skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not Mr. Powers' fault, but it is our responsibility as sensible voters to fix a situation in which he appears to be the best option for getting your clothes washed. We have come to a point where some folks do not have enough money to regularly go to a laundromat. That outcome was a direct result of the people we voted into office, and the priorities we expressed to them.

I believe it's important for us to distinguish between charitable actors that ask nothing and those that clearly expect something in return. I'm not willing to lionize the latter, nor do I think such an approach is particularly newsworthy.
To be fair, Wikipedia is often sourced, but not necessarily well sourced. A while back when I needed to provide a "source" for a fact I simply tweeted it and then cited the tweet.
For Japanese, you learn a handful of rules to conjugate a verb. Then those rules always apply with no exceptions. In English, there are not set rules. Every case is special.

What is the past tense form of 'shake'? 'see'? 'walk'? 'sleep'? 'eat'? 'speak'? 'sit'? 'seek'? 'work'?

There are no rules. You basically have to memorize every word and all the possible ways it can morph.

English possessive: 's or s' or ' or s, depending.
Japanese possessive: no

English plural: different for every word.
Japanese plural: same as singular, or throw on a -tachi

English past tense: different for every word.
Japanese past tense: -mashita for verbs, deshita for adverbs/adjectives

In English, nothing is simple. In Japanese, a multi-word phrase may have more syllables, but at least it will always be the same rule.
Why resolve blocked domains to 127.0.0.1 anyway? Wouldn't 0.0.0.1 work better?
Some/Many posters here are not native speakers. There's no English conversational standard on the Internet.
Still JSON? Why not YAML?
The daily mail is one of the most prudesh pseudo-newspapers published in europe . This is despite its continual bikini picture body-shaming content and lack of regard for accurate reporting . This kind of word censorship is straight out of the 1950s just in case some old phone e-reader is offended by the mildest slang term for a penis.
Same for property value.
Would that, so to speak, be a negative correlation? Seeing how today the no-questions-asked progressive dogma of the deepest concrete city dwellers seems to be to accept even the worst painted climate change scenarios.
But you and Dawkins.. oh yes, you're much more intelligent than apes..
I use the approach from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

I keep my dotfiles repo on a vps where I manage the repos with gitosis.
If you have read the Daily Fail more than once (which i would not inflict on you without fair warning) you will not be surprised by such things
I have to enter a caveat here though. Spoken Japanese is a little bit different, and in some cases, arguments will follow the verb. It's pretty rare, but I did hear things like "Dou sureba ii ore" or "nani yatteru omae"?

This is VERY rough and informal though, and not Japan being very polite, it's not something that I'd hear everyday. Maybe on TV or from really close friends, and even then I'm not sure if everyone would say that.

But it just goes to show that natural languages are very complex creatures, and even the tidiest rules have exceptions sometimes.
And meanwhile there's SiriusXM with $745 million in net income, up nearly 50% over 2015.
The Guardian article[1] isn't inaccurate. It identified a way in which WhatsApp messages could be read, and the author wouldn't know what had happened. The HN discussion of the WhatsApp response[2] shows that this is a pretty serious problem.

It's not a hole in the WhatsApp protocol - more a UI problem. That doesn't make it any less serious, and it is unclear to me what you think they need to withdraw. The third paragraph in the article itself makes it clear this is a trade-off:

Some security experts say that the vulnerability is a known and acceptable “trade-off” that makes sense for the majority of WhatsApp’s users, since it makes the app easier to use on a day to day basis. They describe the risk to most users as “remote” since the vulnerability only allows the targeting of individuals or groups of individuals at specific times, rather than widespread mass surveillance of WhatsApp users, and urge users not to switch to less secure platforms.

I think this is pretty good reporting of a complex issue in trading off ease-of-use vs security. I think it is worth noting that most think WhatsApp's mistake was to go too far to the "ease-of-use" side.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900
Sure, but "wiretapping it once" would mean breaking a lot of well studied and until now unbroken crypto.
Marriage = happy life?
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Can't justify Spotify as I'm paying for YouTube Red/Google Play Music as I can stand YouTube ads less than the difference between Spotify and Google Play Music.

I bet that'll come up more and more.

One important differentiator might be to get the Japanese record labels a bit more aligned, all streaming providers have been faring terribly on that front.
Arranging the deletion of a Wikipedia page isn't that difficult. A Wikipedia biography about me was vandalized so often and so annoyingly that I voted for its removal, and two more votes did the trick.

It turns out that this is a relativaly common occurrence. People who take controversial positions are often the subject of this kind of harassment and adopt the same strategy I did -- example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#False...
For city dwellers, seeing the negative effect of mankind on the environment is as simple as leaving a window open in summer and having to regularly wipe a coating of black dust off the windowsill.
They probably went by the number of registered accounts (which I didn't check). Not that it isn't terribly misleading anyway.
Try use web workers to not block UI while processing: http://immersivemath.com/ila/ch05_gausselim/ch05.html
It looks like an Upwork clone, but for cold callers. So, looking through the website it looks like they have a similar system.

You personally vet your sales members (after they've been vetted by Upcall) and it looks like they carry ratings similar to Upwork (rating each call, i.e project).

Now, I don't believe the focus of this will be B2C sales (that would be too unwieldly and is a shrinking tactic). This type of sales has always worked best for B2B (and so the small and unique subset of HN posters is exempt).
It would be nice if Wikipedia let you vote on citations kind of like reddit. That way there is an easy consensus on what the top citations are and what the most dubious ones are. There can also be software/bots written to react to low vote citations in certain manners. It would change a lot. The only other wiki site I know that lets you do this is Everipedia and Infogalactic, but they have nowhere near the amount of traffic as Wikipedia.
They wouldn't. That's the point. You shouldn't be able to borrow $150k+ without some collateral or a 20% down payment.

I believe that if this happened, you'd see tuition rates plummet. But it won't until some catastrophic economic event occurs because the student loan industry is predatory and corrupt. Essentially ruining people's lives by selling them a lie in the name of "investing in your future."
I really like the Korean writing system. It's very cool. Take the 1-4 sounds that make up a syllable, arrange them into the syllable template, and you have a single character that represents that syllable. It's pretty slick, space-efficient, phonetic, and full of yummy goodness.

Then, just to mess with people, optionally throw in thousands of Chinese characters.
Interesting point on .com vs others for www.
Absolutely rediculous.
The RURAL STATE populaces vote Republicans into every major STATE office who then ravage all safety nets and education in the name of cutting taxes...

Brownback, Jindal, Walker...

The "cities" have nothing to do with any of it.

The rural states believe that education is liberal brainwashing so there's no way to help them join the knowledge economy.

And it perpetuates because education keeps one from being susceptible to propaganda...
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> registered accounts

This is what they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

N.B "The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002[2] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (141,468[3] have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered Wikipedians also contribute to the site."
Google clearly have the best offer on the table here, it's incredible how little effort they've put into making it available worldwide though. Still not in the UK...
I'm in the same boat. I actually even have a gpm/ytr subscription paid through 2019 already (I bought a ton of $5/mo coupons and redeemed them all).

Despite that, I'm thinking about getting a spotify sub anyway. The music discovery and especially the user playlists I find to be far superior. GPM is really lacking hard on the social front.
"Wait it's not an Opinion piece? But it has a huge picture of the author on the front?"

I had to go back and check again after my initial skim and yep, they seems to calling this "investigative journalism." British journalism is weird.
One of the first celebs to create a sex tape, Berry famously coined the phrase "I like to do that" after farting in the face of a hooker. The video was recovered in the late 1980's after a drug raid on Berry's house by Police. A great man has left the world.

http://efukt.com/21881_Chuck_Berry_Farting_On_Hookers.html
Where can you pay a low one-time fee for such a vast amount of mainstream / popular music that you get to keep forever?

Nowhere.
I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively.

Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?
> It would be nice if Wikipedia let you vote on citations kind of like reddit. That way there is an easy consensus on what the top citations are and what the most dubious ones are.

That doesn't work at Reddit, and it wouldn't work at Wikipedia for the same reason -- people who vote about the topic, not the quality of its presentation. This is probably why such a system hasn't been put in place.
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To be fair, there's an equal amount of trash software available from your laptop/desktop as well, the only difference being that there isn't a centralized repository that it all must go through; the trash heap that rests under the app stores was inevitable, since such junk was always going to exist and people would find a way to sell it.
> This can be for debt refinancing, marriage, education or emergency needs. Our customers are those who want fast, hassle-free loans on a recurring basis.

Why do your customers need to borrow on a recurring basis for marriage/debt refinancing? The model sounds like payday loans, lend for something small with an extortionate markup so they're forced to borrow repeatedly to be able to pay you back. Are you different to that?
Yes. I would guess, because of this, city dwellers are more susceptible to the idea of anthropogenic effects, while people in rural areas in contrast are used to witnessing a more resilient character in nature.
I like that you can add 'sen' at the end of a sentence to make it negative, or 'ka' to make it a question.
I second this and highly recommend using stow for this. It takes all of 30 seconds to learn, took me maybe 10 minutes to round up my various dotfiles and move them into a central folder, and, combined with putting them in a VCS, has made life sooooo much easier.
It's a one-way conversation. "I'm set in my belief and I think you might be weak-willed enough for me to influence your belief." Proselytizers don't open themselves up to be converted to athiesm. I've met a few and they shut down logical arguments.
Japanese actually has a confusing array of conditional constructions

VERB (conjugated) + nara (or the ridiculously formal "naraba")
VERB (conjugated) + some noun, such as baai (case)
VERB (plain form) + to
VERB (izenkei form) + ba
VERB (past form) + ra

And there are complex forms such as:

VERB (plain form) + to shitara
VERB (plain form) + to sureba

And you can add moshi or moshimo in the beginning to increase the level of supposition.

Each has a slightly different use and meaning of course, but it's still confusing enough for me even now.
"For Japanese, it's <expression> naraba <expression>. That's it. Unless? <expression> nakeriba <expression>."

There are actually a number of ways to say "if" in japanese, and the one you mention can only be used in certain contexts.

People might get your gist if you use the conditional tense for everything, but you'll be wrong a lot. The -tara/nara grammar is at least as commonly used, if not more so.

I bring this up to illustrate only that the "programming language" metaphor doesn't go very far. Japanese, like any human language, is loaded with weird, illogical exceptions.
When it comes to showmanship his 1972 performance in London with Rocking Horse [1] is my favourite.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrOr3WKmyY
Wa/Ga aren't that hard. Mostly just subject vs topic. Just like objective and subjective isn't that hard in English. Of course, most Americans can't master objective/subjective.

The trick for wa/ga is often just to remember that subjects are often implied in Japanese and missing from the actual text/speech. So, "Nekko ga suki desu" because the "watakushi wa" was implied.
It depends on the context. Was this a citation on the Tarsnap article? If so you just saying something publicly is a good a source as any, it doesn't matter that the publishing platform is Twitter or the New York Times.

Actually Twitter can be a much better source than an accredited newspaper, because in this case it would be coming directly from you, and you wouldn't need to worry that perhaps the source was being paraphrased, or the context wasn't what they intended.
If the article is about you and you need a source to justified a personal opinion, a tweet is not that bad. It's easy to fake but hard to make doesn't make something trud, just hard to counter
I'm fully aware of how it works.

And no, it's not bribery.

His comment was an unsubstantiated attack on the journalist who wrote that piece.

That piece is by no means a 'puff piece' - it's just a normal bit of journalism, and it's actually reasonably good.

Making statements like 'oh, they paid them for that piece' is derogatory and crude, and unless there's some obvious reason or merit to the argument, it need not be said.
I don't see myself as superior. I'm jealous of wealthy people. My real motivation for writing the previous comment is that I'm just not good at pretending and so I'm bitter about missing out on opportunities because of that.

For example, I see that the kinds of people who get funding are those who are really good at presenting themselves in a particular way. You don't need to be smart, you just need to look/act smart, talk fast and tell the prospective investor exactly what they want to hear - In the current economy, only people who are really good at faking seem to succeed.

Those who are good at faking are those who don't realise that they're faking. "Fake it till you make it" is the name of the game. Nobody can lie better than those who lie to themselves.
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As a hiring manager, I'd say not screwed. You'll have issues getting past that HR wall, but if you can show your talents in the interview you'll be fine. Fill up that Github and try reaching out to the hiring managers directly. Some managers prefer hiring people with less work experience, but they only see the resumes that come across their desk.
It's not just Facebook anymore as many big companies are using it everywhere - web, pwa, native apps etc. So I don't think it's going to go away anytime soon.

For example, watch this 5 min React Conf talk on how Flipkart has made React a big part of their tech stack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsvyg0T40NU
You can read all the conversations yourself as they took place on various Wikipedia pages:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Graham_McCann/Archive_1
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:92.23.93.50

I've probably missed some.
Yes! Finally, people are starting to notice the problems with Wikipe—

> The Daily Mail

...Right.

Seriously, why is it that every time someone criticises Wikipedia, it has to be in this sensationalist, tabloid-esque manner, and often for the stupidest reasons possible?

> ‘Who are you?’ he inquired testily. ‘Graham McCann,’ I replied. ‘I very much doubt you are who you say you are,’ he declared.

But of course they would doubt it. Anyone can go on the Internet and claim they are Graham McCann without providing any proof. They know just as much about his identity as he knows about theirs. This is a striking lack of self-awareness on his part. Or Internet literacy.

Not that I think this is much of an excuse for them; it's still wrong that Wikipedia doesn't provide any avenue for subject of articles to provide feedback/corrections in a more reliable manner. The only way to get them to correct anything is to go to a tabloid journalist and provide them fodder for a 'Wikipedia is stupid and mean!!!11' article.
What I find interesting is that everyone's trying to make the next big game or consumer app, a market that's already insanely saturated.

Meanwhile a single decent professional piano tuning app can sell for $500 (I don't know the sales numbers of course) with the most amateur-looking UI ever and a description that's a warning not to buy it.

Considering that most games get lost in the heap and sell basically nothing, maybe looking to see if there's some niche tool you could make instead isn't a bad idea.
Don't know why this got downvoted. If a standard feature of JavaScript got no love because "XML sucks", then later becomes popular as part of a proprietary lib, this very much questions rationality and taste in JavaScript evolution.
Sure - I did consider a hypothetical Hitler as artist argument.

So, the boring rejoinder is that, yes, his work ought to be recognized on its merits. Sculpture as a discipline shouldn't be punished for Hitler's sins.

Hung next to Rembrandt? Probably not, but then again how much do we know about Rembrandt? There are plenty of great artists whose personal life we know little about (see Shakespeare for instance. We don't know where he went to school or what he looked like!) If we found out tomorrow he peeped on women in the bathroom should we burn all our copies of Hamlet?

Anyway, regarding Hitler, a more interesting answer (to me) is that I'm not convinced great art and the will to extinguish an entire people really exist in the same soul. We know Hitler to be a failed artist. I wonder if good art requires a sensitivity to the world that sociopaths simply do not possess.
The forced restarts on a server are funny too. As is the feedback information to Microsoft (which iirc can not be turned off completely, only to basic, maybe there is a registry/gpo hack but i havent played with this yet).

Can't set the "active hours" to more than 12 hours to prevent restarting when it dictates, so end up disabling the update service entirely which is a complete anti-pattern to what they were trying to "achieve". I mean, the active hours stuff is a good idea, but for the love of god in a server environment it should be easy to disable automatic restarts.
Have you checked out [ensime](http://ensime.org/)? Should solve the problem for you.
My HP printer begs to differ. Wouldn't show up on my mac until I installed their garbage software. On my ubuntu desktop, it works right away without any fiddling. Graphics, on the other hand, are definitely pretty finicky, especially HiDPI
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I'm glad it's been reposted - writing an ana exam in 4 weeks!
For those who want to know the scale of it all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Project_site...
Not sure what you mean about "not a gamer". After my problems installing the drivers (which turned out to be me downloading the wrong thing) i'm using server 2016 as my daily driver, with an rx480 and getting 60fps ultra on overwatch. Server 2016 is fine for dx11/12 and will be great for any games. Would highly recommend (i did the same with server 2012 for years, ran several games with no issues whatsoever).
> It's a one-way conversation.

Even if this were true, so what? My argument has nothing to do with the merits of any belief or how set anyone is in said beliefs, there's no need to move the goalpost. I ask again: what is wrong with someone feeding a poor and destitute person and then handing them a Bible or a Quran or saying a prayer? Your only argument is that they might have an alterior motive.

But I would counter that argument in the same manner: so what? The good deed is still done and society has been objectively improved.
> Setting up a scheduled job

http://corntab.com
https://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui

> Manipulate the firewall

http://gufw.org

> Configuring a website

http://apachegui.net (How can you do it in gui on windows?)

> Changing permissions on a .py file to execute it

Any normal file manager, i.e. thunar.

> I don't include third party packages as "UI"

Why? They're not hard to install if you need it.
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>but imagine for a second someone telling you that 'you should just move from where you are because where you were born isn't good enough'

I don't have to imagine it. There are 8 cities between my great-grandfather and me.

- Russia (we don't know what city), where my great-grandfather was born.

- St. Louis, where my great-grandfather settled as a refugee from the pogroms (he was Jewish).

- Chicago, where my great-grandfather relocated for work and my grandfather did undergrad->PhD.

- Seattle, where my grandfather moved after graduation and met my grandmother from Ottawa.

- Lawrence, KS., where my grandfather got his faculty job and where my parents met.

- Rochester, NY. where my parents moved after college.

- Milwaukee, WI. because the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle was written during the evenings and delivered in the afternoon, while the Milwaukee Journal was written during the business day and delivered the following morning. My dad was a journalist and my mom was a teacher (they have both changed careers now) and they wanted to have dinner together.

- Chicago again, where I went to college.

- Berkeley, CA. where I now live for my software engineering job in San Francisco.

My family is privileged in many ways (white skin, tradition of going to college, supportive households, etc). But no one in my family's history has had the incredible privilege of being born in a place that remains suitable for an entire lifetime, much less multiple generations of lifetimes. I cannot even comprehend what it would be like to be born in a place I could stay in forever while having a decent career. That must be nice if you can get it.

In terms of public policy, I'd consider that kind of luxury to be on par with owning a vacation home. Yeah, it'd be nice if everyone could have that, but there are much more pressing problems to solve.
its awesome that URL's can have different protocols. althoug most user/apps will asume http#/www