skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA:

"Under federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations, both foreign nationals and foreign governments are prohibited from making contributions or spending money to influence a federal, state or local election in the United States. The ban includes independent expenditures made in connection with an election.

Those banned from such spending include foreign citizens, foreign governments, foreign political parties, foreign corporations, foreign associations and foreign partnerships, according to the FEC."
> it's possible that if he had implemented it like he wanted to, it wouldn't have received such wide spread adoption like javascript did.

I don't care for Scheme, but I'd be very, very surprised if it'd have failed in such a situation. If a terrible train wreck of a language like JavaScript can succeed, pretty much anything better than INTERCAL can. People wanted to extend browsers; had Scheme been the only way to do that, Scheme is what they'd have used.
Wow—didn't expect to land here, thanks for the share kaushikk. Other co-founder here, happy to answer questions :-)
Cuckoo hashing was one of the more interesting concepts I learned back in school. Definitely a fun way of implementing a hash table.
(Author here.) The point of the article is that when people have learned helplessness, they stop complaining.

That may seem like we're doing a good job of serving their needs ("no complaints!") but in fact the complaints are missing because we're doing such a terrible job that everyone has lost faith in us.
I am in Switzerland and I keep seeing suggestions for "Anti trump" groups (None of my friends are part of them). Why?
Cool, I really appreciate the quick and open feedback.

I sincerely wish you guys the best of luck with executing against a cool idea :)
> However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).

This is something that you should only do with the permission of the user who provided the voice. You don't need generalized permission to do that for every user, and given the nature of the technology, you shouldn't ask for such permission.
I think it would be more useful to compare Olin to another private technology/engineering focussed undergraduate college such as Harvey Mudd.
I wasn't being entirely serious, and apologies if I didn't make that clear.

That said, YouTube have foisted some odious crap (cough random unsubscibe cough Google+ cough Takedown bullshit cough) on creators and subscribers, and yet here we are. Still using YouTube.

The cost of starting and acquiring users for and running a viable YouTube alternative is just too damn high. Unless Amazon do it, it's not happening. Vimeo is an also-ran despite.

People would just upgrade their shit and/or fall in line, or suffer shitty quality.
Which is why I say tax ALL holdings of people operating in the US. Foreign AND domestic. A few countries already do that.

The idea is to with as much force as can be brought to bear get money to move into investments that hire people instead of just accrue capital gains.

An investment that puts people to work and generates 10% is much better than an investment in a fund that generates 10% in cap gains. Same gain, vastly different outcomes.
No, he said:

> I ran a simple HTTPS web server with net/http, loaded a page on Chrome, and instead of causing a kernel panic...

Followed by demonstrating it working.

However, the point remains that he only got it working up to doing a toy hello world. The part that would be important for performance would be what he mentioned isn't finished, which is allowing it to be used with sendfile so that web servers can just sendfile over a TLS connection and let the kernel handle all of the IO.
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> .... inner city blacks are incompatible with an advanced free market economy.

We must have read different articles because that's not what I saw - I think you're so focused on detecting a dog whistle that you're missing the key point being raised.

Values are race, gender, and class neutral. A value or system of values can be adopted by a person regardless of their race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc. Values are the only way we can find common ground with others, they are the only way we can be unified as a society. Imagine a white supremacist. Certainly if his skin color was magically changed to black overnight he would no longer be a white supremacist. But that's not a possibility - a white supremacist cannot change his skin color. But he can change his values.

We all agree that a stable family life is very advantageous for children. Most often this stability is achieved via marriage. Examining it along this axis we can then say that bourgeois, pro-family, pro-marriage values are measurably better than others.

We can also imagine an inner city black who has a choice between two value systems - a bourgeois value system or a hedonistic "gangster" value system. Which value system should he adopt? The bourgeois one, as this one will have better outcomes for him, for his family, and for his community.

Now there's a possible danger here: that we assume that all inner-city blacks have a gangster value system. That by dint of skin color and geographic location a person must necessarily have a certain value system. So let's not make that error.

Additionally, I would be very surprised if a majority of inner-city blacks held to some sort of gangster value system. While I don't have the data or surveys on hand, I would assume that most of this population already agrees with and holds most of the pro-family bourgeois values.

If these bourgeois values are already widespread yet poor outcomes remain then we can't pin these outcomes on a person lacking correct values. There's another factor in play. It may be that bourgeois values are hostage to other social, economic, and cultural factors. That they might yet bloom into something positive but are missing other essential ingredients. Wax fails insofar as she assigns too great a weight to the impact of bourgeois values.
That breakdown leaves Hispanics out of the US, which seems to me to be, a pretty enormous oversight. I imagine they're being lumped in with 'white'. If you break them out separately, I imagine you'll see quite a difference.
An upvote was an insufficient form of agreement. Go buy this book people!
It does the job an expert human can do by reading the code without executing it.

function willFail() {

let x = null

console.log(x.method())

}

You can read that this function will throw an exception all the time. But you may never execute this function in your test cases, so you won't see this problem in development but only too late, when a user hits the problem in prod.

It is called a static analysis and is 99.9% of the time faster to perform than executing every possible cases of your code. It doesn't catch exactly the same kind of issues either; so both are complementary.
Your Design language and concept is hot. Eagerly waiting for access to use the system. Many Congratulations to the team.
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I've escaped on one of the last flight before a hurricane / large storm twice now (once out of HKG before a large typhoon, and once in PVR before a milder storm).

Once you're in the air, and once you reach cruising altitude, you're fine. The real danger is landing in the storm, with low visibility and high winds.

That PVR-SFO flight was the scariest of my life; with no service and FAs strapped to their chairs for the entire 4h of the flight.
python has a cool name. as time goes on new kids learn to program. kids choose the programming language with the cool name.
Yep, we have all sorts of crazy, messed up mice that are used for biomedical research. Humanized mice[1] typically have genes knocked out that code for some essential aspect of the immune system. With important genes being made non-functional, the mice end up being immunodeficient.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanized_mouse
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As it is rarely mentioned in the US media, I'd just note that the US pretty openly interferes in Russian elections, and has been doing so for a long time. It's curious this is virtually never mentioned amidst all the accusations of Russia involving itself in US elections.

There are many tentacles to the US octopus, for starters you can look at an organization created by and funded by the US congress, the soi disant National Endowment for Democracy. They have a conference opening next week containing some of the people the US has been using to interfere in Russian elections ( https://www.ned.org/events/prospects-for-russias-democratic-... ).
> As you just stated, entrepreneur-y students self-select into Olin.

Well, the best students self-select into Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, etc.
To build on that a bit. My bank uses voice recognition as a security measure and to authenticate me when I call in. Throw a bad actor in the mix and that becomes a security issue.
This is only tangentially on topic, but is there an API or some engine that I can feed short sentences into and get high-quality generation back?

I have an RC controller radio that supports voice prompts, and I would like to add some short phrases that are missing, such as "air mode on", "throttle warning", etc.

Is there anything on par in quality with Google's/Siri's voice? Not the Google TTS, but the voice they use in Now.
This is probably related to explosion of interest in AI and deep learning (DL), because Python has become THE standard language for AI/DL research.

Most AI frameworks support Python out of the box, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, and CAFFE/CAFFE2, which together currently have the most developer mindshare. Every single TensorFlow, Pytorch, Theano, and CAFFE/CAFFE2 tutorial or example is written in Python.

With very few exceptions (e.g., the occasional Lua code coming out of Yann Le Cun's group at FB), new AI papers come with code written in Python.

If you want to see Python's utter dominance in this field, just search for "deep learning" or "neural net" on github.
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... and they do this while the were openly taking money from Russian/KGB campaigners round 2010, dispatching campaign consultants and overall trreating them as first tier clients. Same was true of Google in Russia, while they still had hopes of somehow greasing hands with the establishment. They evacuated the most valuable staff out of Russia around 2015 to Switzerland, when they finally gave up. I still do remember them quitely delisting online resources with corruption exposures circa 2007, that were reappearing with simple reversal of word order.

They may've been just "probing where the water is shallow" in 2010 with "seemingly innocent" think tank drivel and consulting buys, and then went full throttle when it did matter the most.

American top C-Levels, officials, 3 letter agency employees, and other American beau monde all have that "smart, sophisticated, brilliant, but damn naive" note in their personalities. All such types do remind me of people who are "trying to win in a casino," while having "I know what I'm doing" look on their face. They can't win there, it not their league.

To prevail, Americans need to overhaul their political establishment and institutes of power with virtuous and competent people.

If I was the US congress, I would've put it very square, if a dot com like FB actively conspires with Russians, and then pretends that they didn't, then everybody along the chain of command down to founders, c-levels, and major financiers (with their own respective boards) are detained, subject to criminal prosecution and given prison sentences
Ya, I wasn't saying they have no ethnic or cohesion problems. Simply that they are smaller and more cohesive culturally than the US.
Can we see what the ads were? Can we see how they were targeted?

Am I missing this somewhere?
I wonder if any parallels can be drawn between this and the inordinate amount of time children today spend starting at smartphones. While my personal opinion is that it is probably harmful to have so much of our attention focussed on phones at such a young age, we don't know how future societies will view this activity in retrospect.
Low interest rates directly drive up housing prices of equivalent houses. If you drive down monthly mortgage payments while keeping rents constant, buying residential property and renting it out becomes more economically attractive, which then drives up the house price at which buying an investment property is sufficiently profitable.

In other words, the fixed factor is the spot rent market - how much you can get renting out a house in a certain location. When you lower interest rates, the monthly payment remains relatively constant, which drives up the principle to compensate.
I do agree completely, but it should be pointed out that she, before mentioning inner city blacks, also mentioned:

> Nor are the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites

Its a bit silly to split that along racial terms (both Wax and the offendees)... There are plenty of single-parent antisocial working-class blacks as well.

In my mind the real conflation is the difference between an eagerness and hopefulness for upward mobility and what Wax calls "Bourgeois" or "European" values. Bourgeois is a vastly superior word than European - the two are only conflated because for much of human history, only some Europeans were wealthy. The author could have saved herself a boatload of trouble (if she in fact is _not_ racist) by just pointing out that no one really knows what a modern, international, not-ruled-by-whites Bourgeois society will look like - but that we ought to bring back a general respect for nice things - rather than a lionization of poverty.

What I think a lot of rich/college educated white people don't understand is that the lionization of poverty was done _by the impoverished_ - media creation was finally in our grasps, so jazz, hiphop, rap, etc bloomed. It's only inevitable that there will be an identity conflict as the poverty and hardships are (thankfully!) eased over time by technology and wealth. The solution to people being proud of being poor is _to have no more poor people_ - and the solution to that is not cultural, it's economic and legal.
I actually pulled this off with my team! Our project is impakcoin.com I can tell you that it was no piece of cake to have this approved
>Because foreign agents buying political ads violates US federal law

WRONG. Nothing prohibits foreign entities from buying their own political ads.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/12/us-election-meddling-online-ad...
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A kid born in the year 10,000 is a stranger to me. Sure, people can feel concerned about his fate, just as people can feel concerned about a stranger in a foreign country, but most people just don't. We're all selfish bastards.

There is quite a bit of mental variation. One of the rarest qualities I have found in people is the ability to connect abstractions to feelings. I once dated a woman who would sometimes get angry at me because she was mistaken. That is fine, as we are all human, sometimes one makes mistakes. However, she would stay angry at me even when I exonerated myself factually. I should've taken that as an early sign and bailed out of that relationship much sooner!

When hiring someone for a startup or choosing a co-founder, I would recommend that one look for this quality.

This is related to something I heard on "Fresh Air." The author of this book had a "bad boss" character who kept on calling things a "dog whistle." As far as he was concerned, a phenomenon he couldn't directly perceive might as well not exist. Such an idea strikes me as a degree of idiocy that makes me angry. The physical phenomenon of sound waves at higher than 20 kHz is a physical fact! Denying the truth of an objective fact because of a shortsighted prioritization of one's limited subjective point of view -- this is exactly the kind of thing that can get one in trouble, if one is doing substantive knowledge work!
You are speaking with the Perl expert :) glad to help. Positions are stored in COP's only, you need to get them dynamically via the API. Some blocks do have wrong or bad line ranges, yes.
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It's worth asking what it means for it to be required by the average job. Being renewable doesn't seem to admit of a lot of variation -- things are or aren't (but we could discuss something more formal for this and that would affect the remaining analysis).

Accepting the idea that renewability is either slightly more than 1.0 or slightly less, if the "average job" is renewable it suggests most of the common jobs have to be renewable in practice.

We could argue this in another way, which is to say that the average "career life course" or let's just say "life course" has to be renewable. This is where we encounter the idea that people should be setting themselves up for promotions -- but most people don't get promotions. It's not how life works. Promotions don't address the concern for the average life course.
I see comments suggesting that it wouldn't be worth the effort to translate this based on the author's hypotheses, but there has been a substantial community around trying to do just that for a long time. FWIW The NSA appears to have published a book around 1978, The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma [1], and a couple of the things from this article jump out at me after having read that book that raise red flags about the article's interpretation. The idea that there were multiple artists is far from being universally accepted, and experts who have studied this in the past have not been able to conclusively state that there were more than one or two authors or artists, although the possibility does remain open. Secondly, the suggestion that each glyph represents a full word in latin has also been studied - see the link for more information, but the frequency distributions and vocabulary size do not seem to make sense if that is the case (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

In all I am surprised more progress has not been made since the advent of the internet and its crowd-sourcing potential. There is definitely no shortage of interpretations all over the internet, and in headlines from time to time. The last one I recall from a couple of months ago suggested that there was a specific Jewish birthing practice being illustrated on one of the pages that suggested a certain origin of the text. [2]

[1]https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/05/author-of-myst...
I sometimes wonder if Doug Malewicki will ever be able to get his "SkyTran" system accepted and running somewhere:

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

It seems like there's always a "we're going to try it here" phase, then it never goes further.

The upsides sound great - basically personalized mass-transit, using individual pods on an overhead track system. The pods and track are lightweight, and can likely be put into tighter routes and areas than a full-sized train can go, as well as not disrupting traffic or whatnot when it is installed.

It does have the whole "monorail" stigma to get around (which I don't really understand why or how "monorails" got the stigma - they have issues, certainly - but the whole meme seems to only have started since that Simpsons episode)...
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This is likely just the tip of the digital advertising iceberg with all of this for FB and other advertising giants like Google and Twitter. According to this Wired article[1] Giles-Parscale, the agency behind a lot of the Trump election digital efforts "took in some $90 million, the vast majority of which went toward buying Facebook ads for the campaign."

A Reddit user who "was working at the other end of this pipeline that is selling digital adspace to consulting firms" (according to his post) also posted some very detailed insights as to how funds might have been laundered into clean political donations via small agencies and PACs in the US via digital media buys.

Here's his follow-up post from three months ago which has more info and links to his original post--really worth reading all of it, his original post, the subsequent threads, etc.:
https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6alzm0/fbi_confirm...

So the issue is less about ads purchased directly from Russia or by illegitimate companies with Russian IPs or anything of the sort as FB addressed in this statement. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the dollar amounts that might have been spent as part of the rest of the Trump media buys. The bigger story may actually be more about Russian (and other funds) funneled through small legit digital agencies and PACs (or through Parscale) in the US who then did ad buys driving for Trump donations which he was then able to legally use as campaign funds (or for enriching himself as the Reddit user hypothesizes).

There are likely FB sales reps and others there who have some insight into the ad campaign objectives, targeting details, and the source of that targeting data. The last bit is interesting there because it is still not fully understood how Cambridge Analytica plugged into all of this, and how they obtained their detailed targeting data. Mercer and Bannon both have direct Cambridge Analytica ties[2].

All of this is to say that I don't think the full story is being unearthed with these data points that FB shared. And I'd be willing to bet that FB sales reps who dealt with these accounts during the election know quite a bit more about what actually went on. However we may never know how deep the rabbit hole really goes, how dirty such funds might actually be, or how much FB, Google and Twitter really profited from the election (and ongoing campaigns).

I want to conclude this by stating that I am just posting my own personal thoughts based on a variety of articles and Reddit posts, and I don't purport to have any inside insight into these companies operations beyond my fairly deep experience in the online advertising space and my understanding of how that operates, so this is largely speculation and you should come to your own conclusions. That said, it is hardly outside the realm of possibility at this point to imagine how this sort of scheme could work, and how all of the players involved might have had strong financial incentives to not rock the boat.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/trump-russia-data-parscale-faceb...

[2] http://www.newsweek.com/did-russians-target-dem-voters-kushn...
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