skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still suspect something will come out about that. It may be that "honey pot" operation the FBI was running got misconstrued, but I still bet there is some grain of truth to what was uncovered because all the other issues brought up by "anonymous FBI" pretty much came true, so that means it was someone on the inside feeding basically rumors from that organization, most of which were corroborated.
Oh so that's the "Trump effect" at play right? In reality the democracy has been eroding for many years in the US, especially if you consider all the concessions made to individuals rights since the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism - and that's nothing new, it dates back to the 70s already, and it should have been degraded to flawed democracy rating for a while now, regardless of whoever is the President.

So just another meaningless index that's playing politics instead of looking at facts.
> because of a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials there.

Guessing it is actually a combination of very low approval ratings across the board and the fact that the guy who was elected is encouraging distrust in the system.

So if you don't approve of / trust him, you don't trust the government. If you do trust him, you don't trust the government.
Companies are benefiting from paying less salary and thus not supporting society, but in tern, expecting the same society to buy their products.

Population was already reliant on salary, which was a part of the cost of production. It won't change much, just that now it is redistributed more.
No, as the very short article says it's "because of a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials there".
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Surely this could be an issue with any app though.
>None of this justifies discriminating against Asian-American students, which is truly unjust, and shouldn't be confused for justifiable discrimination.

I keep hearing this (primarily from Asian Americans who feel they didn't get into their preferred top N school), and yet they never provide evidence to support it.

They give me reason and logic, but no evidence. It is trivially easy to find counterexamples to all their reason.
That should have happened 16 years ago.
I think they're trying to say that the democracy is now worse because we have a leader who is lying to the media, threatening voting rights based on unsupported claims, silencing scientists from sharing publicly funded research, and is charging journalists with felony charges for covering protests against him.
I mainly thought they were metal because of being suspiciously shiny and the 'clang' they made as they fell down! The grasper didn't seem to have much of a vacuum hose, either. But metal bricks would be an odd choice --- very heavy and not really good for demonstrations, so I'm quite willing to be wrong.
How would you even find out?
> They're 18. What do you want? What authentic motivation did you have when you were 18?

When I was 18 I had an authentic motivation for studying math and computer science (which I did; German's admission procedures for courses of studies are different from how it works in the USA).

What I did not have was something that made me look very social, outstanding, future leader etc. I was (and still am in many senses) the kind of rebellious, cynic, scientifically brillant (at that time without any opportunity to show) nerd who finds working in science much more exciting than about anything else.

P.S.:
I was never the kind of person who can serve as a role model, since the only advice I can give is the ones my father gave me (he, being a working-class child, worked his way up): "There is always someone who will be better than you, but not being the second-best is failure." and "If you don't work harder than everybody around you, it is no surprise if you fail.".
This is not something that people want to hear from role models - they want to hear things that are more socially compatible.
Do you experience any obstacles with data providers implementation in .NET Core? I heard that they ported SQLDataProvider only.
No. The new administration is systematically undermining the norms that held up our strong democracy, on purpose. Any student of history recognizes moves like lying about crowd sizes, delegitimizing peaceful protests, and undermining the press. The president is lying daily about millions of people voting fraudulently; why should anyone have any confidence in our democracy, whether you somehow crazily believe him, or whether you know he's lying?
Direct link: http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democr...
How about trusting Obama when voting for him and then seeing him suing whistleblowers like never before, and continuing the never-ending trail of War in the Middle-East (without ANY Congress approval) despite getting a Nobel peace prize (let's not forget his personal "kill-list" for drone strikes too) ? And while he was supposed to be progressive about drug use, he has intensified the War on Drugs in practice to a level that even Bush did not even dream to go to. So, can we be honest a second about "trust in elected officials" ?
Sounds like an asperger's MTGOW to me. Next
No: " The downgrade was not a consequence of Donald Trump, states the report. Rather, it was caused by the same factors that led Mr Trump to the White House: a continued erosion of trust in government and elected officials, which the index measures using data from global surveys. In total, it incorporates 60 indicators across five broad categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties." [1]

That link also has a really nice interactive world map.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/01/daily-c...
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"Indices" like these are a pretty reliable way for interest groups to score press coverage.
Nope. You'll be surprised to know that the article said nothing even remotely close to the thing you just made up!
Glucogenic amino acids (13 of the approx. 18 main amino acids comprising protein) provide glucose and small carbohydrates when broken down. Point taken on 'enough carbs' though.
>I think your figure is on the high side and overly alarmist.

This is actually my gripe with the Dutch pirate party. They are often very alarmist and exaggerate problems in the same way the parties they oppose do. I wish there was a party that's focuses on major issues in stead of exaggerating a small number of issues in order to get popular with a specific market.
You seem to be suggesting humans have an intrinsic quality - some are the "best", others are the presumably the worst. This intrinsic quality is then what drives behavior.

Of course, if people internationally can be "the best", then perhaps domestically people can be "the best" (or not) as well. For example, perhaps bad inner cities and Trump-voting rust belt regions are full of people who are very much NOT the best.

I think you're agreeing with me.
The duplicate detector is weak to allow good stories get a second chance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273241#11273580
Does "erosion of trust" actually represent a quantifiable failure in the system of government itself?

Is 'trust' actually a metric? And if so, how is it measured? It sounds awfully subjective to me.
This childish understanding of economy and prosperity would be funnier if authoritarian regimes wouldn't try them on a regular basis. They find out that cash holders don't use it to fill their bathtub but run their business.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
This. Although I don't think your allergy flare-ups have a direct causation there--it could just be you're aging. There's ten million variables.

I'm tired of the whole "you're a denier" shibboleth--there very well may be very strong negative human impact on the climate. I'm sure there is. Whether it is global is another question and whether it is stoppable is yet another. But what I most disgusted by is how the issue is used as a political weapon to basically implement a far left, collectivist agenda worldwide. It's like the old-school soviets found a new angle on justifying their desire for total control over populations. It will not stand.
MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM on Android
Xenial's v6 dhcp has been working much better for me since this was fixed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-dhcp/+bug/1633...

Prior to that dhclient fix, dhcpv6 was basically unusuable on 16.04.
It's always hard to believe a second-hand story on the Internet, but suspending skepticism for a moment: kudos to the guy for telling this. There's easily enough information in there to be identified by the agents he spoke to. He's taking a huge risk.

Or maybe he included some false info for noise injection... if so, how do we know which parts to believe? Skepticism suspension lifted, I suppose.
> because of a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials there.

As perceived by the media... the same media who wanted the other candidate to be elected.
"While that is true and the mysql query cache definitely became a scaling issue as machines got bigger with lock contention etc., postgres doesn't even have a similar feature period."

I am sorry, but I rather not have a feature than having a feature that is questionably implemented.
I'd tend to agree with the parent that multi-pthreading is a poor abstraction but I'd add an important note: only systems programmers should be explicitly spinning up pthreads. Explicit pthreading is a poor abstraction for everyone else. Application programmers are probably operating at the 'wrong' level and greenthreads make more sense.
I agree with ysavir: I do not mind being exposed to ads related to my current search - I understand it is the price to pay for a free service... I mind my searches being stored and attached to my (not event anonymous) profile in a database.

And the "not even anonymous" is not an option: to be able to have a fully functioning phone, I hardly can escape declaring my full details to Google.

And this is clearly an "evil" choice of Google: I never created a Linux, Debian, Ubuntu or Mint account to keep my desktop computer up-to-date and featured by additional apps.
Did you look at the 3 links provided above? To quote from [3]:
"They find that being Asian is the equivalent of a 140 point score penalty on your SAT when applying to top private universities. For example, a white student that scored 1360 on the SATs would be on equal footing with an Asian student that scored 1500."
You have a point but publication date, specially in this fast moving field, is a low grade data point. As another commenter wrote in this thread, we're reduced to deducing date range by looking at referenced prior work.

I for one am grateful to Cornell for making ArXiv happen. They stamp the date on the preprint and their url enodes the general date [/<yy><mm>.<sernum>] as well:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06020.pdf
My workflow is usually to lose interest and motivation right around the time I have it rough, ready and working. Rather than do the last polish and site to release I would end up doing other hobbies.

It's been frusrtating.
There was once "broad consensus" that the world was flat. I am not at all comfortable when there is so much consensus. There needs to be debate, disagreement, and healthy skepticism at all times.
If you can only talk divisively and dismiss the concerns of people who don't agree with you, then you will continue to harm the unity of this country. Even if we don't agree with one another, we still should be able to live with one another peacefully. That is not to say stop protesting and engaging people. It means that people need to stop over generalizing and practice some empathy with others. It means not demonizing people who don't agree with you and sometimes it means just walking away instead of taking the swing.

I think of Mr. Rogers a lot these days and how he called everyone his neighbor. In a sense, we live in a world now where we actually all can be neighbors. And good neighbors don't treat each other like enemies.

If people truly believe that "Love Trumps Hate" and that's not just a slogan, people need to start acting that way.
Has anyone been burned by this? I'm going to start pasting things into a different text editor before running them.
Isn't that being realistic though?
93 Characters Long Classname in Java Spring Framework
> if you ever want to get the data out ... you are in for a world of pain

What do you mean by "get data out"? I've not had any issues getting rows out of SQL Server to be indexed externally.
Looking at the data in Wikipedia[1], USA seems to be getting low scores for "Functioning of government" and "Political participation".

Also notice that the US score only fell from 8.05 to 7.98 [2] from last year, so the difference isn't that big. It was barely in the top category (8+) to begin with.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
[2]: http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democr...
The only surprising thing is that the US was ever classed as a "full" democracy. The US system largely inherits from the UK's system, which is also a largely broken version of democracy (with the Tories getting a disproportionate number of seats per vote, and smaller parties getting no seats in spite of having millions of voters).

Sweden is one country who has what I'd call a "full" democracy. You can read about seat distribution here[0] and the method here[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Sweden#Seat_alloc...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_meth...

The US and UK likely won't fix their flawed system because it is perfectly designed to direct power to an elite few while locking out everyone else. The biggest problem is that people vote for parties, so the parties in most areas select the winner for the voter (i.e. if an area is a Tory/Republican/whatever stronghold, the voters are going to tick that box no matter the name, making the political party itself the ultimate kingmaker).

I've lived in multiple areas where the winner of the election had never set foot in that area before. They were literally plucked from thin air, placed in a "safe" area, and got the win. Because people vote political party, and political parties pick who gets the seats. Thus allowing an elite to pick our leadership.
I have had quite a few issues with Spotify on OSX, but not any issues like this lately. The forum post is old, and the most recent answer is from June last year. Is this really still relevant?
Mina Loy, Aphorisms on Futurism (1914)
Why? Everyone should not get a visa. Country should have a right to decide whom they let in. I never heard anyone complaining when the rich got visa more easily than poor.
How about the previous President who ignored the Constitution blatantly (4th Amendment anyone?) and continued the global surveillance of US Citizens without any due process (unless you consider Secret Courts one?), and lying blatantly about it in the first place? Does that count for anything?
I may be wondering because I'm standing on an atoll of ignorance in a sea of knowledge, but I wonder why the intelligence themselves can't became Tor admins and do away with needing to recruit anyone.
More on DX'ing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing
My working definition of "too clever" is:

If you have to spend time explaining 'what' the code is doing, it is "too clever".

If you have to spend time explaining 'why' the code is doing something.. then "them's the breaks working in a complicated world".

Code should only be as complex as the problem domain.
Don't worry, the points don't get you anything.
Sarcasm and satire are very powerful weapons in the persuasive writer's arsenal.
I don't let dropbox run in the background. I don't need it all the time, so i don't let it run all the time. I really wish they'd fix their junk.

As a developer, I hate that we're becoming a bunch of "whatever"s. I mean this is junk behavior.
Sorry, my bad. I meant files in OOXML format.
I'll assume you downvoted me because you think that the article is wrong and not because you think I am wrong in my assessment of what the article is saying.

I don't disagree that the media at large would have preferred the other candidate. That would be true if the media was a perfect statistical representation of the country, and the media is not, it's largely focused in population centers, where the preference was overwhelming.
But what is "best"? While their achievements are commendable, admitting all of them will lead to a homogeneous student body and presumably not the best outcome for the institution, its graduates, or society.
Trump vs. Bane (Inauguration Speech)
>It's not a matter of settling.

Let me rephrase it. When you were looking for a relationship, did you have a set of expectations that you ultimately gave up on fulfilling? Or did you try to set out with no expectations at all?
@US people: Are you aware of how election campaigns in other countries are like? It is no stars'n'stripes confetti craze with hot-air "discussions" and no more than two 'choices' everywhere. I was quite surprised by how much hot air was changing the sides when I saw one of the famous US television duels for the first time in the 2012 campaign. I almost completely ignored the 2016 campaign (apart from the results) given that it was looking much worse. How can an event with such a lack of serious discussion refer to itself as a democratic procedure?
Asserting that Brexit voting is based on immigration dismisses a whole swathe of arguments in favour of an exit from the EU. I certainly didn't consider immigration policy as a reason for my exit vote.
the pitchforks are coming!
Well functioning media are also an important factor for a democracy. Apparently many people doubt the US has that. No matter how you look at it something important is broken. The difference in perception is what's the broken part.
I think that class needs an AbstractFactoryFactoryBuilderInterface
You seem to be going with the assumption that previous presidents told the truth. Trump is not as charismatic with the lies like Obama.
> Google sells all of your data to advertisers

I totally agree with that part, including the last sentence of your post. However, I don't quite see the difference between "you are the product" and "access to your eyeballs is the product", it's just describing the same thing differently. That others are worse doesn't really change that, the ones who are better are the standard as far as I'm concerned.
Including DB migrations. I don't know if I could ever go back to working with SQL directly after using GORM.
"So if you don't approve of / trust him, you don't trust the government. If you do trust him, you don't trust the government.", are you talking about Obama/Clinton?

The ones who have destroyed the Middle East, armed the syrian terrorists, buried Osama Bin Laden without showing its corpse ( but they showed Gaddafi's one, and he was muslim too, really strange ).

And the same who are spouting nonsense on the "russian hacking" without showing proof.

Seriously, if the american people distrust the government, it is because of the globalist oligarchs puppets actions.
Wow, all these issues and I have been loving my steam controller with no issues for a while now. I think expecting it to be a mouse or traditional gamepad is the problem. It is its own interface, and a good one at that. It is good enough to roughly approximate both, but isnt really either. Everyone looking for a familiar experince is obviously going to complain.
It's unclear what you mean about the difficulties of getting data out of SQL Server since it's really no harder or easier than getting data out of any other RDBMS. Scaling SQL Server, just like scaling any other RDBMS, can be challenging since traditional RDBMSs don't distribute well. While some workloads are CPU-limited, that is not true for all workloads so the per-core licensing model of SQL Server (which ~$7k per core for 2016 Enterprise edition, not $16k) is not always prohibitive if your workload is more disk or RAM-intensive. There are points of differentiation between SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL that might make one better suited to a particular workload than others, but those situations are dependent on the details of a particular workload and something as general as "getting data out" or "on a customer-facing system" aren't specific enough to identify any one of those as more suitable than another.
Not the author of the comment, but once your ego gets humbled enough, you "settle" without feeling like you are settling. Perfection is the enemy of human.
Ask HN: Ideas for services under http://sexy.one domain
Recently I got accidentally my hands on this sexy one domain name ;)

Do you have any ideas for services that could be launched there? Like ie. email in @sexy.one domain, etc?
There is no amount of work a human being could do that justifies the wealth that is in the hands of people like Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet. They seem like decent enough people, but they have an obscene amount of wealth and power.
It is dishonest and dangerous to claim that NGOs are compromised without providing any proof. I've worked in that space, and it is critically important that aid workers are seen as politically neutral and with pure intentions.

As an example the Taliban was targeting NGOs in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region because they believed efforts to vaccinate against polio were in fact an attempt to poison Muslims. Dozens of doctors, nurses, and volunteers were killed because someone like you decided to start a baseless rumor.

Most first world intelligence agencies have policies against embedding spies in aid operations. When it became common knowledge we used a vaccination campaign to collect on UBL, many people resigned from the Agency.
Arrested Kaspersky Security Reseacher Might Be Working with Foreign Entities
> I'm from Venezuela, and happen to know a few people that are mining bitcoin down there

Is there any evidence government cronies are mining Bitcoin en masse?
They should, so why not send out a blanket order for all agencies to do this? Why target only a few specific departments for justification and gag orders?
>He's taking a huge risk

I understand how it can be viewed that way and it's certainly a bit of a risk but realistically it's not a huge risk.

If this is AVID, at the end of the day, despite what many may think due to outlying examples, they are an intelligence organisation working in a democracy and their agents aren't normally going to be in the business of retribution for someone turning down a pitch. Plus, if they became known for unnecessary retribution for minor things like someone saying no to a pitch, it would damage their long-term efforts in other areas.

They will expect that probably the majority of the pitches they make will be rejected. It's not something new to them. Similarly they will have risk assessed and planned for the eventuality of it being made public. Yes, it will annoy them but they will still just keep on moving through the social network analysis diagrams until they find and pitch the right people they are looking for.

Plus, while it will make some people more weary in future, occasionally exposure of efforts like this often leads to a softening up of others who might be interested in doing this sort of thing for them in future. Maybe a few months down the line someone in the community gets pissed off with others and remembers this article and drops AVID a mail........
What you're describing is the first half of what I said. And you're right, there has consistently been a sizable percentage of the electorate who doesn't trust the government.

What's relatively new is that now, the President is asking people who are on his side to distrust the rest of the government.
I can't even downvote.