skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of this moment nearly every top level comment claims that sensationalized news is just as bad as manufactured news.

Come on guys, there is a huge difference. Lumping together everything you don't like about X is not a productive way to address individual problem. It really only helps to give yourself an excuse to throw your hands up in frustration.
Show HN: Booksnake, Python CLI to search for and download public-domain ebooks
Python3 as default dialect!
Well perhaps my assumptions about well-known and widely used open source stuff were just too naive.

I guess I'm not really thinking "distrust them like they actively include malware" just that it looks like I need to at least keep a look out for stuff like this.

I love FOSS. I believe in it, I use it all the time, I've made a few minor contributions here and there too. It's not like I'm saying "OMG FOSS is teh evil!", just that maybe my trust level was calibrated a little high :)
Has anyone tried to "Poison Tap" a Tesla?

http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/11/poison-tap-5-usb-hijack-loc...
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From TFA: "It represents less than one percent of all known water ice on Mars..."
Thanks for pointing out the bug!
Cassandra is perfectly fine. If you want your writes to be consistent, learn to use LWTs properly. The same way, if you want your data to be fully consistent in RDBMS, learn to use SERIALIZABLE isolation level (which is not default in most RDBMSes for performance reasons). If, in an RDBMS, you use SERIALIZABLE for half of the updates and READ UNCOMMITTED for another half, guess what consistency guarantees do you really get?
Finally cancelled my prime membership after 7 years. I just don't feel like Amazon is delivering the same level of service quality they used to
The “Majesty of VueJS 2” (ebook), black Friday deal 40% off
The screenshots are still floating around. I saw them on Quora a couple of days ago
It's pretty standard schmaltzy PR BS if you ask me
> for the Trump supporter this is not a bad thing, per-se

This is a bad thing for all consumers, period.
Lake Superior has enough water to flood all of North and South America to almost one foot.
I don't know about these guys, but according to Cathy O'Neil, D. E. Shaw profited by anticipating (c.f. index front-running) pension funds in a way that sickened her to the point of quitting.

https://mathbabe.org/2011/06/24/working-with-larry-summers-p...
Heterodyne
Whether or not you have saved enough should be a function of living expenses, not wages.

If you have $5k and can live on $600/month, that's great. If you need $1k/month in expenses, then it's not great at all.

As soon as possible, you need to have enough saved to cover an unexpected, large expense (car/home repair, medical emergency, moving to a new place, etc.) and at least 6 months of living expenses. I personally have at least 12 months of living expenses at any given time.
I think that the CEO of Reddit should step down. I believe that the odds of him getting caught for this were very small - So that begs the question; how many times did he pull this off in the past without anyone noticing?

The almost unnoticeable subtlety of the act is what I find most disturbing.
It's not that the act was abominable (it could be worse). It's just that this position demands higher ethics than that - It needs someone with the right motivations.

I think people are too easy on CEOs; if a regular employee messes up, they get fired. Why doesn't this apply to executives?

We should be much tougher on executives... It's not like they'd lose their house or their family if they got fired.
Maybe they single out China because they're relaying their personal experience with a seller who happens to be from China.
Nicer way to blog on GitHub without all those push and pull
> However, I am not allowed to know anything about these scores or notes.

Are you in the UK? The Data Protection Act is very clear that you have the right to any information a company holds about you. All EU countries have a similar law.

If you are in the EU, you should be able to write to Google and demand the data they have. That might burn your bridges with them - but at least you'll know what they thought of you.
The main issue is that Reddit does not have a built-in way to filter out subreddits. There is a ton of uninteresting and offensive content on Reddit, and the only way I can use the site is to filter subreddits using Reddit Enhancement Suite. I like /r/all because it lets me discover new content outside of my subscriptions, but I can't read it on mobile or on other computers--without RES there is too much crap to wade through.
> If congress has power to pass certain laws, they have power to relegate some of such authority to a governing body. If the FCC's rules are in accordance with the laws that empowered it, then there is nothing wrong.

Yes, and people who don't like these regulations have the power to vote politicians who would revoke this authority. Your argument is unlikely to convince anyone. Especially people who are concerned that governments regulate too much, as parent states.
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This should be enough for a colony though. With a recycling program it would probably last indefinitely. Much better than bringing the water from Earth.
There are bedrock piles, and there are friction piles. The latter rely on friction of the material they're plunged into to stay put. They are effective and commonly used.

Despite how comforting the word bedrock is to our ears, neither one is "superior" to the other.

Obviously something is going wrong here, but it's not a case of "oh the developers cheaped out and decided to just build a giant skyscraper with no foundation!"
You can remotely kill someone with a tesla.
I've been on th fence on cancelling too. Only thing keeping me subscribed is prime now. I've found it immensely helpful and the restaurant delivery far better than the other delivery companies.
How are you doing that? There are some things you can filter on, like brand, that come close, but not specifically "no third parties".

Edit: Answered my own question. You can find a place to restrict seller to "amazon.com". It's not 100% useful for all searches though, as you filter out sellers like "Apple", or "Bose". Would be nice if you could filter seller down to "Manufacturer or Amazon.com" in some easy way.
RDBMSes can cause similar inconsistencies if you don't know what you're doing. It is like setting read uncommitted and then complaining about dirty reads.
So which better alternative did you move to?
Or:

(1...i).reduce(0) { $0 + g($1) }
Thanks for the links. Why create a throwaway account to post them?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Curious, was you wife working during these 8 years?
Okay, that's really big. Thanks for the info!
There is comedic fake news, fakier news, and then there is serious fake news.

While occasionally people are duped by The Onion, the site itself doesn't pretend to be posting real stories. Believing this is akin to believing the fakier news, which is basically the tabloids of old. Lizard people, celebrity "news" and gossip and the like. A certain subset of folks have always gone for that stuff, but I like to think that more of them read it for the giggles. The main reason any of this gets into mainstream is lack of fact checking by the real news folks.

But the other breed, the serious fake news, is the real problem. Even otherwise intelligent folks can't really sort out if they are real or not because it is just so freaking plausible. Their goal is to be believed, and reaffirm some suspicions and beliefs people have. Even worse, some of these sites will mix in factual stuff with their fakes. These are the ones that, "seem to be seeing this as an opportunity for a power play". In a sense, any news organisation that caters to any political party - fox news to an extent, and the more insidious players (occupydemocrats, for example) - are guilty of just this. Twist, lie, and misrepresent are part of the game.
obfuscation and false-equivalence is the best defense against propaganda accusations. did wonders for russia these last couple years.
Depends on the philosophical basis of their conservative or libertarian beliefs. Many conservatives have had fundamental issues with the administrative state, since they first opposed it in Prussia. Many of the problems which they have with the administrative state have to do with the incentives of the administrators, and the broad, arbitrary power delegated to the regulators.
Pretty sure we still are as I recently saw some down at at the port.
We love to point out that Auckland is actually ahead as we have the most x per capita. A Reddit thread on this phenomenon recently concluded that Auckland has the most per capita per capita.
> Skynet is a technology intervention initiative focused on developing open source technology to support the community internet movement.

No, we all know what skynet is
Good move, but the damage has been done. My recent product search have 'incentivized' reviews and it has been very hard to make any decisions, so I have been double checking the reviews from other sources. Due to this, I also found that Amazon prices are no longer competitive and my recent purchases have been via Target with either free shipping or local store pickup with cheaper prices.
Net neutrality involves less regulation and thus less barrier to entry. That government requires IsPs to collect data on usage, and store it for several months is a huge burden and cost to any would be small competitors.

The loss of net neutrality just increases walled gardens. And there will be a patch work of exceptions instead of broad neutrality.
Eh. Propaganda is always sold as education. It's an explanation, to carefully frame issues, direct public discourse and so on.

Rational analysis should not care of the source of information, but about its veracity.

Alas people are not that great at this, hence propaganda works.
I think the timing is right. After all, before the election, too much of the motivation would be to change each others' minds. It muddles the part where you're calling primarily to understand the other side.

It's like asking someone to self-evaluate when their raise is being decided tomorrow, versus having a raise, and sometime later asking that person to self-evaluate.
>Fakenews

Are we really resorting to Newspeak-esque conjugate words now? The problem with this term even existing is that it can be slapped onto any political story without the need to provide factual arguments. Were reports of NSA spying fake? They were if you asked the NSA. What about the highest levels of government lying about WMD's in Iraq? Surely that story must be fake too.

Sure, we can go after the low hanging fruit of obvious tabloid bullshit, but this is a very, very dangerous precedent that we are setting. I never thought I would see the day when so many people here would be arguing against freedom of the press.

And yes, throwaway account because of the vote brigading in this thread.
Please see point d. Specifying Amazon as the seller merchant does not mean what you think it means. Let me give an example in the form of a question / answer

a. If Amazon sells a 64 GB Sandisk card

b. Merchants A and B also sell the same card

c. Merchants A and B have opted into the fulfilled by Amazon program.

Question: You purchase the 64 GB Sandisk card and pick Amazon as the seller. Whose inventory did the card come from?

Answer: Undefined.

For semantic purposes we can think of the following mental model - For a given SKU Amazon takes the memory cards from its own inventory and inventory from all other resellers who have opted into the "Fulfilled by Amazon" program (in our example A and B) and puts it together in a giant heap in its warehouse. When a order comes in a card is picked at random from the heap and shipped out to you.
That's a great story. It'd be interesting to know whether that was all they could afford, or if they were being very forward-thinking in using COTS hardware and a failure-tolerant architecture.
pledge(2) is great. However, BCHS sucks.

No. Do not write your webapp in C. I'm serious here. Write it in Python, write it in TCL, write it in Lisp. But write it an environment that is at least semi-manged.

FFIs are pretty good. You can call pledge from your app. But don't write your app in C. If you're doing anything serious, it's a bad idea.
If the download link would have pointed to an official VLC site I think nobody would have complained either.
There's a school of thought in security that believes you should hard fail at any attempt to violate an invariant. I believe the linux grsec patches do this. They will just crash the kernel if they see something at runtime that they don't like.
I'll dig up photos of the ISP I founded back in 1993. I've got the evolution of it from 1993 till I sold it in 97, but they were all film photos for obvious reasons. Surprised I never took the time to post before.
As long as the money is not earmarked for a certain expense, I assume it is used for the general running of the local government. Like police, fire, sanitation, ect. Local government provides a lot of essential services.
Ask HN: What's your dev machine setup?
It's time to replace my PC. I'm curious about your setups - for a dev machine, what kind of hardware do you use/recommend? How do you configure your machine to keep it running nicely? Any other thoughts configurations/setup for a dev machine?
Do you trust five unelected FCC commissioners, who are quite technically incompetent, to regulate the internet for 330 million Americans? Frankly, I'm quite weary.
But you can only do that when you have time. I was recently investigating a product with very good reviews. They looked quite good. Then I noticed that most of them used very broken german which, when you compared them showed a pattern and looking into the users showed clearly that they were faked. But I can not trust that they are always that easy to spot, so the only possibility for me to check remains to check several low star reviews and look whether they complain about valid problems or just nonsense. The problem I see is that those fake stories are getting better and at some point will be indistiguishable from real reviews. And you will certainly not notice it when you are just quick checking several products or sellers in 30 seconds each.
It's a compromise between security and usability, like always. And it is good for most cases. When higher security is needed, developer can choose to override and implement a different mechanism.
> Long, Chinese Pinyin for dragon

It seems worth pointing out that long 龍 / 龙 is the word for a Chinese dragon, but konglong 恐龙 (character-by-character, "terrible dragon") is the word for "dinosaur".
I got flagged for using a pseudonym after 7 years - they want government ID - took about a week to get rid of the CTRL-T reflex and dopamine hit.
What did you hear?
"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into" is a good quote to keep in mind.
The main issue here is understanding what is the actual cause of the sinking:

1) extensive dewatering of the soil under the building and around it

2) some mistake in the calculations of the project and/or some foundation work made in difformity from the project

3) a combination of the two

IF it is only #1 (this is what the builders say) then stopping the water drainage or even (in certain case) re-watering appropriately the soil would stop the sinking (at a relatively low cost).

IF it is #2 or #3 it is certainly possible to "better" the soil underneath or "add" some (underground) supporting structures (at a much, much higher cost).

And of course someone will have to pay the bill.

Techically, IF the cause is #1, it is called "subsidence":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence

more specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater-related_subsidence

Edit:
P.S.: Seemingly the SF Millennium got just cited here also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towers

(maybe exaggerating a little bit, look for Santos, Brazil, strangely not listed in the wikipedia page)
The author dismisses capsicum without much thought. Really, any application you've already restructured to be sandboxed under pledge(2) is trivial to capsicumize.
Yes, and the abridged version (no proofs, examples, and exercises) is downloadable for free. He avoids determinants altogether (well, until the 10th chapter).

http://linear.axler.net/LinearAbridged.html
Show HN: Signupper, a tool for managing web app signup forms
Signupper (www.signupper.net) is a service for building and managing account signup forms for web applications. Signup forms are changed often as part of conversion optimization. Engineering needs to make the changes, while marketing waits. With Signupper, marketing gets to modify the signup form themselves.

As a web app developer, I would get frustrated with all the changes I had to make to the account signup page. I understood they needed to be made. I wished a CMS existed where the signup page could be hosted while retaining full functionality. Since I could not find such a tool, I've built one.

Looking forward to your thoughts on Signupper!

Medium post describing in more detail the story of why I've built Signupper.
https://medium.com/@signupper/signup-forms-are-a-pain-and-i-am-going-to-change-that-96e59dd050a5#.7tprw88wc
I fully concede this point until I creat a sim of my own and look in to find my creatures having the same argument.

Then I'll try to stop thinking so much!
I don't think the GP meant a one-sided generalization at all, and your comment reads as a needless partisan dig.

The charitable way to read the comment is that a particular person he talked to was unconcerned by facts, and that this is a common problem with heated/divisive discussions. (This jives with my experience that most people don't care what's true, they just want to make socially approved noises.)
Not sure if you realize this but Arthur Andersen "the company" was convicted, not some individual named Arthur Andersen. The discussion was about whether individuals would get prosecuted or if there are personal qualifies which allow some people to escape criminal prosecution.
I think it's more like "We can't cover our costs with current tax revenue, let's increase tax revenue."
2011 all over again, I guess.
I think your elaboration just made it worse, as you compared my work to a kid's drawing, and assumed that the target audience will not benefit from that. I actually have proof against that. In Twitter, over 2000 people have retweeted, and countless people have commented along the lines of "I wish this was around when I was studying in school", or "now I finally understand it", and even school teachers saying thanks and how they'll use it in class next week. And, even this hackernews thread, for that matter.
That is a good suggestion, it sort of implies it's almost a fossil even though it was likely a typo.
Humans are absolutely terrible at assessing risk probabilities.

People worry about flying when stastically they are far more likely to die on the drive to the airport.

They worry about terroism when they are 50lbs overweight.

...and on and on, You'd rather hope the government would be better at assessing these risks in terms of a policy framework but they aren't they appeal to whatever the papers are focussing on and subscribe to the "we must do something, this is something ergo we must do it" school of thought.

It's worrying how far we haven't come.
I've been a Prime member for years, and I order stuff very often so the free shipping definitely is worth the membership fee.

I always use the "Amazon Prime" filter when I search, and I've never had any issues with those items. Sellers have to share a little more profit with Amazon to be listed as Prime, but I think that's enough of a bar to eliminate the fraudsters.

The only times I've had problems were with non-Prime sellers, but luckily those were just long-delays rather than outright fraud.
> What I just described was only achieved once... by governments & companies making money off government projects.

I am not refuting this. What I am claiming is it was not neccessery despite being helpful. After the market made absolute [1] long distance communication and processing on data cheap and at large scale, it was only a matter of time. Even we had/were to go through IP level walled-garden/subnets, the world would have set on non-discriminating Internet.

Think of this way, what Govt. created/helped-created intially was a local network and only after thousands of ISPs coming together, not because of incentives from Govt, but because of demand we have the Internet as we know now.

> Companies like Facebook and Slack are where content and activity is going instead of HTML web sites and IRC.

Facebook, Slack, HTML, IRC != Internet. Question: Is someone being restricted from sending/recieving anypacket to/from any IP in the world ? If no then Its not walled-garden from Internet point of view. Internet is not being harmed in anyway. However bringing Govt. into this will most likely make the answer yes.

> So, they fail twice: preventing something like the Internet from occurring until government did it; trying to turn it back into wall gardens of the past albeit with web browsers and more graphics.

I am not aware of any IP level walled-garden. Facebook/Slack/Myspace/etc are/were in app/website business not Internet business.

[1] Not telephone etc which transform the data nondeterministically.
I mean the general sentiment. I'm not saying people should have access to your full medical history, personal info, etc. on demand.

I am saying is that these benign things are opt-out not because most people wouldn't want to do them if they weigh the prons and cons but because they don't want to put in the effort of doing so and will just be conservative - which is logical from an individual perspective - but will cause us to lose out on opportunities as a whole.

Also this data is getting collected weather you want it or not, even intelligence people are just taping over their webcams as a security measure - the attitude that we must protect every bit of privacy by default will lead to the future where hidden data collection is the only way to access data - people will be making money off it, it won't be available to general public (for eg. public research) and there will be no transparency about it. And if you think the government will protect you - well they are the biggest transgressor here.

So instead of fighting a lost battle with trying to keep absolute privacy why not just make most of that data public and available and focus on protecting the really sensitive stuff.
I don't want to be rude, but you really should use the official URL: http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Builds/360/ .

The current link is quite fishy, tbh.

Source: I wrote this page and this build, and I lead VLC development...
I'm oddly jealous! That sounds amazing! I'm just looking at the wall behind my monitor and scratching my chin... It's Black Friday...
I have holes in a few of my clothes.

Today I went to a shop selling needles/yarn/wool/.., so I could fix them. I arrived at the shop, was too anxious to enter and left again.

Guess the holes will have to stay.
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Do you know of any good guides for doing that? I tried capsicum at some point but got lost.
yes in BT we where sun 4u servers at $40k a pop
In my smaller regional ISP we started off using USR courier and sportster modems with Cyclades cards before moving over to Livingston Port masters. I ended up selling the company before moving to all digital incoming lines (needed to support 56k modems).
More neutrally, maybe you mean "two people who disagree about the facts won't have a meaningful conversation".

To that extent I wholeheartedly agree. If you can't even agree on the base data, how can you build a conclusion?
You should probably get more sleep.