skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm hesitant to go into someone else's home and tell them what is good for them

What about a home consisting of a parent that abuses their children? "Missionaries, colonialists, aid workers and soldiers" sometime did free people; maybe we should focus on improving the success rate?

> Imagine Chinese players in the U.S. protesting racial prejudice

Actually, I think the liberal US media praise any racial protest. The question would be could the players back up their claims, given how much the US cares about racial justice.

> I'd rather give people in Iran the freedom to do what they choose.

this sounds nice, but over-tolerance is self defeating when you start tolerating intolerance. The question isn't about the freedom to wear a piece of clothing, its about the freedom to impose this requirements on others with aggressive theistic, non democratic derived authority.

> it will encourage ignorant stereotypes, hatred and oppression of Muslims ... it will harm more people, and Muslim women, than it helps

I not sure if this is true. You can let sleeping dogs lie, and you can ignore the problem too. I also think the crimes "Islamophobia" pales in comparison to the ills of Islam, the latter is a greater problem, not the former.

> Will the same player also insist on wearing a hijab at a tournament in a location in Europe where it's banned?

Depends on what her beliefs are. Most people don't consider hijab-bans a form of oppression, but as a way of combating it. Litter laws are a way of saying that the right to clean streets are more important that the right to litter. Hijab-bans are a way of saying reducing implicit religious oppression of women is more important than the right to religious expression. Any law or ban can be seen as "oppression", but only by looking at the context can we tell.

Do any of the hijab-banning western countries also ban Muslims, mosques, or other Islamic religious practice? If their goal was to discriminate against Muslims, why not do those things too, why just hijabs?

In contrast, Are the countries that require women to wear hijabs doing so out of respect for religious freedom? Don't mandatory hijab laws highlight the oppression, imposed on non-Muslim women too, and inform the reason for anti-hijab laws in non-Muslim countries exist?
There is only a finite amount of energy a person has and a finite amount of hours awake, you know? I can't imagine trying to re-steer Twitter while also being an effective CEO at a place like Square.
First three are "why comments" so they are good. The fourth is not a comment. It should be clear from the code what it does.
Who cares about non-Firefly fans? :)
I'm not sure what you mean by "Disney as a brand is a small chunk". Name one person that doesn't know Disney or what they offer.
The way ahead
I'm a black [person:)], and like many others I agree 100% with this Trump supporter's assessment of Bill Clinton's policies, and don't think that they make her seem racist in any way. It's unfortunate that she's going to vote for Trump, but this entire election is unfortunate.
Are mine?
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Just because the bitcoin wiki says it, doesn't make it a good prediction. Experts also used to say that a computer couldn't beat a Go Grandmaster until 2030.

The other points are still problems of using bitcoin right now.
:) You nailed it. I think MongoDB was interesting experiment and can be used, but RethinkDB shows you how it should be done right.

MySQL was for long time default choice over PgSQL, yet once developers matured, quality won. Just it took a decade :)
How could banks with many branches work in a world without quick communication?
Thank you for generating a separate, and nicely written Architecture doc! It's more often the information I want from a project before all getting into the install/run/admin mechanics.
Both from comments from the woman portrayed in the piece as well as a comment from the author ("...we’re going to see another neck-and-neck election in 2020, and in 2024, and in 2028"), to me it almost seems like there could be more opportunities for independent candidates in the near future. I wonder of more people like the woman portrayed keep thinking "well X hasn't helped me, and Y isn't helping me, maybe i'll take a shot with Z; at this point what will it hurt?"
Wouldn't this just simplify to O(n)? Consider a case where the keys are objects whose hashcode() is overridden to return a constant (while equals() still uses reference equality from Object.equals).
I bought a infrared thermometer as a gadget, and have found it to be invaluable for cooking.
Spend your time building shit instead of reading Cracking the Coding Interview and wasting time on Hacker Rank / Leetcode. There's the university.
It's such a sad situation. Large segments of the population have been genuinely suffering and the problems being quite mathematical, makes it so that no one sees that the culprits are monetary hawks deliberately pushing people into poverty to maintain their precious sub 2% inflation. People turn to blaming each other or visible groups. They want retributive justice more than a solution because they can no longer trust promises that the situation will be improved. The situation is slowly getting better in the US but it took way too long, did serious damage to people's livelihood and in Europe and elsewhere around the world, things are still catastrophic.

Here is my attempt at explaining the macroeconomic situation:

https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
Sounds like Cunningham's Law: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
"yeah. RethinkDB is AGPL, which means that some people cannot use it"

No, it means some people CHOOSE not to use it. There is nothing stopping them from deciding to use it, other than their own fears.
Facebook Marketplace app down as contraband sales could delay rollout
Stuff like this is why I still can't bring myself to use Linux as my main development machine. That and some special tools that only work in Windows.

Lately however I have been developing like a hipster using Vim for all of my Python stuff.
> Improved speed of Git source control operations by using git.exe

Can someone elaborate on this, how was it implemented in previous versions?
It wont be forever but I think its a fair stepping stone. "set state" I believe is a good alternative to setter/getter and dirty checkers. But react still has some major list issues.

Finding the difference between a list of 10,000 items is absurd. This is where I believe React will find its replacement or forced to adapt to.
Competing to see who can build a better rocket first isn't destroying each others work (i.e., not even close to the same as war). It seems on the surface that working together instead of competing would be more productive, but have you ever tried to work on a mega huge engineering team? It's generally not more effective than a smaller team. So why not have several relatively smaller teams working on the same thing in parallel, egging (or even cheering) each other on as they go?
This "we must protect our brand" is really weird. If you look at the sentiment here on HN, it's pretty much "Oh great, Google is in the news again. I wonder which product they're sunsetting today". Maybe Google only invoke this for their HW products and not their SW.
Dollar index hits two-month high on upbeat U.S. data
Summary: the secure boot ROM is validated by a SHA-256 hash, instead of being authenticated by a crypto signature, so one is free to tamper with the bootloader as long as the hash is recomputed correctly. The strangest thing is that there is support for RSA signatures, but the feature is just unused.
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Someone exploiting a security vulnerability in Signal's servers could be storing the metadata.
> Doesn't npm manage transitive dependencies, just like Maven in Java-land?

It does - actually the pain that I'm expressing is the same pain I felt with Maven: somebody comes along and says, "Oh, you're doing OAuth? You should definitely use an OAuth library for that." So I pull in the OAuth library and let either mvn or npm pull in all of the transitive dependencies, half of which I've never heard of and the other half I know, but am not an expert in. Which is a problem when one of them reports an error message like "Unrecognized parameter in dozer mapping". What? What parameter? What mapping? WTF is 'dozer'? I google the error message and get a hundred hits, none of which have anything to do with my case. So now I'm going through a poorly documented transitive dependency trying to figure out a) what it does b) how it does it and c) why it broke my OAuth implementation (all with the boss standing behind me, checking his watch, tapping his foot impatiently, wondering why this is taking so long when I'm reusing something that's supposed to make this all magically work instantaneously). I'm suddenly loading somebody else's source code in a debugger, trying to figure out where it gets all its configuration data, thinking "would it _really_ take that much longer to write my own OAuth.... (or date picker or JSON parser or whatever else is misbehaving)"
" This is not a person who is stupid or racist. She knows Bush caused the economy collapse with his irresponsible tax policies and wars. "

good lord. can we please stop crediting and blaming presidents for everything under the sun? if we didn't have a president, the economy would cycle.
I've worked in a project that used some AGPL component. There were some many doubts on what should be open-sourced/which licenses were possible that we dropped that component and invested or time modification another one.

After some while, that component changed its licensing model. It was too late.
The substance of her comment was a distaste for the establishment's views and treatment of African Americans. I wouldn't say makes her a racist.

Of course the term 'blacks' is, certainly to the college-educated and those living in California and New York, very un-politically correct. I can appreciate such an audience would be moved to call her out that point rather than engaging with what she's actually saying.
Designing a Magical Chatbot Experience
> Couldn't one have something like a "start zero-width superscript" marker, so that the following subscript would not be offset?

Well, the problem is that the subscript and superscript are both aligned with the following regular text, so you really need (for the isotope representation) a "start right-aligned zero-width superscript" marker, a "start right-aligned zero-width subscript" marker (though zero-width isn't exactly right, since they should have width, its just that only the wider of the super- and sub-script in a pair should be used in spacing the text) -- there might be other notation that also needs left-aligned versions of -- plus generic start/end superscript markers that have normal width flow, plus appropriate end markers.
> Java's HashMap.get() was not 0(1) and asked if I was taught that in my non-Stanford education. (It is btw, feel free to analyze the implementation)

It is O(1) if the hashmap is sparsely populated but if there are hash collisions the items are stored in a list (tree from 8) so is not O(1) in worst case
Disney the company owns things like ABC, A&E, and ESPN that are not part of Disney the brand. AKA, if you are watching ESPN you don't think Disney in any way shape or form. https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-rep...

There is increasing crossover with Star Wars, and Pixar. However, they both started off independent so have strong brand identity on their own.

PS: The only really unifying concept with Disney is entertainment and abusing IP laws to squeeze ever more money from ever blander content.
I would love to have more privacy-focused features and more distance from the whole "everything's public" mantra -- following a user without anyone else knowing, following a user for only a specific hashtag, private-only hashtags.

The whole "everything's public or everything's private" shtick just doesn't work for me.
> One that I think is more common among intermediate, and even advanced, users is the misuse of tabs, windows, and buffers.

The author addresses that, too, in https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/vim-misconceptions:

> The model Vim uses for [tabs and windows](https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/buffers-windows-tabs) is rather different from most GUI editors, but both are supported and have been for some time.
To be clear, I meant covered 'down to' their wrists and ankles, which might have been exposed.

> 1. Educated, middle class: Salwaar Kameez, Jeans/Top, Skirt/Top. 2. Older or more conservative women: Sari. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari Even Sari exposes a women's midriff and her hands.

I'm not talking about a specific outfit; we saw plenty of what you describe, though not midriff-baring saris without something underneath.

The photos of the saris looks familiar so perhaps I should have said elbows and not wrists. But did we see bare calfs, much less thighs; midriffs; shoulders; chest below the collarbone much less cleavage (somehow, this is a little odd to list out)? Very rarely other than a few westerners and in mass media.

Obviously you know far more than I do about it. But while I may be forgetting some subtleties, we remarked on it at the time and I know what I saw. I wonder how to make sense of it.
Actually they are (within a matter of hours) and the bulk of colostrum a calf gets in its first days comes in frozen form, from other cows.

If a calf is allowed to suckle as nature intended it will learn to like the process (and the milk) and take longer to get onto a dry feed diet. In a commercial operation there's no time for that.

Source: 3 years on a dairy farm.
Applies to code as well.
> Democrats want us to vote for the lesser evil. I'm afraid that is what will get Trump into the White House.

I just don't see how that is saying that is how Hillary will get into the White House.
"Excuse me, is that an android phone in your pocket?" Also, what about google self-driving cars with full arrays of cameras, radar, etc. recording everything as they drive past you?
Is Visual Studio "15" using any parts of Linux subsystem on Windows for targeting or testing? Much interested if there is something interesting going on that end.
"Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) is an absolute delight to use. Can't recommend it highly enough. It's not suitable for every project, but when it does fit then I can't think of anything else I'd rather use.
I got selected to the program November 28th cohort It was mentioned in the website, that because of the resources that you provide for this course, you are charging $2400. Can I know what kind of resources you are talking about.
Twitter keeps ignoring what its users want, and pushing ridiculous features nobody asked for.

Keep the timeline chronological! Instead of injecting 12 hour old tweets into my timeline randomly, give me a tab of popular tweets by people I follow.

Give me more options to discover interesting discussions. Let me subscribe to or follow hashtags.

Give me more options for filtering out the noise. Let me provide hashtags or keywords I don't care about.

Back before Twitter made the decision to transition from a service to a platform, there were Twitter apps and clients that provided all kinds of great ways to interact with Twitter. But Twitter shut them down, and never bothered to integrate the things that made them great into the official Twitter platform or apps.

Twitter's greatest potential is as a firehose of live data. Give users the tools to use and personalize that data and Twitter will become an indispensable part of people's daily lives.
Elon Musk.

/s
I don't think it does at all, what are you asking?
Hunting Hugo
This article is about the same phenomenon in the context of doctors recommending treatments they specialize in, disclosing their likely bias towards that treatment, and that disclosure making it more likely their patients take their recommendation: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/the-paradox...
In my experience, Visual Studio 2013 is better than Visual Studio 2015 when working on ASP.NET. I get many errors in Razor files when on VS2015. All errors disappear when I clean and rebuild the whole project. I hope it gets better on the next version of Visual Studio.
Open Review leads to better books
This is a reference to the Twitter blue bird logo. But yeah, it also caught me by surprise at first.
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If it is not intended to mean that, perhaps Udacity should have used elements in their trademark that do not have such well-established definitions. Perhaps no one realized that the inherent meaning of "nanodegree" might be derogatory to the product?

A certificate course by any other name is still a certificate course.
I have a better story: I know someone who constructed a TRS-80 model 1 clone. He walked into the RS store to copy the OS ROMs. Maybe on tape? I'm not really sure.
Son (2015) shows detection of dsRNA from (-)ssRNA viruses by immunofluorescence: http://jvi.asm.org/content/89/18/9383.full

They include this comment on the Weber (2006) paper cited above:

> their lack of success might relate to the production of smaller amounts of dsRNA in negative-strand RNA virus infections, the use of the less sensitive J2 MAb, the choice of less than optimum times for p.i. sampling, or, possibly, technical issues.
Marc Andreessen on how AI will change the world
Analyzing Bike Share Data for Activity
The Hyper Plan
> The company has been rolling out products faster than ever, she noted, and has boosted engagement through enhancements to the timeline, such as showing people the most relevant tweets first.

The endeavor that drove me, a passionate user for several years, off the site for good. It's sad that they watered themselves down to become a second-place Facebook.

Maybe it's not even their fault, and it's just a side effect of being a public company and being measured by growth instead of by the uniqueness and quality of the product. It's still sad.

When the dust settles, there will be lesson in the danger of engagement-metric based product design. Twitter has a "while you were away" feature that shows you their idea of the tweets they'd like you to see first. (Even if you return to the site 5 minutes after your last session.) (This is different from the non-chronological timeline, and doesn't get turned off when you disable that.)

When you dismiss it, it asks you if you'd like to see less of that. It's completely ambiguous and unexplained whether they're asking whether you disliked those specific tweets or the non-chronological aspect of the timeline. A lot of users have been vocal about hating the feature. By dismissing it are they actually burying certain friends down further on their timeline? Who knows? Some people are guessing correctly what the meaning is, but others aren't. They're feeding a certain amount of garbage input into their algorithms.
That really doesn't matter. It only makes the per-user cost more difficult to figure out.

FWIW, I believe GPS costs the US on the order of $1 per user per month.
> Because when the shit comes to shove and the global economy takes a nosedive or your previous friendly third world manufactures give you the finger, having a "service industry" is worth nothing, but being able to produce the actual shit your businesses design and sell/export, matters.

But the article even points out that these jobs are not being moved overseas, they are being automated away. Thus, it will be an American manufacture giving you the finger.

> but being able to produce the actual shit your businesses design and sell/export, matters.

Good thing we are producing more "shit" than ever before in history.

> From an economic perspective, however, there can be no revival of American manufacturing, because there has been no collapse. Because of automation, there are far fewer jobs in factories. But the value of stuff made in America reached a record high in the first quarter of 2016, even after adjusting for inflation. The present moment, in other words, is the most productive in the nation’s history.
>For almost all jobs, even at Google, almost all of that knowledge is never used at all. Even at Google, most coding jobs are unglamorous CRUD. You just don't hear about them in blog posts because it's far more compelling to write up their cool new programming language project.

I'm curious about this statement, you say this but... have you ever worked at Google? I'm genuinely interested, not trying to discredit you. It's a bold statement to make if you don't have direct experience on the job.
You can create a private list and add people to that instead of following them publicly. The UX isn't the best, but it works.
Both models require creative thinking, if you approach the bureaucracy in a certain way. I've taken part in applying for grants, not in the US. I'm becoming good enough at it that companies are contracting me to write the report part. Properly constructing the pitch is an artform.
The Lawyer Finishing What Snowden Started
No, your point is excessively clear - that if forcing a woman to carry a child for nine months and go through the birthing process is controlling a woman, then so is arresting someone for committing a crime.

Its a plainly ridiculous point to make, regardless of whether you believe abortion is murder. Pregnancy simply isnt the same thing as criminal punishment.

Forcing a woman to go through a pregnancy would pretty clearly be a cruel or unusual punishment. Or do you believe that going through a pregnancy should be the punishment for other crimes as well?