the defaults. It even says so on the website.
"Default Preferences"

Just a quick trivial check of my local preferences and those "exposed" on the site show stuff either missing or not as per my tweaks.

In other words, this is exposing what the version of firefox you're running is.
Yes, it's fine to have both -- no objection from me.

However, switching keyboard layouts tends to be difficult for most people, and the gains are generally rather small. Many if not most users would be better off devoting the same amount of time to improving their touch-typing on QWERTY than to switching layouts.
This isn't completely related to Windows command line but I thought I would post it out here.

I was trying to run a Bash script from a Git repo mounted in a Docker container. When running the Bash script, I kept getting all kinds of errors. I ran the exact same script in the same Docker container on a different Linux computer that had cloned the repo. It turns out the \r Windows line endings (which I later normalized in Git settings) caused my script to barf.
مواد بناء الكويت – مؤسسة فهد المسيليم للمقاولات العامة للمباني
I've noticed a change in the general tone of comedy in U.S. media society, in the past some decades. For me, it was exemplified in the changes that occurred on the broadcast television show, "Saturday Night Live".

I used to howl at the early SNL -- well, when they were "on"; individual skits were always hit and miss. Over subsequent "generations", it came to the point where I could no longer watch it.

I've ended up feeling similar about a significant portion of mainstream "comedy" films.

Eventually, I realized: It used to be, even when the portrayals were sometimes a bit vicious, that we, the audience, guided by the writers and actors, were laughing with them.

That changed: Now, much of comedy is taking grossly stereotypical portrayals and laughing at them.

Laughing with, we acknowledge our... weaknesses, flaws, strengths, human-ness, and bond through shared laughter over them. Defuse the discomfort and tension.

Laughing at, we define and separate into groups: "Us" versus "them". And those laughing, as the "us", bond through the process of excluding the "them".

Society's never been easy. But this part of it -- emblematic, for me -- has turned into a nastier place, in the U.S. media.
Ask HN: Stop builtwith.com from exposing my stack ?
http://builtwith.com/ is exposing my entire stack just by appending my domain at http://builtwith.com/myURL.com

How do i stop this?
Go errors are not exceptions. It would not make sense to attach a stack trace to every one of them. If you want a stack trace, generate one when you return the error. It's hello-world simple.
This kind of thing is said all the time of different places :)
All the UX Research we've done with our customers shows that 100% of them CAN'T differentiate Native mobile apps from 2015/2016 Hybrid apps.

I'd say 2015 represented the turning point and from now it will only get better with things like web workers (UI decoupling), WASM, and upcoming HTML5 APIs.
You can also normalize them using the dos2unix package, which is available on most distros.
> Then there's Bernie who refuses to aknowledge any extremes of socialism.

One of these criticisms is not like the others. Sanders is a moderate democratic socialist - in any other industrialized country, he'd be considered mildly left of centre. Let's not equate his slightly out-of-step politics with the actual abuses and mendacities of the other candidates.
Waterloo is over 100km away from Toronto
Gerrymandering has outrageous results [0] and voter suppression of minorities is right out of a novel [1]. It's so screwed up that votes almost don't matter, depending on who last classified what voting district you're in.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/13/this-...

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/02/3745296/major-vo...
Oh, I see. Thank you :)
Switchd – An OpenFlow implementation for OpenBSD [pdf]
Waterloo and Toronto alumni, presumably.
But bash was around in the 80's, too, right? And it didn't seem to need those features. How did bash users get around your claimed need for this?
The cmd.exe on Windows 10 is a significant improvement from older versions. So much so that it has become actually useful now.
Sure, it's a negotiation ploy, but Visa has more to lose than Walmart. Walmart Visa customers will just switch over to Mastercard or American Express. Costco also doesn't take Visa, but they do take Mastercard. It's clear that Mastercard will negotiate, but Visa seems to think they're above that.
Reddit moderator deletes/censors Orlando gay club shooting comments
"Uber and Lyft may have left town, but the city of Austin seems to be doing just fine without them."

Wow, so all these people on Facebook are giving the fingerprints and background checks that Austin now legally requires of all community sourced taxi services?

Or ... are they not doing that, and also not paying taxes or subject to any regulation at all, unlike Uber and Lyft?

Austin's goal in the law was to put controls and regulation on this industry. The result is trumpeted by this article as a success for that intent. However, it seems that what has actually been created due to the city's creating a void in needed services is a totally underground black market system with no accountability whatsoever. Reasonable observers might note this to be a step away from regulation and control.
I think it is just being reported more, organizing with support groups forming due to the internet and other new technologies.

I can't help but recall the opening to the 1997 movie 'Conspiracy Theory' with Mel Gibson. This is pre-9/11, so there must have been enough whiff of the zeitgeist to make it then into a mainstream movie. That sort of lends evidence to my position that this is common to heavily populated urban areas where the disenfranchised can go unnoticed, and it is not a new phenomenon or necessarily growing more; it's just more visible.

I worked in the B. Dalton bookstore on 8th Street in the Village in NYC back in the 80s. One of the clerks was really into conspiracy theories and other fringe occult and alternate lifestyle stuff. He would throw me a book either self-published, or from an obscure publisher about many things like the U.S. government using Orgone energy guns to control the public and weather [1]. These texts were always similar to real academic publications - footnotes, bibliographies, photos, graphs - they were very fun to read!

He also turned me on to the book 'The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail' published 21 years before Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code', and before learning of the plagiarism lawsuit, it seemed like a fictionalized account of the book. Of course Dan Brown created a story outside of just the conspiracy theory premise [2].

Another was 'Spear of Destiny' published 1973 about the history and occult powers of the storied spear used to pierce Jesus Christ's side [3]

I also used to go with my bookstore buddy to visit some squatters living in the East Village. I'd listen to all of the theories about mind control, tainted water, secret cable TV brainwashing messages, and on and on. Great fun, really, but there were some truly neurotic people in the bunch. But then again, also some real rational people just living an alternate lifestyle. I can relate to being the participant-observer in my life's adventures. I guess its part of ethnography formally.

But then again, this was the time of the conspiracy-driven, weird film 'Videodrome' by David Cronenberg. I really need to get hold of a copy, and still see how it compares to how much I enjoyed it back then [4]. Just to see the video cassette inserted into James Woods' stomach!

'Call me, call me any, anytime' - Blondie

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/mar/28/danbrown.books
[3] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8111347M/Spear_of_Destiny
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome
China Tries to Redistribute Education to the Poor, Igniting Class Conflict
You can ask them nicely maybe? But they are only showing info that is publicly available anyways, so it's not like someone else can't go and find out the same.
We've created tools that allow people to become more and more politically polarized along the Republican/Democratic spectrum, and even self radicalized as terrorists. Without stomping on freedom of speech I don't know what we as an industry can do. Are we like gun manufacturers who can simply say "it's not our fault that our tools are used for evil?"
It's not paranoia if they're really after you. Read my blog at http://surroundedbyspies1.tumblr.com. I have written about 1) Cops trying to get me to talk about Muslims in a bar, after posting a lot of anti Muslim stuff online about ground zero mosque. 2) Finding a user avatar of Osama Bin Laden on the profile of a contractor I paid, reporting it to the FBI, and being involuntarily committed few weeks later for 20 days. 3) Being recruited by the UN and then finding proof via Rapportive gmail tool that they were spying on me via someone I fell in love with on Twitter. I wrote Rapportive asking about the proof and Rapportive stopped using Rapleaf, their data provider, that day. The service Rapportive is named for. We are not all delusional.
> Maybe there's a specific demographic that is affected in this manner?

Future demographic(s) will be impacted, due to not-knowing and/or not caring about it
I live in Austin and have been seeing ads from new ride sharing companies. I'm starting to think that what Uber and Lyft do isn't all that special. Aside from having the most drivers today, is there anything else that makes Uber unique?
Waterloo has been investing heavily in improving their public transit infrastructure in recent years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_rapid_transit

http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/projectinformatio...

Once it is completed, I think this will make Waterloo and Toronto feel a lot closer together. Note that the 'transit hub' mentioned above is a 2 minute walk from communitech (https://www.communitech.ca/), Google, Shopify, D2L etc.
Thanks for posting this, I thought it was fascinating research. This sentence in particular was a surprise to me:

It’s estimated that we’re born with around 20,000 blood stem cells, and at any one time, around 1000 are simultaneously active to replenish blood.

I was surprised the number was so low. Interesting to think this relatively small number of little factories has to sustain us throughout life.
And they haven't even done that. Visual Studio 2015 isn't open source. SQL Server isn't open source. WPF? WinForms? And, I might be off here because the naming is very confusing, but is the .Net Framework actually open source? It seems like only .Net "Core" is.
The worse thing about PowersHell is its syntax and OOP-ifying of everything, even if it doesn't really need to be. The naming and general syntax reminds me of this:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-...

I don't deny that it is much more powerful than cmd, but it feels a lot like "emacs rather than vi" in its design, and I much prefer the latter (which would be more (ba)sh-like.)
I think if you were to write a report on such a topic you would have to honestly examine their arguments and to what extent they have any credible basis.

Otherwise, to write a report about a subject where supposedly there is already an overwhelming agreement seems a waste of time. Who would you be trying to convince?
A good amount of places also ask this in the US.
Before 2013, Visa and Mastercard forbade credit card surcharges. However, cash discounts were allowed.

The problem was the Most Favored Nation clause in the credit card contracts. Merchants could offer cash discounts, but they could not offer discounts to non-Visa credit cards.

Since the antitrust settlements, all four U.S. credit card networks have allowed surcharges. Also, the Most Favored Nation clause only applies to "equal or higher cost" competitors.

Walmart US could fight Visa by adding a surcharge only to Visa cards. Walmart Canada cannot. In 2013, a similar antitrust case was dismissed in Canada.
Why isn't it just as easy for businesses to switch to the delivery service that is cheapest at any given moment? There are API aggregators that abstract out the differences between delivery providers.

Their moat is their crap load of drivers.
In core libraries? If low-level functions checked the inputs for each odd case, they'd (often unnecessarily) spend 90% of time doing those checks.
Can you please provide a link to the tweet? Thanks.
Atari DOS filesystem formats
Can't it be both? How is that doublespeak?
In American that is exactly what the climate change deniers and young earth creationists demand - that we give equal time to their ideas. "Teach the controversy."

The controversy only exists in the mind of that minority, and their extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof (Thanks, Carl Sagan) - the birthers, climate change deniers, creationists trump supporters and spoon benders fail to meet the minimum criteria, but their bombastic temperaments make for good press coverage, which keeps them in the headlines and in our collective consciousness.
The choice part doesn't seem to be required by EU regulations. The German Girocards basically all include VPay or Maestro as well, but you don't need to choose (and in fact you can't even choose) which payment system to use because in Germany it will be most likely be Girocard by default.

So either the Danish implemented regulations they didn't actually need to implement or the Germans are not following the regulations.
Costco Canada accepts Mastercard. In fact they dumped AMEX for Mastercard.
As a first guess is because some of the European countries had/have colonies (the Dutch did). That opens the door to various countries, sometimes to tax havens.
So this information is in a reply, but it deserves a top level reminder: most browsers leak your identity.

panopticlick is still able to fingerprint me to the point where I'm unique.... over 17 bits of identity in my browser (means you can identify me in a pool of up to 2^17th people).

Try it yourself.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

(click "Test me" then "show full results")
Isn't the same thing is true of most services people use? They're good because they reached a critical mass of users, funding, and interface polish.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11866868
50 killed in Florida nightclub terror attack
Navy Seal Commander Naval Adm. William H. McRaven Commencement Speech (2014)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888628
I usually write shellscripts in PHP. Works pretty good, and PHP is by far easier to write than either bash scripts or Windows shell script - not to mention that one single syntax can be used for both OSes, which is nice when you do development on both Linux and Windows, and even nicer when you're also developing on OS X which ships a horribly outdated bash (and other coretools).
In addition to the healthy, normal repair of telomeres in germ cells, they're also replenished in cancer cells. While probably not a sufficient condition for cancer, it's almost a necessary one. So just over expressing telomerase everywhere in a blind fashion is likely to have some side effects in at least some people.
Can I borrow your network? MIT's new marketplace for retweets
I would like a simple explanation of why links are in danger and this page doesn't to that
It has since been deleted, but updated the original post with a source.
People without US citizenship/residency?
And, we make physical health care harder and harder to access. Physical injuries and illnesses get poorer or no treatment, many then resulting in mental and emotional burdens.

There is no "social contract" anymore. So yeah, every poor bastard for themself.
That's been solved by the most basic approach to ML: Supervised learning. A simplistic way to describe it would be that you say to the ML algorithm: "Here's two states, one at time N and one at time N+1. Your task is to predict the state at N+1 given the state at N. We have a bazillion of such state-pairs that you can test and refine your model on. Go nuts."
Atom is horrendously slow. The only reason I use it over sublime is that it has better plugins.
Wow, a 6-year study for something that had no real physical proof (marks made before diagnosis don't count) or cause other than delusion. I want a tax refund.
How do you reduce javascripts cpu use below something like c/c++?

Before you go off on "lock in", note that native apps have a distinct advantage over any web app using javascript. I hate having 20% cpu use for a stupid chat app on a modern i7 system. Most of that "app" is spinning around chasing its own tail making the cpu fetch memory incessantly and blow through cpu cache/tlb. I don't see that happening with native apps nearly as bad.
20 USD or 20 CAD?
Eeh ... as a Torontonian developer I don't buy it. Most of the good graduates we have move to Bay Area or Seattle. If you want your career to progress meaningfully you pretty much have to move to the states.

Maybe this might change in the future but the story on the ground is very different.

Also nitpick - we are the fourth most populous city in North America, and only Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles have a larger population. As of mid last year, Toronto contains more people than Chicago.
fork/exec is built in to bash, i.e. Unix.

Batch was restricted by DOS, I wish I had never learned it, but it did come in handy for launching games.
Which is why their economies suck. Centralized planning is an utter failure.

https://mises.org/blog/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...
The basic software that is necessary for e-hailing is pretty straightforward. A small team can build it in a few months.

Uber and Lyft are dominant basically because they buy the market by offering drivers (and to a lesser extent passengers) financial incentives.

Source: worked at Flywheel for a couple of years, built said software as part of a small team.
With Uber/Lyft leaving town, it has created a huge vacuum in the TNC space and allowed several other companies including RideAustin (non-profit) [1], GetMe, Fare, and whole ton of them [2]. It's been a damper but it won't stop people from engaging with TNCs. There is a general unanimous agreement that Austin YellowCab or other native Austin cab comapnies are horrible.

[1] http://kxan.com/2016/05/23/non-profit-ride-hailing-app-ridea...
[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/07/austin-post-prop-1/
Sometimes the right people say the wrong thing and the wrong people the right thing.

I understand the controversy but that doesn't take away from the value of their analysis IMO.
Python seems to have its quirks, too (somewhat inconsistent ways of wrapping OS errors into exceptions, for example), but for structuring complex pieces of logic into files, funcs and classes, it's almost perfect.
For others: TNC = Transportation network company.
If I'm understanding you correctly, your complaint is that the errors are part of your packages API, so there is no way to change the errors you return without making breaking changes to your API contract?
After reading the headline I was expecting to see an article about a spike in drunk driving deaths
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Counter fact check: there's a massive Shopify office on Spadina
Not in Quebec, ftr
This report is apparently invalid, but it is true that Firefox has a pretty huge number of old bugs, some of which probably have unexamined security implications. Some will be old enough to vote in a few years. Most are "obviously" minor, but I worry about interactions. Is there something like Metcalfe's law for defects?
It really does. The article also offers a nice perspective on how to balance native vs webview UX design.