skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like saying that the right wants a white-only country. Sure, some do, but not most. Very few on the left are against free speech.

Most of the people I've seen who make this argument don't seem to differentiate between "I don't want certain speech in my living quarters" or "I don't want certain speech in this specific course" from "I don't think this speech has any place in society".

Free speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want wherever you want. It means you have a right to say it somewhere. And I have a right to have conversations that exclude you.
Ask HN: Do you subvocalize when reading code?
Subvocalization, ie "sounding" words in your brain while reading, is to my understanding generally considered a bad thing by proponents of speed reading. I'm a rather slow reader myself and always subvocalize. I'm curious if other programmers do so when reading code. I'd be especially interested in hearing from any who also consider themselves speed readers and read books without subvocalizing.
The invasion of Okinawa killed something like 140,000 civilians, in addition to the horrific military casualties. That's just Okinawa.
> If someone refuses to bake a cake for gay people, I agree that is well within their rights.

Not in America in 2016, it ain't, bub.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine the interstate commerce clause stomping on a human face, forever.
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Another point made repeatedly in the transcript is the worry that if they'd gotten anywhere close to a nuclear weapon, British assassins would have killed them.
Ask HN: How would you “monetize” this site?
The site is a simple tax lookup. Enter an item and it will tell you if it's taxable, anywhere in Canada. It's a free service that's geared towards lower income families, but it's for any Canadian who wants to understand the tax system better.

The site has been rejected by Amazon Affiliates and Google Adsense for not having original content (it's tax information gleaned from government sources).

So getting back to the question: for a site that might not get a lot of traffic, what novel ways might I monetize the site?

The site is here, for anyone who is interested: http://txttax.ca
How I tamed Gmail at work with multiple inboxes
Seems unlikely. This could lose Google some money in the long run but doesn't seem to be a major blow against them. Plus it seems like a petty move with no real upside for Oracle as a company, as opposed to if it was a personal argument between two people for which emotional vindication could be a motive.

Oh, plus a lawyer would be risking his entire career too.
Yes. That's what I had to do exactly because I was a consultant. In addition to that we got a US college to evaluate my work experience based on the letters and my resume and issue a "certificate" stating that I have the equivalent experience of a bachelor in computer science.
From [1]: “This is an association, not causality,” cautioned the senior author, Dr. Eva L. Feldman, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan. “We found that people with A.L.S. were five times more likely to have been exposed to pesticides, but we don’t want people to conclude that pesticides cause A.L.S.”

There have been a lot of studies that associated things with ALS. None of them have really held up as a cause. Nor have any treatments really had any meaningful effect. It's a disease we really don't understand well at all.

My mom died of ALS.
An OS based on IPFS would give you the best of both worlds.

AFAIK browsers are popular because they load apps quickly and without an install step. While native apps let you choose your stack. An OS based on IPFS would load big apps quickly thanks to caching, the install step would go away because there is no difference between remote files and local ones and its still an OS so the app can be written in C or any other language built on top of it.
I'm trying to describe just how disappointed I am in hearing you say that, but the words just aren't coming to me today.
> Here is data suggesting most poor people aren't looking for work - only 35% of poor adults were in the labor force:

Lower labor force participation could mean they are less hard working -- or it could mean that they have less opinion of their ability to be gainfully employed, or it could mean that working has a high cost (because, e.g., they have children to take care of, childcare isn't free, and the jobs they could reasonably secure wouldn't provide a net gain before considering child care that's enough to pay for childcare.)

Or lots of other things.

> What does "hard working" mean to you?

Willing to expend effort to improve one's condition, essentially.

> And why do you believe poor people are comparably hard working to the non-poor?

I haven't argued that they are. I've argued that the evidence that you've presented to prove that they are not has virtually no probative value on the point it is offered to support.
Do you think it is OK to fire , refuse to hire, demote, or sanction in any other way or form some one based on the political opinions?

If you do, you are not a liberal.
Doesn't matter. It was the lawyers' mistake, not the companies. If I order a pizza and the delivery driver mows down a crowd of people with his car on the way to me, that's not my fault.
We did more damage to Tokyo than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki using the firebombing technique we developed over Germany. Japan killed more people in Nanking than either bomb. Both sides fought massive battles on land and sea. My father was in the Second Marines. The War Dept. issued everyone wills to fill out and put uppermost in their footlockers. Their commanders told them bluntly they wouldn't be coming back from this one. This after Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. Of course, we all know now that invasion never happened. But if it had, Japanese losses were projected at the time to be maybe a million. Even Japan knows things could have been better, but almost certainly would have been worse.
> WEIZSÄCKER: One can say it might have been a much greater tragedy for the world if Germany had had the uranium bomb. Just imagine, if we had destroyed LONDON with uranium bombs it would not have ended the war, and when the war did end, it is still doubtful whether it would have been a good thing

I believe this should be "...and if it did end the war, it is still doubtful..."?
I don't necessarily disagree, what I don't understand is the parent comment's use of the word "need" in "Both need to be permitted". It makes me think there is something nullable types can do that non-nullable types can't do, and I'm just not sure what that is. Something like "it is fine to permit both" would make sense to me.

I guess maybe it's because in a language with no value types (like anything on the jvm), using Optionals everywhere requires a lot more objects to be allocated, so in allocation-sensitive code it might make more sense to use nulls instead.
I would very much like to see someone built out the transcript validation application of atomic broadcast rather than a distributed ledger version.
> Obviously having an Apple employee on The Verge staff is a conflict of interest. Vox Media Editorial Director Lockhart Steele stepped in to conduct an independent review of The Verge's work and staff interactions with Chris during the time he worked at Apple and Vox Media to determine if that conflict had manifested itself in any of our coverage or affected any of our editorial decisions...Chris only actively worked at The Verge while employed by Apple in July, and was almost entirely absent from our team in August, so we are confident that we've reviewed the situation thoroughly.

I believe Verge has an obligation to review work before July. Unless Apple has some super-speed HR-hiring process, it's safe to assume that Ziegler was doing interviews with Apple for at least a month prior, nevermind any time spent contemplating jumping ship and wanting to sweeten the process by directing favorable coverage to Apple.

Sure, you could argue that this level of introspection isn't used for all the other reporters who have ever jumped ship to work at the places they've covered, such as journalists joining the White House PR team. But this is the first time I've ever heard of someone deceiving their employer by hiding the fact of employment (rather than just the interview/search process).
I spent some time playing around with NetworkX (python library) today. It has all the necessary features for graph building, and the graphviz (dot) file writing seems to have enough features to accomplish what I was looking for. The small proof of concept script I put together seemed on par with what I could do with gvpr.
Has your identity been stolen? If so, were you able to determine if a large scale hack was the cause of that? Then were you able to go back and sue that company for your losses? You probably don't even have much recourse, i.e. it's cheaper for you to try to fix your own stolen identity issue than to sue the company that got hacked for renumeration.
Coca-Cola's formula is literally a textbook example of a trade secret. Everybody remotely familiar with IP law knows how important secrecy is for Coke. Many fewer people are familiar with how important it is for Google. The comparison shows that the same rule protects both, and that it should not be carelessly breached.
But this headline is untrue as to the great majority of "work", and certainly untrue as to the only reasonable way to interpret it before reading the article. Traveling home-to-customer counts as work. Traveling home-to-work doesn't, but there's the headline saying "time spent traveling to work is work".
All the cases I've seen on that issue have been state-law cases, so the interstate commerce clause is completely irrelevant.
For true horror, continue the conventional bombing, and put an iron blockade around the Home Islands for another year and cut off all shipping. Millions would have starved.

US submarines were already very nearly doing to Japan what Germany's U-boats attempted to do to Britain by the late stages of the war.
The Farm Hall transcripts are well known. There's much more of this, including where they discuss how the Americans might have done it.[1] Hahn says to Heisenberg: "If the Americans have the uranium bomb you're all second-raters. Poor old Heisenberg".

Heisenberg had made a big miscalculation. He thought it would take 2 tons of enriched uranium to make a bomb. In fact, it's about 52Kg for a dumb bomb, and and maybe 5Kg with a good design. Oops.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=_qVgeP_UGqsC&pg=PA64&lpg=P...
When you next have an opportunity for a clear view of a full moon on the horizon, turn your back to the moon, bend over, and view it from between your legs... "upside down" so to speak. Not a joke - if you've never done this - it will go a long way in explaining this "illusion"!
I'm not a founder, but I am a minority/female developer in New York. I have a couple of ideas for web apps, but I don't know the first thing about business. Anyway, if I could be of any assistance feel free to let me know. www.tanwill.nyc

Good luck to you!
I'm skeptical that very many of them shared that view. And in fact, Hahn's immediate reply:

HAHN: I don't believe that but I am thankful we didn't succeed.

Hahn sounds fairly authoritative throughout this transcript, so I'm more inclined to believe him.

And later:

BAGGE: I think it is absurd for WEIZSÄCKER to say he did not want the thing to succeed. That may be so in his case, but not for all of us.
And also the Germans surrendered 8 May, while the Japanese surrendered 14 August. Over the course of that quarter it had become more and more apparent that WWII wasn't going to end soon (it didn't, in fact, end until 15 March 1991), and that the Soviets were going to be the next enemy, and that we'd need to preserve Germany and Japan in some form (rather than adhering to the earlier Morgenthau Plan, which would have rurified all of Germany, in the process killing millions and making it much easier for the Soviets to roll through Europe).

If there were any fairness, we'd have hanged the Japanese emperor, and quite a few more of his subjects responsible for crimes against humanity. But the political-military situation didn't allow it.
This post reads like word salad.

Is the author trolling?
>Fighting bigotry and exclusion by refusing to do business with people and calling them out for it is absolutely reasonable.

No this is not reasonable in any way shape or form, this isn't fighting "bigotry" this is political prosecution regardless of how vile you might see their political views to be.

Democracy works when anyone can express their political voice without suffering for it. When your political voice comes with a hefty price it is effectively thought control.

P.S.

It is pretty ironic that the "left" especially in the US forgot what it had endured
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/28/college-apol...
He was probably thinking of Renault, not Peugeot. The Renault Zoe is one of the most popular EVs in Europe. (Why? It looks cool, drives well, and it's cheap!)

I don't think Peugeot have done anything much notable in EVs recently.
Wow, glad to hear this, too.
I think Salesforce have never had profit. Neither Youtube for Google. The problem with twitter is that people do not believe they could make big money alone and for a long time without be destroyed for someone else in a garage. They still see a company that needs a cash cow that could financial the cost of innovation.
The real problem is most payments & identity are pull vs push and the username is the password. If they were push, then there wouldn't be customer payment information to steal in the first place. All that would be taken would be personal shipping addresses, and those are mostly public as it is already.

Same with social security numbers and identity in general.

To solve the root cause in this case although was decided to not be good by the infrastructural organizations. Eating the fraud is cheaper than putting up barriers to payments.

If fraud liability was moved %100 to banks, payment providers and governments, we would see the problem fixed pretty quickly.
Thanks for bringing ag to the world. It's my favorite code searching tool because the letter 'a' and the letter 'g', from its name, feel easier to type than the ones of any other code searching tool. I am definitively willing to sacrifice a few milliseconds, while searching for a word in my megabyte of code, for this feature.
My civpro prof was a collector of Rule11 stories. He liked judges who observed that the rule's "may" language doesn't forbid inventive sanctions. This isn't a rule11 situation, but if I were the judge, in exchange for not reporting the conduct to the local bar, I'd make them all go without cellphones while in the courthouse .. for a year. There are too many billions being thrown around in this litigation for any fine to matter.
I started the upgrade this morning, took a shower and when I came back it was done. Logged in and clicked a couple of buttons (activate Siri etc) and everything was just like I left it when I started the upgrade. I could jump right back in. Perfect.
Oddly i could have sworn that there was a problem with fitting the game on a CD until some clever compression was applied.
The really hard part is creating a company that gets all of the data sources like the camera readers and videos from police cars that go to Palantir. Having that data (+ more that I don't know about) pretty much locks out other vendors because Palantir can bring more to the table besides processing the cities data.
I think by the time HL shipped, the engine had been so hacked to bits that very little was left over from Q1. Heck, i think they even ported over various bits from Q2.
May have mentally added a zero to the price :-)

Considering they aren't my favorite, anything above a yen is too much.
Not sure why I am being downvoted. Is Webster's Dictionary too offensive to some?
I'm a researcher who works on fighting antimicrobial resistant bacteria.

The reason I got into science is because space is cool. Also, we've sent robots to Mars and the photos show it's just dust...and maybe water.
Hahn comes across very sympathetically throughout this.

>HAHN: I must honestly say that I would have sabotaged the war if I had been in a position to
do so.

>HAHN replied that he too loved his country and that, strange as it might appear, it was for this reason that he had hoped for her defeat.
one thought floating around that he got a major scoop on the apple car (He was verge's car editor) and Apple are paying him to keep silent, he may not have any actual role at Apple but is on the payroll, not sure what the verge was told
1. Government workers are your fellow citizens, and they have a right to privacy as everyone else. I don't think "how much a specific low-level government worker earns" is anybody else's business. If you are worried about government spending, you should be able to check aggregate statistics.

2. If companies can spend/earn $1B without anyone knowing, how are we going to tax them properly? If only the government knows and no one else, then we're basically asked to trust the government and corporations to be honest. When they are't, they cause much more financial harm to me (because my tax has to make up for it) than some county office giving everyone a higher raise than necessary.
The most peaceful Central American country doesn't have a standing army – and that's arguably a main reason it is the most peaceful.
The transition from CRT to LCD (or whatever) may also have contributed. That old phosphor grid had an innate anti-aliasing like effect.
With all the jockeying for position we've seen in the vehicle automation space the past couple years, one thing that's become clear is that both SV and Detroit have a lot to learn about the other guys home turf, and they've both humbled themselves with respects to what they can and can't do well.
That isn't how physics work, when something boils it boils.
Also when you factor in heat transfer coefficients then the liquid oxygen in tank is actually "heating" the liquid helium pretty substantially as it has considerably higher heat conductivity than air. ;)
The analogy of boiling water into boiling oil is pretty close one as far as the process goes, the boiling oil would evaporate the boiling water instantly and things go boom, the liquid oxygen would evaporate the liquid helium instantly and things go boom.
Super high-quality article. Kudos for the author.

Since Common Lisp has a low-lever goto, it's not really required to use something like SBCL for tail-call optimization. You can write a macro for it. Check Doug Hoyte's version in Let Over Lambda:

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap5.html#sec_4
Is Google the suitor, or, is Alphabet the suitor? The article says Google, but this could be out of habit. I am not sure that answering my question changes much about the news. But it might say something about how Alphabet views Twitter based on who they decide owns the acquisition and where Twitter would fit within the company (as subsidiary or under Google).
> Why is that "sad"? Nature has gone the same path. We have basic defenses that are "on" all the time (passive immune system - nonspecific), and we have an adaptive response that reacts to what actually happens to us

While it's true that nature has taken the same path for the same reasons, I don't think I'd have to look very hard for people to agree that the fact that people fall ill, sometimes seriously so, is "sad".
This is false, and one of the reasons Tesla got a lot of deserved criticism over the death that occurred from using their autopilot system. So far, all of the data (which is limited, so it's far from conclusive) points towards self-driving technology being deadlier than manual driving.

This is not a condemnation of technology augmenting driving. ABS is clearly a win, airbags were once controversial, and even seat belts were once considered questionable. The technology will likely improve, but it isn't there yet and believing that it is can quite literally kill you.
I know you're just sarcastic trolling, but since your post seems to be generating some discussion without anyone pointing out the technical implications on a technical forum...

We already do this, but it's called the MAC address. And it can be used to trace back the piece of hardware to the purchaser.

Unfortunately it can't solve the problem for innumerable reasons. For one, it turns out to be pointless to route internet packets or police raids to the location of my computer, knowing it has a unique number (currently the MAC) that can identify it as made in China and sold in Virginia...Better to use the dynamically assigned address (currently IP) of my home router which, with a call to Comcast, can give you my physical address in Hawaii.

Of course that physical address might serve any of my neighbors, but then again my computer's MAC also serves any guest in my house that asks nicely to use my computer or anyone tech savy enough to clone it.
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I actually agree. It seems there was no other time in recent history when we were truly in the right about so many things. I believe there are some passages in this document that touch on this:

"HAHN: I must honestly say that I would have sabotaged the war if I had been in a position to do so."

"...They then went on to discuss the feelings of the British and American scientists who had perfected the bomb and HEISENBERG said he felt it was a different matter in their case as they considered HITLER a criminal..."

"WEIZSÄCKER: Our strength is now the fact that we are 'un–Nazi'."

Many of the physicists mentioned here expressed doubts about the Nazi regime. Perhaps it could be said that they didn't achieve the bomb because, in many ways, they didn't want their leaders to possess it. So there was a kernel of doubt preventing them from doing so. On the other hand, the Americans did not have that problem since they "considered Hitler a criminal" and viewed it as imperative that they win the war at any cost. Maybe this made the moral question of whether or not to achieve the bomb less of an obstacle for them. That gave a psychological benefit which facilitated the work they were doing.
Downvoted but why! Genuinely curious
I'm a big fan of this. An example of a similar tool that I love is Postgres.app [0]. Compare using Postgres.app with having to install and configure MySQL... It makes a world of difference when you're first learning how to use these tools.

The killer feature of these installer options is that they make the tools much for approachable for everyone!

Configuring and setting up a bunch of tools that you don't understand makes it very hard to get your feet wet. I think once you're familiarized with the tools it's important to learn how things work. But if you're just getting started, there's no reason for you to waste your time configuring anything. The default config should be beginner friendly and provide sensible defaults.

[0] http://postgresapp.com/
The efficiency gained by automation is available to all prospective tech workers; there must be another reason wages are higher in technology.
The Circa notebooks were my introduction to the concept. Arc is cheaper by a good bit. The rings are slightly different but paper from one will work on the other, maybe not perfectly but functionally.
Holy shit, that's insane...
Some of the newer hybrid drivetrains, like the new Honda Accord Hybrids, are basically electric cars mated to a gas powered generator and instead of a big battery just have a gas tank - a smaller battery bank "caches" the generated energy. Thus you only take it to the gas station every ~600 miles and don't bother the rest of the time.

(and yes, the gas engine in this kind of drivetrain will mate to the electric motors during power intensive operations for a boost, but that's not strictly required in this kind of approach)