skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does eBay allow buyers to use remailer addresses? It should be very easy for them to check that and not allow any buyers using these remailer addresses.
>Everybody was warned, everybody could have seen this coming.

There has been nothing coming. Trumps pre-election stuff was BS, nothing will be done. Check back in 4 years.

Besides government agencies obviously already have detailed profiles of such things, going far beyond the religion of a subject.
Wow. Everything just changed.
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It's called Old because there's a New Testament, which overrides the Old where applicable. And Jesus was a peace-loving man.
That's Judaism, and I think the Palestinians would agree...
The first language that I learned was a "teaching" language: BASIC. That was in ~ 1981. A potential advantage at the time was that BASIC tended to be a completely self contained environment, meaning that you didn't have to assemble things like build tools and libraries. "Hello world" was one line of code, you entered it, and it ran. And at that time, just dealing with the tools -- typically on a mainframe -- was the first couple weeks of the typical introductory programming course.

This is not entirely unusual, even today. I was curious about one of the toolchains for phone app development. For one particular tool, the tutorial for "Hello World" was many pages of instructions: Installing the tools, creating an empty application, setting its characteristics, adding code, building, etc. Even as an experienced programmer, I found it to be rather forbidding.

Another possible reason for a teaching language might be to excite the interests of particular age or social groups. For instance, Logo was oriented towards making interesting graphics. Scratch eliminates the need to learn syntax, and has easy-to-program graphical output.

On the other hand, some languages come pretty darn close to that old BASIC in terms of the ease of getting started, and one of those languages is Python. It seems to me that the sheer size of Python shouldn't be a deterrent to using it for teaching: Just ignore the advanced features at first.
I do wonder whether given enough effort you could train an OCR program to be pretty good at recognising one person's handwriting. Like if you meticulously corrected the output and added those corrections to your training set, would it eventually be perfect (or close enough anyway) or would it hit some sort of fundamental limit?
>Yahoo controls 8% of search traffic

Isn't Microsoft the one providing search results? If it is, then Microsoft ultimately controls the traffic, not Yahoo.
This is awesome! Interesting to see Amazon is really branching out with drones and all that.
For any parents out there: Please think long and hard before getting your kid prescribed. Get 2nd opinions, try nature or counselling, reflect if it's actually you who is the instigator. If you do go that route, know that your kid might not make it to 18, and if they do, might resent you deeply.

When experts in the same field looking at the same case can't agree even a little bit on best course of action, maybe it's not really science.
He did say to "try" it, you can use a flag. You should assume that any feature behind a flag should never be used in production.

Also, Node v7 will likely get a semver-minor update with V8 55. So, simply waiting for v7.3 or v7.4 should be sufficient and it will be enabled by default.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9618#issuecomment-264641...

Those who are sticking with the LTS release for production will need to wait until April/May 2017. March is overly optimistic by the OP as the currently scheduled date is 2017-04-30.

https://github.com/nodejs/LTS
Please stop using means when describing percentile data. I understand the desire to demonize a catchy sounding demographic, but the vast majority of the "top 1%" don't have an annual income anywhere approaching 1m/yr.
That's a pipedream. There will always be human interference, whether it be direct, or a consequence of some humans' decisions regarding algorithm design.

As it is, Facebook's current (pre-fact-checking) algorithm prioritizes shallow engagement over other metrics. That leads to sensationalist clickbait receiving preferential treatment. Human decisions led to this outcome.
I think you can be reasonably certain that they are able to see the difference in intention.

However, can such a database be misused? Yes. And, that's probably their point.

(I agree that it's an edge-lordy comment that seems like it's intended to annoy. But the reason it can annoy people is that there is an element of truth to it.)
The book IBM and the Holocaust[0] gives an interesting historical perspective on the misuse of databases and database technology. One fascinating point with modern echoes is how often sensitive information (such as having Jewish ancestry) was simply volunteered to officials such as census-takers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Good luck getting Facebook or the US Census to do that. This is a useless gesture that means very little. I guess some people get to feel better about themselves.

The first step would be some reforms in consumer protection laws dealing with privacy and information sharing. Just watch how much certain SV firms spend to opposed those changes.
The thing is Islam wasn't "warped". Mohamet was a barbaric warlod, you think the religion he created was and is about love of respect to your enemies? Could you please explain the train of thought that brought you to such conclusions?
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Analogously, the empty net is a subnet of every net, the empty sequence is a subsequence of every sequence etc etc.

Also, [p implies q] is vacuously true if p is false.

Strings are maps from nonnegative integers to the space of characters. You can think of them as sets of ordered pairs or sequences.
This is why YC is such a breath of fresh air for entrepreneurs. VCs aren't bad for this behavior, it's completely rational, but if the big winners look like red flag city initially, a higher investment rate of smaller capital allocations can net better outcomes. (Airbnb / Pebble for the up and downsides)

YC's scaling over the last few years w/ sam + pb (and now michael) is a feature that some see as a bug of dilution. 200 companies a year now get extra access to angel money at a minimum, some percentage of which (mine!) likely wouldn't have normal access b/c of red flags.
For people who aren't getting it: Real Genius (1985)
For what it’s worth, I’m using IDEAVim and it’s amazing. It supports custom editor actions too, like refactorings, in your .ideavimrc
I wouldn't pat the city on the back. They've allowed NIMBYs and parochial interests within the public utilities departments to block fiber roll-out for years.

Sonic has been rolling out their fiber service for almost 2 years now, but only after spending years in the regulatory gauntlet. And because San Francisco refuses to permit micro-trenching, Sonic can only profitably deliver fiber service where they can string fiber on utility polls.

Folks closer to downtown with underground utilities will be stuck with Comcast for quite some time. AT&T wants to roll-out fiber-to-the-node (FTTN), but that currently requires large ground-level cabinets that NIMBYs are fighting tooth-and-nail, block-by-block. And in any event AT&T will surely still charge a huge premium, not only just to cover the cost of the expensive new infrastructure, but just because they're AT&T.

This is classic San Francisco politics to pretend to do something by placing another mandate on landlords. I mean, the mandate makes perfect sense, don't get me wrong, and is hardly a burden. But in the context of San Francisco politics, being seen as sticking it to landlords will give the city enough capital to continue ignoring the fundamental problems.

The notion there's some kind of pervasive problem with landlords hindering ISP choice is ridiculous. Large buildings often enter exclusive contracts with Comcast and AT&T, but the vast majority of apartments in the city are in smaller buildings run by small-time landlords. Often you wouldn't even bother informing the landlord; you'd simply give the technician access to the utility room yourself. The landlord would probably be more bothered by wasting his time trying to coordinate with him. As long as you don't break anything, why would he care? It only improves the value of his property. Because of rent control, most landlords are supremely passive and often have full-time jobs doing something else.
It is interesting to separate the review from the storage/access portions of scientific publishing. Bind the prestige to the review board, not the publisher. Once you have open access, there's nothing stopping academics from forming an independent review board organization which then provide some form of stamps of approval; paper A from It seems like it would be a good organizational excuse to stay in touch with peers and exchange information on the field anyway...
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That's because adderall is basically meth. I know it's very hard to grasp the idea of ADHD as a condition but there are lots and lots of mental conditions whose existence cannot be conclusively demonstrated or dismissed by EEGs and the like; we just don't understand the brain as well as we'd like right now.

speaking as someone who has struggled with ADHD since being a small child, having to assert the existence of a sometimes-crippling condition to people who demonstrably don't understand it very well is really, really insulting and I am sick of it. You don't have to believe in my mental illness but unless you have a superior psychiatric model to offer, then please stop stigmatizing it by questioning the reality of something you don't understand.

Do you tell people who are color-blind that they can totally see red (or whatever) color, insisting they're just not looking hard enough? Probably not, because you likely know we can explain color blindness by unusual differences in the retina. But we only gained that knowledge relatively recently in history. You would not have been helping anyone who was colorblind by telling them to 'look harder' before that discovery was made, would you? Then please accept that you're not helping anyone with ADHD by telling them they just need to focus harder/ learn better habits/ etc..

...if for no other reason than that when I'm trying to explain ADHD, having to listen to someone's poorly-informed opinion on a complex medical topic is really distracting. It's very tiring for me in a face-to-face setting to have to stand there waiting for someone to catch up with my substantive arguments. I don't say that to be rude, I just don't know how else to explain what it feels like; to me most people are slow and talking them is about as much fun as driving in a traffic jam.
Oops, now your comment makes total sense including the CP437 remark, sorry!

Glad you enjoy Envy Code R :)
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Nothing can help an ignorant or illiterate population. If that is your premise the next logical step is censorship and this is censorship.

How does the arrogant assumption of ignorant readers so weak willed they can be 'led ashtray' by 'fake news' even take hold? Do people really believe that 'other people' believe everything they read?

The ridiculous idea that people are naive is a fabricated construction designed to empower some while 'infantalising' the rest and is inherently anti-democratic.

Ordinary scepticism and not believing everything you read or hear is a basic human skill.

This fake news scare and blame 'Putin' for everything wrong in the world is so illiterate, juvenile and insulting to basic human intelligence and reflects something dangerously wrong in our media, politics and the tech community.
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Google multilogin should never be used for anything. It sucks and is broken and at some point it will screw up and sync your chocolate into your peanut butter and you'll never get it sorted.

Much better solution is to use two different browser profiles separately logged into those accounts.
One possible reason is that storing a bool separately from the index makes it difficult to update the producer or consumer index atomically. With the implementations that store the full producer and consumer states as a single word each, only single-word atomic operations are necessary to build a lock-free ring. Storing the bool as the high bit of the index would also suffice.
I hear a lot of hiring horror stories. Perhaps it's because my career has been on the East Coast, or because I only apply to places I'm generally interested in and have researched/stalked (vice a shotgun approach) but I've never suffered any hiring silliness. Maybe I'm just lucky? I'm 37 now.

I generally assume the absurd hiring practices are either large companies that have become institutionalized and thus have terrible processes free from the scrutiny of sanity (Google, etc) or are small companies that don't really know what they are doing or need. Both sound like terrible places to work.
Not since they replaced the OneDrive for Business Client: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Transition-from-the...

AFAIK, it's all basically OneDrive under the hood now. Which is great because all the Groove/SharePoint based syncing was awful before.
I was curious about the workers from Ohio who went to the USSR to help setup the transferred equipment (did they make it back? end up in a gulag?), found this short article:

https://dueber-hampden.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-russia-with-l...

Sounds like they were treated like kings and came home after their contract was up
If you’re concerned about memory usage, VS Code should not be your first choice...
German researcher here.

There are multiple problems with the offer from VG Wort (which is the German association "representing" authors and publishers). One is that they raised the license fee. Another one is that they want to replace the current "flatrate" (where a university pays a fixed sum for the right to copy books or parts of books for education) with a individual billing concept. That means, lecturers have to report to administration for EACH part of a book or paper that they distribute. This model is not feasible as the administrative costs exceed the royalties which have to be payed for the copyright.

For this reasons, multiple virtual learning environments (which are used to distribute books and papers) in Germany might go offline in 2017 because the copyright situation is currently unclear.

More information (in German):
https://netzpolitik.org/2016/deutsche-universitaeten-2017-im...
Wufoo is a good way to set up web forms quickly.
I did my own H-1B transfer following these simple instructions
I'd argue "A citizen should _never_ have to register with the government" should really be the entire statement.

Things like aid and whatnot should really be isolated and broken off to prevent mass collection dbs.
Having lived in placed in America where people "have community", I'm generally happier without it. I despise being socially forced to be like the people who happen to be in my immediate geographic proximity.
Not really. The plugins are update almost at the same time as their native IDE products. Maybe a week of a difference.
No. How about Easy Writer II? Or even Type-Rite?
> * to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.

We already have this, as the foreigners Trump is referring to have to get US Travel Visas. Obviously we know their country of origin. Anyone paying attention at all knows Trump's current plan is keeping a close eye on all visitors and immigrants (allowed in) from countries with large anti-western terrorism contributions - which happens to of course coincide with some Islamic-majority countries.

The whole article and 'pledge' is anti-Trump fluff.
Except that an O365 subscription includes the native apps, so the crappy webapp stuff is just a free bonus for enterprises staying on the good native stuff.
A little bit about 0-based indexing on the practical side from Guido van Rossum: http://python-history.blogspot.hu/2013/10/why-python-uses-0-...
Pyret enforces what everyone agrees is good style anyways, and consistently requires whitespace in other places similar-looking languages don't.

This therefore is perfectly natural; non-programmers are used to using spaces to delimit words and this is simply doing the same for tokens.
Like they can't pay off a script kiddy to do it
Eugene Volokh wrote an excellent and highly-cited paper on this point, summarized here: http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slipperymag.pdf
What about a database of people from countries with high propensity for radicalization, for example Tunisia, or Somalia?

Paradox: Tunisia is perhaps the most progressive of all the M/E Muslim countries, and yet they are the #1 M/E country in terms of Jihadis. They are overwhelmingly the greatest per/capita Jihadi producers in the world. By far. Tunisia is very small. Networks are very small. 95% chance that a young male Tunisian knows someone off to fight Jihad. This is very significant.

Somalia - is a stateless war-zone, people coming from their are massively over-represented in other kinds of crimes. Wherever there is a 'new' Somalian community, the crime (drugs and related) offenses are off the charts with over-representation. In Toronto - a big slice of the 'violent murder' pie is committed by Somalis - and they are near 0% of the actual population. Some social workers have observed that they simply have absolutely no respect for authority - it's meaningless to many of them. There is an overrepresentation among Somalis in terms of 'domestic' (i.e. host nation) violence, that's possibly 'terror' related.

Those are both good examples because it shows you how young men from completely different places, are radicalized for completely different reasons, and are associated with completely different kinds of violent people - and their nationality (read: culture) is definitely a correlating (or even predictive factor).

It's a moot point anyhow. The FBI has a database. You're probably in it. There's a tag on your file that might indicate the likelihood you'll be radicalized.

We have to be really quite careful of this kind of stuff, frankly, I'm more concerned about the 'populist anti-muslim sentiment' that might arise, as opposed to any kind of actual 'database' of muslims.

Anyhow - it's all moot. There will be no DB of Muslims.
>It has nothing to do with what individual corporations can do.

My point was that we should pay attention as "citizens" because Freedom of Speech is / may be concerned. I wasn't trying to build a legal case with references accurate enough to be received by a judge. This is a about "Freedom of Speech" is the only thing I was trying to say.

>If you don't like what Facebook's policies, go share somewhere else

You're ignoring my point on the fact that FB is not a corporation like another. According to you Microsoft could have gotten away with : "People can use another OS" in the 90s, but this is not how things worked out. We need to respect law and understand why this kind of laws have been put in place. We paid a huge price before understandind why we needed them, repeating history will be expensive.

I can understand your point, I hope you could understand mine too even if you disagree.

Finally

>Will provide links to third-party analysis for any flagged stories, and list the criteria for third-party fact-checking. [0]

Thanks, this is interesting. Let's see how it turns out.
equating the purchase of a shotgun to having an ethnic or religious identity is a sad statement.
Why didn't you born sooner? :D
I agree with the author. As someone in their late 30's back in the job market due to joining a few poor startup opportunities, its terrible. Software engineering is one of the few career paths that experience doesn't mean shit. Everyone here is saying yes its not a big deal to answer stupid questions like fizzbuzz, and while I do answer them... it really inconsequential to the job. Yes I have to regularly practice on sites like hackerrank that really have little to do with my capabilities in executing in a real environment, but really its just memorizing and practice that are almost unrelated to my job function.

Sure you can blame people for not keeping up with their skills and knowledge set like mikestew, but a lot of times this is not what you're interviewed on. Its like interviewing companies are so lazy as to not check your references. Most of the time if the interviewer is knowledgable they should be able to weed out people that are lying on their resumes. Maybe the problem is not with the people lying on their resumes and people that are doing the interviewing.

If I could do it over again, I probably would have gone down a different career path and programmed as a hobby.
The author should have used WhatsApp, which is the iMessage equivalent for Android :) . Works on the desktop too. Or Facebook messenger if he didn't want to tie it in to a number.

I also disagree about the notification system, but YMMV.

To me, Android's problems are others, it's resource heavy and has all sorts of phone-specific problems, each brand bringing its own set of strengths and weaknesses (and yet I own an Android phone).
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Mental Disorders as Networks
Teams even works as a fully-functional (i.e. chat, voice, video, groups) replacement client for Skype for Business. In my opinion, it works much better as a SFB client; hoping it eventually just takes over SFB.
Doctors adhere to the Hippocratic Oath.

Nevertheless doctors worked in concentration camps, were experimenting on humans, work as executioners currently in the US, work and worked in torture chambers, sell their patients to big pharma for Rolex watches and on and on and on.

This pledge may be a statement but is practically worth nothing.
There's definitely going to be a database of visa overstayers. The plan to match entries and exits from the US is coming back. It's not like that should be hard.
I would propose that he was one of the people that profited from the exploitation of Islam actually.
There's no evidence that "fake news" is actually a serious problem, other than getting a lot of likes on Facebook. Seems to me "fake news" is an agenda-driven narrative by the mainstream media to salvage their waning reputation and discredit alternative media. For instance: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...
True, but BABA is also down 2.5% today on its own, probably due to concerns about the impact of rising US interest rates on China's economy and debt.

Drops in BABA's share price tend to be mirrored in YHOO's, so that's responsible for a decent portion (albeit less than half) of today's dip.
What makes it "your" data? Because it contains information about you? If I observe something about you, do you own that observation?
Spend N years getting to be proficient in a technology. N+1 years later most have abandoned that tech. Do you jump techs or go into management?

I assume that's what he/she means.
FWIW, a lot of people on /r/ADHD report having less anger issues on Vyvanse. It is pretty expensive if your insurance won't help you out though.
Maybe I've been drinking to koolaide for too long (and it's not a good flavor), but the 1-based indices in MATLAB are not bad once you get used to them. They're especially nice when translating mathematical papers that normally index from 1.
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Pushing 40 now, I agree with most of this. However, I will say that the way recruiting works for devs is just atrocious.
It's an interesting argument. How could that work for things like driving, where you need to prove competency before you are legally allowed to do something?