skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you just called out all the stuff from my (DP/work camp prisoner) grandmother's house as some kind of crypto-genocidal symbols of pro-Fascist hate

your indignation is completely misdirected. It is not me who appropriated all that stuff as symbols of Ukranian nationalistic movement. It is not me who made the Ukranian nationalistic movement a de-facto fascist movement, it is not me who committed all those atrocities and crimes in the name of it, who have been celebrating the "heroes" perpetrators of those atrocities and who have been faithfully trying to follow in the steps of those "heroes" - with the attempt at "pacification" of Russians in Donbass being a such example as recent as just 2 years ago.

Don't blame the messenger. You don't agree with that stuff being used as symbols - argue with the article or the original comment author who stated so, argue with "vyshivatniki" in Ukraine. You don't agree with the atrocities and the crimes, past and the current, or with celebrating of those "heroes" - argue with Wikipedia, historians, and leaders of the Ukraine nationalism who rules Ukraine today.

Your indignation directed at me is like indignation of a follower of the Hinduism or Buddhism (where "swastika" has been a sacred and auspicious symbol at least for couple thousand years before Hitler) at a person who would say that "swastika" is a symbol of Nazi movement and of related atrocities and hate.
I have done it and the same can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239667
I think you'll find that billions of people get around without cars just fine.
I'm generally against the death penalty, but I'm definitely open to reconsidering that stance when it comes to willful and egregious nonsense like this.
> false sharing

I wasn't aware of that sort of thing. any resources on learning these sorts of details of performance tuning, aside from hard-earned experience?
The build number of the latest Cumulative Update/SP that installed in SQL Server
Why? Especially if we're talking stateless methods?
This is an amazing theory. What could possibly be more out there than alien life? Alien life in a gigantic spaceship accidentally coming between you and a star.
> we never see an orc perspective or pov

Offtopic, but this is false. There's a whole chapter of orcish perspective at the end of book IV.
I grew up white and very poor. We often had to choose between food and electricity. We had people giving us clothes. Our house was filled with filth and roaches and head lice. We didn't go to dentists and doctors. (Main reason why I wasn't diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis until age 13)

In my situation, problem was caused by two main issues:

* Alcoholism. My dad functioned well, so it wasn't necessarily a matter of drinking up all the money, as much as getting to the drink was a primary objective, leaving little room for motivation to do more in life. He was quite intelligent, but didn't care. (I've personally taken a few trips down that road myself, but have fortunately gotten out of it, and am currently 15 months sober)

* Mental health. My mom had serious undiagnosed mental health issues. Like talking to people who weren't there, the inability to function as seemingly routine tasks, explosive temper at virtually nothing. Like the alcoholism, I can see elements of this in myself as well.

I'm obviously on HN because I'm a developer, and doing well for myself, but these issues are still there, and I still feel "poor". My family still is, and I put as much distance between me and that situation as possible. I could possibly help them be a little less poor, but it's not a money thing. It's a mentality thing.
Wireless Keyboard Keylogger
Huehuehue has kind of become a meme around the internet...
If a bank tried to pull this ...
Ontario Government Adds Tax on Carbon Tax
Someone on reddit[1] was suggesting that the judge and the sheriff were buddies.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4wapuz/sheriff_...
Most people in Barcelona are not "pro-independence". Most "pro-independence" people come from rural areas, or small cities. Industrial and touristic areas of Catalan region of Spain are not nationalists/separatists. That sentiment comes much like in other regions, because of the crisis. P.S. I live in Barcelona.
What causes the soft upper boundary?
Or even small challenges. There are so many little fixes to be made, bureaucracies and applications that could be streamlined or informational asymmetries that could be smoothed.

Even someone applying for food stamps has to jump so many hurdles, sometimes including in-person interviews! As if someone who has difficulty affording food every day has an excess of time and reliable transportation. (Then again, these people aren't easily monetized, unless you're comfortable exploiting them. c.f. check cashing.)

I'm hopeful for initiatives like the US Digital Service. And I wish our culture stopped glamorizing startups for being worth a lot of pretend money, and instead valued them on how much they did to advance us as an equitable society.
Not always the case. Connect Network services county jails and I know for a fact they allow calling of cell phones (requires person on other end to set up an account so it takes a couple of minutes to connect) I assume it depends on the area and the contract.
Frustratingly I just had a new one ordered for a new job. I can't wait for the pre-order, I need one now :(

The stuck modifier key issue I didn't know was universal, but is annoying. I'm surprised they can't do a firmware update for that? Does it really need a new model to fix it after all these years? I've had the stuck modifier issue from an advantage from 2008.
Not that long. Programming is a bit weirder, but using HN it feels pretty much normal. You just have enter under your thumb now.

Yes, I was getting worse and worse wrist pain. Completely cured. Even after mine broke about a year ago I'm only now starting to get a bit of stiffness (and will probably order a kinesis again).

Mechanical switches are nicer. I haven't used the MS one enough to get used to it.
In retrospect, it probably would have been better for x64 OSes to run the EFI runtime services in compatibility mode.
That's good and all to be disdainful, but if you live in the US you should care. People not being successful and happy here negatively impacts our country's capabilities. So it negatively affects you.

Also you are glorifying and over generalizing the opportunities to the Americans you disdain. Just because one has electricity does not mean one has opportunity. I think you'd be surprised to find that many Americans have no realistic way to know where to earn something themselves. 2 Hrs from NYC can be just as cut off from opportunity as 2000 miles.
That seems like one of the least noticeable consequences self driving cars would have.
KIC8462852 "shadow of a spaceship" theory
Like I said, it explains the entire world of phenomena. I can say you didn't understand my explanation if you assert it makes no predictive claims.

Are you open-minded enough to consider places where you're mistaken? You contradict yourself a few times. This is not intended as ad hominem but as an indicator that you may want to reconsider whether your judgement can be correct. One example of a few: In the beginning of your comment you said that someone calling me a fool doesn't make me right. Agreed. But you contradict yourself by saying that it does sometimes make me right. That's definitely not true.

I'm going to skip replying to the rest of what you said because I know it was not based on having understood what I said. I'm ready to weather the obvious conclusion you're going to draw from that.
My experience is the same. Their firmware is terrible but the keyboard is good, if not very overpriced.
Well most data is going through more layers of code. And as a rough approximation the more code running the more vulnerabilities. I guess this "internal" code isn't as critical of a surface because you have to get through the applications but there is certainly still risk.
As the author posted the article and the error is consistently made within the posted article:

http://its-not-its.info/
Maybe when we end the war on drugs, we'll be able to drastically reduce the size of our police forces.

If it weren't for perverse incentives turning every traffic stop into a potential drug hunt, we could move enforcement for minor traffic violations to much cheaper traffic officers without arrest powers.

We could even automate most of it, so the traffic officers don't even have to pull people over except for imminent safety issues.
The only things you know are that you (a) can't disprove what I said but that (b) you also don't find enough through which to prove it. The latter can be caused by me spouting nonsense, but it can also be caused by you not understanding what I said well enough. Nevertheless, you make judgements and indictments without admitting that you don't actually have any intention to (a) check and improve your understanding of what I said and (b) check the veracity of what I said.

In other words, you're acting on the basis of what you do not know and informing others of your feelings. That tells me all I need to know about your ability to judge toxicity from teaching. It's never easy for people to learn something new. But you are only aware of how it feels to you, and you don't have the ability to distinguish whether it makes you change for the better or worse.
Hardly, you need to block phone signals to do a range of research and development for the next generation of phones / cellular networks. Clearly the intent was not to block such research.
It used to be a thing, but at this point there are very few states with criminal defamation laws on the books.

Here is Virginia's

"§ 18.2-417. Slander and libel.

Any person who shall falsely utter and speak, or falsely write and publish, of and concerning any female of chaste character, any words derogatory of such female's character for virtue and chastity, or imputing to such female acts not virtuous and chaste, or who shall falsely utter and speak, or falsely write and publish, of and concerning another person, any words which from their usual construction and common acceptation are construed as insults and tend to violence and breach of the peace or shall use grossly insulting language to any female of good character or reputation, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor."

So don't be throwing around the 'ho word about your ex-girlfriend!
How can a ship 100 km in diameter cause any significant dimming of a star, which is 21,980,000 km in diameter? It would have to be pretty close to here and lined up just so perfectly.

Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet?
> Inverse square applies here; moving 100 times farther away makes the effect 10,000 times less.

Oh, bah. Yes, of course. My upbringing in Flatland is obviously showing.
Banks couldn't pull this. They're regulated and insured. Investment banks less so, but plain old banks holding your checking and savings -- not a chance.
Coming from an obvious sympathizer to Putin's Russia, calling the current Ukrainian leadership fascists is like the pot calling the daffodil black. Svoboda is the closest thing to a far-right party in Ukraine and it has but a handful of seats.
I think the central argument is: corporations must make money to donate, and generally make money by providing a service that people want or need. In that way, corporate interests may be tied to a population's interests. Obviously this could be flawed (to the point of exclusion) in many ways, and I'd enjoy discussion around it.

> many strong examples of where corporate donation to political parties has lead to demonstrably better outcomes for people at citizens.

I'd bet you could find many strong examples in both directions. I think we'd need either evidence that its systematically one way or the other, or strong logical arguments as to why it would be inevitable (i.e. evidence lacking).
Eh, just like cars I imagine you'd have "stock" classes and "modified" classes.
Textbook case of rent seeking and regulatory capture. Two companies are competing against each other, not on price or service to the consumer, but on which can manipulate the regulator the most effectively.
How do we get linex
>(one interview started screaming at me after I explained that I have a disability, but was most impressed with me up until that point)

What the hell? Do you mind going into detail?
If we should single out one group in Ukraine it should be the one who shot down a civilian airliner using weapons borrowed from Russia, shouldn't it?

It seems you almost honestly belive this but to the rest of the world it kind of obvious who are the arsonists in Ukraine.
Comeon, we're not foolish and hubristic enough to fuckin claim the moon. Hell, we wouldn't claim anything. We'd just say that we're exploring for all of humanity and harvesting our operating expenses from the 'belt.

No nukes required, except for some nuclear reactors to power our ships. Does the USG really want to chase after some simple scavengers?
There's a very easy way it can be fixed. Those people can leave their world and go join a better one.

They can migrate to the American southwest and do agricultural labor, competing with the illegal immigrants doing jobs that "Americans just won't do". They can migrate to the distant outskirts of high productivity cities (e.g. NY, SF), then commute in and provide domestic labor to high productivity individuals. There is plenty of opportunity out there; if there weren't then people from around the world wouldn't be desperately attempting to enter the US.

Hundreds of millions of Indians, Chinese and others engage in internal migration, moving themselves to where the jobs are. Americans could too.

This is just not a fix that Silicon Valley can do; if a man doesn't want to fix himself, then Peter Thiel can't build an app to do it for him.
Sunspots, debris and/or a distant cloud are not completely ruled out: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01316

Wiki:

The leading hypothesis, based on a lack of observed infrared light, is that of a swarm of cold, dusty comet fragments in a highly eccentric orbit.[12][13][14] Many small masses in "tight formation" orbiting the star have also been proposed.[9] The changes in brightness could be signs of activity associated with intelligent extraterrestrial life building a Dyson swarm.[9][15][16][17] The SETI Institute's initial radio reconnaissance of KIC 8462852, however, found no evidence of technology-related radio signals from the star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852
Separating config from code or separating declarative environments from orchestration of components aren't to satisfy your ops team standards, they're things you probably want to do as a developer thinking of infra as code.

Also, DevOps: It doesn't mean same person doing all things, but it does mean you don't think in us vs. them.

Think about your app/service cradle to grave, do the right thing.
In this case I'm talking about software I didn't develop. Also, developers are not immune to this. Very often it is a compiler or runtime error that tells you where the issue is and sometimes even how to fix it. Person/developer sees a red message and panics before attempting to resolve.
US is manufacturing more stuff than ever before, with just a fraction of workers that would be required to achieve the same output 100 years ago. I'd say technological progress has way bigger impact here than shipping jobs overseas.
IOC bans gifs made from Rio 2016 footage
JavaScript eval: direct vs. indirect call
If you want to sell something like that, I think you have to find a use-case for non-technical users they cannot satisfy for free elsewhere. Or you go after enterprise. "XML or JSON" inside the product description will probably attract only people, who will just pipe some OSS together. HN is probably not your target audience, either.
I should also mention ACPI. ACPI 1.0 for example dates back to the end of 1996 (of course before then there was drafts):

http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_1.pdf

But of course ACPI took years to catch on, during which low cost PCs from for example eMachines was coming. EFI was actually designed not long after ACPI, but it was first targeted at IA64.
GitLab also started out on GitHub didn't it?
Every javascript developer knows that eval is evil.

But eval is really powerful and from a theoretical perspective eval is very interesting.

For instance, did you ever ask yourself in what context does eval run?

This article features live & interactive code snippets.
Thanks, we updated the title. We're happy to change it again if someone can suggest a better one.
Being in prison is a punishment. what goes on in prison should be designed at keeping the incarcerated in and meet their civil rights; the idea that active punishment is justified speaks to a different mentality.

This mentality is the outgrowth of "us-vs-them", but most people are closer to being "them" than they really know. If you've gotten behind the wheel of a car over the limit 3 or more times, in most states, you deserve to be prisoner.
average temps in January are well below freezing

Long term average is around -3, with 3 of the past 10 Januaries having an average above zero.

with temps below -20 C (0 F) a regular occurrence

Not since 2011 if SMHI is to be believed and that was only around Bromma and inwards, not around the city center and towards the coast.
> Corporations should be banned from giving money to political parties.

Corporations are banned from donating to either candidates or national party committees (DNC/RNC).

What they're not banned from doing is spending money independently to promote political causes. And I can give you a good example of why that's not a bad thing: had Citizens United gone the other way, the government could have banned the tech company protests against SOPA/PIPA.
I have two Twitter threads on this:

https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/751955059609526272

https://twitter.com/getwired/status/752737513005912064

I should also mention a more recent Slashdot post:

https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8693705&cid=51419...
Interesting personal note for me is that C.N. (Frank) Yang told me over dinner 15 years ago about his "The Party's Over" prediction. Only now do I know what he meant! (And I guess he was right)
Because we're brainstorming here! They're not assuming anything.

But yes, that's exactly the theory, that the starship is somewhere between us and them, and it sometimes dips into the focal point of light.
A lawsuit against the city / state is the mechanism. If it becomes too expensive because of some dumb judge, the judge gets removed.

The downside, of course, is that you have to use the judicial system to achieve it.
Detroit is literally north of Canada.
You can also have self-driving busses, you know.
A Raspberry Pi port would be /really/ valued.
That's pretty much my experience. I spent a few weeks every year in Barcelona for the last 3 years or so, super nice people and a very nice city (especially the architecture and the amazing blend of city and sea).
It's gone (404).
Anybody has a clone?

Here is more information:
https://twitter.com/pkmngodev
https://www.reddit.com/live/xdkgkncepvcq/
Ask HN: Anyone have more information on latest Snowden tweet?
The tweet in reference: http://archive.is/sDyiK

(The tweet has since been deleted)

The 64 character hash from the tweet: ffdae96f8dd292374a966ec8b57d9cc680ce1d23cb7072c522efe32a1a7e34b0

Some are speculating that it may have been a dead man's switch, others that it was simply a file checksum for a partner to verify a file against.

There have been no more tweets from Snowden since that tweet was made at 12:14PM Aug 5 2016.

I'm generally concerned/curious as to what is going on and can't find anything solid.

Related links:

http://yournewswire.com/mysterious-tweet-sparks-fears-edward-snowden-is-missing-or-dead/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4wc9ep/huge_edward_snowden_leak_incoming_he_just_posted/

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I feel compelled to dissent against initiatives to directly take cars off the road, rather than improve alternatives.

Growing up in the suburbs without a car, I was really excited about carless urban life. Then I actually experienced it (Hyde Park, Chicago).

I'm on the opposite corner of the neighborhood from the business districts, so a little errand like CVS or the grocery store is around half an hour by foot each way. The bus or shuttle is usually a wash, given the time spent waiting for it. A bigger errand like Target or Macy's is a special occasion, taking about 50 minutes each way (walk to bus, wait for bus, ride bus, wait for train, ride train, walk from train station, or sometimes take yet another bus). A downtown or North Side restaurant, once you get tired of the local ones, is a similar ordeal.

Feeling trapped in the neighborhood was mostly an annoyance. I adapted by buying most things from Amazon (Prime is well worth it) and carefully planning shopping lists for brick-and-mortar stores. After a while I got tired the local restaurants, so I pretty much stopped eating out. I assuaged my claustrophobia by burning either money (Uber) or time to go downtown every few weekends, but generally spent as little money as possible when doing so. Still, it grew more annoying over a few years.

The turning point came when I realized that it took about as long to get from my apartment to the downtown train station (about 7 miles) as it did from that train station to Milwaukee (90 miles).

I bought a car recently, and my quality of life shot up dramatically. Distances that used to be a big deal are now nothing. Even if I'm going somewhere without cheap parking, I can drive directly to a train station instead of taking the bus. Life moves faster. I get to enjoy the city more often.

If the CTA would run more frequent, smaller vehicles on its routes I would easily go carless again. But instead it sounds like the approach is just to degrade the experience of owning a car until it's as bad as public transit, rather than the other way around. When that happens, it's off to the suburbs, I guess.
> I think you'd be surprised to find that many Americans have no realistic way to know where to earn something themselves. 2 Hrs from NYC can be just as cut off from opportunity as 2000 miles.

They have TV, and the internet. It's not like they are cut off from civilization, with no knowledge of life outside of their immediate surroundings. They know that places like NYC are where the rich people live, and where the jobs are. They just can't do those jobs.

I'm sure we would be better off if all of these people were successful and productive, but it's unrealistic to assume that would happen, for the reasons I've enumerated in my comment. The bottom line is that they have had many advantages, and they have failed in a country that was designed to help white people succeed. Every country has people like this. Look at England.

People tend to assume that if someone is poor, they must be a victim of injustice, and that opportunities need to be created for them. That is sometimes true, but not always. This is one of those cases where it isn't.

What solutions do you propose that could turn these people into successful, productive, happy members of society?
Kindly explain to me how I am misreading this article:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/teens-baltimore-poorer-health...

"DR. ROBERT BLUM, JOHNS HOPKINS URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: Well, first of all, just to put that in perspective, if Baltimore were a country, we would be 75th in the world for infant mortality, below every industrialize country and many low and middle-income countries."

That is an American neighborhood. Tell me how Medicare and welfare payments make everything alright again?

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I don't know if you've looked at how much gov't assistance is paying out, but it's not enough to live on. There's a plethora of data contradicting everything you say, but it doesn't fit with your moralizing narrative.
That has nothing to do with anything, Venezuela is in trouble because of capital controls.
Being eaten from the inside out by a black hole?