skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over here in Romania the Radio Yerevan jokes were some of the most famous (http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Radio_Yerevan_Jo...). My favorite one:

"""

Q: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?

A: In principle yes, but:

1. it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov;

2. he is not from Moscow but from Odessa;

3. it was not a car but a bicycle;

4. he didn't win it, but it was stolen from him.

"""
"I am" is said by Jesus seven times in the Gospel of John, that's more important for a Christian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_(biblical_term)

> There are really few if any theological similarities between Zeus and Jesus. They are 'far apart' on the religion scale

To properly compare you have to compare Yahweh, the god from Jewish scriptures (a.k.a the Old Testament for the Christians, for who Yahweh is a father-god) and Zeus, the Greek father god. Both are hungry for the animal sacrifices. The God personally visits Abraham who prepares a meal (freshly baked bread and flesh) for him and the God eats, under a tree. Not "transcendent" at all.

For their children: Jesus, the son of the God and a human mother, and Heracles, the son of the God and a human mother. Heracles rises to Olympus as he dies, unlike the other mortals, just like Jesus rises to heaven.

And both Jesus and Heracles visit Hades (Hell) only to get out of there:

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

Learning about the Greek gods is really enlightened.

By the way, the name of the Jewish father-god is Yahweh, and "Jesus" comes from the Greek "Iesous" rendition of a Hebrew common name "Yehoshua" (Joshua) which means "Yahweh is salvation." Also a convenient element for the later "the father is also a son" idea. Only, there were a lot of Joshuas living around for more centuries.
>I like my web app acceptance tests to be code, readable and maintainable, not UI/OCR thingies... but I've seen so many bugs like "this element is visible and clickable, but Selenium says it's not, because the 3d-css animation + dom-manipulation voodoo of the tested app got selenium completely confused"... and I'm not even mentioning web code with events-on-SVG-nodes or webgl here...

I just write javascript directly for automating situations like this.

I see this as somewhat analogous to the abstractions provided by an ORM. It won't provide every edge case but that doesn't mean you should toss it out entirely - just bypass the abstraction in the (minority) of cases where you need to.

If you need to bypass the abstraction too much of the time that indicates that something is a bit wrong with your front end code, just as having a database that you could almost never use an ORM would indicate something fundamentally wrong with your data model.
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> No room for GC here

True, if you're talking about tiny embedded systems where you would not use GC (nor any dynamic allocation), you shouldn't have much difficulty using Rust. Nor many of its benefits.
This sounds silly to me. Is it awkward to seek medical treatment after numbing the pain? Is it awkward to want the cure for the disease after treating a symptom?

To the people, achieving the primary goal is like stopping the bleeding from a gunshot wound. It's the first step in preventing something worse from happening, but it's not the last step in the fight against corruption. The bullet is still inside.
That might be part of it. Myself I value most the differences in hardware: I used a Samsung Galaxy Note at first for similar tasks and loved it, using Zotfile and Dropsync for keeping PDFs on the tablet. I travel a lot, and I couldn't count on it getting through a day of mixed use. In the end, the excellent power management of the iPad was a big advantage.

Similarly, I made the switch to a Macbook Pro after a bad day in 2011 in which I was first unable to connect my (Linux) laptop to a projector when visiting an institute to give a talk, and then unable to Skype in to a conference call. It was a bad morning, away from base, so I went to the Apple shop at lunchtime. I value the Linux box I use at work, and enjoy working with its tools, but easy collaboration is also important to me.
You may want to check out Nomad List[0]. I've heard good things about it. They have a chat system that you can use to get to know other people and meet up.

[0]: https://join.nomadlist.com
> I've noticed the resurgence in Anglo nations of religion, post 9/11, overwhelmingly from the US

For a perspective on other countries, I'm French and thought religion was a dead thing of history until I was 14 and went to Ireland in a family, I used to think it was part of history like the second world war and the revolution.
You could, but it's unintuitive (in my opinion) to do so -- which was the parent's comment larger point. You're not doing anything different, and to an extent the latter is actually lying about what's going on (you're not writing HTML). I also lose a certain level of tooling by doing it the JSX way. Why try to mask what you're doing? Why make it harder for your tools to help you out?
GitLab rushing good news about frontend when backend crashes is good short term PR support plan.
What is Redshift? (Tried Googling it.)
I thought it was the hang up and try again joke:

What's the difference between Honecker and a telephone? Nothing! Just hang up and try again!

(aufhängen, neuwählen means both "hang up and try again" and "hang him and vote again")
I agree, that is the question. In capitalistic societies, business and politics are often intertwined.
Now there is a CTO coming on board with a set salary you have a benchmark to compare yourself against.

I would write an e-mail to say that you are wrapping things up and at the end of this week will be done.

If they act surprised or demand you to work for the next two weeks tell them sure but you'll be billing them at a daily rate (regardless of if work takes place if you're a CTO, you're on call) and send over a standard contract.

They will never discuss your worth unless they are put in a difficult position where they have to. Do not do any more work until you have a signed contract. If they never sign it then you're done.

Don't stay on as an advisor unless it's something you really love, it will just make you mad to have put in so much effort and never have been compensated in return.
That only works because you're 1 person. If everyone in your town decided to do this your phone would be unusable.

We have ~50 users on our unlicensed fixed wireless service and we've been running into numerous signal issues. Wireless isn't the answer.
> Good Ukrainians spell it 'Kyiv', because that's how the Ukrainian nationalists do it.

Not really, that's how it's tranliterated from Ukrainian. "Kiev" is a transliteration from Russian.
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To be honest I'm quite proud how the protests went. More akin to Ghandi's protests than to rioters burning cars.

It's going to be a long struggle but thankfully the groups most supportive of populism and therefore corruption are older (>50).
Here in Germany the law states that ToS are only applicable if they contain "no surprising terms". Which is really nice! Although this doesn't give you permission for everything, it protects you from any "cleverness" of a site's operator. It ensures that indeed almost nobody needs to read ToS. Even lawyers tell you this.
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> That Christianity and its adherents are manipulated for political ends is a sad fact of life. This doesn't change whether or not Christianity is true, it simply confirms the biblical assertion that people are potentially naive.

Not at all, Christianity has always been practiced as a social and political construct as well as a spiritual one. That's the core of it's power. Earthly institutions don't persist for thousands of years otherwise.

You really need to look at more ancient practices that are further away from modern practice and politics. Places like England and France were transformed from a collection of warring barbarian bands to nations by the cultural standardization brought by christianity. Later reforms were driven by schisms like the reformation and other things.
"Cotroceni not Cotrocenii and Klaus not Claus"
I'd like to remind you that I'm not a bundle of CPU and memory working perfectly 24/7 and the same thing is true for you.

Moving on to important things.
"It's a well known fact that Cotroceni protesters are mostly poor and retired old people and they went there because they received some incentives"

You seem to forget that the coalition PSD + ALDE won by a majority and that we live in a representative democracy not a direct democracy.
In market capitalism we need at a least 2. Efficient, isn't it?
My bank can set SMS-alerts based on custom rules, but they charge €0.50 or something per SMS.
I started reading this, and was a little sceptical by the first paragraph, but when I saw Obama-esque and the Daily Mail references I had to check out their homepage. Definitely a bad source.
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Have you got a comparison matrix to OneNote or Evernote?
That'd be handy.
Capitalism at a Crossroads
>Of course, Ajit Pai will have a lobbying job earning well north of 400K the moment the Trump administration runs out the door

Hahahaha, 400k? The man is the Chairman of the FCC. Try well into seven figures
It's sadder that someone is posting National Review articles on HN.
> When did the complexity of combining markup syntax and a programming language become a good idea?

When unobtrusive javascript became a thing.

> As an industry, we’ve already decided: HTML and JavaScript belong together.

https://medium.com/@housecor/react-s-jsx-the-other-side-of-t...
Which of those two statements?
If you really care a lot, you can threaten to file takedown requests with Amazon Web Services or whoever their host is. Copyright assignment must be done explicitly unless you are an employee
If one of the first laws you try to pass is to legalize bribes lower than $50k to save your party leader and his cronies, it means that you deceived your voters.
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"CCCen" was someone who took the content from the official CCC media account and made money off of it from displaying advertisements.

The official account is https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde and has no ads/monetization enabled.
I am currently taking this course at Oxford and definitely recommend following this.

We will be using TED talks as our dataset, to create Question Answering, text completion, generating entire TED talks ourselves etc. Definitely very interesting and it is being taught by leading researchers in the field!
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Sure. This was somewhere around 10 years ago so my memory is slightly fuzzy on all the technical details but heres the gist of it:

As an operator your main interface to their system was a Java desktop application. Basically you sit there waiting for it to go 'ding!', you read the question, and accept if you think you're capable of answering. You would research (they heavily pushed their sources but Google was better about 100% of the time) and then communicate the answer back to the user using the application.

Once it was accepted the application would make an HTTP request to ChaCha's server to basically say 'A question was answered by this user'. This was easily visible using normal tools like Wireshark, etc. For your efforts you would be rewarded some very small amount of money, something like $.02.

I simply wrote a VB.NET application to hit this HTTP endpoint over and over again which would add money to my account without me doing any work. They didn't seem to be doing any verification that I had actually been given questions to answer.

The reason they noticed me was because I left ~8 instances of this program running for like 3 days straight which netted me hundreds of dollars ready to be cashed out, way more than any operator would be even remotely capable of normally given their pay scheme. So I was smart enough to figure this out but dumb enough to get caught almost immediately. And I'm not a lawyer but my guess is that this was considered fraud. Glad my morals eventually straightened out before I got myself in real trouble, honestly this was a decent lesson for 15 year old me.
By using FB, you consent to them using the information about you that others and you yourself provide. Dont like it? Dont use FB.
I think, as usual, the media has obscured rather than clarified what is going on here. If you read his own words, you will see John Bates is accusing NOAA (in particular, Tom Karl) of p-hacking. He claims they are changing the significance cutoff, choosing which data/processing to include based on statistical significance of a trend, and that this process is not reproducible.

"I questioned another co-author about why they choose to use a 90% confidence threshold for evaluating the statistical significance of surface temperature trends, instead of the standard for significance of 95% — he also expressed reluctance and did not defend the decision.

[...]

Tom Karl constantly had his ‘thumb on the scale’—in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets

[...]

Tom Karl liked the maturity matrix so much, he modified the matrix categories so that he could claim a number of NCEI products were “Examples of “Gold” standard NCEI Products (Data Set Maturity Matrix Model Level 6).”

[...]

Since the version GHCNM3.X never went through any ORR, the resulting dataset was also never archived, and it is virtually impossible to replicate the result in K15.

[...]

The withholding of the operational version of this important update came in the middle of a major ENSO event, thereby depriving the public of an important source of updated information, apparently for the sole purpose of Mr. Karl using the data in his paper before making the data available to the public."

https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus...

So statements like this are rendered meaningless:

>"Also, the new global trends are statistically significant and positive at the 0.10 significance level for 1998–2012"
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469.full

Personally, I know such statements about statistically significant deviations from a strawman nil-null hypothesis are always meaningless. However, perhaps this will open up a few more people's eyes to the awful state of affairs NHST has brought us.
Most technology is useless. Its not a product of necessity, but a product of our chosen economic system.
Now is the time to not do any more work until you get paid. You have the money.

Furhermore, if you have any documented promises to pay, including shares, then you are owed a debt.

Try to engage a collection agency. They will cost you nothing and will be the bad cop for a while even as you get to be the good cop, or at least the cop who doesn't call them.
Except that the "teachings of Christ as we know them" has already changed a lot over time and has arguably never very close to the guy from Nazareth we can infer from the many echoes we have in the scriptures of his time and report from disciples. For example he was much more Jewish than we usually think he was. He would be surprised to find so many people talking about choosing him as a model while eating "impure meat" and not being circumcised. Yes he emphasised Faith over Law but only long time after Paul did Chirstianity start to fork again from Judaism.

So the "teaching of Jesus as we know them" is a human construct only remotely rooted in what the actual Jesus might have thought or said, and therefore has nothing special (magical) compared to, say, Buddhism.
The solution is called remote working.
qiqqa - has bibtex support and decent ocr
I think the fundamental problem is capacity. I haven't run a WISP, but my understanding is that a highly directional rooftop antenna solves most signal strength problems for individual subscribers. However, there's a practical requirement for the tower to have antennas with broader coverage (I think WISPs conventionally use sector antennas), because otherwise you'd just have too many antennas that need to continually be adjusted as subscribers come and go. Half-duplex medium and protocol overhead means that you're not going to get very many stations on a given combination of antenna and channel before performance starts taking a major hit. I've seen general guidelines that recommend no more than 20 stations per AP; I assume a WISP tower setup can optimize for more stations per channel, but I'd expect that to be on the order of a 2-5x multiplier, not 100x.
I've been out of the QA role for a few years now but there is a nifty, albeit not maintained, tool that I used to use for generating UI objects for Selenium. It's not really an IDE, but it did allow me to quickly generate files needed for using the PageObjects model.

https://unmesh.me/2013/08/29/pageobject-generator-utility-fo...
Somewhat off-topic:

Are Cisco products worth the money ?

Personally i haven't had that much experience with their stuff, but i remember seeing a brand new router running hot with two fans blowing in it (other routers at the time were 2x smaller without fans). I understand that Cisco should be the de facto networking standard, but is it really worth the name ?
try qiqqa
Ah, the "I'm no developer, but this is easy" person. Glad to have your valuable input here :)
What’s the big deal about $1 out of every $2 spent onlinegoing to Amazon?
Like he said, you still need to spend an insane amount of money to acquire spectrum. Furthermore, High freq spectrum doesn't go through trees or buildings so any obstruction then makes dozens of properties unserviceable. Unless you put AP's every 500m, it doesn't work out the way you'd think it would, and at that point, you might as well just run a physical drop cable to the premise for a few hundred dollars.
What have you used for displaying graphs?
This bill was originally introduced in 2013 and unanimously passed the House last year, it isn't new. It got blocked and then weakened in the Senate last year, so they're just trying again. In general I think the House is less theatrical and scripted than the Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Privacy_Act
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It violates the Facebook ToS to have an account with a name that doesn't match your ID.
> If there were large edits made during this time we would expect to see more variation in the early sources we do have.

Except that the sources we have for even just the Gospels (specifically, the synoptic Gospels) are evidence of large edits (and probably at least one non-preserved source), it's just that then surviving differing results of those edits have been traditionally ascribed as independent works of different authors.
> ... but in practically every way you have a religion in atheism: you are the god, you have a way of viewing the world, you have "holy books" written by people such as Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens... you get the idea.

While I can't speak for all atheists, I'd suggest that you may be grasping a bit here. Atheists that I've met don't consider themselves a / the god. Having an understanding or a view of the world doesn't require or imply religion. Atheists don't consider any texts to be holy, let alone those written by people proclaiming loudest that there are no holy texts.
Excuse me it was not a complaint it was a criticism breifly and carefuly explained to be constructive. I was pointing out that if you had wrote: "Assume salaries are determined exclusively, predictably and linearly by labour supply..." the position for your observations would be clearly flawed, so you would have to examine them more and find a better footing for them (which there may well be - i havent wondered).

But you did write precisely that case in symbolic form - the technical value of formulas is that they are precise and we write them to be precise, so look at what you assumed there!

Good day :)
Sure fatalities are, but look at the guns per capita. When you actually do the math the US has significantly less gun fatalities per gun
And why is that? Any bad experiences in particular?
My parents fled Romania. What is the significance of that phrase?
You do know that Vue support jsx. Just not react's jsx.
Awesome, nice find!
The photo of Gardner mentioned at the start:

https://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/files/2012/10/tumblr_m9...
No.

Unless there's more to this. How did this situation even arise in the first place? How do you earn a living?
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I used `d3-force` library to render the graph and drew it with React in an SVG element.
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I don't understand how this relates to whether broadband is a natural monopoly. Certainly it's one that demands more frequent upgrades, but that seems to be missing the point.
(From memory, so possibly miss some details)

Differential Privacy uses the concept of adding 'noise' to a dataset to make it statistically provable, that, if queries are supposed to only be A, B, C... then the adversary can only tell the target from noise with some probability - The point of restricting access to a subset of queries isn't really the main point of how DP improves privacy, but rather, restricting access to a subset of queries makes the formal proofs of things doable.
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I would like to see us abstract another layer between an arbitrary number and a person. We do have another system by which you enter a seemingly-random number to connect to the person, and we abstracted it with DNS. If you're a Facebook user, privacy concerns aside, you can change your number there and it gets updated on your friends' phones, I think. Is there any sort of OSS tool to do the same - automate updates to your contact info, so you don't have to tell your friends when you change the phone number which ingresses to your voice chat/SMS systems?
for those whom downvote. Im sad for them. As interviewer,what point i ask specific formula while the basic cannot deliver?Each client have their own way doing thing.If the person can do hello world very quick ,for sure he can do any other thing with proper guidance.Some candidate quite scare first time and unable to solve big formula question. Stick with simple and stress level will reduce and i prefer too see what they do how they talk . Its just not about code formula but on how much easier interaction in the future.
Same in the UK, we change providers every few years depending on what deals are available. BT generally owns the last mile but is required to share it with other providers, then there are regional cable and fiber networks. I do believe in the power of markets, but as Adam Smith pointed out they must be regulated in order to be free and fair.
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I think the bigger change here is that you can only submit one request per day via the web portal. That makes it almost worthless. Most news organizations that file FOIA requests have to file them for multiple pieces of information from different sources. This would limit them to only making one request for a source online and then require faxing or mail for all the others. As the current FOIA system sometimes takes months for records to be released, I can only imagine how bad this will get for them going forward. :-/
I guess I haven't felt this pain that you've felt. I'm satisfied with my tooling and feel that small components help keep things very clear and focused.
Taking on Wall Street by participating in Wall Street?

I somehow doubt how 'disruptive' this will be.