skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are most of these representatives just willfully corrupt?

Yes, but they prefer the terms "lobbying" and "campaign contributions".

While theoretically they are concerned with their constituency so they can keep their job, the big problem with our system is the expense of running campaigns. While serving in congress, our representatives a massive amount of time is spent "dialing for dollars". The parties even require ("encourage") spending time "fundraising".

This makes lobbying easy. Constructing a compelling case isn't necessary. Just promise to free up their time by making various donations to their campaign and/or their party. This is legal as long as there isn't specific quid pro quo, thanks to McDonnell v United States.

John Oliver's overview of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk
> hyper nationalist

Says Americans, biggest lovers on this planet for their own national flag. /s
In 2012 I could pack a whole Python interpreter, Qt and various image-processing libraries into an InnoSetup installer that just-so scratched the 12 MB mark; I doubt this has changed significantly.

Contrary to what the linked (more interesting) survey article suggests, Qt is usually the answer to most issues when it comes to cross-platform UI.

Gtk is not bad, but Gtk is what it is: it was created because Qt couldn't be used for licensing concerns (at the time) by people unexperienced with the matter (compared to the Trolltech staff), and is maintained by people who, for the most part, care about Linux. Qt on the other hand is supported commercially, and puts far more effort into supporting more platforms better. [Also the tooling and docs are really nice].
Why don't adblockers work on these? Don't they just block elements based on CSS selectors? If so, why can't we collect a database of CSS selectors for the top 1000 sites, CSS classes used by popular modal popup libraries, etc.?
An Indian Masters in CS probably means you have about the same skills set as an American 2nd year CS student. I would recommend getting some work experience for a few years, then you can start applying to those internships.

Good luck!
Judges and referees are important because in our system they represent our conflict resolution process.

But there are other conflict resolution processes, like flipping a coin, trial by ordeal, killing someone, or just walking away, that don't involve third parties. Historically those may have been just as prevalent.

Those alternative processes are often horribly inefficient, though, in terms of producing optimal outcomes. So more advanced societies employ experts to apply a complex system of rules designed to minimize losses when cooperation fails. And for the foreseeable future only expert humans are capable of applying those rules. Nonetheless, people are usually free to agree to follow simpler processes, like coin flipping.
We need good p2p mesh network applications! Relatively slow, asynchronous, person to person flow of information was, and arguably still is, the foundation of society, and the technology must be capable of fluidly falling back to this capability without dependence on unstable centralized networks!
Who is "us"?
I really LOVE it that in the U.S. of A., a contract can be stronger than Justice!!!

So if the contract says "if we screw you, you don't get to seek Justice", then you don't get Justice.

(Oh how large corporations have completely taken you for a ride!!!)
(aaaand there goes my karma)
My vote would've been "US Robotics" from "I, Robot". They have arguably the best virtual assistant on the market, Alexa. Paired with their expertise in automation, I'm imagining a future where Amazon robots would do the vacuuming, wash dishes, and do my laundry. (And of course order more cleaning supplies from Amazon, when I get low.)
That's an absurd notion. Is chrome inconsistent because it doesn't look like a GUI toolkit?
A Derivation of Conway's Degree-71 “Look-And-Say” Polynomial
Except they already do, every day in multiple applications such as:

Spotify

Microsoft Office

NetFlix

Chrome

FireFox

...the list goes on. There is no such thing as a standard UI or behaviour at this point.

Any one that owns a mobile device already has to be used to a mixture of UIs every time they switch between devices or specific applications.
And there are cartoons from about 100 years ago about the same hazards: https://www.google.com/search?q=bull+of+the+woods+machinist&...:
>You may be interested to know that the word 'Coromandel' is a anglicized corruption of the 'Chola mandalam'.

Interesting. I've heard a different version when I studied in South India, that Coromandel [1] is the anglicized version of karu manal (mannal?) meaning black sand - because there are beaches in the Coromandel Coast that have black (and also red and other color) sand. E.g. At Kanyakumari a.k.a Cape Comorin, the southernmost tip of India, you could buy small plastic bags with multi-colored sand as a souvenir. I remember at least black, normal light brown, red and purple colors.

[[1] Update: The Wikipedia article says what you say about the name Coromandel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coromandel_Coast ]

Similarly, catamaran, I've heard, is from kattu maram - tied tree (trunks). Very stable boats, and that principle is now adopted in modern high-tech catamarans too. [2]

Once when on a school picnic on that coast, I asked for and got a ride on a catamaran of the local fishermen. We went out quite a way to sea, for maybe half an hour or more. I was sitting on one of the logs in the front, with my legs nearly up to the waist, in the sea. Could feel the water rushing past my legs. Good fun.

[2]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamaran#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamaran
Well, manganese nodules are a real thing, and are of some value. They just used them as the cover when they needed to develop underwater recovery technology.
All I know at this point is that I'll keep using Hangouts and when Google eventually kills it, I'll never use another Google messenger again.
Doesn't the PRC's claim on Taiwan boil down to a combination of right-of-conquest ("Taiwan belonged to the Republic of China, we beat up the Republic of China, therefore Taiwan is ours") and Just Because? ("The PRC is the only legitimate Chinese government because the PRC says so")

I'm very skeptical of purely historical claims of sovereignty. If the people of Taiwan legitimately vote to join the PRC, that's their right, but the PRC has no legitimate right to demand it.
Behavior I can understand, but there is nothing difficult to "put up with" about the look of gtk or qt in Windows.
Why can't we pull out the statistical mechanics? You can't understand the 10^27 variables in a lump of coal, either, but you can still do thermodynamics. People already do it, Ganguli, some stuff from Bengio
This feels reminiscent of net neutrality and also general competition laws. I wonder if there's something in that which could be drawn upon?
Part of justice is enforcing a contract between two people who can and do consent. Would it not be an injustice if one person abused that system and hurt another?
As a company, in an industry where IP and secrets are so important, what is their motivation for open sourcing it?
This is what we call a "joke," playing on some Westerners' fears of modern Chinese global economic power.
They're very different. Generics in languages that have them are typed—you have to declare up front the methods that your generics support. That's the entire thing that makes ML functors functors.

By contrast, generics in languages like C++ and D, as well as the code generation tools for Go, are untyped—you can call whatever functions you want on your types, and if it doesn't work it fails at template instantiation time. This causes the confusing template errors people see in C++.
FreedomBone
Note that the NSA openly claims authority to actively snoop on (i.e. not just incidentally record, but deliberately examine) your communications in this case, as your connection appears to be a foreign one. The FBI also has a legal strategy around hacking anyone whose actual location is obscured and has some kind of nexus in the US (as they could be presumed to be "crossing state lines" and thus subject to Federal jurisdiction); I'm not sure exactly how the execution of that shook out so far, but I doubt the story is over in any case.
Back in the day, I often went on long bike rides in the country on clear summer nights when the moon was full. I could see well enough once my eyes had dark-adapted, it was cooler, and there were fewer motor vehicles. And it was so quiet that I could hear interstates several miles away. So basically, I was mapping quiet places. Now there's an app for that.

Edit: Now we can have crowd-sourced maps of quiet places.
this is cool, I was actually thinking about this yesterday. You might just have saved me a weekend, thanks :)

"Because this testing is happened offline, the server will get unknow for you visiting history for no HN items.
Powered by HN 10 years, million items, commits and hackers, your web reading will be more efficient and valuable.
Try it, then connect HN community to your web!"

Hope you dont mind some grammar questions and tips :)

The first sentence makes no sense to me, could you clarify?

The second I would say something like: "Powered by 10 years of HN submissions; it has million of pages, and comments. Your web reading will be more efficient and have greater context."

The third I would phrase: "Try it, and enjoy the HN community wherever you go!"
Some YouTube channels upgrade to higher resolutions as soon as they can afford it. If they are one of the first, their videos will be watched as demo content by any users that look for material to take advantage of their new higher resolution monitor. You could see this phenomenon when video titles all had “HD” in it. Later it changed to “4K”. And soon it will change to “8K”. It is used to attract viewers.
Monkey selfie
16.6k basic Angular application
Since you can write for loops in anything other than a pure functional language, this is equivalent to saying that, unless your language is pure functional, it shouldn't have any FP features in it. I think this is obviously false: Ruby is not any worse for having the map method.
TypeScript supports ES7 features, for example. It also has a few language-local quirks (like parameter properties, described https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/classes.html ).

I find the grandparent argument pretty unconvincing though. People writing Flow are generally using JSX or ES modules (the Flow docs recommend the latter, for example), both of which require a transpiler like Babel to be used in a browser anyway.
It is possible.

I ported my T-Mobile number into GV in 2013 when I switched to Android and Hangouts first added GV/SMS integration, so that I could send SMS from the desktop.

Then I ported my number back out to T-Mobile again in 2015 when I switched back to an iPhone and regained iMessage.
Beg, steal, borrow - something considerably less difficult for people who appear to be temporarily embarrassed middle-class Westerners who normally have access to substantial funds than those who don't have any money because they're poor. A Malaysian hostel owner told me when he lost his wallet in Chiang Mai (across the border, a long way north) whilst travelling in the 70s he worked for a month for cash to get home...

For those unlucky enough not to be surrounded by other sympathetic travellers or travel industry workers, "If I can borrow your phone/computer, I can transfer $xx either direct into your account in return for some cash or we can go to Western Union using your ID and my secret MTCN number and split the cash" is likely to work faster than money couriered from overseas.
> The leadership drove the bill the wrong way.

There was no right way; the only way to win was not to play the game. Anything that destroyed the basic model of the ACA—except to move to a stronger public guarantee which basically no Republican members are interested in—was never going to attract significant Democrstic support; the initial version of the AHCA had substantial opposition from both hard-line conservatives and moderates in the Republican Party, and anything that did more to appeal to either of those groups expanded opposition on the other side.
Is it? What about Raft?
Haha I go through this problem when I'm in S3
I've seen this on a few sites, my suspicion is that it's caused by some kind of marketing analytics JavaScript that attempts to track clicks on outbound links by intercepting the click, logging the analytic event and then navigating to the destination using location.href=something.

Not sure what's causing it here - could be Marketo Munchkin perhaps?
You appear to be another victim of "divide and conquer", and like many of them, perpetuate it. Life is not as simple as you like to believe: Trump/republican supporters may not necessarily think this is a good thing.
It was true then...

http://abstrusegoose.com/376

However paper itself was invented around the same time. How come bookbinding already existed then?
at the moment the electrical quad copter bigest problem is the lack of autonomy 15 minutes max time.
It's again his religious beliefs to have healthcare, so I hardly see how you would/should pay for that.
If you want to talk history, from 1850-1950 America was explicitly protectionist and went from a primarily agricultural society to the world's premier industrial superpower.

- The Marshall Plan (1950's?) was mostly with Europe where there were/are reasonably strong protections against exploitation, so there wasn't the same "race to the bottom" dynamic as there is with, say, China/Mexico/SE Asia today.

- Europe's population is a lot smaller than China and their industrial base had just been destroyed by WW2. An economy that's overall protectionist and otherwise strong can absorb the costs of a little free trade, it's doing a lot of free trade that dials up the pain society-disrupting levels.

- Costs of transport have gone way down since the 1950's (more available capital, technology, standardized shipping containers, cheaper/better communications, etc.)
Perhaps it could instead be sent back to Amazon for recycling?
The state of the Web in 2017: This page is nothing but text but just renders as a blank page until you allow JavaScript
The upgrade might have been installed without the user agreeing to or seeing the EULA.
I'm pretty concerned about their commitment to Google Voice functionality, too. I'm so invested in that ecosystem that I don't even know what my carrier number is anymore. I'd happily pay money for the service, but I don't think Google is interested in a subscription model for it. Does anyone know of third-party products with similar functionality? I dread the thought of having to figure something out on short notice.
A better solution:
FreePascal + Lazarus.
Cross Platform. Native. Compiled. A RAD tool that is tough to match.
Well I am an area which shows no levels but there are areas within ten or so miles. It could all change if the county officials get their way and have Atlanta's second major airport in our county (Paulding). It would explain the recent boom in housing in formerly dead/bankrupted developments which came to life again.

while some bemoan commutes and laud living in cities, noise is one of the greatest reasons to not live in one. For me the costs are worth it.

i am curious how crime rates stack with noise levels, do higher levels simply have more crime because its a similar area or does the constant noise increase stress/fatigue to lead to more crime?
It does seem like Rails -- which relies heavily on Ruby features for speed of development -- has been a big part of the strategy of Silicon Valley startups for many years.
I avoid Amazon. I buy my books elsewhere and nothing Amazon has that I need can't be sourced somewhere else.
Yeah, there’s:

* Allo (text chat)

* Duo (video chat)

* Android Messages (SMS etc.)

(And Google Voice also does SMS iirc)

And of course Hangouts, which is able to do all of those currently, but is going to be split up into different business-oriented apps for some reason.

If Allo and Duo had just been another client for whatever protocol Hangouts uses these days, it wouldn’t have been so bad. But like it is now, I don’t feel like I can ‘rely’ on Google at all. Facebook Messenger has been a far more stable experience, even though I have some reservations about it.
Not in Windows 7's EULA I think.
Not true. Commingled inventory does not get a unique barcode for each seller, it just uses the default UPC. So there's no way for Amazon to even tell who sent it. This is why many sellers avoid commingled inventory altogether, because you end up selling something that's counterfeit and getting a hit to your account when you didn't even send it to Amazon. Over time, I think this probably means that commingled is really becoming a market for lemons, with counterfeits making up a higher and higher percentage.

Source: very casual FBA seller
You realize that if they did offer that support, every spammer in the world would be using it to make sure their spam gets through.
So what would you say if a company violated the GPL?

(I'm not trying to antagonize, I just want to extend this thought experiment.)

I'm guessing the argument is "Well a big legal entity of a company has access to lawyers and legal advice that would interpret the GPL and advise, whereas the average individual simply does not have that knowledge or resources." I think that makes sense? Not sure what happens in a court of law, obviously.
Nope, no such thing in Win7 (perhaps this is the reason why there will only be WinX from now on: everything is just an update). There's WU, but nothing about "oh, and we'll force-feed you a completely different OS whenever we feel like it". Plus, the GWX program played fast and loose with user consent; quite a number of people claim that WinX installed without any user action. In other words, that would mean "we take inaction for consent"; way scary.
Or it was independently recreated.
tl;dr1 Yes, read the paper I link at the bottom, or this http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/courses/ee382c/projects/...

tl;dr2 when you read "Paxos" or "distributed"-anything just assume it's a bunch of nerds arguing about theoretical problems inside a box

Recap of those wiki pages:

- Consensus is many different ways to solve similar problems, all of which involve agreeing on a solution, to different degrees.

- The two-generals' problem is a proved unsolvable problem that says you can't know what two generals are going to do if you have no way to prove communication between them is valid (or happens at all).

- Byzantine faults are basically the same thing, but 10 people instead of 2.

- Paxos is a bunch of ways of proving various degrees of different kinds of consensus with different uses that works most of the time. (also known as "the algorithm family that comp sci majors keep trying to improve on, but then a genius points out that any changes make it work differently, and therefore must suck")

Why do we care? So you can use 5 servers all around the world, store random messages on them, and be sure that a bunch of them have the information you want, that it is correct, that it will still be available somewhere if one of them goes down, and that if one comes back up with shitty data, it will get corrected and become good data again.

The reason why this is hard is we assume that the messages:

1. have no CRC (integrity, "this data is not corrupt")

2. or digital signature (integrity+authenticity, "this message is not corrupt and definitely came from Bob")

3. and that even if they did, it could have been 3a. "wrong" before it was signed, or 3b. "faked" so that we can't tell when a CRC or sign is correct,

4. or the message never arrived,

5. or that random valid messages have been saved on one server and that when it rejoins the group it now has data that, regardless of it being good or bad, we don't want in the rest of the pool of servers because now the rest have to incorporate it, and what if there are conflicts

The Paxos algorithm family seeks to solve most of this in one go, with exceptions.

Do you need Paxos to solve all those problems? No. Do you need it to solve those problems in the theoretical boundaries of comp sci nerds? Yes. Do you need to know how it works? No. Are there situations where a Paxos network can simply stop working? Yes. Do you need to use Paxos for something you're working on? Probably not. Is it possible Paxos will not solve your problem? Yes. And do you still need plans to back up and restore your data in the event of catastrophic failure? Definitely.

The only paper that I know of currently that I would recommend anyone to read on byzantine failures and their solutions is this one: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/p545/post/lec/fault-toler...

(Granted, I don't know what I am talking about, so take all that with a grain of salt)
I will answer what you don't get.

Just because you use Google's stuff all around doesn't mean Google were "one of the only players...."

Google was a distant third in IM behind MS and Yahoo.

I've never seen a Zebra doesn't mean the Zebra doesn't exist.
> I also haven't rated or reviewed an app on the Play Store in about two years due to the Google Plus requirement there also.

Same. I purposefully stopped reviewing products on the Play/App store as soon as they forced you to use your G+ profile. Why on Earth does my real name or main profile need to be associated with a short app review?
Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?
The article isn't as terrible as the click-bait title, but for completeness here's some obvious counter examples: some illnesses including cancer, being hit by a car running a red light, terrorist attacks. All of those are pretty unfair, and there's no rules behind them.
Interesting. I've also read in a few places that others from Europe reached the East coast of North America much before Columbus did. Vikings or others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson
What economic value do all airlines, cars, factories in the world produce? They are the reason we don't live in mud huts, poking at eachother with sharp sticks.

Now, what economic value do all rockets in the world produce? Satellite TV and GPS? Satellite weather reports that we complain about, and climate studies that we ignore?

And those are the low-hanging fruits. The ROI of a GPS network, a communication network, and orbital climate satellites is miles better then that of asteroid mining.
Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons
The content of this talk was in his book, Zero to One, it's well written, a good read.
"On Android they changed "Email" client to "Gmail" client."

No, they didn't. Those are two separate apps. The Email one is part of AOSP. The Gmail one is part of Google Apps. Although many OEMs roll their own email client, as part of their custom skin.
Speaking of cross platform UIs, on iOS the page hijacks scrolling so you can't scroll past the wx widget code segment.
Please $SITE, stop breaking $BASIC_FUNCTIONALITY.

In Firefox, you can often avoid various hijacking by holding Shift.
The GPL expands the licensee's rights. If they never agreed to the GPL then normal copyright terms apply, i.e. no redistribution of the work or of derived works outside of the limits of fair use.
I agree. 4k is enough. If you have perfect eyesight you need to sit about 1 foot away to resolve the pixels at 8k.

At that distance you cannot see the whole screen anyway, as the 1 arc second resolution is limited to a very small spot at the center of your vision.

Personally, I'd prefer a taller aspect ratio than 16:9, which seems designed for movies. 4:3 or even 1:1 (square) would suite desktop and medical imaging work better.
while it cannot completely fill the space, people never take ebay seriously. the amount of stuff I can buy there shipped free or just in total cheaper than Amazon makes it worth my time to cross shop.

what keeps me off other 'retailer' sites is merely how badly some are implemented, from clutter to just outright being buried under items that are listed but you cannot get in your area.