skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't actually work with all the windows opened or even on the same desktop, they are arranged like that for the benefit of the screenshot.
+1. I don't understand why we need a Chrome plugin to act like an adult. Or, on the flip side, why you can't be an adult and not distract a co-worker. ha
What use is a high status in a (hypothetical) group with effectively zero influence? One's status is only as useful/important as the people who ascribe it to them.
Just let them go to voice mail. If it's important they'll leave a message.
The rents mostly go to the banks, who create the loans out of nothing and win either way. Your rent might go to a landlord but to compete in the bidding on the building he must lend as much as anyone else from a bank.

That ability to mortgage land should be shared among society if anything is to get better. The question is how the 'state' handles any foreclosure in a politically acceptable way when home owners would use their voting power to cajole their way out of giving anything up when they get greedy and over extend. Right now the state offloads this to the banks as the bad guy debt collectors, giving them the benefits of foreclosed assets.
> There is no real evidence that memes won the election

Yet still enough to write this article? Or is this article Fake News™?

> but there is little question they changed its tone

Correlation doesn't equal causation. What if Trump's popularity resulted in a torrent of pro-Trump memes? In general, I find it much more likely that both the memes and Trump were caused (or at least influenced) by a third factor, e.g. the incresingly hostile culture of political correctness in mainstream media.
> What's weirder to me is that it seemed like they were going with my proposed route for a pretty long time and only recently starting providing dopey answers.

I feel like the article addresses this. Google has basically two different products that produce those top of the page, set-aside answers. One is "Knowledge Graph", which basically does what you are suggesting - grabs straightforward answers to simple questions from Wikipedia and similar. The second is "featured snippets", which is the one causing the outrages that the article highlights.
They're not a nonprofit. You're obviously free to release whatever helpful startup materials you would like to the world, and I'm sure that YC would be quite appreciative of their being more wonderful startups existing in the world as a result.
I bring the SDR, you bring the rifle? :)
I'm a TalkTalk customer, and was on the receiving end of this scam last year. I'm savvy enough to know that all the machines on our network were unlikely to be suffering from the problems they tried to describe (only one Windows laptop, and that was dual boot with Linux and carefully used).

The most annoying thing (for us) was that they repeatedly called the home number at random intervals through the day until we actually picked up, and then you'd get complete silence most of the time. When they finally managed to get someone on the phone on their end it was easy enough to tell them they were scammers and get rid of them, but I can see how those who are less confident around technology could easily be taken in by them.
I think the science fiction movie "Spaceballs" was head of its time. Planet Druidia had an enclosure to protect its oxygen, but Lord Helmet tried to suck it out with MegaMaid.

NASA might have to think about how to counter such threats, possibly from a future and more hostile Earth civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSWdHY9Ny4
And now is the time for actually doing research into the BI. Instead of speculating and manufacturing fear, uncertainty and doubt.
They have little incentive to bother you once it's clear you aren't falling for it. The more of their time you waste, the more likely you'll get to some permanent blacklist which is good.
Lots of people visit links on the clear web showing illegal and horrific acts. If the full extent of a crime is filling out an http form with a fake email to see some pictures and video, it's still not clear that this is so far beyond the pale that years of prison for hundreds of thousands of people is the best solution.
Someone tipped me about "Lenny": https://www.youtube.com/user/ToaoDotNet/videos?view=0&sort=p... I'd love to know if it is possible to route calls from outside the US to him!
Squarified Treemaps (2000) [pdf]
Mojeek – 1.5B Pages and Growing (2016)
The behaviour towards the user is the same, though: The first click never results in a bomb. Everything else is an implementation detail, although not placing bombs until after the first click is probably the easiest approach to ensure it.
Remote

Technologies: PureScript, JavaScript (PWA), node, Python, Haskell

Résumé/CV: https://marcinszamotulski.me

Email: coot AT riseup DOT net
A good rule of thumb is that if you are 100% sure of the obvious reason for a problem there is no consensus about you're probably wrong.
Hm this sounds very reasonable, I guess it's worth giving it a shot, thanks for the tip!
And even if they did, LED-based grow lights don't use so much energy.
You would think so, and that was what I was trying to do, to get on some black list, but less then a week later they called me again, this time a woman called, but I didn't have the time to redo the whole thing again.
A friend of mine once said, "There are things in life that you can only learn through experience. There are also things that you should never learn through experience -- like how to pack a parachute. Knowing the difference between the two is key".
Bold Promises Fade to Doubts for a Trump-Linked Data Firm
I made a similar app to this for Pebble at a hackathon in 2015: https://github.com/phoneyscape

We got an offer from Madrona Ventures for it that I never ended up following up on.
I've only answered the phone once with these scammers. I told them I was using a Mac and after confirming three times that it was a Mac, he said "you're a liar!" and hung up.
> So you have an economic incentive not to make it too usable?

And... do commercial companies don't have the same incentive?

The difference with me is that I have pride in my work. I do good engineering.

The reason I charge for services is that designing complex RADIUS systems is hard. It's about specialized expertise in esoteric technical areas.

There are 100's of 1000's of sites using my software who have downloaded it gratis. They have small needs, and the basic software works.

As for usability... it's a pet peeve of mine. Everything is documented. You get full information about what the system is doing, and why. That's usability that none of the commercial products have.
Not a minor political disagreement at all. The effort that's being curtailed is the primary effort in response to police killings of minorities--the primary effort to reform said police departments. Sessions is saying, in effect, the problem isn't the police, it's the communities themselves. This is the same tired conservative rhetoric that got us into the situation of minorities regularly being killed by police.
Tell them you aren't at the computer right now so you need a number to call them back on. Call them back from a burner phone/Skype.
In construction we have a phrase "a dime holding up a dollar". It is up to you to decide if you are a dime or a dollar in each situation.
This is almost verbatim what my 9/11 Truther college buddy would say. I'm not convinced it's a good rule of thumb. It's way too easy to say "there's no consensus on chemtrails/evolution/etc"
ultrabooks are expensive, netbooks were very cheap and depended on the net for storage and for apps.
Git LFS 2.0.0 released – with file locking
The attribution comes at the end
I'm not so interested in what caused what, but more of why the visible rhetoric is memes and Trump tweets and soundbites, and devoid of coherent plans and policies.
React Overdrive
Spammers exposed
I'm game. Let's go protect the wildlife. Though the best course of action would be finding ways to temper demand for poached animals. Easier said than done I know.
They might not put you on a blacklist, but they definitely won't single you out to waste more of their own time.

Also, it might be a different company, I imagine competition is fierce.
Deep representation learning for human motion prediction and classification
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I understand why I can't see the content I just think the way it is set up is wrong. I appreciate the license fee doesn't cover the full cost of the BBC and that the commercial arms brings in an awful lot of money that the wider BBC benefits from, but it should be set up in a way that means license payers can see the content produced by the commercial arm.

In the same way the rest of world should (maybe can, not sure) be able to pay an annual fee to view the content that is aired on BBC in the UK.
Okta Acquires Stormpath
Certainly that's not a good sign, but I don't find that statistic nearly as interesting as the (apparently unmentioned) proportion of the population who has accepted a bribe. If paying a bribe is only the way to get things done, then doing so is just trying to move through the system. In a corrupt system, accepting a bribe is the sign that an individual is themselves corrupt.
Information Leakage from Collaborative Deep Learning
Go 2016 Survey Results
In Delphi, IT IS that simple to create Web Apps:

- For fast drag and drop RAD style development use UNIGUI, great interfaces, plain and simple delphi development.

- If you want a modern, optimized and responsive Web UI in full javascript (but with typed and gentle Object Pascal), use "Smart Pascal Studio", it´s like typescript but includes a GUI editor, widgets, node.js backend etc. check out their full js desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_kXdueV_4&feature=youtu.be (impressive).

- If you want to bring your existing client-server delphi apps to the web, use Thinfinity.

- For a incredibly fast, low resource consumption, REST ready ORM, use MORMOT.

- For a nice, elegant and simple ORM use TMS Aurelius.

Please keep an eye in Smart Pascal Studio, it shares some ideas with Typescript but their tools are way ahead in development, they started some time before Typescript, it is a glimpse into the future of Web-desktop-mobile development.

And don't forget FMX.
I run Emacs on Windows just fine. Cygwin Emacs + Cygwin Xserver works pretty well. Ubuntu on Bash on Windows is better by some measures though. You might like that one.
Let's Encrypt are enabling the bad guys, and why they should
> Not it wasn't living hell

The nice thing about this is that it's largely a statement of fact, not an ideological question. It's an issue we can actually evaluate using evidence.

So. Where's your evidence for this claim?

I have plenty of evidence for mine. We can go read memoirs, first-hand, and second-hand accounts from women in the 19th and early 20th century. The downsides are well-documented.

> Having professional goals was a luxury

Those well-documented downsides extend far beyond the absence of professional goals.

Financial dependence is coercive, especially when paired with lax legal protections. Lack of personal economic autonomy, enforced by culture and in many cases law, gives rise to a whole range of depressing conditions. Lack of professional ambition was only one contributor to a huge constellation of factors that made many women's lives a living hell.

> Living hell was participating in wars, working 12 hours a day in a coal mine, etc.

Of course, men also enjoyed professional positions in academics, in industry, and in government that women were cut off from.

> Experiences that mainly men had the pleasure to enjoy

What is the relevance of this observation to the current discussion?

Does doing a crappy job entitle a man to the affection or devotion of a woman? If not, then what bearing does the existence of crappy jobs have on the status of women in society?

Also, there's plenty of pain and misery to go around. No reason to turn it into a contest. And we certainly have no good reason to condition women's status in society on the total abolition of men working undesirable jobs.
But hypothesis that memes helped Trump win (and also helped brexit) is itself a metaironic dank meme.

I'm not even sure that all these "fake news", "alt right" exist. And isn't 4chan something from the past like Myspace, is there still any active users? Or there left only 2 insane anonymouses who write all the posts?
The Horrible Fact About How 37 Banks Became 4 in Just 2 Decades
How would YC moderate 3rd party mentors?
U.S. Customs Agents Are Coercing for Mobile Passwords
Using Go to Communicate More Effectively
the story being sold by the DNC and its sycophants both inside the press and outside is that Trump did not win the election, it was either stolen or given to him.

This is the reaction of irrational people who can see no other solution other than those they come up with. In their ordered world all other opinions are those of the ignorant, the bigoted, and racist. As such they are all discounted if not ignored.

Trump won because of who he wasn't and he took down to political establishments to do so. Why wouldn't they both be mad and worse the press who for too long decided instead of being journalist that they should be part of the story. I cannot recall a time in my life where I have seen so many stories from the press reporting on the press.

So while the linked article has no real place on HN it is just indicative of a narrative being pushed by the losing side. Someone else gave it to him, we were never wrong or disliked, we were cheated. (we as in them)
At least here in Finland it has was the assumption among educators that once you give children computers, smartphones etc. they become good at using them (diginatives was the term). Kids would know how to search information from the net and it would help learning. Schools bought computers and tablets but did not increase ICT education.

Going light on teaching ICT skills backfired. Finland is now below average in computer skills for the youg and young adults.

Now it turns out that most kids don't learn to use computers unless you teach them. They can do just enough to play games and communicate with others. They don't necessarily know how to use email or search data efficiently.
Pay wall?
Unlike the WSJ, the "web" trick still works for FT. (although this article doesn't have much new news)
Some more fun ones.

What foods cure cancer? https://www.google.com/search?q=What+foods+cure+cancer%3F

What spice cures diabetes? https://www.google.com/search?q=What+spice+cures+diabetes%3F

Which presidents are rapists? https://www.google.com/search?q=Which+presidents+are+rapists...

Can carrots cure cancer? https://www.google.com/search?q=Can+carrots+cure+cancer%3F (apparently this one is fixed, try the search below)

Can carrot juice cure cancer? https://www.google.com/search?q=Can%20carrot%20juice%20cure%...
Two options - (1) Click on "Web" on the submission, then follow the link via Google or (2) Search for the title on Google and then follow the link.
This could lead to life elsewhere in the galaxy to protest climate change on Mars. We might get visitors if we try messing up a second planet.
"I did it for the lulz." is the best explanation, I think.
Statute of limitations might come into play here.
Pitch Cards: the serious game to hack public speaking training
these tutorials read like a computational geometry textbook. I have gotten stuck even on simple algorithms like the intersection of two lines. at least in the beginning it may be hard to compute bugs
Xamarin .NET Workbooks – Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool
Developer Stories
Since it does not work, does Google demote their links?
> a massive voter-base of disenfranchised American workers, nearly completely ignored by the administrations of the past 25 years.

I think most people accept that but it does still leave the question, 'why Trump?'
We at Blast Off Apps are looking forward to hearing the advice. Watching the current videos has been informative and we are confident this will also be very valuable. We have a membership program that gives starts an agile development department for $495/m with free code hours each month (blastoffapps.com/membership). We have initial happy members, but need to grow and prepare better for scaling the business. Can't wait, thank you Y-combinator!
The Ten Commandments of Continuous Delivery
True but only up to a point do this to say BT and you will have the Feared Investigations Branch" / Security Directorate down on you like a ton of bricks.

BTW SD is like the auditors in the laundry files but not as nice.

Also perception is key here if you get a reputation for scammers if unfourtunelty it has nagtive impact on the whole country
"It seems safe to conclude that someone asked them to write positive stories." As the author of the article in question, I can tell you that this is false.
And why does he resonate with disenfranchised American workers? He's policies were ill conceived and in many cases worse for that voter base than the administration that preceded him. But because he spoke their language they adopted him regardless of the political blunders he made during his campaign. Which means memes and other non-conventional methods of promotion really helped sell Trump as an alternative to the convention because they speak to the working class in the way that career politicians seldom achieve (not for want of trying). So your comments aren't mutually exclusive from the points made in the article.
There's a balance to be had between theory & practice, exclusive doing one or the other will likely produce suboptimal results. Ideally, you'd focus on execution and dynamically get intuitive meaningful feedback as you went.
Indeed, but unfortunately the lack of positive results is not a negative result in itself... This is when explaining a megaproject to the funders starts to become harder and harder.
This might make the basis of an interesting question on codereview.stackexchange.com. Assuming of course that it meets all that site's requirements.
For as long as I can remember, every election is followed by the losing political party claiming either (1) they didn't do a good job with marketing, or (2) the other side does marketing better.

The political parties never publicly state that the voters disagreed with their platform, or that their platform was focused on the wrong things, or that the voters were willing to take a gamble on something new, etc. It's always the case that the voters would have chosen their party if they had run better ads, or more ads, or ads in different places, etc.
It depends on what you want to achieve. Strong fundamentals in maths gives you the tools to solve big problems. The more ambitious the problem you want to help solve, like say a traffic-control system for a high-speed train network, then the more maths you will need.
What about the simple idea that being smart means you find more opportunities to commit crimes where you won't get caught? Is that addressed? It seems to square with the fact that high IQ people commit fewer crimes; they'd also find more legit opportunities to enrich themselves.
"How can I get in on that extorting?"
> "How is this possible ...? Why are you waisting my time??"

That's actually not so bad. I got a different, more hilarious response when a scammer realized I was stringing him along. Which I recorded.

I received a call just last Thursday from a professionally recorded American sounding female voice saying it was my credit card company. "Nothing was wrong with my account" but there was an opportunity to reduce my interest rate on EITHER my "MasterCard" OR "Visa." I knew this was going to be fun so I played along, pressed 1, and got connected to a guy from India. He began by asking for my credit card number to verify my account.

I started recording half way through, hoping to keep him on longer but failed. Here's the short clip from when he realized I was giving him random credit card numbers (NSFW language):

https://instaud.io/Niz
Show HN: Hazelboard, an infinite message board
And we have tons of land as well. We just don't have tons of land in a handful of places where a lot of people have convinced themselves they just have to live or their life isn't worth living.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-wiretap-claims-what-we-...

"White House sources acknowledge that Trump had no idea whether the claims he was making were true when he made them."

Here we have great attribution and a high-profile source (Trump, the source of claims about being wiretapped by Obama). It's just that the source doesn't care whether the claims are true or not.
Reminds me of Stephen Few's classic book, "Show Me the Numbers". Excellent book if you have to report information to others that must be quickly understood.
When a culture and economy are in general decline, lots of equations indoctrinated into kids along the lines of "do ABC, get XYZ" will be broken, and the smart kids will feel ripped off and at the same time have the agency, time preference, and logical thinking skills to achieve XYZ anyway, just perhaps while bending the rules.
yes, however still need some digging on this as my experience lacks a bit when it comes to sound on linux.
Y Combinator opens registration for its free Startup School online course
Or just flag it because I don't want to see links with paywalls on HN
I think there is a higher chance of data theft because it is outsourced to a different country and to a different company.

There is less risk and/or maybe more mental space to rationalize the theft of data. Maybe their company treats them poorly, maybe they believe they can't get caught as easily. If they were in-house in the same company, there is more risk/punishment, right?
>I'm not even sure that all these "fake news", "alt right" exist.

BuzzFeed News tracked down and spoke to Macedonian teenagers who created over 100 fake news sites, who readily admit it. They were pro-trump sites because pro-trump stories made the most money, not because of any political ideology.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...

>"Yes, the info in the blogs is bad, false, and misleading but the rationale is that 'if it gets the people to click on it and engage, then use it,'" said a university student in Veles who started a US politics site
'Banner Box' allows ER patients to get medicine almost immediately
Promising Startups
WYSIWYG, I think. Also, loose lips sink ships.
> this article is pretty much vapor.

In what way?
I don't think people under 45 remember what the software was like before. Everything including AT&T Unix had a high price point and many "versions" of Unix that caused incompatibilities. LISP systems were extremely expensive and rare. The number is around 7,000 units sold up till 1988. In 1987 Unix became a "Thing" and in 1989 as a teenager I built a fiber optic network with a friend of mine and used System V running Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3. It ran into the 21st Century :)

> "In a move intended to unify the market in 1987, AT&T announced a pact with Sun Microsystems, the leading proponent of the Berkeley derived strain of UNIX. However, the rest of the industry viewed the development with considerable concern. Believing that their own markets were under threat they clubbed together to develop their own "new" open systems operating system. Their new organization was called the Open Software Foundation (OSF). In response to this, the AT&T/Sun faction formed UNIX International.

The ensuing "UNIX wars" divided the system vendors between these two camps clustered around the two dominant UNIX system technologies: AT&T's System V and the OSF system called OSF/1. In the meantime, X/Open Company held the center ground. It continued the process of standardizing the APIs necessary for an open operating system specification." - http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
The only bit of fake delivery tracking scam I've received was suspiciously right after I ordered a Dell XPS back in 2013. It had some details close enough that I had to message dell to confirm a tracking number and they hadn't shipped it yet.