skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who don't understand don't see nuance.

People who are figuring it out want nuance articulated.

People who already understand see the nuance as implied.

It seems like the author is #2.
Honest question which I would appreciate an answer to:

If what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth is considered hate speech, then what is this?
FBI will receive ‘limited’ Twitter firehose access
I wanted to try reader mode, so I went to a random Atlantic article (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/better-of...) and hit ctrl-alt-r. The graph related to the story was dropped. Would that be a bug, or is that how reader mode is supposed to work?

I don't have the equivalent Evernote plug-in anymore (I'm trying to get away from Evernote), so I have nothing to compare it to.
I installed a firefox plugin to specifically remove those results from Google.
It seems you're saying that the 'fitness algorithm' filters randomness and therefore the result is 'less random.' And while I can see your point, I'm of the mind that filtered noise is just less noise. But it's still noise.
I was speaking strictly to the form the Electoral College supports our representative republic in that we don't directly vote for President, we vote for representatives who vote for our president.

The way that I consider it to be a bastardization of the Representative Republic is that we don't care who the representatives in the Electoral College are we only care who they vote for.

If we elected the EC as people who were allowed to make a choice then it would be more of a representative republic. Instead we have a democracy in that we are really just voting for president, but some people's vote count more than others.

>> and because we don't have a monarchy -- that's the Republic part.

That is wrong. There is such thing as a representative democracy. That is where the majority always wins. AKA Popular Vote.
One of the coolest unit patches of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:617sqn-600.jpg

'Apres moi le deluge'
I was a bit depressed that I didn't get to experience that revelation while reading the story, but getting to experience it while watching the movie is fair recompense.
...big media outlets protecting the corrupt status quo.

They are doing their job.

How many of us buy paper newspaper? How many of us have paid news site account? or browse news site without ad blocker. We want to read content without ads so they are selling this content. Media is writing PR piece and getting paid.
mini-itx computers are small but this thing is tiny in comparison to the average mini-itx build.
https://tankardapp.com

Ludicrously simple but I rely on it and use it every single day for Dev (and real) purposes

<3 single purpose apps

edit the app I use for HN (MiniHack) seems to have mistakenly replied to the first reply instead of the root

Sorry for comment sniping!
You might want to check out Test Pilot and the Tab Center addon : https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center

Unfortunately it is very slow compared to Tree Style Tabs if you have a considerable amount of tabs open (even using extensions like auto-unload, it is very very slow). Hope it gets fixed because I would _love_ a built-in vertical tab feature.
A threat and a federal crime?
I wrote a cloc (count lines of code) competitor in rust that's pretty fast: https://github.com/cgag/loc (turns out perl is pretty easy to beat).
Looks great! Do you have any plans to port this to other OS'? Would love something like this on GNU/Linux.
Wow, you're that John Nagle?
You may want to consider increasing your hourly billing rate.
I built a cuckoo filter library in Java that nobody uses :)
https://github.com/MGunlogson/CuckooFilter4J
People talk a lot about futuristic sex robots but what about VR experiences that are not only physical but deeply emotional - wherein you experience seduction and actually fall in love? Think about riding in a weeks long 18 hour a day RPG crusade with a Milla Jovovich lookalike Joan of Arc who, in between battles, is irreparably infatuated with you. The tech needed to achieve this level of total immersion may yet be decades away but once it arrives it's scary to imagine - love, not sex, being the real emotional Achilles tendon of the human experience.
You think pro-Trump articles were the only fake news out there? I consider myself a fairly sophisticated news consumer, reading mostly print publications (e.g. Economist, NY Times, Wall Street Journal) with a glance at Fox News and Breitbart to see what the other side thinks. And yet I still fell for a couple of false news stories that had been circulated over FB to put Trump in a bad light. It's hard to filter out propoganda-like material when you're bombarded with a steady stream of it, and FB, and Twitter, and whoever else is out there should start marking certain sources as dubious.
Liquid circulation doesn't actually cool, just transfers the energy to another interface for eventual dissipation into the air.
GPUs for Google Cloud Platform
Agreed. This whole phenomenon was reported on widely after "Avatar" came out. News anchors gleefully reporting that people left the theater feeling depressed their world wasn't as fantastic as Avatar. More of "the kids aren't alright!" reporting they love to do to scare parents and elderly folks.

My solution: Move out of the big cities. I live in a small town in the countryside and my world is that fantastic.
So your premise is that the site will die because only people who know what they're talking about will use it?

I have to admit some skepticism of this idea.
Exactly. These are the symptoms of a withdrawal from escapism. You could replace "VR" in the article by many other kinds of absorbing experiences.
Not to discredit the author's own personal findings, it's probably a healthy thing to be self-aware of these feelings. And there might be something to VR that makes the contrast of detachment more intense.
I had really meant to say "not enough good mini/laptop options"
How to build an analytics system
I need to build a homegrown analytics system that logs user events, which will then be transformed, and used to generate reports or allow for ad-hoc querying.

One of the big issues I'm wrestling with is the impact on developers of the web app and mobile app. We already have them in place. So developers would have to go back through all their code to add code to pass in the appropriate event and its properties. This would be a lot of work. I'm working if there is a way to do this that limits the about of code devs have to add to the existing front end code. I thought about pulling server logs but not sure the server logs would have the right event/properties without having to add a bunch of code to the front end.

Yes, I know I should probably being using something off the shelf, but that isn't an option for me (not my decision!!)
Git is now 11 years old. What up and coming VCS was developed last year to replace git? VCS development moves relatively slowly* and git will still be a major player in 10 years.

Though in 10 years I suspect the porcelain and workflows will have collected several new features.

* Git in fact rose in popularity unusually fast. But this was probably because it was born at the intersection of two major events - DVCS were the hot new field and wide open for new players, and the kernel's VCS crisis. I imagine that hosting the kernel on day one would provide as much experience as a decade of being a small experimental VCS. This is not a routine combination of events.
A little tool to check the similarity of two images using PIL, it gives a % difference as well as an diff image:

https://github.com/nicolashahn/python-image-diff

Also a utility I made for myself to graph my bank transactions. For some reason USAA doesn't have that feature on its site so I made it for myself. Very bare right now but it does want I need it to, which is to visualize my spending. Eventually want to be able to look at transaction names from within the graph.

https://github.com/nicolashahn/USAA-Transaction-Graph
Clocks don't need cooling.
I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it.

I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end).

I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.
> something an exception system does for you for free.

That's the point, it doesn't, you pay for the exception system and the implicitness that comes with it. Your comment portrays exceptions as the default that monadic errors are playing catch-up with. I could easily do the reverse.

> is a workaround to make it less of a pain.

You say workaround, I say feature.

Ultimately, monadic errors and exceptions have tradeoffs.

Like I said, given any tradeoff between feature A and feature B, you can always say "subfeature X of A exists because we don't have B". It's not a meaningful thing to say.

I didn't avoid an answer, I genuinely think that your comment has no substance to it because it pretends that exceptions are a "default" system.
Canadian-housing-boom-continues-while-vancouver-market-returning-to-earth
Why Apple will never bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. (2012)
Trump will control the NSA - what this means for your privacy
Organisms don't have evolutionary incentives to develop abilities.

Environments exert evolutionary pressures, which select for/against existing traits (inherited or mutated) in organisms.
Moving to the country is as difficult as moving to the city.
You're forgetting the cheap Chinese external power brick that you will be tethered to, also...
Tech company CEO fired after threatening to kill Trump
Astonishingly hard to imagine how any such exploration would not have diminished the story. This is a woman narrating an extraordinary experience and a relationship with her daughter, not a physicist giving a lecture on the structure of the universe.
This is, like, the worst, most unconvincing way to make the (legitimate) point that she's wrong on climate science.
Seems the core is OS on Github. So you can use it on the command line or write a GUI for it yourself: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive
Class E felony, up to 5 years in prison. (Though up to the discretion of the SS I think, sometimes they just pay you a nice visit).

For more detail: that's similar class as like bomb threats... Class E is closer to the mildest end of a felony.
After the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.
Three brain chemicals affect how we handle uncertainty
Sorry, but please make a short screencast of what synesthesia looks like?
FindIt. It's a simple utility that lets you do find-in-files searches, but with features to require that a file contain any number of terms together, and the ability to exclude files that have an unwanted term. I wrote it for myself and every friend I shared it with ends up pinning it to their taskbar.

https://findit.codeplex.com/
Yeah it's kind of sad actually. I started reading this as serious piece and then sent it to a professor I had during my undergrad for a class on climate change. So embarrassing!!

The broad points about training data and non-linearities are important- but on a second pass it's hard to believe that people who spend their lives building GCMs don't think deeply about these challenges.
InVision Inspect Bridges Design and Development
GitTrends estimates the truck factor and tracks the popularity of GitHub systems
Not sure what exactly they're promising wrt. the quality of obfuscation, but if it actually works "well enough" you'd imagine they should be happy for you to run an obfuscated version of their code[1] rather than shipping your JS to their servers. Hmm... :)

[1] I'm assuming it's written in JS. It might not, of course.
I wonder if the author has ever experienced the joy of reading a good book, or the first showing an amazing movie. Finishing an amazing story, you feel a let down afterwords; the characters were not real and you can never interact with them. The realm of fictional worlds are often more engaging, and seem superior to the world you live your day-to-day life in. The actions and experiences in those stories were more fulfilling, the characters had more agency; their lives or stories were more "real" than ours. After experiencing the greatness of our imaginations, how can our bleak reality measure up? I often find that I start reading my next book immediately after finishing the previous one in attempt to recapture this high, to re-experience the betterness one more time.

I don't think this effect is specific to a medium. That it can happen with VR is a sign that the technology has matured.
I was not clear.

I don't mean that the sea levels rose during that time period. Rather they had been rising up to 8,000 years ago. Which exaggerates the exponential population growth.

Recent estimates put world population around 300 million people in year 0. And then rapidly scale back 10,000 BC. However, estimates put the Aboriginal population at 300-750k before European colonization with a mostly hunter gather lifestyle on mostly marginal land. Which suggests possibly much higher global populations 10,000 years ago, and a higher global population around year 0 for the rest of the world.

PS: New estimates also put native Hawaiian population at 700,000 before cook, though this includes some farming. http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/04/18/398578801/...
With an Open Heart and a Bottle of Bacardi: Top Onboarding Kits
Would not want to be on the test team for this project that's for sure.
How should I prepare for an upcoming Google TPM interview?
Cleared the 2 phone screens. Have an onsite interview in about 3 weeks.

My background - Over 7 years of experience as a TPM. Been a Programmer before that for 4 years. Don't code exclusively anymore, but can if need be, so not a rockstar coder. University drop out, so no stellar educational background.

Any thoughts on study plans would be much appreciated. Thanks!
From what I understand, there is little to no lead in soldering fumes. The fumes are almost entirely from the flux. If you are working in a well ventilated space you should be able to protect yourself by setting up a small fan to blow the smoke away.

I think a filter is overkill for someone who is just starting out. They should at least figure out if they enjoy the hobby before they spend $60 on a filter. That being said, even if they don't contain lead, the fumes from soldering are not good for your health. If you do continue soldering, some form of fume extraction is in order.

There is a pretty good discussion on stack exchange about this topic:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1904/are-sold...
Please tell us more about these 2.
It depends on the design of the reactor, doesn't it?

They aren't thermo-nuclear bombs. They are simple nuclear bombs.

The earliest types of nuclear bomb essentially smacked two sub-critical masses of nuclear material together to form a super-critical mass, or compressed a sub-critical mass to a greater density, such that it was super-critical at that higher density. Then the core material produces heat faster than it can be radiated away, and eventually explodes.

If the non-fuel components of the reactor are destroyed, there may be enough nuclear material present to combine into a super-critical mass. At that point, it will go boom unless someone acts quickly enough to stop it.

It just so happens that all reactors designed to actually be built are ultra-paranoid about not turning even a completely failed reactor into a nuclear bomb. In a backyard DIY reactor that is not following a design blessed by physicists and engineers, you might get a boom. You will more likely get a big, deadly, radioactive fire that drops toxic ash on innocent bystanders, but if you melt cylindrical fuel rods in a graphite moderator, and they pool in the bottom of a spherical containment vessel as one big, connected mass...
Open Source Frictionless Signup
I don't know about Firefox or Atom, but in Chromium you can achieve that via Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.
Only 2 USB ports?

- Actually, when you click the review picture with the ports, you can't see the 2 USB-C ports and 4th DisplayPort. Web design glitch.
Only 2 USB ports?
No audio output as far as I can tell, and after I plug in my USB keyboard and mouse I'll be out of ports.
https://github.com/fogleman/primitive
German source is fine, it provides more information than the English one. It also mentions different amount and types of usb ports.
bought - going to see if the quadratics can be used to generate laser etching paths to make wood burnings with a CNC.
Experts Say Internet 'Mega' Attacks Are on the Rise
Makes me think of the book that made the US public demand food quality laws.

It contained graphic descriptions of working conditions and accidents in a meat processing plant.

Thing is that the author intended it as a rallying cry for workers rights, but the public instead focused on what they were buying and eating.
It's not their issue to fix.

Do you demand Microsoft take action because say Lenovo installs superfish?

You make Lenovo fix it instead of a tangentially related company like Microsoft.

Same thing here. It's not a Google issue.
Long ago when I was a teenager I suggested to my father that one might be able to take the husks off popcorn kernels, grind the core into powder and mix with something (water or oil), heat it and spray it out a nozzle under high pressure. The idea was that it would explosively decompress and produce popcorn with no husks. He looked at me and said "what do you think Cheetoes is?"
I get the impression that a lot of people don't realize law enforcement does respond to social media posts.
The links in the article seem broken (all point to to the blog post).

Would be cool to see some of the bigger relevant PRs
I'm sure they're referring to upgradability which is the last attractive feature of desktops. I can't figure out why anyone would care how big their tower is. If you're going to have an array of 6 monitors, I'm sure you've got an extra square foot or 2 for a standard tower that won't lock you into HP components.
Evolution of a Python Programmer
"There's another catch, and it's one that politicians don't like to talk about: China has many more skilled engineers than the United States does.
Steve Jobs, Apple's late CEO, brought the issue up during an October 2010 meeting with President Obama. He called America's lackluster education system an obstacle for Apple, which needed 30,000 industrial engineers to support its on-site factory workers."
Of course not. There was fake news from both sides, but it's not my main point.

Mu main point is people are biased and only care about fairness when they perceive something unfair to have affected them only, and are only too happy to look askance if it helps them.

So far I haven't heard much regarding the misinformation Hillary's team sent Bernie's way (or Trumps way). Early on they might have even cheered Trumps ascendance in the primaries thinking his inexperience would prove easy to beat in the general election, compared to a Rubio, for example.
Twitter finally rolls out keyword muting in notifications
Any idea about the range in Berlin?
Here's a Kurzgesagt video about CRISPR for anyone that's curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY
I was excited to sudden see this surprise in the patch notes, now I am the opposite here thinking, "How did they mess up such a simple feature?" The preview bar that pop ups is slow to work and actively delays changing tabs.(If it even attempts to switches tabs.) Additionally, I do not need the preview portion.

FLST: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fww-flst/

It just works. Tab switching is instant, no unnecessary preview, and it has never messed up remembering tab order.
Sorry? Sure, don't feel the need to believe any of their refutations, but you can follow their links to her statements and decide whether or not you agree with her take.
Sedition, plain and simple.

It's not a joking matter to threaten the life of any individual, be they President or otherwise.
I couldn't help but notice this funny marketing line which made me laugh

> The incredibly compact form factor resembles more a super computer from the future than a PC of today.
I built a Windows phone app for PAX that let you have the schedule and maps offline. At the time there was an iOS and and Android app, but not even an unofficial one for Windows. There are more apps now, and PAX has gotten more "professional" a.k.a it has gotten harder every year to access the schedule. This year it wanted me to log in to the Guidebook site to even see it and I decided that was a good cue to stop providing the app so when Microsoft said anything without an age rating would be unpublished i just let it happen (it's less necessary now anyway since internet access at PAX has gone from none-whatsoever to pretty decent).
I had several hundred users each year, and people emailed me suggestions and requests. Definitely the only individual project I've ever done that had other people relying on me, and it was harder than I thought (one year MSFT didn't approve my update with the new schedule until after PAX, so then I built an in-app downloader that fetched the schedule data from my server, etc).
How many do you discover via google.com vs social networking sites like Facebook? The logistics of switching between discovering an article on Facebook and verifying it on google.com is cumbersome enough with short attention spans on web. If you consume content passively on mobile (as an increasing number of people do), there's no reasonable expectation you can be held to, to switch between Safari/ Chrome and Facebook every time you read something.

Of all the articles you read in a day, how many do you yourself verify by looking them up? How many do you consider "plausible enough", hence never bother checking on their factuality? If something does conform to your pre-existing biases, you have zero incentive to actively look for something that challenges your opinion, but if a disclaimer was "right there", it might be harder for you to ignore.
> And actually any periodic function that is zero somewhere could be used in a tiny bit modified version of this proof.

I think that, for the modification to be tiny, you need something like: there is an interval on which the function is positive, and on the boundary of which it vanishes. (Some sign condition is necessary; taking the constant function at 0 doesn't work! Of course, this particular condition is automatically satisfied for any continuous, periodic function that vanishes somewhere, but is not identically 0.)
The art of flight, circus style
I still use the 2.3GHz quad core "server" version as my main system and I love it :) I took one of the 1TB disks out and put an SSD in to make a DIY fusion drive.
This is great. I just immediately used it for my nascent blog.
Google Cloud Jobs API
> There's a Stephen King novel called The Lawnmower Man that's basically this premise exactly.

The Lawnmower Man I remember is just a short story and has nothing to do with VR or cyberspace at all. The movie doesn't have anything to do with the story. Like "I, Robot", it's a case where an existing unrelated screenplay had the name of a famous written work slapped on it to try to increase viewership.
Trump's speech is considered hate speech, because it attacks a group of people because of who/what they are. This is targeting a single person, and so isn't hate speech. But it is absolutely illegal, and absolutely should be investigated.