skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can go on the Internet and claim they are Graham McCann without providing any proof

I read through a lot of the conversation between Mr McCann and one of the Wiki editors. I have a lot of empathy for the former. It is the case that the editor doubted the identity of the man he was conversing with, but Wikipedia should have simple, clear protocols for people to prove their identity for such cases. It's not Mr McCann's fault that they don't. Instead the editor sneered, and was generally rude and unpleasant to him.

If I phoned up my bank to discuss my account and couldn't prove I was who I said I was, I would nevertheless expect courtesy, politeness, and professionalism. Wiki is a non profit, and the editors are not professionals, but it is one of the most visited websites on the internet.

I actually suspect that the basic premise of a universal encyclopaedia staffed by volunteers and run on a non profit basis may be fundamentally flawed.
As we said above, their artists would suffer from the loss of distribution, but they’d also suffer a loss of revenue.

Not much revenue. Spotify is famously stingy in how much it pays artists, to the point where big names like Taylor Swift are keeping their releases off Spotify.
I see. Thanks.

But what's the competitive advantage over upwork? "Just" focus and pre vetting? The rating system in upwork should in theory counter-balance the need for vetting though... but maybe focusing on this niche is a good idea.

We recently started using an inbound call handling service, and I can imagine having a more dedicated person could be beneficial. So my first thought was VA on upwork. If upcall covers this better, then I can definitely see potential. And then it's natural progression for outbound calls if we see a need.

EDIT: and another big competitive advantage I would imagine would be having all the (virtual) wiring in place to make outbound calls. Right?
It's not high because it is VMware Workstation, not ESXi.
> Is this suicide attempts included I wonder?

I don't think so. It's hard to define what a suicide attempt is, but most definitions would see far higher than 15 attempts per 100,000 population.

EDIT: 2013 saw about 40,000 to 50,000 deaths by suicide in the US, with about 450,000 hospital treatments for self inflicted injury.
Have you ever tried meditation? For me, it's completely redefined my relationship with pain. I realized how little of my pain was physical. The vast majority was my mind exaggerating the physical pain that I felt. I now see how monks are able to self immolate without reacting to that pain. I don't have anything approaching their ability, but I have been able to entirely stop taking pain killers and I had a serious injury misdiagnosed because the doctor didn't think I was exhibiting the pain associated with that injury.
Why almost all of the Universe is utterly invisible
You're forgetting that there are only 3 (three) verb conjugations in English, of which two are almost always the same. Only a finite number of verbs have irregular conjugations, so you just learn them along with vocabulary. In Japanese, the number of possible conjugations of all irregular verbs (copula, "suru", "kuru") is probably larger than the number of English irregular verbs that are commonly used. In fact, let's count the number of conjugations of "kuru" in my ICHIRAN [1] database:

ICHIRAN/DICT> (length (get-kana-forms 1547720))
186

Are English possessives considered difficult by anyone? Not sure what that demonstrates.

Plurals! Oh, that's my favorite topic that I'm working on right now. -tachi is mostly used with people, so can't be used in most context. For inanimate objects you just say the number of them. And that's where the counters come in... At which point any sane person gives up learning Japanese for good.

Past tense, isn't that the same as conjugations? Also your rules don't really work. "tanoshii" => "tanoshiideshita"? Pretty sure that's not a word. The correct past tense is "tanoshikatta [desu]".

[1] https://github.com/tshatrov/ichiran
Could the next person please source their comment. Kratom seems a bit controversial.
Two Cultures: Melvyn Bragg (2013)
Looking at the conversation on McCann's Wiki article, he was told very clearly that the article could not be deleted because he was 'notable', and that he needed to accept that.
There's much more data in the Programming Languages field, which contradicts this study:
Let's look at the popular dynamic languages, where progress is either hindered by the original author still working on it or stepped back, or where progress succeeded, when the original author is there or not there.

* ruby: matz still there, stagnating progress (sound but slow design, desperate implementation problems)

* python: guido still there, steady but slow progress (sound but slow design, proper management at least)

* php: rasmus still there, but thanksfully not really. with less rasmus, more progress. esp. after hhvm and php7. (unsound design, unsound community, but external pressure improved it radically)

* perl5: larry went away, decline (unsound design, unsound community)

* parrot: authors went away, death. (even with sound design, which was later destroyed by community)

* perl6: founders still there, progress. (sound design, huge implementation problems)

There are many more examples, but this is the easiest summary. esp. with the lisps, which all have a sound design and a single author.

So we have both, positive and negative influences:

* when the original design was sound, but the author went away, it will decline.

* when the original design was a hack, and the author went way, it might progress.

* when the original design was sound, and the author is still there, perfect.

* when the original design was a hack, and the author is still there, decline or death.
You wish facts were so simple.

Is the new calendar reform idea wonderful or terrible?

Will the new oil pipe under a lake hurt the environment?

Is the universe expanding or are we misunderstand the data and invoking dark energy?

"Facts" you can't argue with are very very rare. They are typically observation without conclusion or understanding.

But because they lack those they are rarely very useful.
New scalable tech to producing high-quality graphene ink
Are the emoji on every list item really necessary? I find that they don't add any meaning to the post, and they're just distracting.
Are H-1B visas being “hijacked” to lower labor costs?
Genuine question: would they prevent gentrification or soften the grueling appearance of it?
Yeh, it'd definitely want to be some form of hardened industrial version of Glass, but the base technology (unobtrusive screen in front of eye with data connectivity) would be a dream for me when I'm doing inspections on plant, for example.
Overheard a homeless guy in Mountain View, think he had a tent in one of the creek beds, saying why he likes it here: - ”it's safe, you don't get robbed". Less risk of violent crime in a prosperous, liberal city like MV, where the police management know they're expected to roll a car for reports of homeless-on-homeless violence, and can easily afford to do so.
Linux isn't entirely immune to this. Ubuntu had Amazon search integration https://www.howtogeek.com/188589/5-things-you-need-to-know-a... A while back. Not sure where that stands today.

Firefox was paid by Google in the past and I believe Yahoo these days.

macOS had a connection with Bing in Spotlight.

The current incarnation is just a dog with different fleas.
#Fappening 2.0 – More explicit pictures of celebrities leaked online
I wouldn't describe that pattern as incredibly rough or even particularly informal. It's common to at the subject after the sentence when speaking quickly. You use it when you think the listener may have to quite picked up what you were saying etc.
Doesn't that defeat the point of intractability?
The risk that ads will appear on Chromebooks is quite high though.
I think it depends on how influential you think the artist's life is on what he produces. I think that varies a lot from artist to artist.

If some painter has suffered from depression and does amazing paintings about it, the guy's bio should reflect that.

If Chuck Berry has has a tumultuous life, leading him both to those convictions as well as this new form of music, that should be part of his story. It might not be that way, I don't know enough about him to know, but his biographers will decide.

There's also the personal question of whether you want to support a criminal. Say Roman Polanski does a new movie. It might be a great movie not concerning underage sex, but I would still have a think about whether I wanted to pay a guy who is a fugitive from justice. I don't think I should compel anyone else to decide one way or the other; I think it's perfectly legal to watch his movies, so up to everyone to decide.
Interestingly, many Indic [2] languages follow similar verb-centric grammars. In the canonical Vyakarana tradition (of Panini), sentences are seen as revolving around the verb [1].

The "noun-cases" or कारक (karaka) are generally equivalent to the "particles" in Japanese. The genitive (eqv. の) is not a karaka, since it has no relation to the verb. Of course, since there is technically no syntactic difference between adjectives and nouns in Sanskrit, the semantics of the genitive in particular can be very undeterministic. This is not the case in others though.

I wish there were more studies on how Indic traditions affected East/SE Asia [3]. Sadly, most academics/people here don't believe there exists a world outside N. America & W.Europe (often no India either!).

[1] There is a competing tradition of semantics called "Nyaya" where sentences are seen to be Noun-centric. These discourses are generally not easily accessible.

[2] Dividing the languages based on presence/absence of noun inflections would appear not to have much discriminative power to claim anything about historical origins. Historical Linguistics, I believe, is mostly a politicized pseudoscience.

[3] This documentary highlights the kind of things I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WaenzbSJwk

It is also fascinating to look at the Thai/Khmer scripts and realize these are related to current day Telugu/Kannada scripts.
I switched over to Stow last time I set up a new machine and now regret not having discovered it long ago. It always amazes me how for basically any problem you might have there's probably a GNU project to resolve it.
i've expected nothing but downvotes and it's hapenning. But you guys realise, that macOS is not free in any kind of way?
Show HN: A new way of blogging about Lua
Cached link:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R3iCWi...
There was just 1 checkbox to turn it off, not lots of checkboxes and hidden registry entries like in Windows and I think not all telemetry can be turned off on normal Windows, you need Enterprise
Here is the levels of absolute truth in our universe in terms of dependency:

Mathematics > Physics > Chemistry > Biology > Physiology > Medicine

Discoveries in mathematics are truths about the universe. They are deeper than particle physics in some respects. Some parts of mathematics might seem abstract but every mathematical system uses the naturals in its axioms or representation. The naturals are directly based on counting, based on the nature of macroscopic objects in our universe. The universe enforces rules, and the facts about naturals, and systems built upon them, are truths that directly point at the nature of information and complexity in our universe.

Why should mathematicians apologize? Hardy was wrong, mathematics can lead to nukes. But its the base level of truth, there is no other scientific discipline that discerns the patterns of the most abstract physicality - objects, and gleans truths, rules for how objects interact.

Solving the Riemann Hypothesis or other conjectures that aren't even known yet might lead to understandings/models that allow for time machines. It's impossible to know.

But why not seek to understand the universes' laws at its most generic level. Its enlightening. Spiritual. Awakening.
Prison guards boil schizophrenic black inmate to death, not charged with crime
> You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

~Theo de Raadt

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
I'm sorry, this is bullshit.
What's the role of government? To provide services for the benefit of it's citizens. How does it do that? by collecting taxes. That's how infrastructure gets built, that's how we have schools, hospitals and other public services. At least that's how it should be.
Student loans should be subsidised by government, no matter what subjects the students pick, and citizens should pay taxes to support that.
This makes for a better, more integrated society over all. Here in Sweden education is free, child care and medical expenses are minimal, and student loans have an interest rate of around 1%. Also, you pay back your loan as a percentage of earnings, so the more you earn the more you pay.
This is the contract of society, or at least it should be. Everyone benefits.
It can only happen if somehow Wikipedia's citation process is intentionally circumvented, and if no other user ever reads the article to fix the error. If you read Wikipedia's citation guidelines, that goes against a couple of very basic rules.
> But Google isn't good at picking markets or any form of understanding marketing, so they decided that a bunch of geeks walking around cafes, bars, and restaurants was the right way to go.

Isn't Snap currently proving that the market was right, but you need a different marketing copy?
The main objection Mr. McAnn seems to have to Wikipedia is that most people on it don't go by their real name, but rather use pseudonyms. The implied criticism is that if people had to go by their real legal name, they wouldn't resort to writing untrue things on Wikipedia. Of course, as we've seen with both YouTube and Facebook's real-name-only strategies, it doesn't work. Forcing real names doesn't make mean people on the internet less mean. All it does is make it easier for those mean people to bully their targets.
I thought so too. Especially if you are not wanting to hire full timers to cold call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
I think you're probably falling into a common trap: There are plenty of exceptions, you just don't know them yet.

For sure, Japanese verbs are more regular than English verbs. But most materials written about Japanese are aimed squarely at beginners. They naturally skip over any foibles for pedagogical reasons. There isn't all that much written (in English) about tricky sentences, syntactic ambiguity and similar mistakes.
There's no evidence of a fifth fundamental force yet they make a big deal out of it. Might be worth reading the article just for the historical facts presented in it. Would I take it seriously? Please don't.
Aoe2 has got a couple of expansions that added more factions, however from my perspective I don't really look for more content in updates as much as better features... Spectating a game in aoe2 is a joke and watching the casters struggle with disconnects and having to synchronize replays is kinda sad.
Absolutely. You should try it. :)
This is why I want to move out into the desert, somewhere far out, where I can see anyone coming for miles. Sadly, cops do whatever they want in America, because Americans are brainwashed to think everyone is a criminal, or if the cops are involved, they were somehow asking for it.
To give some context: Daily Mail is a right-leaning UK newspaper that sits somewhere in between a tabloid (celebrity gossip and other entertainment) and a broadsheet (news and political commentary).

It has been criticized for publishing incorrect/misleading information [1][2], and was banned as a source by Wikipedia[3].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2012/02/21/wi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/16/ben-go...

[3] https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technolog...
> Persian state

Where is the Persian state? There hasn't been a Persian state for almost 40 years.
If you are using iTerm2 and doing computer vision / machine learning on images or working with large images, my tool called 'bv' has even more features and supports TMUX as well:

https://github.com/daleroberts/bv

It uses GDAL as a backend.
Definitely an interesting approach.
Policy says otherwise, and this particular one doesn't seem to be ignored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-p...

The general bias seems to be in favour of treating sources as acceptable, unless there are reasons not to; though that may be just a matter of enforcement.
> Linux isn't entirely immune to this. Ubuntu had Amazon search integration https://www.howtogeek.com/188589/5-things-you-need-to-know-a.... A while back. Not sure where that stands today.

This is the most relevant of your 3 examples and Canonical got heavily criticised for it. They ended up reversing their decision. Which makes it all the more important that people take this example not as "It's ok for Microsoft to do it as well" but rather "We also shouldn't allow Microsoft to get away with this".

>Firefox was paid by Google In the last and I believe Yahoo these days.

The thing here is that when you type something in the search bar you are actually wanting to search for something online - given that it's a "search" bar. It kind of made sense for Google to be the default search engine as that is the most popular search engine in the west (ie what most people would prefer to default to) so even without Google's investment I can see the logic of having a Google search bar. In fact I would go further and say that's a well received productivity tool.

However It's also very easy to change which online service is used in the search bar - or even to remove it entirely. So the Google investment does not lock you into using Google services on Firefox.

Thus I see no conflict of interest with regards to Google's donations to Firefox.
Its brilliant. Andrew wrote the post in a way that makes it feel so obvious, even though its not. Reading it felt analogous to some of early 2000's YC writings and coverage.
Have you considered real estate investing? Sure you'll get there slowly but 10m might be a realistic goal over say 30 yrs.

One thing I like about it myself as I am looking into it is you tie up the wealth and you are therefore less likely to up your lifestyle as you get wealthier. On the other hand a well paid job may encourage one to spend more. Let alone tax considerations. Not sure about USA but in Australia the tax system is ludicrously in favour of investing and particularly in real estate.
Bringing them up in a negative way is usually used as a dogwhistle for people that believe in the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy.
BTW for anyone curious for more info about the new Berlin airport fiasco Bloomberg did a nice writeup: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berli...
Parent poster is talking about the problems of opioids for long term pain.

A broken arm is not long term pain. Most doctors are not worried about opioid use for short term pain.
"Dropping the pronoun" is a very English way of thinking about things. In English sentences have to have subjects. Consider the following paragraph:

John went to the shop. John bought a cake. John took it to Bill's house. John and Bill ate the cake.

It's not grammatically wrong, but it's clunky. We just use pronouns to sound 'normal' in English:

John went to the shop. He bought a cake. He took it to Bill's house. They ate the cake.

In Japanese instead of changing a noun (John) to a pronoun (he) you just don't say the subject if it hasn't changed:

John went to the shop, bought a cake and took it to Bill's house. They ate the cake.

Which, as you can see, is something that works in English at times too.
Airship has most paranoid auto-update system I've ever seen. You can read about it here: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/keyggdrasil-continuum-cry...

It also convers the "external code integrity control":

Keyggdrasil makes sure everyone sees the same public keys, prevents anyone from rewriting history, and makes targeted attacks noisy.

Autoupdating is not a feature specific to PHP. You can do manual updates as you described with it too, so I'm not sure why you even contrast it to other languages or CMS.

It's pretty much established that properly implemented autoupdates increase security, not reduce it. I agree that writeable and executable directory is a huge risk, though.
Re: Ubuntu's decision to reverse ad integration, perhaps there's hope that with enough criticism Microsoft may re-evaluate integrating ads into explorer?
> Finally, people are starting to notice the problems with Wiki

People have been bitching about Wikipedia for over a decade now. Always they keep predicting its doom.
Reminded me of Explorable Explanations: http://explorableexplanations.com
>Nobel prize

Might also be good to mention the Nobel prize for economics is given by a Swedish bank, not by the Nobel committee.
Well to be fair, it's priced at $500, and aside from the single point of reference, I wonder how many have been sold.
My comment was to the absurdity of having a trail for a 98 year old man. As I get from your emotional involvement in this case, you come from the region? As you then probably know, in one country the SS (local) are among many considered heroes, in the neighbour country criminals. Elements of the local SS units was after the war taken over by the CIA(Gehlen Organization). And was waging guerilla war against the soviets. There successor units are presently fighting in the eastern Ukraine and are US allies (Right sector and others)..

https://www.thenation.com/article/dark-side-ukraine-revolt/
When a source builds a reputation for being untrustworthy, it's unreasonable to demand that each of its articles be considered as a separable item from the rest.

Indeed, cooper12 below points out a ridiculously gross error in the first sentence of the article. Not to mention that even if it were the right number, the idea itself is false: that a quorum of all active editors is needed to mark a source as poor quality.
Red Hat Writing Style Guide
Try taking one of those breaks, where you don't quit, but can take 3-6 months off. I can't find the word right now.
You could look into pain management techniques to turn the unbearable pain into hopefully a bearable one. Meditation, breathing techniques, biofeedback,... that kind of thing.

I don't know if this applies to nerve damage pain, but cannabis has a quite a history of being effective with pain.
I had heard of her, but then I forgot her name. :(

Thanks!!! She is awesome!
From the article it sounds like Berlin has tried everything they can think of, aside from actually creating supply to match the demand...

In Berlin's case, is it a question of "wanting to keep the cities character", or is it more like the Swedish variant where it's "gotta keep the housing bubble growing"?