skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sports league controls the environment of a game completely. And, even at most professional levels, you still get doping and deflate-gate.

You don't control the events in the world with its full complexity.

Are you claiming you can control what weapons criminals can bring to my house?

What should be your punishment if you fail at maintaining that control?

I can't see how you can keep the promise of maintaining control over guns used by criminals. I see you as someone who is trying to limit my options while having no means to make situation any better for me.

I hope you can see why gun control supporters get seen as enemy to personal well being, not just a nuisance, by the gun rights advocates.
I like how the code has Javadoc comments, in case other developers need to maintain the worm or use its public API.
It's also important to note what information some future third party will get access to if/when the company is sold at some later point.

I doubt a ML model trained on personal correspondence can be useful and anomomized.
This happened to me. An unknown person from my organization shared a Google doc. I didn't open it, and replied by saying 'what is this about?'. He said he didn't send any gdocs :|
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Sourcegraph CEO here. Indeed, this is based on the full version of VS Code, with heavy customizations and a new scalable language server backend for code intelligence. Huge thanks to the VSCode team for making an awesome editor core.

We will have a technical blog post with more details soon. :)
Just FYI, every linked role under the 'We're Hiring!' section here[1] is 404 (excluding the NY role).

Are you/somebody else able to expand on scope & technologies involved in the Dublin role?

[1]
https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/solutions-engineering-...
Regression testing 101
Pretty cool, it did not make much difference in my application size, as it has very little static data in it. It seems pretty rare to do something like:

fib(2);

and more common to do:

getInputOrHttpOrSomethingAsync().then(function(a){fib(a)});
Hahaha awesome!
Any clues what this was trying to do? I suppose we have to wait for Google to publicise what went on once OAuth had been granted.
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Yes. If Levandowski is not just playing games, that decision is not going to decrease his fear of prison...
> Levandowski already got his money.

Did he get straight cash, illiquid uber stock or did he get a big contract with a lot of performance stipulations in it?
Very interesting, nobody mentioned how formal and quite technical this README is, it goes really into details about what it does, and even future plans laid in three sections across 30 bullet points. One bullet point in the really far future sections said "instrument JavaScript code [in a non observable way]" emphasis mine, that part was noted in several other bullet points. It seems to me every compiler/transpiler/babel-plguin changes JavaScript code in a non observable way, no? Just a theory, but that undertone sounds to me like the ability to change/inject into JavaScript code undetectably on the fly in some super easy way.

Just another day at Facebook's office...
It's really hard for small scale artisan workers to sell at a sustainable price _for a full-time occupation_.

Price are anchored lowered by comparison with mass-produced products and artisinal goods made in countries with lower cost of living.

I know people personally who sell on Etsy but only as a side-line. To me that's where Etsy and other craft marketplaces - Folksy, NOTHS - fit best.
Do this means that it'll be possible to play with folks from another continent with a good latency?
This is exciting, and has a lot of potential to significantly improve JS library initialization time.

I wonder if this is the same project[0] Sebastian McKenzie previewed at React Europe 2016?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZzahWakGs
Yeah, seriously...on a ski trip with my father in Vermont when I was a high schooler, I could not even CARRY A BAG with beer in it between the store and the car.
I love this part:
>"But the S&P 500 defied the odds and rewarded investors with a historically normal 7.1 percent nine-year annualized return."

He must know that 7% is something of a magic number, it's what Jeremy Siegel argued is the steady, annual inflation-adjusted gains for equites for the past 200 years in his seminal book "Stocks for the Long Run," which was written in 1994 and is the foundational argument for passive equity investing ("Irrational Exuberance" and others argue directly against it).

The fact that the S&P 500 did 7.1% over 9 years is only "lucky" if you ignore the precise argument that Buffet, Siegel and many others make.
Using fetch() and reduce() to grab and format data from an external API
It's not strongly coupled beyond requiring that the wrapper implement a `Cause() error` method. I don't really think that could ever be considered strong coupling
Not open source need a plurasight membership but I thought this course pretty far along on the "well-engineered" architecture(if it's the one I was thinking of).

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/building-securing-restfu...
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It's $800 + tax for the Vive (you probably want to buy some light stands, too).

What's the Rift at that price missing compared to the Vive?
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I'd love the instant start-up time for Java-based tooling like IDEs/builds/etc. (assuming it's as slick as they make it sound).

It would be nice if there was a developer version, e.g. not for commercial server usage, but as your local/desktop JVM installation.
Looks really awesome I have to say. I use Sourcegraph on a daily basis and this is a welcome improvement. Looks way more organized and better to grasp at first sight. Good job!
Looks great, will try spread the word to some of my gaming friends!
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Visit the nearest store, you'll see dozens of kits and couple of yellow "Lego Classic" boxes, somewhere on bottom (cheapest) shelves.

We have ~20 kits at home (gifts, impulsive purchases, etc), it looks like pile of assorted, useless, weird blocks, non-matching wheels. My son started play Lego after I bit the bullet and just sorted out that crap, leaving only 5-10 standard blocks.
They will definitely push their own agenda, because that's the agenda of most of their market.

We democrats tend to stick to tech pretty hard, and we buy things. Billy joe bob will post his pro-trump rants on Facebook all day, but will still go to a walk in store to buy things.

Of course I'm generalizing and oversimplifying it, but the leadership at FB is strongly left leaning, and they know how to cater to their audience, keep them happy and make money from them.

The issue is of course branding everything that might help the right "fake news". Sure, there's a lot of it (from both sides really) but the idea that they have the power to shape people's opinions in a political direction, and are willing to do it is dangerous for all of us.
I take it you've never looked at a modern C++ or similar build and execution chain under the hood then?

There's a LOT of parts that do different things. They may be aliased under one command (with tons of flags) but a modern system does a lot of stuff.

For modern JS we appear to have:

- Linters (ESLint, etc)

- Transcompilation to Object Code (Babel, etc, transpile to JS)

- AoT Compilation (this & Closure Compiler, etc, do optimizations on the code ahead of running it)

- Recompilation (AST based compression - like Uglify)

- Compiling (the actual JS VM, V8, etc)

- JIT (in the actual browser)

None of these steps are alien to other build chains.
My guess spreading + password resets + searching for files that can be downloaded/later used for crypto blackmail?

I think we are going to see some of the worst large scale ransom attempts shortly. They also timed it perfectly afternoon on hump day when everyone in USA is just getting ready for / back from lunch.
Yep it is! https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/859817680857165824
It does not make even procedural sense. The state is not entitled (at least subject to full return) until the whole appeals process is finished. Consider the opposite case to see how the state deals with money, if the IRS accepts your tax return but later finds fault with it, can you just say sorry? No you pay everything plus interest. You'd pay a
penalty too if it was willfully wrong. Likewise, if the state took the money maliciously, they should even pay a penalty. In no case should they be entitled to clear the ledger like they did.
Seven years. US Broadband providers have seven years to take us over the coals, practice full bore capitalism with our data and generally run oligilistic practices until their time even begins to run out
It's a hog because it uses electron (in other words chromium browser), on the one hand this makes a lot of sense for text, CSS and HTML are useful tools for this kind of experimentation, on the other hand electron is a behemoth and this makes xterm look like a twig... I think everyone is in agreement that terminal emulators should be lightweight.
Wow didnt't see that coming... to recommendations for windows phones. Thanks i will have a look at it.
A couple of benefits in no particular order:

It casts doubt/worry/issues on the legal legitimacy of Uber's tech. Employees/Researchers won't want to become embroiled in this, if they ever want to license the tech I'm sure "what about google?" will come up and need to be mitigated.

It gets Alphabet and the newly founded Waymo a lot of "free" publicity, helping to form their public image as a car company. (Wronged by the evil uber)

Maybe a little vindictive, but I'm sure their lawyers would rather his compensation burn than be used against them.
Observation shows the first part is promised but does not happen. All the money goes in one pocket, and as a hint to which, its not the lower or middle classes of any country.
On a brief skim, it doesn't seem to do much besides spread itself. Am I missing something, or was it just for lulz? Or maybe a grey hat trying to prove a point?
Steam is not an OS though.

Is it a feature of Steam OS to allow multiple stores to be installed?
It was shut down within 30 minutes.
Researchers are puzzled by Calico’s stealthiness
Going a little beyond, why not offer this to ANYONE. So once a lot of developers create a bunch of apps, people that are not developers can browse apps that have special integrations that are important for those people. I get they want to attract developers right now however.
It's broad necessarily otherwise it wouldn't cover/protect authors broadly.
opening a file takes too long, likely due to minimap. I'd disable expensive eye-candies by default.
False: an implicit patent grant means that by open sourcing a piece of software you imply that people can, you know, use it.
After years of warnings, mobile hackers exploit SS7 flaws to drain bank accounts
Whenever I've gone to a beer hall in Germany the only super drunk people were American college students. It's really a shame, and you are absolutely right: We Americans are going the wrong way with this (and have been for decades).

My middle son turned 21 (legal drinking age here in the US) a couple of weeks ago. He never drank at all as a "kid." You couldn't give him a glass of wine at a holiday dinner, or a beer to watch a ball game or anything. Neither myself nor his mother were a part of his birthday celebration. I was honestly quite worried that he would be out with friends and have his first experience go horribly wrong. He has no idea how it will affect him. (Thankfully all turned out ok).
You mean legos? Or did you just have one?
I served jury duty, and the reverse happened. The plaintiffs sued a social worker, but the case revolved around things the Department of Human Services (where he worked) advised him to do, as well as things other members of the organization did independently of him.

In that case, I found it easier to decide when the question was "is this one guy responsible for everything that happened?" rather than the more complicated "is DHS as a whole responsible?"
> I swear HN seems knowledgeable on all subjects except those I am deeply familiar with...

You can make a fairly valid extrapolation about the other areas where HN seems knowledgeable from this data point.
> Civil forfeiture is when officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime.

Generally, not, as a matter of law. Civil forfeiture is usually premised on the item being gained through or used in illegal (though not necessarily criminal) activity, not necessarily by the owner (innocent parties with an interest in the property have some rights in forfeiture proceedings, separate from the right to assert that the basic premise of the forfeiture is false.)

This often overlaps with the owner of the property being suspected of a crime, but being owned by someone who committed a crime is not generally the essence of the legal premise.

That's quite distinct from what happened here, where the actual conviction is the legal premise, and thus the conviction being overturned voids the legal premise.
UCL teaches other courses using Haskell (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/syllabus/undergrad/101p_pri...), and Imperial College London uses it for teaching functional programming too (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/current-students/courses...).
> but does this matter if even only 1% is incredibly innovative and world changing?

Like a one-in-a-million totally legit and revolutionary pyramid scheme?
Criminals used SS7 attacks to intercept 2FA tokens and drain bank accounts
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Court has moved to a private session now -- attorneys only, no public allowed. So live tweets are over for the day.

But there's a lot of detailed back & forth between the attorneys and judge in those links.
Puerto Rico should really be a state by now. Would it being a state given it any distinct advantages (or are there any specific problems in light of it not being a state) in this type of situation?
Yes, the idea would be to limit your options, with people accepting the negative consequences of that rather than accepting the negative consequences of easy gun ownership.

It's not that I don't understand your position. It's that it's not the one that is best for society.
Please call it Skynet. :)
"We have profile data for over 2M+ developers" - if so, why do you hire here?
So a good LIDAR steers a car all by itself?

I'm willing to bet that there is a ton more of technology involved in self driving vehicles than you are giving it credit for here.

Not sure why the down votes. There is a lot more technology here than one type of sensor, there ia a huge software stack. Uber clearly paid $500M because they wanted to get access to someone who had been doing it for a decade and had built that stack more than once. Whether Uber thought they were getting Google technology in the deal is the big question of the lawsuit, but it's very possible they just wanted to jumpstart their own effort by buying a team that was already up to speed.
A relatively short introduction to GTD
It is.

Source: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/859817680857165824
Square up 9% after surpassing quarterly expectations
> Electron is more like the cheapest professional blender that is very fast

I think it is a blender that does same thing what most other blenders do but consumes 10 times more power. However it comes in 100s of colors so cool people like this innovative product.
As was the hope Airbus would land the Air Force tanker contract it lost to Boeing.
Can someone put this in some context for me? It's an IDE as a service, or what?
Well, they're on a path to stability, to sustainability.

Technological development is on a path to AI, I think. People have been dreaming of it for at least a couple thousand years.
Sorry about that. We do need to improve the UI perf. Can you try it with the minimap off and let me know if it's faster? There is a "secret" way to disable the minimap: (1) hit Cmd-Shift-P or F1, (2) go to "Preferences: Open User Settings", (3) search for the "editor.minimap.enabled" setting, (4) hover over it and press the pencil and select "false". Then go back to the file and it should not display anymore in your current browser.
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You're right that at carrying capacity, the limiting factor is food and space.

But most of our fisheries are far below that now. Fish can only breed as fast as there are breeding fish available, but we're eating them faster than they are being born.

You can view a fishery basically as a giant fish-making factory. If you eat away half your fishery's biomass, then to a very rough first approximation, your factory will only produce half as many fish.
A massive Google Docs hack is spreading like wildfire
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I'd have said the opposite - that Thomas et al are closer to getting it right (although nobody seems to quite get all the way).

I'm guessing that you're not making any distinction between negative rights (which is what the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution deal with) versus the more modern idea of positive right.

Negative rights are those where the government is constrained from interfering with you; freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms are obvious examples of this.

Positive rights are those where we say that a person has an right to GET a thing, and so the government must be obligated to provide it. The Constitution does not guarantee any of this [1].

In that context, it seems correct to view 9A as saying that there exist additional unenumerated negative rights. But trying to do so with positive rights eventually gets into trouble, because there's no clear ceiling on how much of something is due to each person.

So for example, there's a thing going around Facebook with Jimmy Kimmel about healthcare, which has everyone saying that no one should never need to consider finances when their child is sick. This is plainly false in the general case, because it would imply infinite resources. In the real world, there will always be a point at which we must say "no more".

IMHO, given that the Constitution was written in the context of the Enlightenment idea of negative rights, and positive rights hadn't been part of the discussion; together with the fact that the limits of positive rights are thus left completely undefined, I'm quite OK with the Court deciding to keep a tight leash on that.

[1] Although I suppose the right to an attorney when accused is kinda fuzzy. But it doesn't suffer from the problem of open-ended obligations that I discuss later.
I feel like local governments are going to be the first to really be affected by significant pension overlays that are not properly accounted for -- a lot of pension funds assume rates of return that are historically farcical. I think the industry average used to be about 8%.

"During the 20th Century, the Dow advanced from 66 to 11,497. This gain, though it appears huge, shrinks to 5.3% when compounded annually."

http://davidgcrane.org/?page_id=702

It doesn't auger well for the future of stable financial markets. Weak localities will fail, and eventually the states that have to support them. Puerto Rico is the canary in the coal mine.
Talking about insurance, how about it denies your transaction when it sees you've hit your budget for a night out, it will work one last time after e.g. 30 seconds so you can pay for that last drink, but that's it, after that it will let a taxi or Lyft transaction through, but not from any other bar.

And someone should also program it to donate to women's charities when you use Uber..
The black ones are also a softer material than the gray ones.
As someone with an insatiable appetite for learning/being challenged, no kids, no serious relationship, and no equity in anything, I will walk almost immediately (with notice/finish the project/etc. of course) if I don't feel properly challenged. That said I don't feel like I'm a great person to give long term advice other than this..

I operate this way, because when I've stayed at places where my motivation began to wane, invariably, it then began swiftly descend, and then plummet incomprehensibly. The worst part was never going in to the office I had come to feel less than nothing about, it was bringing the lack of motivation home, because it inevitably followed me into my personal life, and stripped me of the desire to do the things I love.

That's where I draw the line.

Everyone is different of course. I'm sure you have good reasons for staying, and I sincerely wish you best figuring it out as someone who has been shackled very firmly with some golden-handcuffs to roles that ultimately offered me nothing more than big checks, and a sense of futility.
Gambler's fallacy has to do with independent uncorrelated events. The stock market is no such beast. I have no love for seides, but this is atrocious timing for him. To a certain degree your yield on the s&p depends on timing. I know many people who were hired when the s&p is high and fired when it crashed. For the hoi polloi, i.e. "not Warren Buffett", the s&p is often life-procyclical and they get screwed.
The kind of thing that I would like to be able to do is have a bunch of different virtual accounts that I can use for various different things. Pretty much the envelope spending system, but with cards.

I'd be able to take in paychecks and other income into a primary account, pay bills and distribute the rest into various accounts (for example, Eating out, Entertainment, Books, Learning, etc) according to some budget. Then I'd like to be able to see how much money I have left on any of these in pretty much real time.

Once you go up to the limit of one of these cards, then you know you've gone over budget. Half-way through the month, you have no more money for Entertainment? Too bad. I think this kind of thing would make it easier to practically stay within your budget.

Wanna go on a holiday? Boom, make a Holiday account, put a certain amount of money on it, and then you know you can spend that much on whatever, while everything else remains constant.

Holiday gift season? Make a budget, make a card, and spend from there, knowing that it's just a bigger hassle to use another card if you run out of gift money.
That's all this code does, but The author then has a backdoor to all the victim's email through the oauth app.
Re 'factory worker'. When I studied, I worked part-time in a shop selling bicycles. One of my main tasks was assembling & tuning the bicycles (they come flatpacked). I recall that on my first day (as a 14 year old with no prior experience), I could only complete one bike, with another one in progress. The teaching was mostly 'here are the tools, tell us when done/stuck'. A couple years, maybe 1000 hours of experience later, I would average around 3 bikes per hour. So, a factor 12-15 speedup.
This was basically as fast as the guys who had been doing it 20-30 years full-time. I stayed basically at that level until I stopped at 6 years. Note, this was no sweatshop, just a pretty active and successful self-owned store.

It is possible that those that assemble Ikea furniture for a living have 10x over a typical Ikea-buyer.
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Sorry, it is your imagination that is limited. Just go to any Lego show and look at the absolutely amazing creations that people do. Those weirdo pieces that you think only have one use turn out to have many creative uses. Swing your browser over to someplace like bricklink.com and cruise the discussion forums for pictures of interesting stuff people have built and want to show each other.

Just because you can't think of anything to build other than what is shown in the book in front of you, doesn't mean that applies to everyone.