skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how / what these folks who keep apparently getting scammed are buying, but I have ~200 books purchased in my history with 3/4 of them most likely used, and none have been fakes.

I constantly buy / add to my wishlist older hardcover books I'm interested in reading and will come back and check when the used price is low and buy either Like New / Very Good / Good and have been satisfied with the results. Nothing like getting a 800+ page hardcover book with barely any use delivered to your door for 6-10$.

If one is worried about quality don't by anything used that is less than Very Good IMO.
yeah, it's not a complete model. :)
Hmm good question! It's been a very long time since I used tcl/tk, but I just gave myself a 2 minute refresher and browsed the docs. I would say Tcl is a programming language, not a system shell. The tcl tutorial concurs, calls tcl specifically a 'dynamic programming language', and compares tcl to python.

I'm definitely using 'shell' and 'command' in a narrow sense. I meant to add contrast between PowerShell and C#, by calling one a command shell and the other a programming language. But both words have been used with much broader meanings. So I'll try to be a little more careful and say that what I'm really talking about is a system shell and system commands, where a system command means direct access to executable files on the system, and system shell means an interpreter that provides system commands.

Even though Tcl stands for 'command language', it's not talking about system commands using the same distinction I made above. Tcl's use of "command" is referring to programmer-defined functions & API, and it is not referring to system commands.

Tclsh is a shell, but I wouldn't call that a system shell like PowerShell or bash. It is an interactive tcl interpreter, but not really a system shell. Tclsh isn't something sysadmins would typically use, right?

Perhaps the defining characteristic of a system shell (as opposed to a programming language) is system commands; running executable files on the system can be done by typing the bare name of the file, without any other syntax in the way. That is true in powershell and bash, and not true in C#, tcl, python, etc. To run a system command in tcl, you have to use 'exec' or 'open', you have to use 'glob' to get file completion, and there's required programming language syntax frequently involved in passing arguments. In tcl you have to use $env(var) or $::env(var) to get an environment variable rather than $var. Those are the kinds of things that shells provide with little or no syntax, and exactly the kind of stuff that begins to compromise language syntax and language design in favor of promoting system commands to first class status.

BTW, you got me curious about tcl again. I never used it enough to get a sense of what it's best used for. What kinds of things would you use tcl for yourself? Do you like to use it for system shell tasks instead of bash? (I know there are certainly legit reasons to do that.) What kinds of programs would you start in tcl?
If the "Google for Healthcare" can't verify your medication regime, perform a physical evaluation, and order labs and imaging to accompany your medical inquiry, it will never be more than a toy for the masses to scare (or pacify) themselves with.
>Consider, for instance, Microsoft’s decision to enter the mobile phone business long after Apple and others cornered the market.

Uhg. That's not what happened. Microsoft had mobile phones way before Apple. I guess the victors really do get to write history.
Anybody have any idea how this profile compares to MS .NET?
Sure, but I bet your PS code isn't rigorous or bullet proof.

and I should mention, I feel like that's a solved problem. I don't know the specifics of the project, but it's hard for me to buy that you needed to write dependency checker in PS.
Yes it is better not to get married in such a situation. At least financially speaking. But it is still false to say spousal income is always taken into consideration.
Publishers pay authors up front to write novels. They also provide quality editors and marketing on their dime.

So, yes, there is absolutely value in what the publishers provide.
> Hmmm, my crazy genius friend Woz built an awesome "personal computer" in his spare time. Let's scale up production and sell it.

Most succinct and accurate apple history I've ever read.
> ...But, dark matter isn't something to be denied. Because it isn't understood yet, to the point where we can doubt its existence....

There is something not quite right with your logic and I am struggling to identify what it is :/
Also, wasn't one of the reasons behind the Brexit that the European courts were blocking this kind of legislation?
Life is not a lottery.

EDIT:
Statements like "survival bias" are used by people that often subscribe to Narrative Fallacies.

Companies like GOOG, FACE, APPL, MSFT are not successful because they won some big lottery.

They are successful because the identified "objectives"
and made the right calculations to those objectives.

And if they stop making the right calculations to their ojectives they WILL end up like Kodak, Nokia & HP
You should note that the wars in Libya on that list were caused by the major European countries and the US.
Much of Africa's poverty comes from the oppression imposed by white people in the past and present. Yes, they [edit: Africans] came with their own problems, but white invaders really fucked things up.
Slate is my favorite as well - there's a fork that accumulated a bunch of patches over the years as the original author appears to have abandoned it:

https://github.com/mattr-/slate

Unfortunately, it was declared unmaintained as of a few days ago...
Step 1. Make a new, secure internet so that terrorists can't operate secretly.

Step 2. Make terrorists use that internet.

Hmm... I'm detecting a problem with this plan...
> It's a mirror, an honest mirror.

While I partially agree with you, I think there's a tendency of those (us) who work in a deterministic universe to under-attribute technology's ability to shade or shift pre-existing things. In the same way that propagation models matter in neural networks, the nuances of how the internet is consumed, shared, cross-linked, and presented all influence the zeitgeist that it creates.

If HN had no moderation or anti-spamming code, our comment threads would look very different. Would that be a reflection of our truer selves? I say yes and no: it would reflect our opinions of the moment more accurately, but by virtue of altering the comment content on the site we would then make different comments to those comments.

So an algorithm shifts our HN world, despite the fact that we remain the same people. (At least over the short term)

And when it boils down to it, I refuse to live in a world where technology is impotent in reminding us of and appealing to our kinder, aspirational, better natures.
"The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,520 in June 2001 (2.4% of Australia's total)"[0]

You're missing my point. There are no tribes in Australia, for practical purposes. Australia has moved past the concept of tribes. In Australia, people are born into Australia.

In Africa, in 2017, people are born into a tribe.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians
That's absurd!

The economics profession has studied these problems for a very long time. If it were simple to do what you suggest then we would have done it. Literally everything has been tried in Development Economics.

> I know that part of the stable government solution involves taking down dictators and other military action

Again, based on what evidence are you making these claims? The story that you can military overthrow dictators and put in a stable government has utterly failed in most cases.

> but this has to also include education, food, medicine, and teaching people how to build things.

Do you have evidence for any of this? Development economics has long ago concluded that 'teaching things' has no long run impact.

Have you ever actually looked at the evidence and history of all these policy's?
This was interesting reading to fill in the "why": https://github.com/vmware/haret/blob/master/docs/why.md

Short story; looks a bit like etcd or consul (in terms of data), using Viewstamped Replication.
The idea is that an exponential curve is no longer the correct model for forecasting growth past 2070.

Arguing about how to express that is sort of pointless.
Alleged Russian state-sponsored hackers behind #Baltic #energy networks
Exactly. And I've grown so weary of all the disjointed UI/UX of the web that I've been shoe horning more and more of my daily workflow and information retrieval into email.
[...]pornography like some ancient demon[...]

Given the amount of psychological damage inflicted by pornography that comparison seems pretty accurate.
What is your evidence for that? Countries with the least colonial involvement are not richer then those with colonial involvement. You can simply not explain wealth in Africa based on history of colonialism. The data just does not check out.
I agree totally agree. This is the same org that told us Bush was right about WMDs, whose reporters didn't know what a CDO was when the financial collapse happened, and spent three years unable to believe Trump could win the election. This is why nytimes.com is pointing to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.
Objectively, is there any reason why a "search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size?"

Is the hypothesis that hackers are more likely to spread the search engine to other users, or is it something else?
Okay. If you find something isn't safe, in safe code, please file a bug. What you're asserting shouldn't be true.
Nope. All of the modern light business jets can be technically and legally flown by a single pilot. Any light jet that can't is dead on arrival, no one would buy it.

Other thing is that it is illegal to operate them (maybe not all and/or not on all markets, but most of the time for sure) with a single pilot while carrying paying passengers e.g. charter operations. But if you are an owner-pilot and fly alone or with your family - that's fine!

People who want to 'hack' a plane industry by producing a much cheaper and better light jet should calm down. There is no way to do it. This is not space industry, or car industry, which is dominated by deeply entrenched, century old, corrupt weary monopolies. Existing light jet builders know what they are doing and they work in a real market all the way (this is why Boeing or Airbus doesn't make them - they would have been unable to compete).
Java is just... disappointing. I learned Java 5 (1.5) a decade ago in high school, for the AP test, and it's just made very little real progress since, particularly in comparison to the rest of the field.

I look at all of the innovations and convenience features that C#(an unashamed Java clone at the start) has introduced in the meantime, and it makes me wonder what is so broken with Java.
Yes this is true, defer should pull down scripts asynchronously, but execute them in inserted order. If it's just scripts that's all you need to do, you don't need this.
Time for Hollywood to get disrupted by Blockchain technology?
> Many breakthrough areas struggled along for years with little funding, while a ton of money went into dead ends. Eg immunotherapy in cancer, H. pylori as the major cause of gastric ulcers...

This looks an awful lot like survivor bias.

Tons of money was also put into well established research to move it along. And ideas that were stupid also didn't get any funding and struggled.

> If your system encourages or rewards unethical behaviour that is a big problem.

That's markets and that's why we have a justice system. A reason why the NIH now requires grant applications to be of publishable quality to help diminish completely turnaround in experimental design after grant have been issued. A part of the evolution that I speak of.

> the idea of 'good scientists' scrutinising a proposal carefully and controlling for all these factors is a bit fantastical.

I doubt you want to do away with peer review. I'll be the first to say that It's not perfect, but it's gotten us pretty far.

"Good scientists" have their orthodoxy and "know" certain things to be to true and won't (most of the time) fund anything that goes against that orthodoxy. I.e. one funeral at a time.

Well funded PIs have the ability to fund this type of science and many do.

I think we're pretty much in agreement though.

The system is slow, not great, but like another commenter suggested, the best we can do.
You mean like both are imaginary entities which have real-life consequences only if you believe highly questionable accounts of people who stand to profit a lot if you do believe them, but still offer no objective proof?
> Unless it's come a LONG way in just the last 6 months, I don't think I'm being too harsh.

.Net core has not stood still in the last 6 months - the VS2017 release was a big milestone.

In the next six months we expect NetStandard 2.0 and .Net core 2.0
Even aside from preemptively complaining about downvotes, refusing to substantiate your claims is the quickest way to lose karma. :P
I think there's room for an airship renaissance, for a number of reasons.

Firstly, speed doesn't matter as much as it did, particularly for tourists - if I can take two days crossing the Atlantic in luxury rather than crammed into a tiny seat, at a not-huge price differential, I'm game.

Secondly, communications. Easy enough (albeit still pricey) to use the likes of iridium for internet everywhere. No longer so important to reach your destination fast.

Thirdly, technology. No longer does the thing need to be stuffed with hydrogen - rather helium. Give it a little while and we can stuff it with vacuum in spun carbon vessels. In place of the fossil driven air-screws, make the entire thing a fat flying wing, cover the top in PV, use electric propulsion.

Finally, given the ever increasing popularity of cruises, I can see people paying serious money for an inland cruise over the alps etc.

Additionally, even the Hindenburg was arguably safer than a modern airliner. If the latter catches fire or crashes, the likelihood is 100% mortality for the souls aboard - whereas an airship allows for slow ditching or even emergency parachute pods.

Please, somebody, tell me why this is a bad idea.
This reads like an April Fool's prank.

They say that people should be protected from "harmful content", which somehow includes pornography? Is it the 80s again?

The rhetoric here sounds like it's coming from the distant past, when government officials were completely out of touch with the way ordinary people use new technology. Now it just looks like a blatant attempt to score "anti-terrorism" points and regulate the shit out of an industry in draconian ways, just for the sake of regulating it (what are the possible motives, besides the laughable "we don't want to provide safe space for terrorists to communicate" claim?)

Are people actually supporting this kind of thinking?
I've never heard that claim before. Have there been any reputable studies to back that up? To my knowledge, "psychological damage" isn't a commonly used term in the medical profession. Surely pornography can't be worse than being raised by an alcoholic, abusive parent, which is a relatively common occurence around the world.
The trend is universal, although some developing countries have not reached that stage yet. Kurzgesagt has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
Some Scots ones:

- Loan

- Close

- Brae
Hi, I'm very curious about the last part, "Development economics has long ago concluded that 'teaching things' has no long run impact."

Could you point me towards some overview of the issues?
I hate to say it but I think you're right. I was a big believer in diesel passenger cars because their mileage is as good as a hybrid, they're cheaper to produce, and you can operate them more or less carbon-neutral (with biodiesel).

But that was before we found out everybody was cheating on the emissions.
Tooling matters. IDEs matter. Kotlin has Intellij backing.
> Blockchain today doesn't fulfill any human needs.

I am more than happy to disagree with that. Bitcoin is a monetary system that is fully independent of any existing financial system, and it's super robust. It's a great hedge against the existing financial system.

It offers permanent, irreversible settlement in under an hour, with payments to anywhere in the world. It offers irreversible logging and time-stamping, in a way that is programmatic and accessible. People are using this today, every day and gaining value out of it.

It's money that you can own without anyone realizing that you have it. Including oppressive governments. It's money that can't be seized. It's money that can't be censored. You balance can't be frozen because PayPal wants to run an investigation, or found some tiny ToS violation.

Bitcoin has a huge amount of value that a lot of people are actively making use of. If you can't see that, it's either because you don't understand, or because you are outside the group of people who benefit from this truly unique money.
This will neither work nor result in the expected results. The lines stating that online would be governed the same way as offline life, and access to 'bad' materials would be 'just as hard' shows how disconnected from reality that idea is. Access to violence, hate, porn etc. isn't "harder" offline, and bullying on playgrounds isn't actually getting "fixed" at the moment, just it it won't be online.

The whole irony is that if the online rules would be implemented and resulting in the same things as offline life, the internet would pretty much remain as-is. Of course, the law and the rules would be allowing for more legal spying and detaining, as well as controlling official narrative, which would have nothing to do with online or offline life and is a whole new thing added on top of the current policy.

I hope that if we can just hold off on the crazy orwellian plans and ideas long enough for the old cluster of people in high places to die (of old age), we might actually be able to get the good stuff we created online to actually start fixing the offline problems in governing. That will never happen with the old style people in place, and only time will fix that, since they won't go freely as power is addictive and corrupting (as always).
As per the end of an article - these are not actually codified anywhere, they just happen to be true more often than not.

More of an unofficial naming code than a hard-and-fast rule.
Makes me giggle when people try to enforce policies about the internet without knowing anything about internet.
> There are no tribes in Australia, for practical purposes.

That is utter, utter crap.

The Tiwi don't associate with the Kimberly kids. Their islands are closed to outsiders. You are given your totem at age of 12 in a smoking ceremony that outsiders are not permitted to witness. You are not born Australian. You cannot marry one. You are Tiwi.
My default utility too; for quite a while.
As First WannaCry deadline nears, French researchers claim cure
The difference doesn't seem huge, not considering the price. Phenom [0] vs Vision [1]

Phenom:

- Price: $4M

- Capacity: 1 pilot, 7 passengers

- Cruise Speed: 750 km/h

- Range 2,182 km (4 x 200lb people)

Vision:

- Price: $2M

- Capacity: 1 pilot, 6 passengers

- Cruise Speed: 556 km/h

- Range 1,111 km (6 x 200lb people)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_Phenom_100

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Vision_SF50
Computational Analysis of Survivor Alliances
Sadly it's quickly becoming the #1 problem in the US as well.
Introduction to web scraping with Python
One advantage of getting to the destination quickly is that the vessel can get new paying customers onboard.
If the trip takes 48 rather than 6 hours, operation needs to be eight times cheaper to keep the same ticket price.
Color Dynamics of La La Land: A Visualization
Is this an example of the persistence and determination in the face of adversity and criticism one can expect to learn at CMU?
The dirty secret is that 90% of all formal education is a waste of time, and is just signalling hoop-jumping.
I'm currently working for a company where the our manager holds a tight grip against the code we write, but he doesn't seem to guide us in the correct direction.
It makes you go blind and your teeth fall out, don't you know. Onanism is a sin. rolls eyes

There's an increasingly strong puritanical streak in conservative political circles. May earlier this week said that she was chosen by god to govern, and is a vicar's daughter, so go figure.
2% is exponential growth; 1% is still exponential growth. Decrease from 2% to 1% is a decrease in the rate of growth, which still remains exponential.
Seems that fixing Internet with Medium already clearly failed. It's the blog service with the least "diversity" ever, Medium is used mostly by people like its creator: narcissistic developers from Silicon Valley. Even its post creation UI and page look is designed for this audience and causes disgust for others, even for hipsters. And I can't remember any interesting post on Medium, only graphomania about newest js things.
Do us and yourself a favor, change the font color on your site, so that it's easier to read.
Indie publisher here. I am also a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, which has come out against the new Buy Box policy.

The big question on everyone's mind is where the new third-party books are coming from. Here are my personal views:

* Many publishers suspect that the books are not actually new, but rather are used from various sources and are being sold as new. However, there hasn't been any proof that this is a widespread phenomenon. OTOH, there is practically no barrier to a seller making a "new" claim for a used book. The main disincentive is Amazon might punish them if it's discovered or enough readers complain.

* Review copies are being sold as new. I know two publishers who have received complaints about this from readers who purchased a "new" book from Amazon, only to discover that it was marked as an ARC or not for resale.

* Third-party sellers are getting their hands on overstock or returns from retailers that were supposed to be pulped or destroyed. I have heard of two businesses that have operated in this realm, but both appear to be legitimately purchasing overstock as opposed to buying copies that should have been destroyed.

* Third-party sellers are accessing wholesale channels intended for retailers or libraries. These sales are legit, but publishers get less money from them. See the Createspace thread below (first two pages) for a discussion of one case.

* Some of the new books are pirated. This is my personal view that is not widely shared, but I believe this is going to be a big problem going forward, based not only on two documented cases this year (Dave Burgess' pirated copy of "Teach Like a Pirate" and Bill Pollock's "Python for Kids", see links below) but also because it's such a widespread phenomenon elsewhere on Amazon. It's a matter of time before pirates discover it's open season for books, and more and more will rush in using cheap short-run digital or print on demand to own the buy box.

There may be other sources as well. If the books are used and are being sold as such, it's accessed through a wholesaler, or it's overstock sourced legitimately, that's not an issue. But publishers should be concerned if used books and review copies are being sold as new, or pirates are eating their lunch.

1. https://twitter.com/burgessdave/status/849039943561134080

2. https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256

3. https://forums.createspace.com/en/community/message/76847#76...

ETA: Wholesale channels bullet and "new" claims details