skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Toilet" is not a euphemism:

"Toilet" was by etymology a euphemism, but is no longer understood as such. As old euphemisms have become the standard term, they have been progressively replaced by newer ones, an example of the euphemism treadmill at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#Contemporary_Use
Yeah, it's just some arbitrary list of a few hardcoded URLs right now... Is this really useful??
Considering there's no one technical on the other end to set stuff up, your best bet might just be to mail him a simple stereo and weekly mixed CDs.
Front page of that site: "German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death".

From the backcatalog:

Putin Issues US Election Theft Warning, Orders Military To Protect Trump “At All Costs”

BREAKING: Putin Just Gave Obama 24 Hours Or His Ships Will Open Fire

Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war

Putin Warns Trump…ELITES PLANNING YOUR ASSASSINATION

Vladimir Putin Escapes New World Order Assassination Attempt

Putin Goes On LIVE TV And CONFIRMS That Obama And Hillary CREATED ISIS

and my personal favorite

Putin and Dalai Lama: Obama Is Responsible for ISIS, Along With Hillary

(and 23 more pages of stuff like this)

This is webspam.

The trick is: look past the front page. The front page is designed to look semi-sane. That's the point. Fakenews wouldn't work if you were just one click away from seeing that it's all a troll factory construction. You have to click a couple times to see that.
Development of strong AI, by copying the structures of the human psyche
showdead can also be be useful if you're new to participating so you can see what types of comments get banned and determine what the community generally finds unacceptable.
POWER8 Talos Workstation Drops Price Slightly, Long Way from Being Funded
Nope. Interested in what water filtration systems people are installing. Im looking to install one as well.
Boost C++ vector performance by upto 89% using these easy tips
Eliminating it would be an overly ambitious goal. We only need to mitigate its effects.
but I never said you needed a mac to do that, so why?
Great. You learn a lot after reading books good work.
"He refused to do it but says, "there's always an engineer willing" to simply follow orders"

Chad and Brad. Do you think doctors and engineers could have such high standards for themselves if, they didn't restrict access to their profession somehow?

There is no desire to get rid of coding bootcamps on any side—negative costs are externalized to the consumer.
Although you're probably looking for something a bit more technical, somebody really should mention:

"Triumph of the Nerds: How the Personal Computer Changed the World"

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5g0kidk3Y
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiffgiRAYUI

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGTPdLxf7FQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yamGfoFUXsA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dK-gzpjIVI
Exactly. The problem is that everyone is beholden to money. If you do the right thing, you lose your job. And maybe even get blacklisted so you don't work again. Stuff like this is stuff of nightmares but it happens over and over again. Enough to make people think twice or thrice about going against the status quo.
Hear hear! I want to work with really good people that I like, communicated well with, and are excited about what they're doing (among other attributes as well). It's fairly rare that I come across someone with all of those qualities, but when I do, I don't care about nationality, etc.

H1Bs (and O-visas, etc.) tend to be more expensive than otherwise just hiring someone local. I'm not looking for someone cheap, as other commenters have infuriatingly speculated. In fact, I actually think that's a very dangerous path to go down, as you'll either find

1. Someone who isn't very good (or else they wouldn't work for sub-market rates)
2. Someone who is very good, but doesn't know their value - in which case, you'll lose out on your investment once they find you've been screwing them over.

I also don't understand why - if I like someone enough - I can't just hire them to come work in the US, regardless of national origin, assuming I pay enough. I suppose there's a danger of pay-for-play there, but I can't believe the trouble I've had working with amazingly talented people because they didn't have a recognized masters degree.

Finally, `exercise your duty to your own country` is an inherently suspect phrase that makes me suspicious about the thought process behind that lead up to it.
Probably true, but the fact that we eat all those fish is a far bigger short term problem.

I heard somewhere (rumor alert) that jellyfish and other species we don't like to eat are taking over much of the oceans, since we ate most of the fish.
>H1-B = 62'000 Visa allocated per years

While your overall argument is sound, I must point out that it is actually 85000, which includes the special category of MS and above in a STEM field.

This quota also does not include the academic H-1 - there is no quota for that (but numbers are probably low anyway).

Your number also doesn't include the L-1 visa.
How is the clustering analysis going to work?

Because the current hard coded list of URLs is a start, but it's not really a scalable solution to the issue.

However, from what I can see in this file:

https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/d...

It just seems like it's going to compare examples of articles included in the source files, as found here:

https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/tree/master/d...

So how is it going to detect the difference between a real or fake piece from this?
It's a good reason IMO. MS browsers push MS services and Google does the same with Chrome. For example, I have to be logged in with my G account to download an extension for my browser. I am struggling to see the connection between the two.

Finally, google links everything together (as we saw with the resold Pixel debacle), so why would I want to increase the risk of breaking Google TOS by using their browser.
Similar range as for private eng. schools in France so.
Building a low powered backup target using a Raspberry Pi
Two explanations on why people say it's not a functional language:

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap5.html

https://www.quora.com/Should-Lisp-be-considered-a-functional...
> He is good at presenting well known problems

Raising awareness is important - and urgent - work. These problems are not "well known" outside of the HN/tech bubble.

> in amusing ways

Also important, as it is much more memorable than the exhaustive clinical delineation offered by (e.g.) Pro Publica

> but rarely identifies solutions beyond the hopelessly vague

If you don't have a solution to what you see as a critical problem, do you wllow in despair? Or do you raise awareness of the problem in the hope that, individually or collectively, others will devise solutions?
EndingTheFed is exactly the sort of fake news site designed around ad dollars that we're talking about. I'm not sure if you even looked at the site beyond the top few stories, but here's a few examples just a little bit down the page:

> 60 Minutes Goes To Sweden To Show How Peaceful Refugees Are, Entire Crew Gets Assaulted By Refugees (video is actually of an altercation with a conservative news group, while their interview seems genial, the actual video is attempting to cast the immigrants in Sweden in as negative light as possible, even going so far as repeating the falsehood of "no-go zones" and failing to mention that the rioting they show is actually being perpetrated by Swedes themselves)

> German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death (So get back to church)

> UNREAL: Ground-Breaking Cancer Treatment Snubbed By Media Because THIS Country Made It (which country you ask? Israel of course! Because the leftist media hates Israel, duh!)

> BREAKING: Measles Outbreak Traced, Look at Sick Location it Originated From
" For many months, conservatives and Republicans have been trying to warn the public that the incoming flood of immigrants"
It has been good for us, although our use case has mainly been ETL pipelines which seems quite a good fit, especially when you connect it up to Kinesis Firehose/Kinesis or S3 notifications.

The main issue we've seen is, even at the "top" tier (1536mb) the CPU performance doesn't seem very good, it's difficult to tell as they abstract you away from what is actually going on under the hood.

Main advantages: easy to deploy, no infrastructure worries if your problem fits, event based triggers means you don't have to write any of that code, fits well in the AWS ecosystem.

I've seen people making serverless websites and things like that, but I'm not convinced Lambda is a good fit for such a thing (happy to be proven wrong)
The post indicates that 52 was released this week, but Developer Edition still shows the latest update is 51.0a2 for me. Anyone else?
I've heard this phrased as "oranges are not a fun fruit in high dimensions".
Clickables:

The Leanpub page (updated on a regular basis) is https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux.

- Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MG342KU

- iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-tao-of-tmux/id11689...

Also I have a coupon for pre-orders @ $7.99 https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/c/oBsI4y3o4quu.

I've started an indiegogo @ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tao-of-tmux-the-ebook
Great list. :)
To support your claim, people have been learning BASIC, Oberon, and [on kid side] Scratch very well for a long time. I'd love to see Smalltalk with its OOP testing against those. My guess is structured programming in BASIC or Scratch will come out ahead.
Does anyone smart enough to install a browser plugin (much less visit GitHub) really need something to identify fake news sites?
So in other words, Web of Trust for news sites.

Sounds like an interesting concept, though it'll need some really careful moderation to stop it getting abused. I've seen sites get low WOT ratings because the staff banned a few members and said members then took it out on their WOT page.

You'll need a good way to stop these negative SEO type attacks from being weaponised against a news site's rating by its competitors.
Cheaper, duh. As a corporation, you want all of your corporate inputs to have multiple suppliers and heavy competition to supply you. That gives you low prices for your inputs. You want your outgoing product to be a monopoly, or nearly so - that gives you high prices for your outputs.

It has long been understood in the U.S. that pulling workers from remote areas strongly depresses local wages. You don't want any tightness in labor supply. You also don't want your workers to organize, since again, this causes tightness in labor supply. The transcontinental railroads brought in Chinese workers, not because they were superlative workers or in any way superior at driving track spikes than the Irish were, but only to drive down the wages demanded by the Irish. Today farms prefer Mexican workers, not because locals can't pick apples, but only because it drives down the wages demanded. This cycle repeats throughout history.

And this is why wages for programmers, etc., haven't gone up at all in the last 15 years (and probably never will again). The supply of programmer labor is being managed to always exceed the local demand, keeping wages flat.
I really appreciate the thinness of my current MBP when I haul my previous MBP around. I wonder though, where's the limit on this move to thinness? At what point do they stop balancing it with the other things we like about these machines? I've already lost some travel in the keyboard. I'm not too excited about the newer keyboards with considerably less travel.
It's a two step process. First we teach all the programmers to always be ethical. Then we teach everyone to program. Boom. No more problems.
Haha, you're right that there is a chicken and egg problem, but if DART was really an order of magnitude greater than JS, there would be a lot more DART programmers after this many years.
Other engineering disciplines provide infrastructure for their members to include ethical considerations in their analysis of their work, e.g. the Iron Ring [1].

There's a strong argument that our discipline can profit by their example.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
Christopher Schwarz, who wrote "The Anarchist's Tool Chest", recommended elsewhere in the comments, also wrote a book "The Anarchist's Design Book". In it, he covers two basic, simple construction techniques for building what he calls "furniture of necessity".

He doesn't cover specifically a stool of the type you're describing, but he does discuss exactly the problem of joining legs to a seat, and gives several projects using the technique that could be adapted to what you want to build.

If you're looking to build something bar stool height, you'd probably need to add stretchers to make the chair strong enough. If you're going for chair height, you could trivially adapt the staked back stool in chapter 6 to your purposes.

In the interests of full disclosure, I own both "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" and "The Anarchist's Design Book" by Christopher Schwarz, as well as "With the Grain" and "Chairmaker's Notebook", which are also published by his company. My standing gift request is anything from Lost Art Press (said company) that I don't already own. I have no business interest in the company, but I do wish them well, because they publish excellent material.
You don't like numbers and facts, then let's take it to the next level.

Majority of the Dev community in the San Francisco Bay Area (for example) is of Asian/Indian descent. We're not even talking about foreigners here. Children of immigrants (immigrants who probably came through H1-B) - the second generation, American citizens.

So, bringing people via H1-B actually helps fulfilling "high-level" jobs with American citizens. Does it make sense?
Can you explain more ? I am interested in something like this for a WP product I run:

1. Client clicks on "Try our Demo"

2. A stripped version of the entire product is uniquely genereated only for that customer (we will take their email first etc)

3. They try the demo which has no collision with another potential lead who may have clicked on "Try demo" as well

4. The unique demo site is destroyed automatically after a certain number of hours/days

Is this what you are offering ? How would you setup the environment ? I am not familiar with Docker at all so any details are appreciated. Will you create a separate WP codebase and mysql db for each demo ? Do we have access to restrict things like file uploads, admin capabilities etc ?
All this proves is that you have absolutely no understanding of the actual work that goes into weather forecasting.
> No, fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories

That's great, but that's not what this project appears to be focused on. It currently has a hardcoded blocklist, some of which is clearly just right-wing news/opinion with little to no ads - clearly not what you've described as spam sites.
I just spent some time this weekend rebuilding my backup routines. In short, I Borg [1] and multiple targets. For a local target at home, I use a RasPi with RAID1 [2]).

For company sync/backup, we use AeroFS [3].

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000024
[3] https://aerofs.com/
In 1992, a fellow student called Usenet the 'ultimate procrastination device'. The Internet provides access to an inexhaustible supply of people, topics and thoughts (some interesting, others less so).

This is still the case, except that the number of access methods and filters have increased, and many of them are with us everywhere, all the time.

Our own time is indeed finite, and my experience has been that the digital world will consume as much of that limited time as you let it.

Awareness is a first step, and a purposeful approach to consuming content helps keep your content consuming time balanced with, well, all the other stuff you can do in this world.
imho usually the best books, are those complex ones, which I read for 4 months. Because after every page, 15 new questions arise, where settling them takes time, and then internalization of that wisdom takes time as well. And I don't even mention, that best books get better after re-reading.

In this light, 300 books in 4 years, seems quite a lot...
side note: This happened without his involvement in social media at all. Others, collectively, used social media to get that effect.
Who cares about environmental friendliness? Liberals. Who has the money to pay extra for environmentally friendly products? Well-to-do liberals. I don't really understand how you think things could have gone differently.
I'm pleasantly surprised this is being discussed at the top of HN.

I feel like 2 years ago people would pile on about how unusual it was to not be part of social media, how there is little argument against leaving, or how you must be seeking attention or must be anti-social. Well, as a very social 20-something, I left Facebook 3 years ago, myself a heavy user with thousand+ friends scattered around the world, and it has made zero negative impact on any aspect of my life ('invitations to events' or 'keeping contact' is the typical fear against leaving, and it continues just as seamlessly [1] - people don't stop caring, thinking, or reaching out to you just because you leave Facebook, and vis versa), and it has easily been one of the top 5 or 3 decisions I've made in these 3 years. It's the equivalent of cutting out unnecessary yet significant things, or simplifying your life so you can remain mindful of the bigger goals. This may sound like something cheesy from the 4HWW, but I nonetheless think that kind of mindset is right on.

Now I see more people leaving Facebook who I wouldn't have imagined doing so a few years ago. Perceptions will remain divisive for some time, but I can see "avoiding social media" as gaining some real cachet as "I don't fuck around". Regardless of whether there is actually a correlation with avoiding social media and being a more serious, goal-oriented person, I do think mainstream perception will continue to change for the better away from the stigmatizing "Wow <person X> is not on <platform>, what's his deal?"

[1] Lightweight messaging apps, especially for international contacts... certainly not the whole investment of 'social media' since it's nothing but the messaging.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 with Quick Charge 4 will change future phones
Let me guess: you don't program lisps much? This is the preferred style of almost every lisp. After a week of it you don't see the parens, and after learning to program using paredit you won't even have to bother with them ever again.

I write object pascal for a living, and every second of it makes me long for the comfort of parens everywhere.
It's like in that anecdote - I guess the author is not using the wrong kind of social media ;) I get a lot of useful information from diaspora* for instance.

If someone builds a stereotype and then says - I don't like that. It speaks more about the stereotype, than about the real thing necessarily.
http://showthedocs.com/query?lang=nginx&q=server+%7B%0D%0A++...
I appreciated the distinction you made in your feedback.

> [from your OP] Nationalism focusses more on cultural background, language, and heritage, which "I ︎<3 America" doesn't necessarily convey.

I picked an "American" cultural icon in conformance with your definition of nationalism.

> If you have a point, please make it.

Social commentary on the current attempt to render expressions of affinity for one's "cultural background, language, and heritage" as socially unacceptable, and indicative of regressive and/or antisocial mindset, and possibly cause for loss of livelihood in companies such as Grubhub.
Define bullshit.
I'm not sure what you mean. The way I understand it, the vacuum is capable of creating arbitrary particles as long as the quantum numbers are conserved and ΔEΔt >= ħ/2. With e- being the lightest (apart from neutrinos, which are negligible), the vacuum is producing virtual e-/e+ pairs, which are long lived enough to interact with real particles. As an approximation, the vacuum is exclusively an e-/e+ soup, since the other quarks and leptons require much too large of a ΔE to instantiate. The way I understand γ-thrusters is that they make use of the very tiny amount of momentum in a single photon, p = ħk, along with the large N of them bombarding the object. I haven't seen any calculations for γ-thrusters that take into account vacuum fluctuations, though.
I use aws-cli tools. I create buckets on S3 and then use a simple script:

aws s3 sync <source> s3://<bucket-name> --delete

If needed, put this in a cron and you are good to go
Tools for analyzing information can work, but they need to help the person using them make their own judgements, rather than delegate the whole process to some third party or opaque model/algorithm.

This is the same basic difference that you can see between good and bad science lectures in schools. Bad lectures give students a bunch of formulas they have to trust and memorize. Good lectures describe how the world works, which they can confirm through their own observations and experiments.

Anything that relies on blind trust in some curator will eventually have the exact same problems news most media has right now.
From what I've heard, it's more of a market pressure.

Imagine you wrote a typical 250 page non-fiction book that is padded out in the typical way. Just before publishing, you get fed up and edit it down to just 50 pages that convey everything without any fluff. Your publisher will tell you you're nuts and insist on publishing the 250 page version. Why?

Imagine you are shopping for a book on a topic. You find 6 such books in the store. 5 are the typical 200-300 page pieces. One 50 pages. They all cost the same. You don't have time or patience to investigate their relative quality. Do you A: assume the 50 page book is a low-effort blog series repackaged in print. Or, B: bet that the 50 page version is a high-effort careful edit? Most people choose A and I'd bet they are almost always correct in current practice.

Tldr: Short books look cheap. Customers assume they are ripoffs and don't buy them.
The Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Party
I don't think it reads well. I came from ALGOL family as you'd expect. I always hated LISP syntax unless I was doing a parser or 4GL. LISP lovers have always acted like it's impossible to give in on this point to increase adoption whereas some had saner strategies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)

Much more beautiful to read. You could almost turn syntax that looks like that into a scripting language with a good standard library. Would probably get widespread, commercial and FOSS adoption plus make Hacker News a lot. Just speculation on my part over ten years ago. Maybe give it a cute-looking, snake logo to symbolize making people like something they hate.

Nah, I'm sure lispers will miss this obvious strategy for success of their favorite language. :P
How to grow a forest in your backyard (TED talk)
He did explain things clearly. Don't mistake your own inability to understand with someone else's ignorance
I stand corrected thanks!