skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to whom

Wikipedia gives a summary with respect to the American use of the word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient#American_English):

"John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic critique of the term developed in U.S.A. in the 1970s. Tchen has said: "With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the '60s and early '70s, many Asian Americans identified the term 'Oriental' with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite 'others'."[10]"
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I was thinking this. TransferWise should move into PayPal's territory and give them some competition
As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's written two novels, several volumes of poetry, and, of course, has made his own irreplaceable poetic contributions to American songwriting.
And no, this is not me expressing my liberal bias. It's one thing to have opinionated headlines like the Huffington Post

Yea, yeah it is. I'm a liberal and can see how HuffPo is trash. I might be willing to grant that HuffPo uses softer titles and hides their outrage/fear/hate-mongering slightly better. Maybe it's not just seeing them as more tame because they're more agreeable to one's politics.

But as I was writing this comment I flipped over to both to check their headlines. Right now HuffPo [0] looks exactly like the Drudge Report when they think they've got something juicy. Does nobody else think that font treatment should be saved for a "holy shit airplanes just hit the twin towers" level of importance and immediacy?

Spoiler alert: HuffPo is no better than Breitbart. In fact they share a co-founded, Andrew Breitbart.

[0] http://archive.is/jAnzR
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What has worked well for me is creating constant churn in who you're following: follow anybody that you come across in retweets or suggestions if you think they might be interesting. Then be ruthless to unfollow anybody when you see the (1st or 2nd) tweet you don't care about.
An interesting post but does not appear to meet the spirit of the 'Show HN' page [1]. Might make a good regular submission though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Not to defend op, just answering this question: code clarity, readability, simplicity, correctness, clearer error handling, ......

Depending on how much faster is "fast", these things can (dare I say, should) trump efficiency.

Essentially this is about optimisation vs premature optimisation. That's a horse dead for decades now.
I haven't been to Yahoo.com in years, and was intrigued by (and doubting) your statements - low and behold, half way down the page is this:

"Voting for Team Hillary is Anti-Christ: E-Mails Expose Plot to Overthrow Authority of Pope, Create Catholic Spring to Foment Revolution & Attack Evangelicals-Who Has Place in Hillary's America?"

This goes quite beyond "opinionated" headlines.
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It is worth adding that though I agree that songs can be literature, songs also have non-literary elements, which means that songs that are not literature can still be good songs. Here I'm thinking of artists like DJ Shadow or the Beastie Boys, where some other element such as the soundscape or even just the beat carries the music.

I'm not a Bieber fan, but I think it's unfair to judge him strictly by his lyrics. Or Sinatra for that matter.
Not sure whether you were referring to an early Paul Simon song here:

"He's so unhip when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas / Whoever he was" http://genius.com/Simon-and-garfunkel-a-simple-desultory-phi...
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George was right. Productivity is accelerating towards infinity, and that value is being captured in land values and being allocated to rentiers rather than the population as a whole. Tax land value and distribute the proceeds.
To elaborate on this just a tiny bit, you can use tachyons-js[0] by the amazing jongold to automate even more of this:

import tachyons from 'tachyons-js';

const tachyonsHelperFunc(props) => Object.keys(props).map(prop => tachyons[prop])

const MyTachyonsComp = styled.div`${tachyonsHelperFunc}`;

This way, MyTachyonsComp can now has all the benefits of styled-components (easy theming and overriding, power of JS for styling, ReactNative, nesting,…) while also being able to use tachyons really easily:

<MyTachyonsComp ma2 ph2 bb />

In fact, you could probably even wrap the above helper to make it really easy to use:

const styledTachyonsComponent = (...args) = styled(..args)`${tachyonsHelperFunction}`;

Now you can created styled-tachyons-components really easily:

const MyTachyonsStyledDiv = styledTachyonsComponent('div');

:tada:

Note: I just coded this in this comment, might be some typos in there.

[0]: https://github.com/jongold/tachyons-js
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>Please watch this portion of the video, and the way the speaker is pronouncing the word "collect":

Herb was deliberately using circumlocution to avoid the phrase "garbage collection" so as to not poison the well. The latter part of the video explains his reasoning for presenting it that way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE&t=1h32m55s

>I don't support using GC for everything. [...] I believe we can do much better, with much fewer resources.

This is a statement that sounds reasonable and balanced . How can anyone possibly disagree with it?!? The issue is that it's very difficult to take that universal wisdom and construct a real programming language that satisfies all the following properties seamlessly and elegantly:

1) language that has optional GC

2) has zero cost when not using it. This means no active tracing loop that checks object graphs and no large memory blocks reserved to allow reallocation and defragmention.

3) transparent syntax that's equally elegant for manual memory or GC in the same language

To make your GC-when-appropriate advice real, one has to show a real implementation. E.g. one can fork the GCC or LLVM compilers and add GC to it. Or fork the Java OpenJDK compiler and show how syntax can remove the GC on demand. Or construct a new language from scratch. There may be some lessons learned from the D Language backing away from GC. Also, Apple Objective-C retreated from GC as well.
I don't know if anyone will read this at this point, but if you're going to proof-of-concept an exploit, please make that clear in the title or have an opt-in step with an explanation of what it will do like the EFF uses on https://panopticlick.eff.org/

I do not appreciate being tricked into running your exploit proof of concept, especially when you put content in it that I otherwise would not have clicked.
It seams like in this election even traditionally right learning news papers like the WaPo or WSJ are pilling onto trump. Not to mention countless regional newspapers that have a right leaning edition staff.

Bias disclosure: Left leaning, not by my own choice. More centrist, along the lines of the Economist editing staff view of the world. So not by choice, because there's not really centrism left.
Some students from Berkeley are suing Google for scanning their apps for education emails. Google says they're not doing it anymore since 2014.

Only Google knows.
Thanks, I just checked the process and benefits, it seems like a good solution. However, when I was filling the form [1] I realized that the list of countries where you can pick-up the document is limited to 35 unique states, none of them is in South America which is where I live, so if I choose any of them I would need to get a visa to travel to that country just to get this document, which is kind of ironic.

[1] https://apply.e-estonia.com/
I'm not sure literature would be as highly esteemed if oral history and the bards / singers / poets had not established roots in various cultures as the way to convey large, abstract or emotional things. They're good relatives I think. Writing by the masses is still fairly new in the grand scheme of things. Singing songs to each other, quite a bit longer tradition, from what I can tell looking through some stuff back in uni (including an Early Middle English course).
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> Nobel prizes are highly subjective

Literature and Peace, yes.

Science? No. People will disagree on whether some person who didn't get the price really should have gotten it, but no scientist disputes the value and importance of the work of the people who did get the prize.

In science, perhaps there are people who should have gotten the Nobel prize but they didn't. However, few people would say that the people who did get the prize didn't deserve it.

With Peace and Literature, people do this all the time.
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Because they've been hard at work on it for over 20 years, and they don't seem to be getting any closer.
Android supports 100% of Java 7, and with a new compiler ("Jack") it supports most of Java 8. For an average Java developer, it is absolutely a completely vanilla Java experience, and Android developers can pull in virtually any mainstream Java project or code with ease.

The root claim is utter nonsense. This whole submission is just garbage -- a developer who is terrible at Android "retires" from it. The world doesn't care.

(yes this post will be dead, courtesy of the utter decline of HN)
What hole do you have to be living in where you don't see or recognize the "media" outlets that support Trump? There are entire networks dedicated to it ...

CNN is not the only "media" - get your head out of your ass Glenn.
You'll probably want to start with the GNU Social source code and also take a look at mastodon to see how they hook into GNU Social.

As for decentralizing, my thought would be that it should have been a developed around that from the start. I'm not an expert in it but I think that projects would be built around the decentralized idea and not later modified to be decentralized.
7 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645661
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It's like giving a medicine award to yoga instructor.
> Many modern political issues do not have a middle ground - take abortion, you are either for choice, or you believe it is infanticide.

Hogwash.

First, there's the spectrum of finding where human life begins. There's many stances here from at the point of conception to post-birth, and everywhere between.

Then there's the factor of a woman's right to her body and life. Given the first factor - we have a whole new complex spectrum here where we weigh in the life of the infant vs the life of the mother.

To further complicate this, there's the woman's right to privacy. This was the basis by which Roe v Wade was decided in the first place.

So there's at least 3 spectrum on which any citizen can find themselves in the middle of in that issue.

I agree that humans probably don't have the ability to be politically unbiased. I'm just not sure that bias matters that much. But to pretend that there are issues without middle ground is to fall into the trap that so many groups face these days - that divisive and non-empathetic stance will tear at us and divide us further. There's simply no place for it.
Darkness at the break of noon

Shadows even the silver spoon

The handmade blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

Suicide remarks are torn

From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn

Plays wasted words proves to warn

That he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation's page flies out the door

You follow, find yourself at war

Watch waterfalls of pity roar

You feel to moan but unlike before

You discover that you'd just be one more person crying

So don't fear if you hear

A foreign sound to your ear

It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
There are whole databases built around the concept:
http://www.datomic.com/
The distribution of savings has little to do with it. The savings glut is caused by secular stagnation [1]. There is not much investment happening in our economy (savings and investment are two sides of the same coin). Since the 70s, there has been a net "value extraction" rather than "value creation" in the capital markets [2]. That is, rather than "retaining and reinvesting" profits, companies simply "downsize and distribute". This certainly reinforces wealth inequality. It doesn't help that monetary policy of the last 8 years created a liquidity trop that reinforced all this.

[1] http://larrysummers.com/category/secular-stagnation/
[2] https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421804
Well, until we reach smarter-than-human AI, you ultimately have to base everything in society on trust. That's why I actually find the ideas around trustless systems to be potentially dangerous.

Discretion of a human judge is grease on the gears of law.
From my perspective, Twitter has been in maintenance mode for years. What significant changes have been made that requires thousands of engineers? I'm being serious here. The interface is still the same clunky mess, the home page has been rearranged a few times, and now we have even more convoluted rules as to what counts towards your 140 character limit.
ASP.NET used to be difficult to configure and deploy (just some things like basic defaults being pretty bad for real apps), but even then I'd say the alternatives at the time (EJB, Spring, etc.) were significantly worse. For all other uses, I've had zero tooling problems. Oh sure, there were times I painted myself into a corner with regards to my app design, but that will happen in any language. I've never found any platform as easy to get up and running as .NET.
And C++ is all about choice trade-offs.

Put very simply: do your choice for your problem and deal with its consequences.
I remember at least one security expert commenting that if he ran an actual attack, his precautions would be "sitting in a computer lab using a stolen library card". Physical anonymity is by far the best cure for some of these things.
cf. the career of Richard Parsons, CEO of Citigroup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parsons_(businessman)
Also No Direction Home, which encompass and expands on Don't Look Back is equally excellent.
What is your favorite book by him? I've only read once thus far. "What I talk about when I talk about running"
> To make your GC-when-appropriate advice real, one has to show a real implmentation.

I haven't tested it closely, but I believe that Rust with this crate: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc is an implementation for "GC only when you need it".
Netbase/pannous seems to be cool but I guess it still got some work to do as it's suggesting Bonn as capital of Germany, unless I'm misinterpreting the statements. Kind of weird result from Google when you search for:
"bonn capital germany". For me, it displays the wiki summary of Berlin but the link goes to Bonn. Does it usually work like that?

Edit: It was the Bonn Summary of wikipedia
Putin recalled Russian military family members. For those that don't understand Russian culture that's Defcon 3.
"In the summer you sometimes see tanks of liquid nitrogen on the street, says Burrington. It turns out these are brought in by telecoms companies to cool cable ducts that lie alongside steam vents in the sidewalk. “The cables will melt if they get too hot,” she says."

This makes no sense. The melting point of the glass in optical fibers is close to 1000 degrees F. If the sun could heat things up that much on a summer day, we'd all be dead.

If I remember correctly, the nitrogen is actually used to purge moisture from traditional phone cables. Keeping it in liquid form just makes the tanks more compact - it turns back into a gas as soon as it exits the insulated tank, at which point it isn't very cold anymore.

"and shows us how to track buried fibre-optic cables by decoding the spray-painted symbols that telecoms companies use to mark their territory."

The spray-painted symbols on the street are used to protect the underground infrastructure when the street is being excavated. There are different colors for water mains, gas lines, and electrical and other cables. I'm pretty sure you can't differentiate the internet backbone from cable TV feeders using these markings, and they probably go through the same ducts. The people who actually maintain the cables know where they are without the markings - they have maps.
If you get what appears to be a routine cancer in Sweden, does an entire team of leading oncologists meet together in a room to fully review your diagnosis and discuss what additional cutting edge techniques you might benefit from?

Do they apply machine learning to help you that is so good 30% of the time it suggests actionable ideas that the oncologist didn't notice or even know about?

In Sweden if you have hepatitis C, do they give you the gold standard treatment that costs $70,000 US for 90 days of pills, or do they give you the older cheaper option?

Today, you get all of that and more if you have enough money.

I did live in Canada for a while, and noticed it was very common for the wealthy to bypass lines and access higher quality care by paying for private treatment out of pocket.

The reality is not many governments have the resources to afford the best possible care for all people in all situations. And innovation makes it worse. There is always something newer, better, more expensive.
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Not storing data might be limited to substrates where it can actually be deleted indeed. :-) I'm not arguing for deleting memories. ;-)
Huff Post is complete trash, but there is a big difference between fabricated stories and garbage presentation.
>They just open those positions up, under no obligation to hire, then report to their gov censor that they have created x amount of jobs without the intent of filling those positions.

Are solicited but unfilled jobs counted in "job creation" statistics? I did not know this.
The music industry packaged up singers like Dylan for whichever vertical they needed. Anyone who was able to navigate that system as successfully as he did was certainly not a rebel and the music itself was nothing extraordinarily unique if you look into the long tail of music being made at the time. It's like saying 7-Up is the uncola and you are rejecting the establishment by drinking it instead of Coke.
> Just because it is somewhere in the Earth's crust, it doesn't mean that we are able to harvest it.

That's basically what we already do for copper. A copper "mine" takes something that isn't much different from random rocks, and separates out the copper. Copper ores that have a high percentage of copper have been gone for a while now. Copper used to be so cheap they used it for pennies, now it's so expensive that people break into houses to steal the wire. But we haven't run out.

>Scaling up our energy production with a factor 100 just by replacing traditional power plants with nuclear will never reach that factor.

Well obviously we'd need to build new plants. What's the limiting factor preventing us from creating 100x as many nuclear plants, provided sufficient money to build them?

> The claim that the use of greenhouses could scale up our global food production with a factor 100 is absurd.

Why? Greenhouses produce far more than 100x the calories/acre than wheat or corn land. It's far less absurd than urban vertical farming which uses artificial light instead of sunlight, yet there are several startups that think vertical farming is viable and have received tons of investment.
Thank you for the links, I'm going to try to migrate a chat app I had from WebRTC to this and see if it works.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7s are exploding and everyone has a theory as to why
"Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence"

Am I the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea?
FYI: Oct. 8 release by the Angular team on their adoption of semantic versioning and handling of rc. and beta releases. Looks like they are going for a major release every roughly 9 months:

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/10/versioning-and-releasi...
Interesting article. Autoplaying a video at the bottom of it kind of makes for a distraction when trying to read it.
> C++ community has a strong bias against garbage collection

Well, it's a bit of a selection bias on your part IMO. The people who use C++ have seen the benefits of Java, python, C# and all the rest. And many of them(us) use Java, python, C# and stuff for meta-productivity build tools and the like. GC is great for some enormous set of problem domains. But for problems that cannot endure high or unstable latencies, GC is a bad solution. I'm writing C++ because it hits a sweet spot in the intersection of (low/deterministic latency + ubiquity among developers).

> Why can't you acknowledge that there are problems that have GC as the only and best solution?

There are, but I probably wouldn't have used C++ for them. In some rare cases I would but only because of momentum on an existing legacy solution.
I can't upvote this enough. I have a degree in physics, but even so every year around this time for about the past decade I pay more attention to the literature prize, waiting for him to get recognized. The last chapter of Colorless Tsukuru hit me so hard I cried, and immediately went out of my way to get an autographed copy. His novels have certainly helped me transition into adulthood, and I think he definitely deserves the prize.
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I think it is true in almost all countries. Please see my reply above to Svenskunganka's comment.

I'd be willing to bet most wealthy people in France have occasion to pay out of pocket beyond the healthcare they could get for free from the government.
AFAIK GNU Social uses OStatus, which uses WebFinger (for identities), Salmon (for replies), ActivityStreams (for posting), etc.

Some relevant links from Google:

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

https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/378

I'd look for some libraries which implement those specs. If you can find some in Python, then integration would mostly be a case of marshalling data between your representations and those standards. If there's no Python support, then you could either make a library yourself or use a supported language to make a standalone translation server to convert between the standard formats and some some simple raw serialisation of your data.

Edit: also, security/encryption might be a hurdle. I played with Salmon years ago (using it as a plugin for the ocPortal CMS) when it was first announced; the example code was trivial to get up and running, but it required some not-so-straightforward crypto/certificate stuff to properly implement the "magic signature" part. IIRC this couldn't be done up-front by a developer; it would require some work for each deployment.
I would never pay a single unit of currency for such a car, even subsidized, and neither would most of humanity, including politicians.

I see plenty of very dangerous driving within speed limits, ie people unable to keep in their lane, playing with cellphone, randomly breaking in semi-empty roads and so on.

These are my experiences from highways from most weekends. In towns, speed limits make much more sense and could be enforced by speed bumps or stationary radars
I'm not the OP, but Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore are my favorites.
He would definitely deserve it. But he's Canadian so his contributions would more correctly be classified as going towards Canadian songwriting.