skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, people can perfectly continue to blame Facebook for these problem

It's just scapegoating. It's useless and a waste of time. The time you spend blaming Facebook is the time you don't spend actually fixing what should be fixed : creating an healthy environment for debate.

Blaming this or that website is easy and it doesn't solve anything. Quitting the extremist views, quitting calling people morons,trolls,douchebags when they disagree with this or that political line and actually engaging them strictly on ideas instead of dismissing their concerns as -ism or -phobia is the only way you're going to make people listen to what you have to say.

If you filter people's news, they'll just go somewhere else that give them what they want. And then you'll wake up again not understanding the result of the last elections because you lived in your own, filtered echochamber.
Vibrant communities need strong moderators and no technical system (code or otherwise) can replace them.
Not quite correct. The CS20 home price index is...

- 7% lower than the 2006 peak in nominal terms.

- 22.6% lower than the 2006 peak in inflation-adjusted terms (adjusted by the BLS's US CPI-urban NSA)

- 27.3% lower than the 2006 peak as a percentage of wages (adjusted by the BLS's average hourly earnings paid to private-sector employees)

Together with massively lower mortgage rates (3.9% rather than 6.2% for a 30yr fix), the situation is nowhere near as bubblicious as 2006. We are maybe around 2003 levels - easily sustainable.
Thank you! This was very helpful for me :)
The song is called "Болящий дух врачует песнопенье", but I could not find the choir version. Good luck with that!
If I search "are jews" I get a suggestion for "Are jews christians", so I guess I'm not in the "evil" pool of people. Just in the dumb one.
Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
Unraveling npm: Deterministic dependencies with Yarn
Suppose Prover has multiple (>1) valid solutions to the problem. What changes if the Prover not only picks representation at random, but also pick a solution at random each round?

To me it looks that at least in this case entirely different solution and different representations are permutations of the solution, therefore both are allowed?
> The first explosion from the steam inside the reactor was enough to send the 4-million-pound lid of the reactor assembly through the roof of the building.

4 million pounds? Is that right? Just for comparison, the maximum takeoff weight of a 747 is 735,000 pounds. Less than a quarter of the weight of this lid?
CoffeeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080
Data Erasure Solutions for Data Center and Cloud Computing Security
It isn't totally obvious what it does. Can it skip multiple times? The videos on the home page aren't really that inviting-looking so I only looked at the tuna, which seems like it could have been achieved with a simple timestamp in the url.
I've been off of facebook for years now, but I doubt nowadays most people see the "like" buttons as an instrument for teaching the website algorithms to help keep themselves open minded. (Assuming this stratategy indeed works, since it's known this isn't the only variable they consider)

And I don't think this isn't the purpose of feed 'customization' either. It's about making money by assuring advertisers that their ads will be paid some attention to. In order to do that, they need to try and keep people's eyeballs glued to the screen as much as possible.
It shows only bad practices of PHP and SQL. SO question were asked probably by novice programmers or amateurs. I'm a PHP developer. I use PDO or other data binding ORM/lib (ex. Eloquent ORM).
And that would even make sense if it only included the part with the White House, the Capitol, the Mall and stuff. But it turns out to also include a city where a half million disenfranchised people live.

(I think DC statehood does sound like a complicated mess, and the best solution -- if politically feasible -- would be to shrink it. You'd have the populous city of Washington, MD, and a tiny federal District of Columbia, coexisting like Rome and the Vatican. The problem is that Maryland doesn't want it.)
This is big news covered everywhere; why link to a paywalled source instead of a free one??
> The odds are exceedingly high that you will die.

A rough calculation shows that 5-10% of all people that were ever born are still alive.
The incremental criminalization of speech that people in power want to silence should offend everyone. Almost by definition progress requires challenging an idea that has been generally accepted by those in power with a new idea that is initially generally rejected by those in power. (I'm not saying that all new ideas are progress. Most new ideas are bad ideas. I'm saying that all progress requires a switchover to those few new ideas that turn out to be improvements.)

If those in power, meaning those who can get someone punished, are allowed to establish mechanisms of silencing opinions they don't like by force, you will be limited to hearing ideas that are generally accepted by those with power. That would put a serious damper on progress, no matter who they were, and I'm not aware of any credible study that has concluded that in any situation of conflict between ideas, the ideas of the people with the power to silence their critics by force are usually the more correct.

If you disagree with what someone says, explain why; don't look for mechanisms to silence them by force. And if someone else proposes a plan to criminalize "offensive" speech, oppose them and explain why.
How do Tibetans feel about China?
And upfront, they were all treated differently. Not by fault, mind you, but just by happenstance. You probably didn't fawn so much over the second, and even less on the third. Not because they are less special, but more because you had a sense of what you are doing. You came into the second and third child with a battery of things to try because you tried some on your first child.

You are probably less strict with the youngest child and worry a bit more over the oldest.

Plus you and your spouse (or whoever) have aged and matured with time, so each child gets to know a slightly different version of you, your spouse, your parents and family. The more spaced out your children are, the more this will become so.
Just because we're stuck here doesn't mean we like it.
طائرة بوينغ 777 التابعة للخطوط القطرية كادت تتحطم فوق الأطلسي
> code-execute-fix workflow

Do you know of a better tool for such a flow, combined with the ability to have markdown+latex docs intermingled with the code? 'cause this is my workflow, but jupyter's code editor and kernell restart drives me crazy and anything else will have me keep the notes/docs separate from the code...

And please don't suggest Mathematica :) I absolutely love it's ux/i, but nobody uses it in ML/AI...
EmailOctopus is only SaaS right? Sendy is one time purchase so much cheaper if that's important.
I think if you're at the point where your teenage child would even remotely consider calling you a bitch to your face I think any parenting strategy would be a day late and a dollar short. At that point maybe it's about relationship boundaries and damage control. You don't get to the point where a normal and mentally/emotionally healthy teenager calls their mother a bitch without a parent creating an environment where that was eventually going to happen.
Evan McMullin: Trump’s Threat to the Constitution
One's supposed to fly, and the other... Well the opposite I guess?
Don't know what your definition of 'big' is, but my open source project webhook got some attention after posting Show HN: https://github.com/adnanh/webhook

Anything >0 is better than 0... :-)
Without an actual sample of users auto-suggestions there's nothing but useless anecdotes flying around.
Ask HN: Is there any accreditation body or credential for online news sites?
It seems like much of the fake news controversy that surfaced around the election could have been prevented if there was an organization that gave sites credentials verifying that they are legitimate news sources. This way, Facebook and Google (and any aggregator for that matter) could give higher standing to articles from accredited sites and lower to those from sites not accredited. If it doesn't exist yet, would such a body end up surfacing from one of the big internet players, or should it be an independent body?
The Remote Working Conference (DEC 6-7, 2016)
I skimmed the article and tried to find out whether StageXL needs a plugin but it was not conclusive for me. Does StageXL need a plugin?
I have four daughters. Can confirm.
Yeah, I totally see where you're coming from, though consider that finding the riggedness is interesting enough:

How likely is that they would have the time / patience / skill to manipulate the data to actually be statistically legitimate? Depending on the dataset, a quick check for Benford's law would find said riggedness.
Peace of mind with healthcare isn't so much about one-off costs when you catch a nasty flu. What happens if you're unable to work for months/years due to a health issue? Will you be able to pay your expensive rent and other expenses without worries?

Also you're a bit naive if you think raising kids will cost you only once they go to college. If you compare direct (daycare, preschool) and indirect (like moving to a good neighborhood) costs in the Bay area vs. a big European city, the difference is easily 5 figures year. And then there are things like parental leave.

But of course, as a 20-something you might not need these things.
I'm so happy the good bits of CoffeeScript are now part of vanilla JavaScript and we no longer need compilers for frontend work.

Oh wait ...
Voice in one direction and voice and graphics in the other?
Funny detail: search in Google -> OK. Search in Start page -> paywall.
The flashing light on an electric meter (assuming you don't have the really old dial type) flashes once per watt-hour, which can be used for measuring.
Real time systems with preemption exist. Non-preemption is not always a feasible choice - its disadvantages are too many.
How we phished a 20B Euro company out of 79% of their passwords
That would count as "obfuscation".
What's the primary function of a truck?
If you were trown in jail, brutally raped and had 50% of your income confiscated for the rest of your life as a punishment, trust me, pretty much nobody would be speeding.

For most people, the (cost of punishment * chance of being caught) is less than reward of whatever they're doing.
Hear what American workers have to say about their jobs
Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)
> My suggestion is to drop the "Throw away your USB drive" tag line and use something else

Heh. I started using Dropbox much later than this tagline and the first thing I did after installing was to stop using USB drives.
This is why I treat my kids as adults who just aren't quite ready for adulthood. You can't fool most kids. We're the dull ones, not them, they're just inexperienced.
you can take the test at any time. the professors only look at the camera feed later on. and i am a TA and never heard about telling students to do a 360
Yet another product where I haven't got a clue what it is after reading the front page.
While I do not know if that number is correct, a Boing if engineered to be as light as possible, while the lid should be as heavy as possible.

The density of a plane is way lower than that of water, as Tom Hanks recently proved ;)
>Oh, that article is especially trollish, but there are articles like that in both camps

Do you have any examples?

>Sometimes you need to prove `A ∨ B ⇒ C`; that's your proof goal. To do that, you prove `A ⇒ C` and `B ⇒ C`. That's all.

Yeah, I was just confused, it's just or-elimination with a different notation.
An Incubator for (Former) Drug Dealers
Why did they neglect to name this "conspiracy"?

For those curious, google or youtube search pizzagate.

You need a strong stomach!

It sounds very conspiracy, but some of the facts uncovered, although circumstantial is "very interesting" or at minimum "very weird".
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Like Uncle Ben once said: "with great power comes great responsibility."
Rewarding someone when they do what you want is just as sleazy and manipulative as punishing them when they do what you don't want. It might be the fact that a child doesn't realize that, but an adult undoubtedly (eventually) would, and be just as resentful.
I would argue that the problem is that it IS targeted toward developers. In the sense of those who are developing new methods and making proof of concepts.

Admittedly, most of my experience is with ipython but it is perfect for that. If there is a new algorithm/method I want to explore or I am figuring out an interface/structure, it is great. And I tend to not have to reset the kernel too often.

In that sense, jupyter was a great idea as you can now integrate documentation with code in a nice format.

Unfortunately, it also led to a strong focus on treating them as containers for the purpose of deploying code (more traditional software development).
In my opinion, you have it backwards. It's not about what anyone can do with/about the platform. The center of the issue is that facebook/google et al are selling convenience to the public who assumes the platforms are to some extent trustable.
I am not a fan of FB but it must be understood that FB is not a news agency.

Another thing to consider here is: FB may be wallgardened, but what about the mainstream news organizations that are sold out to various parties? (e.g. Saudi Islamists have many huge investments/shares in many mainstream news organizations)

Many mainstream news organizations are worse than FB when it comes to spread lies and propaganda in the name of news. We can already feel the influence of Saudi money in the US mainstream media. The mainstream US media is suppressing any criticism of Islam under the flimsy arguments like racism and islamophobia. This is already creating a suffocating atmosphere for true liberals.

A factor to note here is even though the mainstream news organizations claim that they are liberal and left-leaning, they act like barbaric people when it comes to Islam. I do not see any criticism of Islam (e.g. horrendous treatment of women, homosexuals in Islam) in the mainstream media. Not even the discussion of problematic aspects of Islamic scriptures has any place in the mainstream media.

Why should a common man trust the mainstream media news media?

Then you see that it's the social media (FB, whatsapp, twitter, reddit etc) that gives the people what they think is needed to be reported/argued/discussed.

e.g. FB (along with many other social media sites) has helped lot of people to learn the dangers posed by Islamism.

How and why someone as lowly as Trump got elected? This may be very complex topic to analyze as there are many contributing factors but one factor played very important role in his win is the "outright dishonest approach by mainstream news media towards the issue of dangers posed by Islam".

Sam Harris has put it quite aptly: Liberals failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Trump [1]

I have learnt over the years to not trust many of the pseudo-liberal news organizations like NY times, Guardian etc. e.g. When Charlie Hebdo people were killed by the Islamists, most of these left-leaning pseudo-liberal news agencies were/are very much partial and acted like outright sold-out to Islamists (Saudi funders) when it comes to deal with news related to the vicious and barbaric aspects of Islam and various Islamic cultures.

We must also understand that it's finally the reader's responsibility to filter all news, whether it's from FB or from other established news agencies/organizations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCWf0tHy7M
Cool. Thanks for all the feedback!
No, we all need to worry because the outcome affects all of us, whether or not we use Facebook.
And today I was just about to spin up a jupyterhub server for my class...
Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod.

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "

(Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)
Did this exist when Mandrill decided to boot their customers? I migrated all my clients that were on it to sendgrid but this would have been a good option for the cheap ones
Show HN: xxcalc – embeddable floating-point polynomial calculator in Rust
Is the talk available for public access?
Direct link to the study (if you can call it that): https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/reports/2...
Samsung’s Smart Helmets Will Make Life Easier for Specially Abled People
> Even the KKK gets freedom of speech and assembly.

Yes, but their freedoms stop well before lynching people.
I wonder why vim isn't in there.
Archaeologists Discover 7,000-Year-Old Aristocratic City
> If I was to contract scurvy because it keeps recommending donuts instead of orange juice who is ultimately responsible?

You? Your doctors? Jesus. What kind of world devoid of personal responsibility do you live in?
I think adults often forget how much awe they had as kids for the amazing adults in their lives.
I'm really glad you asked this. I've seen the cost, time and effort when professional market research firms or consulting firms do this. But their typical clients are larger companies thinking about launching a new product or making an acquisition, and even after they hire a market research firm or fancy consulting firm there are still products thats flop big time.

So I've always been curious how startups do this.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of various product/market evaluation techniques and what the success ratios are.

I can tell you how I would do it but it would first depend on what the product or market or idea is. Evaluating B2C or B2B, software vs hardware are very different. As another comment mentioned nonpaying general users vs enterprise customers are totally different.
Always use mailinator.com
On Linux there's Cubic SDR (among others).
http://cubicsdr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Make sure to use it with a supported device. The device in the article is supported I think (by the SoapyRTLSDR module).
5 Feet Shapes Really Indicate Your Roots/Heritage
We never did and CoffeeScript had no good parts.
Performance Optimisation for Wordpress with HTTP 2
localStorage quota is 5MB (per domain IIRC), PouchDB uses IndexedDB or WebSQL internally, which gives you a lot more quota to work with, and I believe each DB has it's own quota.

localStorage is not indexed, you have to implement some sort of lookup yourself. If you go that way, a tip is to store values as objects with ids as keys, that way you get a sort of hash map as index thing going which alleviates things a bit.
PouchDB is indexed and provides a way to query your documents.
Easy containers on Ubuntu Touch with qemu-debootstrap
It seems to do region detection, though. `curl wttr.in/dresden` gives me celsius scale and km/h wind speeds.
Guillaume Bouchard – programming by teaching [video]
Location detection is notoriously hard. For example, my auto-detected location is 500 km off because of the corporate HTTP proxy.
I used it way back when and the for about a year I thought the feature had been removed. Was very happy to rediscover it!
Again, I was arguing that the company doesn't need to exist. They showed the public a new use of information technologies and executed their expansion admirably. However, since saturation of the initial (rich/western) target population they have been steadily removing value from the platform that got people excited.

Why should they be assured of revenue if their business is bait and switch?

[edit: typing is hard]
The stuff on top takes up 200px, 150px if you click away the cookie warning, if you go beyond 1920px in width the "Contact Us" and "Explore Content" boxes (Does anyone ever click on those?) break out of their boundries...

Why is the search box that prominent?

"About Deloitte" and location selection do not have hover css, when everything else does...

If you resize your window the content is replaced with mobile content and the obnoxious "Read More" button appears.

The z-index of the "Contact Us" bar is messed up (It disppears behind the useless "Did you find this useful?" bar)

Those are just some bad things I noticed. Deloitte is not exactly a little IT shack. Their web presence is embarrassing.
Haskell? You can have Literate Haskell (https://wiki.haskell.org/Literate_programming), you have ghci and while commercial, I think http://haskellformac.com will be what you want
This! So much this!
If you want to test how effective things are, always make A/B tests.
And as stated before 8% click rate is pretty impressive.
New court software is so awful it’s getting people wrongly arrested
Congratulations, you have successfully answered a rhetorical question in the way that its author intended, thereby making the intended point. Well done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
Does the "1" in "109" imply that this is a intro course?
Strangely - Tor may work. I connected via a Brazillian VPN (from Australia) and got a Cloudflare challenge.
Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...

Article is from 2013, and they do routinely update which words they police. They also now police searching for "Name+Crime", I'd guess to avoid lawsuits.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/...

I think Google has opened themselves up to critique about allowing this antisemitism by policing other offensive terms. They need to either set up a forum for policing all offensive terms, or avoid policing. Otherwise articles like the OP will continue to plague them.
The nicest article in a wile now .. :) thank you for it and for the extra explanation on od :)
What's the current state of Vim emulation in VS Code? Last I tried it didn't support the c-i-<thingy> motions, nor a few other relatively basic ones that I use a lot.
It seems like Russia's tech is having innovation spikes here and there, but it just seems so. I haven't seen any original ideas in that documentary. Everything is a copycat of some idea someone else had in Europe or in the Americas. They took it and made it far better, but for a very limited market. They exercise the same principles Steven Jobs had used for his designs: find cheap shit (or get paid by the gov), make it golden, sell it. That's also why the Russian nuclear institute looked like a trash dump in the video. You can't sell nuclear science to people. Not with a logo on it, you can't. But, who knows. Never underestimate the idle mind of a Russian. It's dangerous.
Any proof it was a "Republican?"

The WaPo story made no mention of political party.

Do we say "Democrat guy" when referring to the Orlando shooter? He actually was a Democrat. James Holmes who shot up the Colorado movie theater -- also a registered Democrat and even volunteered for the Obama campaign. Andrew Stack who flew his plane into the Austin IRS building -- was a supporter of communism. John Patrick Bedell who shot police officers outside the Pentagon in 2008 -- registered Democrat and subscriber to the 9-11 "Truth" conspiracy, not to mention an extreme hater of Bush/Cheney.

My point is that assuming facts not in evidence is exactly the problem. Now everyone who tends to agree with anti-Republican sentiment has their view reinforced by your own fake news. It works both ways. Fake news isn't a 'Republican' thing any more than it's a 'Democrat' thing. Plenty of fake stories circulate in places like Marin County about the 'vaccine conspiracies' or how this political or that has secret deals with "big oil" or whomever.

Promoting an unproven narrative of a "Republican" shooter IS fake news unless there is actual evidence otherwise.