skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally pre-empted your whining about Hamas and yet you went straight for it anyway. You and I and everyone else know why the Hamas account sticks around. Not everyone views them as a terrorist organization, certainly not in the same family as ISIS.

And the 235K thing? I could've said a million, or a billion and you'd just spit out the same cop-out answer that "it's not enough". You've created an argument that carries no weight, requires no evidence or actual numbers. You just keep handwaving and yelling "what about all those terrorist accounts", all whilst only clinging to your single, knowingly flawed example. Never mind the fact that this is all still a distraction to cover up how wrong you were at the outset of this conversation.

And of course you've moved the goal posts even further by again inventing yet another evidence-less claim that Twitter is somehow bogged down with "feminists' feelings". You didn't even try to qualify that assertion. You just made up some new bullshit claim to try and throw out there and see if it sticks without any support whatsoever.

Besides, if you think Twitter is unable to handle any other abuse because they're bogged down with "feminist's feelings"... I don't even know what to say other than are you freaking kidding me? One, I see dozens of posts saying far more disgusting things aimed at women than 'kill yourself' every week on Twitter. Two, Twitter can do more than one thing at one time and continutes to take down new accounts linked to terror groups constantly.

And of course you're the type of person to classify mob harassment of women, death threats and sexual harassment as "feminist's feeling" because you're a jerk with an agenda who doesn't care about reality, facts, or discourse.

It's also painfully obvious that you skirted my explicit questions from the last post because they exemplify how completely nonsensical your characterization of Twitter is.

It's like I'm talking to a delusional, angry GamerGater who pulls "feminism" out of nowhere as some sort of wildcard to distract from the absurd claims in this thread.

I look forward to your next post where you again ignore everything I wrote, repeat your unsubstantiated nonsense again and probably move the goal posts for a third time.
Sounds childish, but because a lot of people seem to be losing wonder and imagination:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_...
That is simply brilliant. Faux bricks which connect together to create a phased array antenna that create a mesh network between connected homes. Now if it was low enough power to run on the heat differential between the flue gases and the ambient air I would know I was in the future.
Because then you will have an interface that has been goaded into acting and drawing like you want it to, instead of having an interface which looks and acts in ways which feel normal and familiar to users of the target platform.

Maybe you want that, as an app developer, but as a user I'd really like it if you'd stop, and I'm happy when the platform makes this sort of thing difficult.
There was always a Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD), articles in a lot of mainstream newspapers and they never had any ads.

The interview process (to join the site) was out in the open and promoted on other trackers, reddit, twitter. It was never about staying secret, the entry barriers were to educate people about the ripping / encoding / ratio rules not about staying under the radar or elitist.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're made up, and they lack context.

40ms for ADSL... From where to where are you pinging?

Gamers will regularly achieve ~20ms pings to other gamers on the same continent. Where as pinging around the other side of world (under-sea cables) is going to add approximately 150-200 ms.

Also FTTH vs. ADSL vs. Cable really shouldn't make much difference with regards to ping (they're all fibre for the majority of the distance). The main reason FTTH (or even FTTN) networks tend to have a quicker ping is because they usually have newer/faster routing hardware running on them.
Trump offers retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn the job of national security adviser
Not only do I not see a problem with this, but I don't think Twitter went anywhere near far enough. They should have suspended Trump's account well over a year ago.
If you come to Los Angeles, you can do my laundry and buy my groceries for a real locals experience.
It certainly higher latency than loitering solar powered aircraft or balloons above 60,000 feet.
This article makes the assumption that

> the solution to bad speech is more good speech

But this isn't true. Sure, in many cases it is, but once we enter the realm of hate speech and ideologies that pose a threat to the survival of people, good speech is no longer sufficient if you're still allowing the bad speech to continue. If a white supremacist is spouting off their nonsense, you cannot counter that with "good speech", because the people who buy into that ideology aren't going to be swayed by anything you can say. But allowing them to continue espousing their ideology threatens people of other races, because this creates an atmosphere where people think that kind of speech is acceptable, which leads to other worse problems.
I would absolutely oppose this; everyone is due the same freedoms and rights. However, I think you are joking ...
Seems more like a Darwin award rather than an "accident" (as a bad outcome should be fairly predictable when you do something like this). I'd also be worried about the high temperatures.
Obama criticizes the spread of fake news on Facebook
Maybe they're equipping them all with EM drives? :P
Can you go into more detail on VSCode's terminal?

I would have expected VSCode (and Sublime/Atom/etc.) to need to be running on Linux to leverage the run-times installed in Linux.

How does it handle code complete for user written code when:

1. You have VSCode installed in Windows

2. You have your language and all packages installed in Linux

3. You have your source code sitting in a folder on Windows

Edit:

Since you edited in some info about xserver performance, that's awesome.

What type of specs is your machine?
I wonder if using the validation of the DNS record and all the surrounding nonsense is really a useful function though.

I mean, if we created a new distributed system, and grandfathered the old one, how can the current incumbents stop it? The control over a name pointing to an address could be done with a blockchain, I'm hearing.

So we move to a new naming convention. An arbitrary prefix on the end of a name shouldn't mean $$$$.

I'm saying we (techies anyway, not money-grubbing VC's), can make the decision for them, en masse. When they say "But, we need to make money from this!", we reply, "No, we need a naming service for these internet addresses. Go get stuffed."

The finer details of how it all works can be left till later.
Levels of Abstraction: Net, Web, Graph – Tim Berners-Lee
Somehow I think the reaction would be different if Microsoft had done this, i.e., make proprietary competing technology instead of supporting an open standard. (Yes, React is proprietary--look into the patent rider issue.)
I think this should work with Apollo out of the box, which is a GraphQL client with similar features to Relay but with deep Redux integration.

(Disclaimer: I work on Apollo)
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I have a feeling their beta experience hosts will be their cream of the crop. Once the general public starts hosting experiences, and Airbnb's quality control falters, we'll see a lot of complaints about shitty or scamful experiences.
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How zip codes helped organize America
I love Musk's plans as much as the next Hacker, but he's proposing to significantly more than double the number of satellites in orbit. I hope he succeeds.
How will countries like China that aggressively censor the internet respond?
Most people sleep at the same time in one given geography, but if you're looking at the world, those times are pretty well distributed. Assuming I'm sleeping 8 hours a day, even the continental US only has 5 hours per day when everyone is asleep when you account for time zones. But APAC, ME/Africa, and Europe are all pretty reliably awake at that time.
wut r u talking about? -_-
Very. Even downloading new releases on the top charts, I found that I could only get about 1-5% seeded in an entire month. Unless you're one of the first 10 people to start seeding that torrent, it's basically hopeless to get a high ratio just from that.
I know it sounds far-fetched, but if someone develops a technology that can rapidly grow a wood-like material out of atmospheric carbon in such a way that entire buildings can be grown in single digit years, we could start seeing countries fighting over who is using too much CO2 and consuming too little
That's a lot of exceptional cases for something you shouldn't touch. It's kind of like saying, if I'm root and I've disabled "--preserve-root" and then I "rm * /", that Linux should have something else to prevent the user from hosing their own system.

I mean they could do that, but where do you draw the line?
Heck, the leap in positioning accuracy 4.4k satellites would make gps obsolete. Civilian gps accuracy is low enough that you cannot distinguish between lanes on a highway.
You must notice they are building a new UI toolkit with opengl es backend. They apparently don't care about native system.
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I still use textmate. I started with vi, which I still use for small edits, switched to sam, back to vi when I stopped having X on my Mac, and then to textmate. I have tried sublime and atom. I am sure they can be configured to work as I would like, but out of the box the distance seemed too far.

My desire to configure is strongest when I start writing reports (in LaTeX or markdown). I long for a distraction free mode with easy spell checking.
Australia has really good consumer protection laws which protect against exactly this kind of problem.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees...
waaa you are a confused individual.
(TL;DR: I believe the term is being used both proscriptively and descriptively, and that is the heart of the problem)

> One group yells "women belong in the kitchen; blacks are inferior" or whatever.

I, and even most conservatives, would have absolutely no problem calling that racism or sexism. Those are overt, direct statements meeting the popular definitions of those terms.

I am assuming we are debating the more expansive definitions that are more under public dispute.

> saying that the term is just a tool for moral condemnation serves their interest of resisting the facts behind it

I agree, as long as it can be established that it does indeed have a useful purpose as a descriptive term.

> classifying actions as racist isn't prescriptive but descriptive, and is certainly under the purview of science.

I find the assertion that it isn't prescriptive, especially when you later admit that it does serve at least partially as a tool for moral condemnation, unconvincing.

But it could be both prescriptive and descriptive, so how about that?

You are surely aware that one fashionable definition of racism, with some academic support, is that it is equivalent to power or privilege, and therefore no member of a disadvantaged group can be racist, and all members of a privileged group are by definition racist.

In addition to being needlessly provocative and drawing attention away from "real", intentional racism, this kind of definition is utterly useless from a descriptive standpoint. After all, if it is completely equivalent to power/privilege, why not use those words?

And if racism occurs completely without choice on the part of the accused, is it not paradoxical to use it as a term of moral condemnation, since morality presumably requires choice?

Another common usage is the idea that racism is a set of power structures in society that promote unequal outcomes. If abstract, nonhuman entities (societies, governments, etc) can be racist, apart from the racism of their constituent members, how can the same term be used as a term of moral condemnation?

Note that I am not objecting to the idea that privilege, implicit bias, or self-perpetuating power structures exist. They certainly do.

But I am arguing that conflating these things with overt racism (or anything involving conscious choice, and therefore subject to moral condemnation) is intellectually muddled, counterproductive, and is at the heart of why conservatives are so angry about this issue.
30ms and Telstra is out of business in Australia. Finally, bring it on. Actually, give me 2000ms and a Musk plan, I'll take that over Telstra.
It's just a different system call interface though. The big integration problem remains. Microsoft could definitely solve it differently: specifically, there should be a winuser.so loadable in WSL that would do the same job as user32.dll and kernel32.dll do in win32. It could, in principle, talk to win32k.sys.

Personally, though, I'd like Microsoft to make two changes to the _existing_ win32 subsystem:

1) expose as public API the interface between the kernel console subsystem and conhost.exe: this interface will not only allow Cygwin to supply a real pty layer, but also let programs like console2 work much better

2) teach win32 userspace components to tolerate NtCreateProcess-based fork, and make CSRSS understand what's going on. Then regular win32 processes (like Cygwin programs) can fork and take advantage of the copy-on-write semantics that NT already supports

If I ever rejoin Microsoft, I'm going to push to get this functionality implemented. If core Windows ever goes open source, I'll implement it myself.
> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.

Try Ubuntu MATE, if you want minimal customization you have some preconfigured defaults in MATE Tweak tool, if you ever want to customize more its super easy compared to every other DE I've tried.
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Ah good point!

Wasn't he talking about term limits. Let's see how well the Congress will like the idea to enact term limits for the ... Congress.

Legislature is funny like that. They can change the rules which are used to make the rules so to speak. But I want to see him pull that off.
You'll get around that in your home by having the satellite module thing up on your roof and a cable to your wifi router.

What I don't understand about this though is the number of frequencies available to connect to all these satellites and how it might extend to ~300 million people (let alone a billion potentially).
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I am not a stakeholder, but I just wanted to congratulate you on keeping the momentum going on the Open-RethinkDB project. I've seen several attempts to restart a stalled/dead OS project in the past, so I realise how much energy it takes to keep the ball rolling after the initial flurry of activity/outrage/frustration etc.

RethinkDB is something we were looking at for a large project. In one way I am glad we didn't choose that platform for it, but in another way, the efforts by the open source community to keep it alive has given me confidence to revisit the platform for future projects.
Absurdly optimistic. Gross margin is ~20% excluding ZEV on their very high end models, the average price per car will be closer to 60k in 2020, probably around 55k (35k base will probably go to 60-70k with add ons), and Tesla will (maybe) be selling 300-500k cars annually in 2020.

3) accurate

4) Model 3 will be very capital intensive, especially in light of unforeseen problems such as recalls, competition (unlikely in the near term), and consumers opting to get the base model instead of the decked out one. I don't pay attention to solarcity, but generally have mixed vibes about the company. SpaceX, on the other hand, has very positive prospects IMO.
Why are people so rude?
When has an Apple Store had spares of their hot new phone available on the first day? A month out, sure, but come on.
Indeed. One way or another, I think recent years have established that "not enough CO2 in the atmosphere" is a pretty easy problem to solve.
There are people who use Private Trackers who don't understand the point, don't give back to the community, only seed things they personally want, and wonder why they have a hard time building ratio...basically use it like a public tracker that they can get "locked out" of.
The backlog is from ~2% down 'preorders', so isn't exactly accurate.

Though there is undoubtedly >15bn worth of demand for the M3, especially in light of tax incentives winding down.
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WCD would have been valuable w/o downloads, just the collages alone are an incredible source of curation.
Have you ever tried to get something Apple branded repaired when it is out of warranty?

The repairs tend to basically cost as much as it would to buy the same item refurbished regardless of the issue.

SSD died on your MacBook air selling for $500 on eBay? That will be a $450 repair sir.

Sure, they may have manuals and everything else at the Apple store, but there is very clearly a reason why companies like iCracked and iFixIt exist, and it isn't because Apple offers such a wonderful and affordable repair shop.

It would be great if Google offered a way to get the phone repaired through them, but using Apple as an example of how it should be is a bit insane to me.
Most Windows apps, both third-party and built-in, support UTF-8 for many years.
Just not by default.
You need to specify your data is UTF-8: http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html
Yes, it is built to be as lightweight as possible. We have used it with wishbone devices on ICE40 chips, which are about as small as they come
Thanks for the elaboration. I don't entirely agree with you though. On on one hand you are right, libertarinism does strongly oppose the existence of a state force with rights that common citizens don't have. On the other, many other political mindsets have different sets of checks and balances to avoid this kind of situations. They are all fallible in different ways, and I doubt libertarianism is the exception. At the end of the day a system will follow the morals of those with de facto power, and power will arise even in the face of non-existent power structures.
"pwned in 60 seconds" is a hugely misleading statement. Every time there's a hacking competition you see "Chrome, Firefox, IE fall in seconds" - ignoring the weeks or months that it takes to find the vulnerabilities and develop exploits for them.
Got my iphone 7p on the 1st week, noticed some small debris in the lens, went to my local Apple Store, they had the same device ready in stock as a replacement, in&out took 10 mins. (note my device is probably one of the most wanted one, Unlocked-128 black)
Christina's World hangs in MOMA, not far from many of the most famous paintings on the planet.

It's not out of place; I found it striking. See if you agree.

You owe yourself a few hours on the 5th floor of MOMA in NYC, it's great.
Did you do the driving class, Octane Academy? It's not well publicized, but the ST comes with a free driving class in Utah (you pay for travel and accommodations), but it's only valid within a year of buying it.
Hey, Silicon Valley: This election shows we have to give back
Thus the poor will change what they buy. Substitution works.
Looks like they are. Actually a good idea IMO assuming they are just using them as robust 8 bit interconnects and not actually Ethernet.
I was quite upset that they bended history so much for that episode. They even tried to present Lucretius's views on infinity as scientific. Correct, but not scientific but mystic.

The big bang theory and a ton of other scientific discoveries have been made by catholic clergyman and laity.

Obviously, burning anyone at the stake is majorly screwed up, but it wasn't to cover up science.
There must be a phoenix at somepoint, it feels like too much of the community exists not to try.
Perhaps you might be interested what Ernest R. Hull, author of Galileo and his condemnation [1] had to say about that?

> Thirdly, to Catholic Apologists :

> (1) Avoid the mistake of minimizing the official action of the Church authorities, or of understating the ground of their condemnation. The official documents plainly embody the view that the Copernican theory was not only "false" but also "heretical" because "altogether contrary to Scripture"; and Galileo was condemned as "grievously suspected of heresy," which heresy is defined as holding that the earth moved and the sun stood still." It is precisely in this dogmatical pronounce ment on the heretical character of the new astronomy that their blunder consisted.

> (2) Do not try to cloak this blunder by arguing that Galileo brought all the trouble on himself by meddling in theology, or by his aggressiveness of manner. The clash with theology was inevitable, and must be forced upon him ; and his defence on this point was entirely sound and unexceptionable. His aggressiveness explains the amount of human passion which was aroused against him, but does not extenuate the act of condemning officially as heresy a doctrine which we all now know to be totally free from heresy. That Galileo was imprudent in forcing an official pronouncement does not diminish the error which the official pronouncement contains.

> (3) Avoid also laving too much stress on the fact that Galileo was contumacious to Church authority. His contumacy might justify a disciplinary punish ment ; but once more, it does not cloak the blunder of charging his doctrines with heresy.

> (4) There is no reason for trying to exonerate the Popes from all share in the action of the Congrega tions. Although their names do not appear in any official capacity, there is no doubt that they were fully conversant with what was being done ; that they partly directed the proceedings ; that they approved and sanctioned the decrees issued and the sentences pronounced. Our defence on this point lies simply in the fact that the Pope's approval of the acts of a Congregation does not raise them to ex cathedra definitions.

[1] https://archive.org/details/galileoandhiscon00hulluoft
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> learn programming from a Masters’ program

A Master's in CS won't teach you programming. You can learn the programming part on your own with online content or a bootcamp. If you have been able to conquer that level of difficulty in academia, you should have no problem getting started with programming. It's unintuitive to most people from the outside but Computer Science and programming really are pretty separate things.

> 1.If you’re not a technical founder but need to get programming done for your startup would you recommend...

This is a biased answer, but I am a one-man shop independent contractor software engineer who also takes freelance projects sometimes. There are certainly a few other people out there that offer similar services like me as well. I'm currently helping a non-technical client in a situation like yours build their MVP.

I also often encourage people to go work for a startup or try to understand the industry from the inside before founding.
The energy in the system seems to be coming from ATP which is used to move energy around in both animals and plants, so it could presumably be wired to photosynthesis (which I assume is what the researchers had in mind — take the process plants use to store energy by converting water + C02 into sugar and replace it with something more efficient). And that's the limit of my high school organic chemistry.

And e coli can be modified to do photosynthesis too.
Nice write up. Definitely helpful, and bookmarked for future reference.