skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's probably a reason for the ban, but I sincerely doubt it's this one. Simply because other similarly reliable or worse sources are not banned.

More like one individual started a RFC "Should we prohibit the use of The Daily Mail as a source?"[1] where 78 expressed themselves at correct time and place and the result was 54 for the ban and 26 against the ban. So Ban it is. Had 55 people voted against the daily mail would still offer the same reliability but it wouldn't be banned.

Sort of a usual case of how wikipedia is run behind the scenes where a small minority of self-selected (white? male?) people with knowledge of the internal mechanisms of wikipedia decides in the name of all wikipedians to apply rules to the whole wikipedia and beyond (though those rules may not apply to themselves or their friends or people in the power structure)[2]. This case just got a little extra publicity because it concerned a known newspaper.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...

[2]: If a majority at Wikipedia decided that 2 + 2 = 5, then that's what Wikipedia will publish. Similarly, if a majority decides that "4" shall not be mentioned, then it will not be mentioned. On Wikipedia, fact, and truth, have no validity in themselves. This means that they are subject to political determination, i.e., the process of obtaining agreement. Those who believe that 2 + 2 = 4 will need to lobby for 4. Wikipedia has an exhaustive set of rules that purport to guide such discussions, but those rules are routinely ignored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_is_Wikipedia_los...

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interesting timeline here:
- 2014: daily mail banned all its journalists from using Wikipedia as a sole source because of its unreliability.
- 2015: wikipedia adds the daily mail to "should not be used when a more respected, mainstream source exists, or in place of such a source."
As you're developers gollum may work well: it's backed by a git repo so you can edit locally and/or on a shared server.

Gollum is what powers GitHub wikis.
His question has nothing to do with creating an ad network...
Wish i could relocate the comment on a Boingboing story where one of their admins mentioned having tracked comments on a certain topic to a online PR company.

His attention was drawn to the comments because they were heavily reported when made, and would be largely of the same structure but with a new user name each time. So he pulled up the IP they came from and all of them was made from the company owned address.
I once met with a team of 'business support' people at a large company (not financial—it was in the oil and gas sector) who turned out to be a rogue technical group. Their job was to support the complex spreadsheets made by their bosses. They told me that every 2 years a new batch of software would come out of the IT division, and IT would get a company-wide decree mandating that everyone must use the new software without exception.

But the business people had a strategy to defeat this every time. They would simply make sure that "copy/paste" was on the requirements list every 2-year cycle. When the new software came down, they would satisfy the company-wide decree as follows: (1) open the new software; (2) copy the data; (3) paste it into Excel. And then they would continue as before. The only thing that changed every two years was which buggy, slow, and limited in-house application they would be copying data out of and pasting it back into.
You and me both, General Ripper.
I agree that "shilling" really comes down to intent and transparency.

Are you presenting the information and disclosing (this can be implicit if connection is obvious) your interests? I don't think most have a problem with that, however the particular forum or board might not be suitable for it.
You're wrong. Most enterprise blockchains use BFT algorithms or even round-robin instead of mining. What they are after is a highly auditable shared computing environment.
No. That's actually my point. This industry probably doesn't want to invest in always having 51% of the nodes, so trusted central ledgers makes more sense to me.
A couple years ago I had a niche Android app that I could sell for 10EUR/USD. It made around 1500/month which was pretty decent for an app with no backend and almost no maintenance work.

After one year a competitor showed up at less than half the price and the party was over.

My strategy: find a niche app so you can charge a lot more
do you mean that literally? overcoming laws of physics is a bit more difficult than calculating the n-body problem, to be honest.

edit: to make this clear, the solution to the n-body problem is known. its just not analytical.
> I noticed that with Bill Gates

I suspect that one is probably just natural trend/popularity/fashion at work with the hive mind flocking in the same direction. Gates rebounded from the tech nadir to philanthropist, humanitarian and intelligent sayer of sensible things. A lot easier to like than when he had a foot on all our throats.

Similar effect with GWB. He is rebounding from pariah status and people can't help but warm to the guy's personality now that his crimes are being overshadowed by much larger bogeymen.
A counterpoint to this is that the very reason to refactor code usually is that it isn't understandable anymore. I'd rather read it in the way that you shouldn't rewrite code for which you don't understand the problem it's trying to solve.

In my experience, that part is usually much easier, since you're working in hindsight.

There's a great interview Peter Seibel did with Bernie Cosell[1], where Cosell explains that his approach to debugging usually consisted in

a) understanding what a specific piece of code is supposed to do and

b) rewriting it so it actually would do it properly.

Of course there's much to be said on when this approach is overkill and when it isn't.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coders_at_work
Yes which does an even better job of proving the point. When the economy was worse and unemployment was higher, why didn't the huge numbers of unemployed who need jobs take those available jobs? Hmm!
I'm just speaking my mind, just like Trump does.

If he can say Mexicans are rapists and that Muslims should be banned from America, then I can say that his supporters in rural America are weak hypocrites who criticized African Americans for succumbing to drugs but expect "empathy" now that the same thing is happening to their communities.
every few years I get an operation, this year it was 4 wisdom teeth extractions. they gave me 21 oxycodones, I took 18, threw 3 down the trash. (this was on top of maximum strength ibuprophen)

for acute pain, discipline.
I disagree. Everything you listed a) can't be used for products, b) doesn't let you make progress beyond "oh look, I lit up an LED!".

Sure, if you never programmed a small device, by all means, start with an Arduino. But after you do light up that LED, please learn more. Go bare metal, learn about interrupts, state machines, entering sleep states -- without those things you'll stay forever in the toy world. In the real world, if you work with battery-powered devices, you never have the comfort of busy waiting for your UART/I2C transmission to finish, or calling analogRead() and getting immediate results (because ADC takes time and you want to do it asynchronously).

It's my pet peeve: I'm very happy that Arduino has been such a success, but I think too few people progress beyond that, and many believe this is how one programs embedded devices.

As for RPI, it's neither a production device, nor a learning tool for embedded programming. The complexity involved means there is no way a beginner can understand everything that's going on.
It's very clear around certain topics--GMOs, pesticides, gun-control, and a few others. There are accounts that follow those keywords and only comment on related articles and only during 9-5 business hours.
The UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in her mid 50s, just a few years ago.
Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle – Scott Wlaschin
Vitapad++: Notepad++ for the PSVita
Now go say it in the real world in an official capacity, not hiding behind a keyboard. Don't want to be weak, little boy.
$16 in Napa is probably $2 in Nebraska. The cost of living there is so much lower than California you can barely compare the two. Homes are 1/10th the price or less.

You can find a nice house in Omaha for $175k that would cost about $2.5 million in Palo Alto for example.

When (if?) Bay Area workers ever figure this out they should telecommute from the midwest.
People don't buy albums anymore, worldwide, they never have (most of it were pirated albums in the rest of the world).
https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html
Pertaining to bitcoin:

> Electronic cash for online payments is possible without financial institutions.

Above is taken from a post where I summarize and/or paraphrase the original bitcoin white paper. Goal was to answer question posted by OP: communicate the features (of bitcoin) and blockchains with clear language anyone could understand.

HT to Ben Graham, it's "Bitcoin White Paper for Intelligent Investors" and is here:

https://github.com/DeBraid/bitcoin-notes/blob/master/btc-for...
That's would be great and all if Spotify had decent coverage of underground music scenes... but they don't. Still better to collect oneself.

There's still a lot of stuff you can find on Beatport that you can't find on Spotify, for example, and most of the hipsters wouldn't even call Beatport "underground"
I need help integrating Lucene/Solr (a search indexer with a REST API) into WikiPaper (http://wikipaper.org). You can do the backend in whatever language you like. It's an independent project so you don't need to read a ton of code to get up to speed.

I'm not sure how long it will take, probably some number of weekends. Any help is appreciated!
ODP.NET on Microsoft .NET Core
To interface via an FFI with a game engine, which uses a custom allocator, and you need to pass datatypes between it and your own code?

(As I’ve done in Java!)

To replace existing implementations with your own, because you want a LinkedArrayList (a linked list of blocks)? Or because you want a TreeMap instead of a HashMap, or a Set with different implementation?

Because you want to implement your own Either type to better handle return values (see https://github.com/spencerwi/Either.java )?
Cognizant may slash more than 10,000 jobs
The response of abusers to the reduction of everyone's access to medication does not depend on where you stand on the war on drugs; it is, or will be, a matter of fact. Maybe more evidence is needed, but pseudo-quantitative arguments with made-up statistics that support your view on the war on drugs are not evidence.
Don't most of these go through the git codebase? Or just parse the output of standard commands? Curious what implications the hash has on those.
Yes, Linus wrote that SHA1 isn't here for security, but that was a glaring misunderstanding of security on his part. Integrity protection of source code is a security function.
I am not arguing for Go. I am arguing that there is an issue with some complex languages. Go is trying to avoid that issue. I agree that the issue is real but also think go takes it a little too far.
My personal reason is that I don't consider the output of speech recognition to be "internal concepts for reasoning". In a Spoken Dialog System, this task is typically performed by a subsequent component that does natural language understanding (rather than recognition).
Sorry, but I think this is bullshit. As a child of the 80s, the difference between the societal response to the 80s crack epidemic (mostly inner cities) and the current opioid epidemic (mostly rural areas) is stark.

The response to the crack epidemic was to treat users as "junkies" and criminals, and to impose draconian sentencing laws (much harsher for crack than more expensive powder cocaine, mind you). In the current heroin epidemic, you see even hardcore conservative politicians like Christie advocate for compassion and treatment. In fact, I don't think the re-evaluation of mandatory sentencing laws for drug crimes would even be up for debate if white areas weren't also hit hard now.

This is what is meant by "Black Lives Matter", because for a very long time they quite frankly didn't, at least judging by larger government responses to their problems.
The first attack on SHA-1 was published in 2003. Git showed up in 2005. Not only should git have allowed for something else, it never should have used SHA-1 in the first place.
> In fact one can put the words in pretty much any order in a Sanskrit sentence.

But will all of those variants still be considered the "same" sentence? I'm asking because it's popular to make the same claim about Hungarian, but it's not really true. You can switch things around a lot and still get fully grammatical sentences that all relate to the same event. But due to Hungarian's topic/focus structure, the actual meanings expressed by the variants are so different that Hungarian speakers wouldn't consider them "the same sentence expressed a bit differently". Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_grammar#Emphasis

In contrast, I believe Latin is really liberal in its sentence structure, especially in poetry.
One more thing to consider: if your time is limited and you have to design/build lots of different devices, stick to more extensive product lines. As an example the NXP Kinetis, while having its share of warts and issues, is a huge product line with hundreds of chips, sharing a similar architecture.

This means that you can use a chip that fits requirements well, ranging from tiny simple M0+ devices all the way to monster M4 chips with 1M flash and every peripheral one can imagine. They not only share some peripherals, but you use the same SDK, documentation formats are the same, etc.

This is a huge time saver and lets you use the right chip for each project, instead of sticking the same expensive microcontroller everywhere, or using ones from different manufacturers.
The article is a bit short on medical details. It sounds like he was diagnosed Type 1 diabetes and then after time they think his pancreas regrew the beta cells needed in a functioning pancreas
Some extensions are by design platform-specific. But the mGPU one is not. It requires some OS features which in Windows can only be given by WDDM 2.0. But the specification itself doesn't require WDDM 2.0.
Since the majority of us are running x64 machines, will the hash be a truncated SHA-512/256 or will it be SHA-256? The former is significantly faster on x64 machines.
I had always assumed ELO was an acronym of some kind, turns out it's the surname of the system's inventor; Arpad Elo. [0]
And, according to Wikipedia, 1500 would be a mid-level player, so not really good, but certainly not beginner either.

> In general, a beginner is around 800, a mid-level player is around 1600, and a professional, around 2400.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Elo
Well the fact that pretty much no one uses Haskell anywhere should give you some hints about the language iteself.
When the shills in question are lazy, it can be pretty straightforward to detect, yeah. This sort of thing was very high on my list of "problems that will need mitigating if this has any chance of working" with my Suitocracy project.

The more research one does on astroturfing and the like, the more depressing it gets. Dedicated desktop VMs running different browsers and OS's, directed through different proxies to get different IPs, etc. Where social media is involved, detailed online personas are set up for each one, with reasonable histories for using later down the track.

I think the best we can realistically do is to raise the cost of successful astroturfing/shilling to the point where it might not be economical to do, at least on a meaningful scale. As others have said, community involvement and skepticism play a huge role in that.
The only "little boy" here is you, since you can't even accept basic truths without immediately resorting to personally attacking me.
and Vulkan does not run on windows uwp apps, which MS is strongly pushing forward.
I've been using VIM for a while, and I'm always delighted to read articles or examples of good .vimrc's, but this one tops them all, because of the perfect balance of cool features and concise explanations. Good job, OP, what a wonderful blog post, I learned a couple nice things too!
> Rural America. The United States has many rural areas. Seventy-two percent of United States' land area belongs to rural counties, but in 2014, just 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15% of the population of the country at the time) lived in these areas.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_America

15% of America is rural. Note that you're grotesquely overrepresented in politics.

Consider this:

> Trump took 2,584 counties that together account for 36 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Clinton won just 472 counties — less than 20 percent of Trump’s take — but those counties account for 64 percent of GDP.

--- https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/17/...

The urban areas are financially funding the rural areas. Essentially, the structure of the rural economy is not one conducive to significant economic success in modern society.

I would suggest the single most reliably effective way for someone graduating in 2017 in rural America to financially succeed in life (and to have the most cultural opportunity) would be to get a STEM/business-oriented degree and move to NYC for work - or move and then go to college, then work in NYC.
neurocroc is organising all his/her knowledge in a mind-map:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=neurocroc

You can also look at all the things people have written here about Mind Maps:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mind%20map&sort=byDate&prefix&...
People moved to a new city and got a job for 10 solid years, while starting a family and buying a house.

Nowadays, people move, they get a job that is uncertain to last years, while they can barely afford rent and any mortgage is over 30 years assuming you had the down payment which you don't.
I read "moonwalking with Einstein" and can relay what it said in the book about this.

You mentally walk through your memory palace and clean it out. You walk through every room and look at every nook and cranny and imagine them clean.

As far as I understand you don't do this every day, but every once in a while or before competitions.
I wrote my first program when I was 15. I did masters in mechanical engineering and own and work at centrifuge manufacturing company. I'm now at 35. Not a single week has been passed without me doing some programming. Sometime making internal web apps for problems that can be solved with excel. So not exactly the case OP is looking for, but primarily I didn't made career in software just because there was no demand for it when I started. ( in retrospect there was a demand, but sometime being good at something means you can not correctly guesstimate how much people are willing to pay for something you can make in couple of week. )
How Did Tech Become So Male Dominated? (Animation)
Did you read his post, or just the title?

> That's why I've started working on an ad network for mobile apps...
Your participation in the thread is just attacks on the working class, you think you deserve better? For real though, keep it up. People like you are why Republicans are as strong as they've been since the 1920's.
Find a niche and charge a premium. Or, make something addictive and use in-app purchases. I am not sure there is another way.

I'd love to be wrong but I tend to think any semblance of an app store gold rush passed by 5+ years ago.
The sad thing is that MS office is about more than editing documents these days. Thanks to embedded VB scripts etc the suite is more a RAD environment for office drones. There is an untold number of business processes that are effectively encoded into a excel spreadsheet sprinkled with scripts.
This comes from wikipedia page about wikipedians:

Number of editors:

The English Wikipedia currently has 30,486,002 users who have registered a username(...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_o...
This is very important and we don't stress it enough. Sure, it's easier to just type that stuff into facebook/medium/google+/whatever, but then it disappears into that black hole (Facebook is especially egregious in that regard) and you don't own it anymore. Others own it.

The Web was designed to be decentralized, and yet out of laziness we are contributing to it becoming a collection of several huge data silos.
By your own math, $50 a month adds up to $2,000 in relocation expenses in years.

Years where nothing has gone wrong that needs to deplete that relocation fund.

It's a nice dream, but it seems like a dream to me. (Also grew up poor, though not as poor as a lot of people.)
The RFC is still under discussion (there are a few plans going around) but the strong contender right now is SHA3-256, no truncation.
Perhaps but I've used both a Hololens and Google Glass, and the Hololens is light-years ahead. It is easily capable of the 'AR repair' application. Glass on the other hand was very 'meh'. The voice interface was horribly unreliable (think 2010-level speech recognition), and it is really just a convenient small display, not proper AR.
This code is also useful <https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle>
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects
has descriptions of the objects. Both trees and commits are hashes over data that includes hashes of other objects so they must be different. The doc discusses converting them at transmission time, search for [convert to sha256] in it.
Not investment. I haven't spent money on SC in a long time, but Im looking forward to its final release. Spending time in EVE is akin to building a career...
This is obvious and has been for years. Reddit is full of astroturfers, spammers, marketers, disinformation, trolls, and other generally undesirable behavior.

I generally look at reddit like one fractional step above facebook, it's basically internet pollution curated by the most effective spammers.
removing Freedom from users is definitely anti-consumer no matter how you look at it.
There is a passage in the book about cleaning up the palace before the last competition. He mentally walks through all the rooms and imagine them empty and clean.

I think he spends a day or a weekend to thoroughly clean up before the championship.
Hello, thank you for your comment.

I've followed the Vulkan/DX12 issue on and off over the last year for SC as I am an early backer.

Given that they only first approached the question of Vulkan in 2016, and as recently as a few months ago were still in blackout as to the level of support:
e.g.

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/comment...

then

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/53qsy5/any_new...

I am not persuaded that this is as simple a matter as dropping one of two equally well-developed branches.

Generally speaking, moving from a mature high-level API (especially one which the underlying game engine/architecture is heavily tied into) to a less mature low-level API tends to mean refactoring work and extra implementation work, as well as a whole new bunch of bugs and testing.

I would agree that pursuing only Vulkan or only DirectX is probably smarter than pursuing both simultaneously in terms of a faster delivery. I also think in terms of cross-platform development and performance it will be better to use Vulkan (for any game).

However, the introduction of Vulkan is a relatively recent event in the history of SC development (see above), saying 'we're only going to support it now' might actually be saying 'a rewrite (or substantial refactoring) of the game started last year, which we are now owning up to'.