skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be honest about the plastic in the oceans: It is not first world countries causing most of the problem. Ships do drop their trash in the ocean, that needs to stop, and we're all guilty to some degree, but if you want to stop the worst of the pollution you have to go to the Far East, Latin America, and Africa.
Looks like it does a bit too much. I like pipenv https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv
Do you think an adopted Black kid would on average develop the same qualities as an Asian kid in an Asian family?
Nothing negative in pointing out the constant pattern of reinventing the wheel that has been damaging Python for more than a decade.
That's only true under the supposition that the authorities are of a sufficient expertise to be able to demonstrably prove that fraud.

Surely you'd agree that ICOs are a somewhat new thing, yes? And surely you'd also agree that - having been through this once before in the mid 1990s - that new market technologies have a disproportionate amount of fraud in their early stages, which generates an attendant disproportionate amount of destabilization against the progress of that technology growing mainstream acceptance.

I'm not sure if ultimately this is a politics thing or what; if people are getting scammed, it needs to be addressed. Full stop. I don't buy into the whole libertarian fantasy (ie: if they were scammed, it's their fault; no oversight!) because that puts a tremendous amount of power into the hands of the least scrupulous people.

I don't really understand why people who believe in blockchain the most aren't screaming until their heads explode about regulation, honestly. How do you think it looks when people like Mayweather and Paris Hilton and friggin' Gurbaksh Chahal get involved? How does that advance the technology? How does that prove the value of the concept?

If you actually believe in it, you should be for regulating bad actors out of it.
That's how things work already without any artificial intelligence whatsoever. The US calculates risk of collateral damage for air strikes and has been quite willing to use them as well when the risk is low. They have done this for decades.

Also, it's hard to argue that the world is "very safe" with nukes. All one can say is they have not been used recently. That's unlikely to last forever--or even much longer--the way things are going. The US and USSR barely avoided using them [0] and some of the current owners are a lot less stable.

[0] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 for one example.
Go does this.
ICOs should be regulated like stocks because that is what they are. ICOs are the wild west of OTC stocks without any pretense of regulation. It is just scams everywhere.
Compare the install base of iPhones to Android worldwide. Compare the install base of Macs to PCs worldwide. They could make a $200 computer like almost every other laptop manufacturer, but they choose not to. They could make a $200 smartphone like many other manufacturers, but they choose not to.
Then don't.
>I'm not saying it's Russia, but the timing of the announcement of the vulnerability is very interesting

Any articles you can link to which will detail something like this Russia has done? I've also heard similar comments about the ransomware attack on Czech Republic, which is indicating of past behavior of Russia.

American media companies don't seem to cover Russia (atleast as well as China, excluding the recent election news frenzy. Or maybe they don't get shared that much). Russian government seems to silence domestic critics, so any verbose story which is noteworthy by international journalists?

(I'm fine with spending a good number of hours on this so anyone is welcome to post any number of links)
> Also old software sometimes tends to include 16bit components that do not work yet with ReactOS.

Possibly some "new" software too? A few months ago on HN there was a thread about the "age" of various software, someone had mentioned that Visual C++ traces its lineage back to 1983's Microsoft C (written in pre-ANSI C and 16-bit x86 assembly for DOS), and I said I imagine they must've thrown that code out when rewriting it in C++ for Win32, but then someone from the VC++ team corrected me: a lot of that code is still in there.

Of course, 64-bit Windows doesn't support 16-bit programs, so I'm not sure if those parts are only still present on builds for 32-bit Windows, or if they're recompiled as 32-bit, or if they're run in a VM or kernel module.
You can access YouTube or retrieve a URL through youtube-dl without reading and agreeing to these Terms.
Incredibly, a primary such idea was censorship itself: those groups who partially defined themselves as absolutely opposed to banning socially intolerable ideas, are now the very same groups calling for vindictive suppression of socially intolerable ideas.

I wonder which groups you're talking about. I remember the ACLU and its civil libertarian supporters being pretty lonely forty years ago when they fought for the right of neo Nazis to march and it seems to work the same way today. Maybe I'm missing something but, apart from the technical aspects, this feels like a pretty old debate.
Only if you're looking for it.
There just haven't been enough enforcement actions yet. "Advisors" will think twice once there is a history of people doing these paid endorsements for fraudulent fundraising losing their jobs and going to jail.
> its not accurate to conflate race with culture

This is true, but there aren't regularly gathered statistics on what culture students are a part of. Race, however, is constantly tracked. There is generally a correlation between race and culture in America, and thus race is being used as a proxy for culture in the example.
Why should an employee have the right to store sensitive personal data on my computer.

Are you suggesting a framework where I could be prosecuted for running "cat /var/log/mail" on my own computer?
That is only available on the Pixels, not even on the Nexus 5X (which has similar hardware for that).

Since 8.0, it is impossible to get any kind of night light on the Nexus 5X without a custom rom.
"Actually, his most basic, underlying thesis is that it's impossible to determine what their priorities are" - zzalpha (someone who read the article)
Oh man, life got significantly better for me when I threw that one out and bought a Hakko with temperature control. I didn't realize just how much of the difficulty I was having with soldering was from using a junky iron.

I think it's worth the price for even light users. Infrequent use means they're not getting very much practice to know what to expect with a cheapo iron and how to make do with it.
List of supported sites: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Big Data Startup MapR Raises $56M, Keeps Eyeing an IPO
Once it has seen enough adoption, you don't turn it into cash.

Therein lies the rub and the crux of my point. A government WONT LET IT see enough adoption that you can subvert the sovereign monetary system.

I think you underestimate how big of a deal it would be to move 100% of commerce off of the USD. Nations go to war for less.
...And unlike on Linux, it treats the entire datacenter as one giant machine.
Hacking the election doesn't mean having to actually flip votes, though the Russians clearly tried to do that and we don't know if they were successful. What is clear is that they tried to infiltrate election machines and the companies that produced them, on a grand scale. What is also clear is they waged a very successful propaganda campaign that pushed fake news stories, primarily through social media. Votes could have been effected by the former and almost certainly by the latter. Again, as the article points out below you wouldn't have to flip votes to effect outcomes, simply keeping people from voting could be enough, especially in a close election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/russia-electi...
Lego announces layoffs after reporting an unexpected drop in sales and profit
Not true at all, there are 20-50x speedups for some of the functions that have been optimized into Go assembly. Specific cryptography routines for which CPUs have dedicated instructions. Those are the kinds of places where you'd use it. If you want to write assembly because you think you can generate better code than the compiler, you probably can, but it also almost certainly will be underwhelming as you say. It's only really worth it when you're using instructions the compiler won't emit, like specialized crypto, math, bit counting instructions, or SIMD instructions.
Till You Visit Japan, You Will Not Believe These Facts
Most of this nit-picky advice will not increase my leverage.

What I think would: occasional access to domain experts in specific niches of data science.
The man who designs future worlds
Beyond the issues the article acknowledges, and the misleading implication that this would help fix existing roads/bridges, I see two large question areas:

* The claim is that the spores would be "dormant" until cracks appeared and brought water to them. How exactly does that happen? What ensures the calcium carbonate grows ONLY in the cracks? Why would this not lead to uneven/bumpy roads?
* They say that the spores would probably get crushed in existing concrete blends, but maybe we could add air bubbles to the mix. I'm not a material scientist, but I'd guess that taking something with 1 micrometer holes and making them into 4 micrometer holes would have impact on the resulting material.

I'm not saying that the research isn't worth pursuing, but it is a bit of a smell that such questions aren't even acknowledged in the article.
"I am not so sure that american companies can just "hide" from this, they are actually quite exposed. Delta airlines, for example, appear to be quite worried by it internally, and are making changes to suit.
"

Certainly you realize there is a give and take here. The EU needs the businesses too.
The EU is not powerful enough on it's own to just do whatever it wants. So they aren't going to go after these kinds of weird cases at first, because it would generate a large business backlash.
Consider:

Microsoft got forcibly fucked by the US government for unfairly damaging their competition. Is that really the path that Google wants to follow?
Related to youtube-dl, I recently found out streamlink[0], which is a nice cli tool that does streamripping from various websites (it even supports twitch streams) to help you play these streams on the player of your choice (instead of the browser). Of course this also circumvents ads as a side-effect.

[0]: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
> It's possible to separate reality from fantasy.

I didn't realize until I was 17 year old that most people have an ability to "fantasize". That was a long time ago now, and I'm still imaginatively-challenged. I hope to have it figured out soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

If I'd been able to fantasize, I certainly wouldn't have lost countless hours to looking at women on the internet. I've got over the compulsion about 6 months, even though I still don't have an imagination.

I suspect that the proper way to inoculate children against internet porn is to tell them mater-of-fact how reproduction works before they hit puberty, and help them develop their inner 'fantasy' world.
I know there are plugins for the lua file type (syntax highlighting, etc.). I don't know if you can write plugins in lua.
I wonder how much of this (other fathers driving their kids to school) had to do with the chance to see and/or talk with Bill Gates :)
REACTING TO MY OLD AND EMBARRASSING PHOTOS- CRINGE WARNING
Show HN: Performance Node
If you would see our Makefile which can do literally_everything_ with the project, you would not write this article. :)

Makefiles don't scale, hard to learn because of awkward syntax.
+1 for DataGrip, I use in nearly exclusively for MSSQL and PostgreSQL (I only fire up SSMS when I need to manipulate some features of the database I can never remember the T-SQL incantation for, because Microsoft has to make shit as obtuse as possible).
Actually, it's well established that poor people are more generous than rich people.

"Poor children more generous than their rich counterparts, study finds"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1164877...

"Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/why-the...

"Study: Poor Are More Charitable Than The Wealthy"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1290682...
Does Go support macro assembler programming? It is a bit harsh to have to program assembler in a fully "write all the instructions" way, particularly in 2017...

Additionally, i see that the opcodes are not machine language (target) machine opcodes... It feels a bit ackward to have to manually program into an assembler that is not really targeting the actual CPU; kind of defeats one of the reasons to write in assembler in the first place.

As for Go, i always recall this article, which I found interesting:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Search paths accessible to other tools would have been just as well served standardizing search paths. Or, sadly, following standardized search paths.

Instead, the new tools came and each one would buck any preceding trend and introduce a new way of doing things. Often poorly. All the while introducing yet another new way of executing the actual build.

Let me preempt with saying that Make is not perfect. I genuinely feel that many things could have been improved on. However, I also question how many lessons learned in Make were carried forward, versus how many mistakes were just reintroduced and hit again and again.
IRIX was and still is the Bugatti Veyron of operating systems. Any time there was an IRIX 6.5 upgrade, we'd throw a party because the systems were so trivial to upgrade:

inst> keep *

inst> remove incomplete overlays

inst> conflicts

no conflicts

inst> go
That's a quote:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer...

You may not like that fact but it remains a fact. Extra points for referring to himself in the third person because, you know, Obama was so arrogant.
The large majority of ICOs I've read about are massive scams.

There is rarely any underlying value, but because of the hype you can still make tons of money via pure speculation, celebrity endorsements and other various types of pump/dump approaches.

It is way worse that OTC.

I think it is most self-aware scammers and the majority of the rest are naive. The only ones I've seen that are not truly scammers are those providing the platform for ICOs (e.g. Etherium, etc), because at least they are doing what they say they are doing.
"You're a Google lawyer, right?"

No actually, i'm not. As my profile says, at Google i run the C++ language teams. I gave up lawyering in any capacity for Google years ago.
Are Taxis the New Banks?
I completely agree.

I'm not sure if these still exist but Iran (reportedly) had "halal" brothels at one point. They would marry the "couple," do the deed, then divorce. The cookie law was like that.

Legislators started with a real world goal, protecting users privacy from certain violations. They looked through their legal lens to determine the specific rights bein violated.

But, the fix never left the legal realm. The lawyers got to work making sure that users rights are not violated, but without actually giving them any more privacy. Somehow, this absurd interpretation of "informed consent" held water.

Six or seven years ago, South Park made fun of Apple's 47 page terms, updated meticulously. Today, we probably "sign" a thousand pages of pseudo-contracts per week. The cookie law normalized it. Regulators of regulated industries demand more of it.

This is so absurd! The legal profession (including legislators & regulators) just go on with their method of keeping society free of prostitution by making sure everyone gets married and divorced at the correct time.
To cut a long story short, I initiated an inward transfer with Gandi and paid accordingly. It was a premium domain for a new gTLD so quite expensive (~€150 for one year)

There was an issue with their transfer authorization emails -- one was never received, another to a different email (having changed email in the WHOIS) was received and authorized but their system never acknowledged as much.

The transfer ultimately never happened, the domain lapsed and was snapped up by someone else.

Their support were unhelpful, argumentative, and acted like they were doing me a favor by refunding the fee for a transfer that never happened, all while they lost my (quite valuable) domain.

Never again.
Yip, I remember a virus that hi-jack your bios to draw a flag of some country before every boot; this was in 1998/dos years. You were "sharing" games with your friend they downloaded from geocities... good times. To think a intel ME like vulnerability was already possible back then(if not more) for your bios.
I highly recommend "Best Practices for ML Engineering from Google" [1], which contains one of the best piece advice on the topic:

> "To make great products: do machine learning like the great engineer you are, not like the great machine learning expert you aren’t."

[1] Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414776
Moller Flying Car folks?
Input work address and time you're willing to commute, then search for residences within the resulting reachable areas:

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm
The music industry is a scummy vampire industry that is desperately grasping at any life it can suck out of people that actually do something productive. We will undoubtedly see the RIAA fade to effectively nothing in the next few decades, which is a fitting end for an organization that only exists in its current incarnation because of a long history of shafting people.

In the age of the internet, there is very, very little that a record label will do for you that will leave you better off. Producing and distributing music is approaching triviality. Arranging concerts and touring isn't easy, but no full-time job (which is effectively what music is for you at that stage) is, and there are plenty of independent acts that have done and still are doing it. More often than not, all industry involvement will net you is you losing out on revenue from record sales with few upsides.

I'll be glad to see the RIAA and record label asswipes go belly up in a blaze of tears, weeping, and gnashing of teeth, all while wondering why their business plan that consisted entirely of leeching on actual productivity failed.
When people talk about complex tax codes and the “end of the quarter”, they don’t really consider how these things have evolved into farms of nearly-enslaved workers (accountants). Such horrendous workplaces do exist inside big companies: the job is to figure out how to pay the least tax, and time is of the essence. I knew someone who worked as such a finance person, at a contracting company for the oil industry, 7 days a week from 6 AM to midnight. Oh, he had a day “off” every few months but that was only because the quarter had just ended and literally the next day they started a new march of insanity, all for the numbers. Dozens of workers, hundreds; they all swore at each other, it was a disaster of over-stress and anger, and it was actually more common to find divorced people there than not.
Well, should the government tell said private company not to kick this person off of their servers, use their bandwidth, etc?

That's really what this boils down to, as the only "solution" I can think of for this issue is essentially... government regulation. Telling corporations that they have to support things on their platform they necessarily may not want to support, often for business reasons.

For instance, take Twitter. Business reports often mention things like a reputation for harassment and trolling as a big concern towards their growth, because a lot of people aren't going to sign up if their user experience is poor. If they think it would be more profitable to "censor" people engaged in harassment or trolling and try to get rid of that reputation, why would they not do so? No different than other forms of "censorship" they try and do (often poorly, I might add) to improve user experience (eg: kicking off spamming bots, putting up restrictions for pornographic or graphic content, kicking off impersonators, preventing private information from being posted, etc.)

If they want to kick someone off for heated arguments and curse words, that's their choice too. That doesn't seem like something a profit-oriented large company like Twitter would do, but I've been in forums where moderators would indeed ban people for these sort of reasons and/or remove heated posts before things turned into a shitstorm.

As long as there is room for any sort of corporations or organizations with all kinds of content policies, I don't see an issue with this arrangement. If you don't like a place's content policy, you can go elsewhere. To me this certainly is preferred versus a world where a government dictates exactly what content policy everyone should have.

There is, I think, an argument to be made that the consolidation of Internet social media and its overwhelming private corporate nature may have the potential to stifle marginal voices by also consolidating content policy. That's the gist I got from the article, and I would agree with the concern.

I just don't see a great solution for this concern at the moment without potentially causing something worse.
This also applies to far too many non-companies as well. Free software projects are notorious for this.

For both I generally prefer Wikipedia to their own webssites.

My own similar rant, as an HN comment, remains among my more popular contributions here. "Please forward to marketing".

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_...
AWS even refunds you when you caused the trouble. Amazon in general has top notch support.
Pondering Voyagers’ Interstellar Journeys, and Our Own
I don't know. I just tell'em there a fee: $150 if we find you a lead / buyer from our site. They say stuff like, ok cars sucks and they get spammed to hell with craiglist and some say autotrader charges them a fee upfront. Then i gotta track them down, its not easy but i am making money. Next move is to figure out a upfront price. I just want to grab a slice from cars, auto trader, craiglist ONLY for used tesla cars.
I think one of the causes of poor parenting is that families are more spread out, people are more isolated in general, and you have fewer children.

Back in the day when people had 3, 4, 5 kids, a lot of folks would remember younger siblings. If most of your parents' siblings all lived in the same town, you'd have lots of younger cousins, and see them often. If you went to church and were active in the community, you'd get to know a lot of parents and children all over town.

All this exposure to your family's kids, other people's kids and other people's parenting styles would give people a basic education in what to do, and what not to do, by example.

Personally, I've reached my current age without ever having to babysit or change a diaper. I don't know a thing about the practicalities of parenting. A lot of people are probably in the same boat.

So it makes sense that some parents would be at a total loss and make poor decisions.
That's the point of the ruling. The court just abated it.
No. However as HN grew, it became more generalist and reduced the need for other HNs. I've acknowledged HN being read by architects, artists, fighter pilots, map makers, lawyers, tradesmans and doctors.

Every subject, exposed in a relevant way that adds value, has a place in HN.
People leave / die / are sick / go on holiday

"I can't look in that Inbox, there might be an email from his brother"

Puhleeze
I was referring to the company (the employer), not the employee. From the article: ”The company had presented him with printouts of his private messages to his brother and fiancée on Yahoo Messenger as evidence of his breach of a company ban on such personal use.“