skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some people would rather everyone suffer than letting the market innovate on data plans.

And some people would rather everyone suffer than admit that "the market" is neither predictable nor a moral barometer.
It probably improved a lot since the last time I used it. I haven't done any C# in a while :)

It wasn't complaining about structs or refs but wanted LINQ everywhere, anonymous lambdas and other high level constructs in place of high-performing but harder to read ones.

I wasn't using reflection either, it was something like this simplified pseudocode (off the top of my head, I haven't touched that codebase in over a year):

var completed = false

for each line in timeline do
completed = completed || tick(line)

if completed // here it complained its always false

There was more to it (to handle time offsets and multipliers, disabled lines and whatnot) but thats the gist of the algorithm.

After disabling or tweaking rules every day I just decided to uninstall it, and as I said its a wonderful tool - just not for that specific task at that specific point in time :)
HOW DO WE KNOW YOU DIDN'T CREATE THIS ONE
We know from the code that user comments aren't encrypted at all, or their voting tallies.

Of course not, how would you show the comments to visitors if they were encrypted?

This is very public proof that even the content of comments can be manipulated [...]

How would anyone be surprised by this, it's all just rows in a database. If you are in the right position with the right credentials, you can do whatever you want.
ghacks are offing some great black friday deals: https://deals.ghacks.net/

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Trump Tesla: Trump Supporters' Plan to Take Down Tesla
That is interesting since I do almost the exact opposite of what you do. I hate VMs and SSH sessions for dev work with a passion.

I have a powerful linux desktop box that I run my builds on, and a light weight 13" 2015 Macbook Pro to connect to it. I check-out the code onto my linux box and scp it down to my Mac (ignoring source control folders) and subsequently use rsync to keep both the boxes in sync (there's an Atom plug-in that rsyncs every time you save).

I get native OSX performance as I edit code and I get to run fast builds on my desktop, so it's a pretty nice win-win scenario as far as I'm concerned.
I saw your other comment alluding to this and was intruiged. If you have time, can you please elaborate?
I think drives in general should be bought new, at least for production use (ie. were it is a hassle to replace it). I've got quite a few second-hand rust-spinners, but I only use them for backup purposes, ie. they are all replaceable with no loss.
Why not? The inaccuracy problems were merely poor-quality measurements and statistics. Prediction accuracy will continue to improve with technology.
I don't see how such a log would make HN better. Do you think anything will stop people from accusing HN moderation of bias? That's not how it works. They will accuse us of that no matter what we do and no matter what the truth is. Publishing more material about moderation would do nothing to reduce this; it would likely just feed it.

When people see something they don't like, they don't think, "Well, any even-handed system will put up things I don't like sometimes." They think: Bias! Outrage! And some will rush to post "J'accuse!". Consider that in any large group this will happen to a few people every day (sometimes the same few!), and consider that it takes 100x as much effort to responsibly respond to the j'accuses as to fire them off in the first place. To feed that would be to power a DoS attack on all the resources that could otherwise make HN better.

Therefore our goal should not be the impossible one of placating everybody with a litigious bee in their bonnet, but (a) being able to say "no, we don't do that" in good conscience, and (b) retaining the good will of the community as a whole. Actually we like to help users with bees in their bonnets too, but to think it can always be done leads to madness.

We're toying with adding vouch links so users can vouch for a story they don't think should be marked as a flamewar. That's something that might improve the quality of HN.
Can you propose an alternative for capital allocation? Perhaps some magic central planning AI?
his spine would be sold separately

Sorry, that item is out of stock.
I develop virtual reality games professionally. I cannot do that on a Mac Pro or a Macbook Pro.
I have yet to hear a single argument that stems from that philosophical basis that does not turn out to be suspiciously aligned with corporate interests.
It only looks like a political move because a political subreddit is the one that forced the change. If it was any other subreddit, no one would have cared. I'm sure if /r/hillaryclinton did the same thing, they would have reacted the same. It's not good user experience for one subreddit to take over the site like that.
Going by the argument of opposing regulation/"interference" by unelected officials, conservatives could claim that the FDA (also an unelected body of government, part of the executive branch) frequently oversteps its bounds when it bans substances and products found to be harmful. How is a harmful product supposed to be taken off the market - wait for legislation from Congress while the product remains freely available?

I think delegation of authority is inevitable in a complicated administrative system.
Here's a better link

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/13/462906419/everyone-uses-singul...

Basically singular they is used by everyone because it sounds and feels natural in many contexts. It's only a touchy subject when people assume you are using it to be "politically correct."

Style guides are changing, Washington Post just changed theirs to allow singular they.
Do other car companies allow cars to be controlled via an Android app? Some people might see that as a feature, but to me that seems like a pretty bad product decision precisely because Android is so vulnerable.
For production or just for the fun of it?
The college no longer provides for any of the purposes that motivated its creation.

If we judge the college based upon the criteria that motivated its creation, then we inevitably reach the conclusion that the college should be abolished.
Responding to immaturity with immaturity is a bad idea altogether.

Sticking to principles, even when it's uncomfortable and inconvenient to do so is "immature" now?
Yes, I meant "indefinite", not neutral.

You're incorrect about the use of singular they, though: it's both correct in many contexts and widespread. See: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/they

"USAGE ALERT

Long before the use of generic 'he' was condemned as sexist, the pronouns 'they', 'their', and 'them' were used in educated speech and in all but the most formal writing to refer to singular indefinite pronouns or singular nouns of general personal reference (which are often not felt to be exclusively singular): If anyone calls, tell them I'll be back soon. A parent should read to their child.Such use is not a recent development, nor is it a mark of ignorance. Shakespeare, Swift, Shelley, Scott, and Dickens, as well as many other English and American writers, have used they and its related case forms to refer to singular antecedents. Already widespread in the language (though still rejected as ungrammatical by some), this use of they, their, and them is increasing in all but the most conservatively edited American English [...]"
After many years of turning no profit, Amazon has finally found its business model. Would not be surprised if they moved out of retail altogether.
This is a bit naive.

AMD hasn't been competitive with Intel for almost a decade...there's nothing recent about that.

AMD doesn't keep Intel's prices down, the market does.
Happy Thanksgiving from Our Table to Yours – Single Mom Globetrotter
CNN broadcasting FAKE NEWS, Off with their heads!
There are lots of ways to get access to this data, installing an app is a pretty convenient and common way to do so.

Any app can be hacked with enough effort. The Tesla app provided absolutely no resistance, and technically no privilege escalation is required to steal the relevant data.
Your screen reader app, or custom keyboard has the relevant access.

>Promon engineers recommend that the Tesla app provide two-factor authentication, should avoid storing the OAuth token in cleartext, prevent easy access to its source code, and use a custom keyboard layout when entering passwords to fight against mobile keyloggers.

We did not recommend this, however the OAuth token should not be in clear text.
Use a bot to monitor comments and an SCM like git to detect potentially suspicious differences. Like a comment change that is not marked as user edited. Or a comment change that seems to shift the original meaning significantly.
Hey Scott@HN go suck a dick liberal asshole!
You're saying we shouldn't worry about Trump doing exactly what he said he would do and the Republican congress wants to do. That's just stupid. We need to start mobilizing against this now. We need to make sure Trump and the Republicans pay for every one of their unpopular, anti-consumer policies.

Also, I don't need any of your lessons.
Going back to my earlier point, how is this different from handing over a paper ballot? You have no record of your paper ballot, and can't prove how it was counted toward totals either. Sure there is a "physical" record of it, but I'm sure (or at least I would hope) there are logs for the voting system as well that could be analyzed.

If you're unwilling to trust a computer system counts in a non-corrupted fashion, I'd be surprised to learn you use them for anything at all. Heck, who knows how the messages you're typing in here are showing up for me? Who is to say there isn't a middle man re-interpreting everything you type? How can you have any confidence in any system, unless you wrote it yourself? And deployed yourself, and completely control 100% of the system it's deployed on.

Hyperbole, sure, but why trust any system if not your vote recording system? I'd like to think (and again, I have no research to back this) that these are maintained by relatively "non-partisan groups," and that they are audited to evaluate for any sort of corruption or tampering. But even if they aren't, I don't think that paper ballot systems are any more so. The qualifications to be a ballot worker in my area seems to be that you've reached the age of retirement and are white, which could very easily bias the vote here. Should I not trust my results?
It's really, really not. Accusations of Russian influence on Trump's campaign are common to the point of almost being a meme. So /r/the_donald turned it into one. Not much different than the "steel beams" meme.

This coming from a person who filters out /r/the_donald so I don't have to see it.
There's also this: http://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
This is just rip-off of Abine DeleteMe service that's been around for years.
It's USD400 on ebay.
Which entity isn't paying exactly?
Content providers have to pay an ISP to be connected to the Internet in the first place. That price is diffused through the whole network of ISPs through their pricing schemes in between each other. It eventually reach the consumer-facing ISP such as AT&T and Comcast.

Instead of like you who pays for something like 100mbps download and 10 upload, big content provider probably have a commercial contract more like 100mbps upload and download for each of their data centers.
How engineering  Lyft helped me launch a new African ride share app in 10 days
Yes, law isn't a prevention method but I would argue is huge enough deterrent to keep people of doing it.

I agree people who want to keep secret is free to pursue it.

For me keeping a secret is not without cost, its a burden, significant amount of work and inconvenience.
https://lobste.rs/about, particularly with its mailing list mode.
2015 MacBook Pro, connected to a 43" 4K TV. I can spread so many windows on that screen it's ridiculous.
I'm pretty happy with it here in Canada. I know we have far less content than the american version of netflix, but it's still the best streaming service available (and a decent competitor to piracy)
I read the post title and thought "huh that's all?". Then I read your comment!

Also puts into perspective just how much water there is on earth.
Can you do it on any currently existing laptop that is not much heavier and much thicker than a Macbook Pro?
And for people who don't like mailing lists, /r/golang exists. Not sure why we can't have both.
It'd be better if dragging the left and right sliders was a smoother experience. There's a decent amount of lag as it recalculates the wheel.
It's actually better in Canada than it is in the US (going by selection of recent big-budget movies).
> There's a small blemish in that Ke Jie is still rated higher than AlphaGo.

This is false. Ke Jie is far far below Lee Sedol.

Lee Sedol has no equal. Well, AlphaGo beat him but we are talking about player ranks.
Nah, it doesn't make me bad. Non-interesting to the right audience. I have my own work-around: I take photos of the art and keep both the photos and the links to my work handy. I show the pictures, and that sometimes leads to interesting conversation. I tend to take it traveling with me, and meet folks because of it.

The process? Not so interesting to most folks. That's actually ok, I just have the realization of the interest most folks have.
The reported 35% average annual return is net of fees.
Eve part II: When logic programming meets CQRS
PGP Signed-Only Mails Are Useless
I really hate that petition site.

As much as I'm strongly against this bill, that petition is so poorly worded that there's no way I'm going to sign it. I did sign a somewhat poorly worded petition before and, not unexpectedly, the condescending "response" merely addressed the more hyperbolic rantings it contained rather than any of the reasons over 100K people signed it.

There really needs to be some way to greenlight draft petitions before they start getting major traction, so that anything that makes it to parliament reads like it was written by either a lawyer or journalist and not some outraged and poorly-informed 14 year old.

I really seems like that site only serves to placate people that might otherwise write to their MP, go out and demonstrate, or take some other form of potentially effective action, while never actually achieving anything.

Write to your MP instead. And please try to present a cogent, well-informed argument that might actually persuade that MP to champion the cause. Rants like this petition might be effective when it comes to preaching to the choir, but it's never going to change anyone's mind.
- https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Especially seasons 1 and 2. (startups)

- http://frontendhappyhour.com/ (frontend)

- http://shoptalkshow.com/ (web dev)
> As Python 2.x is still the default Python on many system and there are a fair number of research codes out there based on Python 2, we will use Python 2.x in this book.

This is so unfortunate. Scientific computing is riddled with technical debt and starting with Python 2 today is fairly irresponsible. If you're already invested in Python 2 and have code/training written up, fine. But if you're learning it just now, as the book's audience obviously is, picking Python 3 should be a no brainer.
There's a lot more profit in being a platform than a retailer. Amazon is letting other parties use their platform to do the high-capital, low-margin, race-to-the-bottom retail side and taking a massive chunk out of each sale. This is much more lucrative than sourcing, building, buying, and storing items directly.
ANDi’s Indie Dev Spotlight  – Hamid Sheikh and Hassan Ali
Nah man. Amazon is full of crappy quality Aliexpress/Futian Market dropship Chinese vendors. It is an actual problem. Point it out. Stop making lame comments like you feel it is racist.
After a 10 year fight induced from stress, I can positively say that I'm free from it, just reading a page like this would have floored me 5 years ago.

Some stuff I learned:

- Stop* with coffee, for some reason tea does not the same thing to my body, coffee is like gasoline on the anxiety fire, I cant stress this point enough.

- Stop* with nicotine, (almost) same as coffee

- Stop* drinking, you need to stay strong 7 days a week to get out of it

- Start walking, at least 8km during weekdays day, in brisk pace, you should have to take a shower after. After each walk, do a workout, pushups, chins etc. Make this a priority, and dont walk when its dark outside, you need the sunlight.

- In the beginning, avoid everything stressful, its not hiding, its waiting until strong enough

- Stoicism contains allot of valuable lessons for us, its where CBT came from after all.

- If you come out on this like me on the right side (I hope), and your loved one is still by your side, remember that !

All the best !

*) To stop with something like "drinking" and coffee, it seems hard and rash, but it really helps, and dont make the mistake to once in a while break the rule, its much easier to stick to the rule if there are zero exceptions, less inner conversation, less guilt, more pride.
He edited comments invisibly (not showing the usual edit mark), replacing the content with content against the rules of the subreddit. Thus when subreddit mods saw content that was against the rules, they banned the victims' accounts.
Indeed before Silicon Valley they used to grow apricots in huge orchards in Santa Clara Valley. [0][1]

[0] http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/
[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c17ee8e4b0fe251ef64...
If we don't have Network Neutrality, we need to increase competition in consumer Internet access by an order of magnitude. In other words, its either net neutrality, or break up AT&T, TWC, Comcast, and Verizon into at least 40 companies, or riots.

With no NN, and no competition, we're going to end up forcing families who are aleady paying out the ass to choose between letting little Jimmy do the research he needs for his homework assignment, and Daddy sneaking some porn in the middle of the night. No way.
The author writes from the perspective of writing a CGI-based web app. Here, every request becomes a new OS process, so killing the application is killing the request.
> And, I suspect he won't have time to do all of the stuff that people worry about him potentially doing...

Trump doesn't have to do that much to dismantle net neutrality. All he has to do is sign bills put in front of him and appoint people to the FCC that are against the latter. He's not president yet, so he hasn't done the former, but he is in the process of the latter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fcc-idUSKBN13H02...
Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image
I had a friend whose bathtub drain was attached to nothing at all. It just spilled out into the space below the apartment. When they opened out up, they're was a giant subterranean pond hollowed out by years of water pouring out onto the ground.
They're even with a rounding error, but every state must get at least one. The rounding error is pretty big for the smallest states.
I keep photos of my work on my phone. That's actually the easiest way to talk about it and be engaged. It just doesn't work with everyone :)
REM - Imitation of Life is amazing :
https://youtu.be/PbgKEjNBHqM
Here is a visualization of what has been done :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ew-E3jfK5U
It's a 20 seconds sequence.
I'd say it's less about piles going to bedrock and more about the ground itself.

Building on sand, trash, and whatever other gunk comprises San Francisco ground...
My conspiracy theory was VC funding required companies to spend X% on Sun/Cisco equipment, whether they needed it or not. In any case expensive, unused Sun servers were lying around everywhere during that period. And you'd hear thing like people bragging about their spare E10K.
Space Fashion Experts: Summer Ash and Emily Rice
Is it worth it? Staying out of "obligation" or "guilt"?
Our Fair City

Full List: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12543963
Stop thinking in "types" and responses and most certainly--stop thinking that things happen for "absolutely no reason".

Everything happens for a reason. Anxiety is a mental state. Until that state is resolved, the anxiety will persist. Strong self-reflection is the way out.

Cannabis can help to rocket you through your anxiety and helped me figure it out pretty quickly.
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too.

Utter nonsense. Under a popular vote-based system, each person in a non-coastal state would have exactly as much say as each person in a coastal state. To the extent that coastal areas might have more sway as a whole because they have more people, isn't that the whole point of democracy?

If we want to give people in less populous areas more power because they're a minority, why stop there? Why don't we give Asians and blacks more voting power than whites? Why not give Muslims and Jews more voting power than Christians? We could give more voting power to gays and lesbians than straight people!

Why is rural area/state vs urban area/state the divide where we ought to privilege the minority? Why not some other dimension that historically has involved a lot more oppression? Wouldn't that make more sense?
TweetDeck for Amazon: I See A Great Need.
No UI for traceless edits and DB password split in three parts like nuclear launch codes. Then the CEO couldn't do it alone and he would have some time to think things through before others agree to participate in such fishy business, if they do at all.
I think at this point it is clear that it takes tremendous energy to have a very little say on topics like net neutrality, surveillance, and more. That's the case is most western countries: Our leaders have a great latitude, in parallel with their main program, to apply things which weren't discussed during the campaign.Until we find a better way, we'll have to accept that, yes, the president has legitimate power to do it.
> It's that if someone wins a popular vote by 2 million fucking votes, then they should probably win the election.

Except that in a universe where the President was selected by popular vote, the candidates would have campaigned differently anyway, so your point is completely moot.
> (...) after a grave error by RCN, a local cable TV provider based in New Jersey that provides CNN's broadcasting all down the east coast.

> Apparently, only viewers in Boston experienced the mistake on Thursday night as one viewer voiced her concerns on Twitter.

According to these lines from [1], it was a localized problem, and wasn't from the CNN stream, but from the RCN replaying a wrong feed to subscribers.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-...
The Tesla Android app (there is a new version coming out soon to replace the very dated Android and iOS versions) stores its oauth credentials in plain text in the Tesla app folder. So in order for this to work:

1. User must enable the installation of apps from unknown sources.

2. User must then find and install malicious app.

3. Malicious app must then try and root phone in order to be able to read the oauth credentials stored in the Tesla app folder.

4. And finally, user must own a Tesla.

Chances of this ever happening in the real world: Zero.
> I don't think I can handle this much more to the point I'm getting depressed as well (suicide thoughts)

I'd strongly suggest telling someone how you are feeling if you have not already. I've been there myself where my significant other was having physical health issues and I was just spent emotionally, physically and financially. That discussion with my spouse and family was a big turning point for all of us for the better.