skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go so far as to say that 2048 words aren't that many.

Here's Merriam-Websters 3000 _core_ words [1].
Here's a list of 355k words [2].

[1] http://learnersdictionary.com/3000-words

[2] https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
We all know what China is going to use this for. And it's not going to be for fighting spam.
Our laws on drugs are really quite arbitrary. In the UK people have factual evidence showing that drugs such as MDMA causes both less physiological and social harm than alcohol[0] so it's not really that we are trying to prevent harm rather than can't prohibit a behaviour that is now deeply ingrained in society.

Humans love intoxication. It's as old as time, with mountain people chewing coca leaves or brewing mescaline tea. Even in cultures where alcohol is banned such as the middle east, they simply found alternatives like coffee and tobacco.

[0]https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/...
Private prisons are being phased out: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37124183
Would be interesting to see if there has been any recent info on this, maybe you're aware of some?
I doubt a regular employee has much say on policy.

But you can leak things. Leak like a sieve! Get all the embarassing details, company memos, internal private statistics out there. Tell the world what's really going on.
"Economics in One Lesson" has been touted as a perfect introduction to Economics, yet I was pretty underwhelmed after I read it.

It just assumes that trickle down economics works, and repeats this "lesson" ad nauseam chapter after chapter.

However, it is very clear historically that trickle down economics does not work, and that completely unregulated markets lead to human rights abuse.

Picketty is much more enlightening.
The are 320 million people in the US. Therefore there were many instances of violence against supporters of any candidate by supporters of any other candidate. But statistically the was almost no political violence of any kind.
The hole at the heart of economics: the consent of the governed
To be fully client based (serverless) you need a middle-man for web-hooks. Websockets are a better alternative for stand-alone web clients. There are also "push notifications" via web workers but they are vendor dependent.
Very interesting demo. So it has at least one feature I'm looking for :). Basically, I'd like something like that, but with annotations like in Acrobat Reader (but more), on a tablet, and off-line at least for my own codebase.

I found a small issue with "peek definition" window: http://imgur.com/TT2KmpR.
Yes - I agree. Africans are brought up in an environment where all their leaders, great figures - are black, like them - which leads them to have a different (better?) self-identity.

So when they come to America - they succeed, whereas African Americans might have some systematic self-esteem issues.

But this doesn't help your case - just the opposite: it shows that culture is a driving factor - not racism. Again - we are assuming that both African Americans and African-Africans face the 'same amount of racism' and yet one group succeeds because of their cultural values.

I don't doubt that racism holds people back - but I don't think it's the primary driver. Your example illustrates this quite well.
Stopping another Holocaust or Nazi regime is not a good reason?
Agreed. If there was an up-to-date version of this document I'd be really interested in reading it. I am continuously fascinated with the infrastructure etc. of the internet.
A lot of the way the industry is structured is focused around safety. Perhaps there's concern that an escalating price war over pilots would cause airlines to skimp on costs like mechanics and maintenance?
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." --Socrates
One of the biggest and widely overlooked/unknown problems with select(2) is the size of the fd_set. If the file descriptor number is higher than fd_set's size (often 1024) you have a problem. (If you don't change it)
In a foggy/dreary climate (think UK) it doesn't make sense

Same with places prone to radical weather. Or just anywhere that doesn't get a lot of sun (the farther you get from the equator, really).

Because even if we get solar panel cost down in the next few years, it is still going to be expensive and need a fair amount of maintenance. And if that doesn't offset the cost sufficiently, it isn't worth it

Believe me, I want clean energy and do think solar should be exploited where it is reasonable (same with wind) and wish we would at least use cleaner sources where it isn't. But studies/experiments like this tend to rely on best case scenarios and corner cases and often just don't take economics into consideration.

Are they good as proof of concepts and PR? Yeah. But they still aren't that representative.
Grails! If your like me (into Java world), then Grails is the right choice.
Paper Trail Gem: Track Changes to Your Models’ Data
The easiest implementation would be a serial number. Then the client can check for holes in the number series.
Now that Tesla is all in with solar.

I hope they can pour money into technology which generates power from the rain[1].

As with everything the new technology starts out with low power. But my hope is that they increase that and you can generate energy all year round. Even at night!

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/11/solar-cell-generates-pow...
Interesting. So possibly even the same tool the article mentions, but different rules/config/people setup with access then for China.

Also interesting they have a private company working directly for the government. I figured in those cases someone from the German gov would have to mail or fax a letter to Facebook for every individual request, sorta like how DMCA works. Super spooky sounding they'd just outsource it to another company. Does sound it like's ripe for abuse then since you mention censoring content promoting other political parties. Seems like once the tool is setup, Facebook is then no longer directly involved beyond that point.

On another note, I am super surprised how many political parties Germany has compared to here in America. Seems like more choices, the better.
The best feedback I received was from a hiring manager who said I was not senior enough for the position (they only hire senior engineers at that company). After my onsite interviews, we had a series of phone calls that pushed me out of my comfort zone, onto a path to discover my career.

1. He said he and his team were sitting on the fence about whether to take me on or not. The interviews went well, but he couldn't make a decision yet, so we agreed to talk in the morning.

2. He called the next morning and told me I didn't get the position. He gave his reasons (further down) and told me to keep in touch. I asked if I could call him again to ask some questions and he said that was fine.

3. Played phone tag a little, but he eventually called back and took the time to answer my questions about growing as an engineer.

This hiring manager was looking for senior engineers. I had no idea where I stood in my career, having been at the same company for most of my career (8 years), but I decided to give the interview a try. Hiring manager said I was not senior enough (a fair assessment) for the position. I asked him what it would take for me to be considered "senior enough" and he gave me some pointers on how to gain depth and breadth, as well as developing soft skills.

That 3rd phone call was really, really valuable. I started reading books (both technical and non technical) and really pushing myself to code more. But more importantly, I've pushed myself to seek help and guidance from people who are way more experienced. I suppose when you get specific directions, you get just a little bit closer to your destination... even if it's a moving target. :)

It's pretty rare to get this kind of feedback and I can definitely see why recruiters and hiring managers don't give this level of detail. They're really not obligated, and it can get them in trouble.

(edit: line breaks)
It's worth noting that using encryption techniques makes the functioning of a voting system opaque to 99% of the population. In contrast, everyone can understand how voting using paper works.

It's no doubt possible to make digital voting systems with some awesome properties, but in the end, are the improvements they give worth this loss of understanding (which might come with a decreased trust in the system)?
Wouldn't that be "the strongest man becomes the chieftain" kind of system?

I don't think I know of any human societies (non fictional) which worked with this system...
Deliveroo customers billed for unordered food
An ancient Chinese bird kept its feathers, and colors, for 130M years
I never really use `git blame` - my primary git use case is as a single user.

The history button in github is close to what I'd like, but it's not quite as friendly as single next/previous buttons that just paginate the changes to a file. That makes cycling through the history very easy, whilst 'click commit id, back, remember which commit we just viewed, click following commit id, repeate' all sounds a bit painful.
You're not supposed to remember all your passwords. You will need to remember at least one master password and maybe a couple more.

But you can't suggest that remembering 5 random words is harder than 20 random characters?

The goal is "simple" if possible, but "simpler" is still a lot better than "practically impossible".
Personally, I find Java 11 makes this much easier.
It sounds like Deliveroo don't do any payment validation checks when you order to a new address?

If so, it's a fairly big security hole to leave
The full editorial itself is reasonably neutral and well stated. They may be overstating their ability to "build pragmatic and rational policy".

For your assertion however, I can only yell "NO". I can't emphasise that strongly enough. Just gives supremely high chance of poor opinions heavily biased by the over confidence effect.

This is probably controversial, so bear with me, while I try and explain as it'll probably take some space. I'll apologise for length and poor explanation before I even start!

Let's look at a different neurotransmitter a moment - dopamine. Amphetamines markedly affect dopamine receptors. If most people take recreational doses they'll be stimulated, motivated, and sociable. If I take it I get no effect on motivation, and chill out. I'll probably sit and binge watch TV, work or read a book for eight hours straight. I won't be bothered to be sociable as I'd be delighting in the chilled calm. You may not be surprised to learn I have ADHD.

I fought for years with doctors "knowing" drugs and how they act on the brain in trying to get diagnosed with ADHD. Took years to not be dismissed out of hand. I don't find most doctors any more aware than the general public much of the time. That's not a function of where I live - time hanging around the assorted ADHD forums that have come and gone show all countries have had similar issues and hundreds of people struggling to get a diagnosis or referral because of horribly poor doctor, psychiatric or specialist awareness. Often those doctors are responding as though the patient is a normal brain merely seeking recreational drugs (which of course happens too), but it's entirely opinion. It's not uncommon to get misdiagnosed something else, perhaps with lasting and damaging consequences. (You don't typically ever get "undiagnosed" of mental disorders).

For many only when learning the field extensively themselves is real progress made. It's quite sobering to realise just how many have had to start studying and reading research themselves prior to being able to get diagnosis.

Minds are more difficult as we tend not to be able to diagnose anything like as easily as a broken bone, germ or viral illness. There's a need to rely solely on self reporting as we can't, yet, throw someone in a scanner and identify them as having depression, ADHD, Asperger's or LSD addiction. In the case of recreational drugs and use there's going to be little in the way of studies of their effects on healthy minds. I seem to remember quite recently LSD had the first study in 50 years. Anti depressants often seem to have suicide and suicidal ideation as side effects - the same medicine can have dramatically different mental effects in ways not often seen with say paracetamol.

The main difference then is a doctor is more likely to be believed and have opinions acted upon without any real understanding. They may have better understanding, if and only if the correct studies are there. For the most part they won't be. Yet.

Doctors are well placed to advise on studies and contraints as health impacts arise from legalisation however.
The Unfixable Bug
Shoot me an email at sqs@sourcegraph.com if you want to get early access to some of the upcoming things (or sign up at https://sourcegraph.com/beta). I think you'll like what's coming. Thanks for the bug report. :)
could you elaborate more? i have few chips and pis in my drawer and just want to be prepared what's ahead.. some day..
This is completely off the subject but are you trying to indicate that he is somehow "man-splaining".

Educating readers as to the code of conduct of the site is required otherwise you would be downvoted without understanding why and just blaming it on "them bloody MRA's".
The joke is we're primates too, and human females do this all of the time, you can see this in the motif of two heros(one "good" and the other "bad") fighting for a female, "golddigger" being most of the time attributed to the female, to the psychological game called "Rapo" where a female entices a particular male's attention so that another male would fight the first male, and so an and so on.
The joke is believing all of the "Women are wonderful" effect, that there's a "rape culture", vilifying men and pedestalizing women, and all of the PC crap that dictates males and females think/feel and behave the same way and disregarding all of the obvious evolutionary and logical conclusions that males are predisposed to violence and females to manipulation in order to get what they want.
GitPlex can show history of any path (a file or directory) quickly via history button, and from there you can even refine the history (search for certain tags, commits made by certain people, etc) of the file, and once you get to the point, you can either view content of the file, or hit the compare button to compare with your previous browsed copy.
An example here:
http://gitplex.pmease.com/demo/android-framework-base/commit...
Hellbanning has always been evil. When you interact with a public computer, there is a trust that is established. When you click a vote button, you expect a vote to be counted. When you press the elevator close-door button, you expect the door to close. When you make a public comment, you expect you are making a public comment.

To, well fuck with people in this manner is evil -- I do not care what your reasons are, how many people are on your site, the incidence of mental illness in the general population, and so on. There are other remedies aside from using technology to lie to and manipulate people.

If it hasn't become clear by now, it should be: the major internet players are interested in only one thing: to keep being the major internet players. That doesn't make them bad or evil -- sometimes good people do evil things. It makes the rest of us realize we have a rather immediate obligation: fix this or be conquered by it.
There are certainly countries where healthcare is free to the patient at the point of delivery; countries where no one is ever refused healthcare for lack of ability to pay, or need ever consider such a thing. If your quibble is that it's actually paid for by general taxation, well, yes, but this is well understood by everyone as what is meant by "make healthcare free".

(Similarly for college tuition, while we're at it. As for "create jobs" and "increase wages", these are relative terms, but there are certainly countries where such things have gone up at times in response to specific policy decisions (including here in the U.S.!). I'll leave the rest untouched upon for now.)

Sometimes Americans do move to other countries! Sometimes they don't. More factors generally go into a person's decisions to move or not move than any one policy choice, and people have attachments to where they grew up, and so on. It's no small matter.
You can if it's a computer picking the password from presumably common words.

If the human is picking anything than there WILL be a bias in selection. Effort should be made at minimizing that, but even with education this is a difficult task for any worker.

It got to the point where I actually took a classic literary work and made a 'password words' dictionary from it just so that I could have the computer generate possible new passwords. (there bias is mostly filtering out things that might be offensive... because someone can always take it the wrong way even if you explain in advance the theory of how the password was created by a computer).
Interesting. In these terms, it could probably just be a totally separate, general-purpose 'text file annotation' tool with git support (but not a requirement).
Ja. See also the borrowed word Zeitgeist, literally time-ghost but more accurately the 'spirit of the age'.
I recommend you watch this:

https://youtu.be/dSqLt8BgbRQ
Clickbait - A web server in one line of bash:

$ nginx
But once you're out there, is it possible to go back into hiding?
Shadow-banning in HN works differently in that users can choose to see shadow-banned comments. If I ever felt that a user was being censored then I could (a) read the censored material, and (b) tell the user that they were being shadow-banned. This has never happened so far, I see no evidence that HN is shadow-banning as a form of political control.
That's my point, you don't gain anything except a different directory structure. And if you stuff everything into one directory, size.
Learn everything about A/B testing
For me the scripting language for non-programmers looks more like Automator (the GUI) or Workflow - its iOS counterpart.

A programming language will always be for programmers or at least enthusiasts.

Also I do not agree that bash is good for non-programmers. In order to make any more complicated thing work you have to learn a lot of syntax and language specific things. I have always found perl easier than bash to do anything remotely more complicated.
I guess that's an improvement on rioting. Hopefully folks are finding the tantrums from the Left enlightening, as we're getting to see their emotional reaction to having their power lust denied.

Sadly, it's been denied by electing Trump :( Win some, lose some, I guess.
Apparently you have never worked in a NOC?

You need one team of three for 24/7 NOC coverage, even for a worldwide customer base. Preferably four or more but three will do for a while.

Tickets are automatically generated from alerts for anything from unusual web server logs to disks filling up to network bandwidth spikes to slow SQL queries, etc. The NOC staffer attempts to resolve problems on their own, and identifies and calls the first point of contact for specific issues as necessary, following the appropriate escalation procedure.

As people get woken up in the middle of the night for their shit breaking, after a few weeks, suddenly regular problems either go away or standard procedures for fixes are documented. In a few months a staff of three can handle 90% or more of the tickets that are automatically generated.

We were doing this over 10 years ago with about 2000 servers getting traffic from 2,000 to 150,000 hits per second on Perl web apps. Honestly, nobody does anything efficiently anymore.
http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
New Report Shows Telecom Privacy Slowly Improving
Google Earth: The 25-Year Search
OpenCart File Inclusion Vulnerability
Never heard "Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." ?
A bit off-topic but the image used suggests that MS have officially adopted the ninja cat riding a flame-breathing unicorn meme [^0]. They even added special emoji to Win 10 [^1].

[^0]: http://www.windowscentral.com/here-microsoft-ninja-cat-wallp...

[^1]: http://blog.emojipedia.org/ninja-cat-the-windows-only-emoji/
I think he means "me making money out of censored Facebook is better than some other guy making money out of censored WeChat".
صيانة ال جي
> “It’s better for Facebook to be a part of enabling conversation, even if it’s not yet the full conversation,”

It's also nice to be surrounded by people, even if you're hitting them on the head one by one as they drop into a mass grave.
Good trap. He totally fell for it!
WordPress, use esc_html_e() instead of _e()
PV doesn't have to be the best tech everywhere. Nuclear and coal has it's own drawbacks - hard to turn on/off and generating a lot of unneeded power during night.
A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide
My comment about universal grammar may not have been as germane as I thought.

I have not really been plugged into the pop science side of linguistics, so I'm not really familiar with any of the articles in Scientific American or Wolfe's recent work. However, I don't think that many people in linguistics have taken universal grammar very seriously since the 1970s or so, but that might just be my view of things.

Chomsky's ridiculous and untenable ideas about a "language organ" can't be taken seriously. Anyone with a defensible stance on UG therefore defines UG as something else, and whatever that "something else" is ends up not quite useful enough to actually hang on to. "UG-like language acquisition" seems like a bit of a contradiction to me, since the original concept of UG is of an innate grammar (and if you have to acquire it, it's not innate).

Perhaps these anti-Chomsky pieces get so much circulation because firstly, they're easy since Chomsky's old theories are practically indefensible and long out of fashion and secondly, Chomsky's a household name so you can move advertising dollars by picking on his old ideas. There will always be a market for articles that tell readers that some famous intellectual was wrong once.
If only my bank allowed passwords...

Shame, Société Générale, shame.
That assumes the third-party is provided with the "metadata" (i.e. who posted it and to whom/where) rather than just the content of the post.
And the HTTP client:

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/localhost/8080
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n" >&3
cat <&3
STL is the separation of algorithms and data.