skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In America, the "bourgeois" is usually called "The American Dream". Most Americans idealize the middle class income and middle-class lifestyle and middle-class families and middle-class values. Ranting against that is usually a non-starter.

Ranting about the Jews is a non-starter, too, but neo-nazis manage. How much respect do you think the hard left has for the "American Dream"?

> It should be an object lesson to the world, don't turn your government over to a corrupt dictatorship, even if they promise you communism.

"Hey, let's turn over our country to a corrupt dictatorship", said nobody. The fact that communist flags are regularly flown at leftist protests should be a tremendous national scandal and embarrassment, with our media educating the populace on the horrors of communism. They should be no more tolerated than swastika flags.
If you aren't using a profiler and benchmarks when analyzing performance problems you're just blindly stabbing in the dark.
Blue Apron hit with class action lawsuit from shareholders
Hahaha. My mother still does that. She has boxes full of neatly folded used gift wrapping paper.

She also used to wash ziploc bags for reuse.
I mentioned I grew up in Newark, i.e., Fremont. That's my real hometown.

But I see your point.
If they can, Tor is total bullshit. So no, I seriously doubt that they can. And that's, in my opinion, a very good thing.
Being a hacker is about knowing when something is good enough.

It's about focusing on interesting content rather than pixel perfection.

It's about shipping on Tuesday rather than shipping on Friday.

It's about optimising the things that are important.

I like it, even if it's a big pixel-y on hi def displays, it's a reminder that done is better than perfect
Key point of the article:

> Questions about how platforms like Twitter and Reddit deal with disruptive users and offensive content tend to be met with defensive language invoking free speech.

> In the process of building private communities, these companies had put on the costumes of liberal democracies. They borrowed the language of rights to legitimize arbitrary rules, creating what the technology lawyer Kendra Albert calls ‘‘legal talismans.’’

> What better way to avoid liability and responsibility for how customers use your product? It was also good marketing. It’s easier to entrust increasingly large portions of your private and public life to an advertising and data-mining firm if you’re led to believe it’s something more.

I've noticed this most distinctly with Reddit. Why haven't all the hate subreddits been banned? /r/physical_removal was exhorting for the deaths of thousands months prior to Charlottesville. The admins proclaim free speech, but under this thin excuse, lies their business model.

Toxic users are extremely active. They have to be. Spewing vitriol, spreading hate, posting canards necessitate constant engagement.

Looking at the tables of monthly metrics, who is more valuable? That one user with 10,000 internet points flaming other users every hour of the day, or the occasional commenter who writes longwinded but intellectually honest posts?

I can tell you which one is far more numerous, and I can tell you which one Reddit raised millions on.

Ultimately, I would argue that this pretense is is designed to morally justify the power these platforms wield over their users. To do any less, especially for an overly-dominant player, sets the stage for regulatory action, backed by popular demand.

edit: removed slight political slant.
Google has no cloud business in China, which will make it hard to catch Amazon
MacOS Test Automation
> Antifa may not have the same explicit political program as the "mainstream" left but when street fighting happens, they defend the left, not the right.

You mean they attack the right. It's right there in the name, Anti-Fascists!

The enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily my friend. They aren't out there advocating transgender rights or arguing for paid family leave. They are there to clash with Nazis.
In 2008 DARPA kickstarted a major research effort into cleaner, cheaper ways to make transportation fuels from coal[1]. There was at least one transformational technology opening up large chemical and materials markets that came out of that effort.[2]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/09/darpas-coal-to/

[2] https://www.usea.org/event/coals-bright-future-unlocking-new...
The whois wasn't my concern though (since I already knew it was solvable); my concern was the IP address leakage, which gives away your location among other things...
Ray Dalio: US most divided socially and economically since 1937
These seem very low, but how do they compare with other industries?
>It is worth noting that the platforms most flamboyantly dedicated to a borrowed idea of free speech and assembly are the same ones that have struggled most intensely with groups of users who seek to organize and disrupt their platforms.

THIS is what ultimately changed my mind about whether Internet companies should offer "free speech" as a positive. I used to believe that the antidote to hateful speech was simply more speech. But every site that's been tried on, fell to more and more hateful speech, pushing and bending and breaking the norms, until sane people left out of disgust or were relegated to their own, more moderated, parts of the site.

Germany and other European countries with anti-Nazi laws have it right (and no, they haven't descended into totalitarian regimes, the slippery slope simply stopped at "Don't be a Nazi".)
It would be nice if it was that easy but if retry behaviour is dependent on the specific operation attempted and the error information in the response then you need some degree of local handling even if its just to prepare information for a generic handler.

Exceptions work best when the error is fatal for the local scope but responses from external services aren't like that. The general problem is that the dividing line between errors and information becomes too blurry - your error might only be information to me. A simple example is where something like axios will (by default) throw on 404 responses but an external api might use 404 to indicate a resource does not exist. If your app logic makes a decision based on this information, you will find yourself using exception handlers for control flow despite not experiencing any actual errors.
Can anyone comment on the performance of a newish MBP with this kit relative to a modest custom gaming PC?
From what I recall, this is called out as a specific non-goal in the LLVM documentation. I don't remember the details but I think that the instruction set is meant to be an easy way to write passes that communicate with each other but is not designed to be a universal intermediate format.
With DevOps Security Must Work Differently
Forthy Map/Reduce in Snabel
[1] Seems to do the trick but I don't do Android dev so I don't know any details about this.

[1] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/blob/2b9cdde558ed96c2...
A bit related, do ad companies use the tilt/gyro to guess if someone is actually looking at the video? It seems they could adjust payout based on if there was an actual view, or at least get some metrics on which ads people actually pay attention to.
Do you mean hyper progressive? A regressive tax is on that taxes the rich less than the poor like cigarettes.
I have several doctors in my family, some even in public health and what you say is true, yes some people have been harmed by vaccines, and even killed. These are basic facts available to anyone with an internet connection. The manufacturers of the vaccines should be monitored and kept in line, like any manufacturer of medication (or food for that matter). Many of the vaccines that I am familiar with are low cost if not subsidized to the point of free - so I'm not sure that the drug pricing scams you discuss apply here.

The point missing from this discussion is the basic principle that doctors are applying when then recommend vaccination: that the chance of harm from the vaccine is much less than the chance of harm from the disease. Senior citizens, pregnant women and children < 1 yr routinely die from the flu - at rates much greater than the deaths from the flu shot.

Discussing it with a trained medical Doctor is a great idea which I recommend. It must always be remembered that each treatment is a separate experiment and should be monitored accordingly.
Good point, I absolutely agree with you.
The time it takes to "deal with it" has gone up quite a bit, too. When I was a kid the trash guys would haul anything away that was less than four feet wide. All kinds of furniture, beds, electronics, used paint... whatever. It all went into the same truck.

Now half the stuff you buy is toxic waste when you go to get rid of it. You have to make special trips to the place that collects paint, for instance, which isn't the same place as electronics. There are all sorts of projects my parents would have done without a second thought that I'll pass on because I don't want to spend all that time getting rid of stuff.
Save a lot and retire comfortably somewhere else after 8-10 years?
>Why hasn't /r/the_donald been banned?

He did win the election. You can ban extremists but I'm not sure banning fairly mainstream stuff is the way to go.
Then don't. I couldn't think of two languages more different in every way.
OUR DAY WITH JESSE WELLENS
> with the hope they are wireless headsets

wouldn't going wireless imply heavy batteries strapped to your head?
Either way my math is clearly wrong :-) I should be less lazy when I post!
At least 5 by my count and the CEO of your own company which employs still more. If what you say is true then the HK agreement wasn't made in good faith.
Applying Cynefin to Real Product Management Projects
This is what being active in life sciences research is like unfortunately. There is no luxury of concentrating one 1 or 2 things.
One of the biggest benefits of Google Cloud is networking. By default GCE instances in VPC's can communicate with all instances across zones and regions. This is a huge plus.

On AWS, multi region involves setting up VPN and NAT instances. Not rocket science, but wasted brain cycles.

Generally, with GCP setting up clusters that span three regions should provide ample high availability and most users don't need to deal with the multi cloud headaches. KISS. You can even get pretty good latency between regions if you setup North Carolina, South Carolina, and Iowa. Soon West Coast clusters will be possible between Oregon and Los Angels (region coming soon).
Kraken: Delisting Pairs and Temporary Suspension of Advanced Order Types
The article talks about the gasification projects and the high costs.

So how would any new tech not end up like the coal gasification attempts?

Seems we bette off putting money into research at university levels for across the board energy projects then transfer to commercial sector after.
> How much respect do you think the hard left has for the "American Dream"?

I don't know what the "hard left" is, but I know that teachers, labor unions, and local political leaders are all about jobs and wages.

> The fact that communist flags are regularly flown at leftist protests should be a tremendous national scandal and embarrassment, with our media educating the populace on the horrors of communism.

Look at Boston. Tens of thousands of people marched. There was one guy with some socialist literature, and a couple guys who were anti-GMO food, and then someone trying to sell you a copy of his music CD. But the overwhelming majority stood for free speech, representative democracy, and equal protection under the law.

But let's face it, you can walk into any Starbucks in Boston and find one crazy person there too.
Doesn't this violate the computer fraud and abuse act, for unauthorized accessing to a networks without permission? More specifically, piggybacking [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking
You are a spot on bro, they are all talk and no action...
> I think there's a spectrum. People who optimize file systems, for example: that's on the "engineering" side of the spectrum. It requires a scientific approach to the research. It requires a very deep understanding of complex systems, formal reasoning, and emergent behavior.

In Germany, there are two different flavors for the apprenticeship to "Fachinformatiker" (Computer Science Expert): One for software development and one for systems integrations, there's even a sub-specialization for "support".
I thought the integrated headphones were a stupid idea when they first announced them, but after using the Rift they are a must-have in my opinion.

It's one less thing you're tethered to, they make jumping into VR faster and they are surprisingly high quality.
Essentially Google only allow Google-hosted AMP content in their search carousel. You could create an AMP (or otherwise fast) page on your own CDN and Google won't show it unless it's on their domain.
One extra point for tracking VM bills:

GCE bills are aggregated across instances. To get more detailed breakdown, you can apply labels to them and the bills will have label information attached in BQ.

Alternatively, you can leverage GCE usage exports here:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/usage-export

Which has per-instance per-day per-item usage data for GCE.

Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud but not on GCE.
Correct, I have shifted my intro to focus on extremists.
Doesn't explain why they don't allow you to host AMP pages on your own domain and still be in the search carousel.
One of my fonder memories of graduate school is looking up one of the original UNCOL citations. When I went looking for the 1958 paper that everyone kept citing, in the dustier portions of the stacks, it wasn't there. I think someone had mistyped the cite to Strong et al in an earlier paper and the broken citation had been copied from paper to paper (possibly without ever reading the original).
idk how is it with vive/oculus, but gearVR for me has quite significant screen door effect that (somewhat) ruins it for watching movies :(
Google (as I've experienced it) is filled with normal, generally friendly folks. A few small jokes, but no cultural ousting. While I don't work in search (big company, many products), even the folks I know there recognize we need different tools for our job and sometimes Google search just isn't the way to go. I suspect if it were a more specialized company (say Tableau) then using a another company's tool for daily work might be frowned upon.
HASBRO INTERACTIVE RELEASES RIGHTS TO THE ATARI JAGUAR HARDWARE PLATFORM (1999)
Thanks for posting! Having spent a few years in the world of test, this resonates loud and clear with me.

With maybe the sole exception of a README (and that's a big MAYBE), I can't think of a more useful artifact to ship with software than a test suite.

At worst, a test suite can be ignored; at best, it's a living record of a system's runtime interaction with the real world.
Plowing cars into groups of people is mostly done by people following an ideology which is not generally considered to be "left" or "right" as those labels are not used to describe religiously-inspired movements.

In the 2017 EU Terrorism Report [1] - The EU being where I'm based and as such where I have most experience in these matters - done by Europol it is shown that the "left" is a much bigger threat than the "right", with 27 terror attacks executed by "left-wing" terrorists versus 1 attack by "right-wing" terrorists. As an aside, "nationalist" groups are responsible for 99 attacks. Islamic terrorists are responsible for the majority of deadly attacks (135 out of 142 were killed by jihadis).

As to what concerns the amount of "trolling" (in which I include breaking in to sites and downloading their data for later perusal, defacing sites, DDoS-attacking sites and similar actions) done on the 'net I'd say that, at least in Europe, the "left" is far more active than the "right", partly due to the fact that the "left" is better organised. One of the reasons for their better organisation is that "left-wing" organisations are given far more leeway than "right-wing" organisations, something which is related to the difference in reactions to "left-wing" icons (both the older ones - Lenin, Stalin, Mao et al - as well as the newer versions - Castro, Chavez, etc) versus "right-wing" icons (mostly Hitler and those around him). Public support for the latter is a punishable offence in some countries and frowned upon in most. Public support for the former is no problem whatsoever and done quite openly. I've never seen people carrying banners with the portrait of Hitler, I've seen plenty carrying portraits of Marx/Lenin/Stalin and Mao. I've seen banners telling us to follow the good example set by Chavez in Venezuela. I've seen a book fair which has "Lenin's corner" as a regular feature. Not some niche left-wing book fair either, the biggest one in the country and the focal point for the cultural intelligentsia.

Could you imagine a book fair having "Hitler's corner"?

[1] https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/2017-eu-terroris...
The only reason this is even a thing is that white supremacist groups feel empowered by the election of Donald Trump. The argument of his election being the result of angry, racially motivated white men wanting a revolution to maintain white power has been stated so often that it's become banal - and that argument was made by Trump's own supporters.

I don't believe Trump is a nazi, although his comments on Charlottesville make it seem as if he sympathizes a lot more with them than with the people protesting them. Either way, the nazis seem to believe they've elected their god-emperor, so that automatically makes them not a joke.
> you quickly end up with a DSL which while it may get the job done admirably, is necessarily powerful and expressive enough that you end up having pseudo programmers to write and read them anyway.

Yes! Now I truly converting that "toy with language design" to actually "maybe use it for my apps!".

P.D: And yes, I know is good to use any lang already made, like Lua or TCL or similar. But CRUD-apps are not very well served by most languages today. If wanna know what kind of language is almost ideal check it FoxPro (or the dbase family)
It's fine. I've done this just with Windows on a 2014 macbook with the nvidia (I think m950) graphics card.

Developing VR involves low framerate experiences no matter what you use. I have a PC as well, but I would not hesitate to use my MBP again at all.
This "WiFi assist" feature exists on iPhone, but there were quite a few complaints from unexpected cellular data charges, including a class action lawsuit [1].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2015/10/24/apple-wi-fi-assist-lawsuit/
Holy moly!

So cringeworthy!
These scroll to reveal sites have to die now.
In this case, it's just a bubble burst.
Dear Bethesda – Here’s the Kind of Fallout Game You Should Make
Two in three UK bosses of top businesses not trained to deal with a cyber attack
I love doing "Two things at once, at once."
Your post is a non sequitur.

I said nothing about whether a car is a choice or a necessity. That would depend on where you live also, but for different reasons.

I only said that it is not wasteful to house a car under the following circumstances: in the winter, where there is a lot of snow, and where the local municipality dumps salt on the roads throughout the winter (which gathers on surface of the car, including exposed components beneath).
So you better control how successful you get or you may have your name made meaningless. This is ridiculous.

When I say I googled it, I looked it up on google. If I looked it up elsewhere, I'll I looked it up on X or X or just looked it up online. Don't penalize the company because people misuse the name.

When I say I tweeted it, I don't mean snapped it, or vice versa. Just because the name gets misused, doesn't mean the service providers should get penalized.
cloudfare CEO refuses to remove ISIS sites:

"CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its service to websites listed, as it would mean submitting to "mob rule"." [1]

double standard much?

[1] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-opisis-cloudflare-refuses...

edit: typo
I think I'm still not making myself clear. I don't disagree with anything you say. But something changed around the 1970s-1980s time frame that increased the incidence of these diseases from zero to 10%. Whatever it was that changed, I don't think it was that kids were eating less that some critical threshold of sugar and now are eating more than that. Something else changed, and we don't yet know what it is. But it would be worth figuring it out IMO.
Licensing a trademark means not having to worry about such fine-grained details. There's no reason anybody would have a problem with "Oreo is Americas favorite android" What is there to sue over? The damn thing is called "Oreo"

Same with your other example. That line is clearly humor, and keeps the cookie brand's name in people's minds.

I think you're overthinking all of this.
Ask HN: Do you write easter eggs into your code? What?
To be fair, I have an iPhone and I'm still waiting for the "remotely sane text selection" feature to ship. Just in case you think this is hyperbole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhWz7rMj56Y
I never suggested that a government would be incapable of helping their populations thrive and live safely and comfortably. I said when the government says it's going to take on the role of feeding the hungry, that people tend to mentally check that mark off in their brain and are less likely to get involved in that issue in their area. This isn't some vast anti-government conspiracy. I'm not suggesting the government shouldn't have a role in things like feeding people. I'm just saying that private charity has an emotional bonding experience with your community that government assistance lacks.
If YC could give 1 year of healthcare I bet the would get a lot more companies applying.
Fair enough, I should probably have said 'seemingly pareto-superior' or 'pareto-superior depending on your definition of fairness'.
Attempt one Google Code Jam problem per day. Allocate one hour of intense focus to get as far as you can. Solutions and winning code examples are also there if you get stuck!

https://code.google.com/codejam/
For the address bar, is it some setting hidden in about.config? I have never found it.

Normal address bar suggestions come from local data stores, not from a search provider. (And I tough both suggestions were enabled by default, but well, it's been many years since I last configured a fresh Firefox install.)
The entire nursery semispace is typically in L1.

L1 is only going to be about 64k per core (eg, Kaby Lake). That'll have your stack, your working set, and a tiny bit of your nursery in it... as long as you don't get associativity problems.

If you read a bunch of data before making an object, I could see you easily evicting your nursery from L1 into L2, but then you only have about 4x as much space.
Having lived in New England, I wouldn't keep the car in a garage there, but my comment is about salt, not snow. Having also lived in Wisconsin, where the government uses literally mountains of salt each winter on the roads, I'll absolutely keep a car in the garage rather than near the street where large machines kick up salt as they dump it onto the roads. Enough collects just driving in the winter as is.
Quotes Gauss: had "positive, negative and imaginary (or worse still, impossible) unity, been given the names say, of direct, inverse and lateral unity, there would hardly have been any scope for such obscurity." I like that! Lateral numbers, like "throwing a lateral" in American football. It's too bad though that that only refers to addition; for multiplying you might talk about stretchy and twisty numbers instead.
Link is broken for me. Maybe http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3098587 instead?
I'd be really interested in this for non-tech books as well. I'd love to have a fast way to find new fantasy books.