skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"We finally got to a point where the system asked for our information in order to set up a 90-day alert. I provided my Social Security number, two phone numbers where I can be reached for verification, and a “please hold while we process your request” message."

What if someone who got a hold of another person's SSN call the number, and gave them a bogus number to contact? Any lender then tries to call the bogus number and they get a "YES, I ALLOW THAT TRANSACTION TO HAPPEN" brings more problems then.

Equifax could have made a system that performs this option and then it would be the person whose SSN has been exposed to provide the authentic number which they can be reached at to alert them of any transaction happening with their SSN number being used.
That's when you get some shareholder activists. Even a single stock can give you the right to make some noise.
"Rotschild Zionists", not the anti-Zionist Jews or gentile Israelis.

I'm having a hard time deciding how to group Zionist Jews (I think most Israeli citizens are?) that are not politically active, they're in a spectrum between the upper end of the gentile lower class and the lower end of the Zionist upper class.
It's only state intervention in that it limits the potential tyranny of corporate behemoths to abuse the citizenry and subvert free markets.
Do like in Canada: all cars must have their headlights on when driving (the lights automatically turn on).

edit: also, I feel like if we add new light signals for acceleration, for example, it would be nice to add that to all cars.
1. This can change easily and actually has changed already with Trump not renewing the NATO wow.

2. Why take any risk that you can avoid?
But you're saying that we should just ignore the examples of super-duper-bad speech because of the difficulty of deciding where the line is. And that is a really hard problem, but it doesn't take away from the fact that people are engaging in super-duper bad stuff like calling for genocide and plotting and committing political murders.
Great! Got a "Our system is currently unavailable" for Equifax. Ridiculous.
Hey, I think you're really on to something here. An interoperability mandate would fix the problem. Imagine what would happen if there were an interop mandate for search crawlers, ad networks, social login, article comments, messaging, mobile apps, ecommerce purchases, ...? Probably a rebirth of the entire software industry.

It would be cool if this could be presented as an option to actual legislators.
Not a language, but I adopted this concept as well: http://jstimpfle.de/projects/wsl/main.html

And I guess you could count HTML in, too.
Depends on what the project is. If parsing is the biggest part of the project then I would say Haskell is top-class in that respect. It has proven success stories. However, due to the lack of control over GC it has latency issues with certain kinds of work and it's not a great choice for writing demanding games.

For me, one of the big holes in the Haskell story is a great, idiomatic GUI toolkit. That makes it a little more difficult to use for standard desktop applications, but not impossible (after all, there are binding to common frameworks like GTK etc).
Thought it? Hell, I've got the sticker: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certif...
Not as strongly, but there is demand for male nurses - they need stronger people to help move people around, and men are stronger. (biological facts, etc)
The GP was asking if something happened in the 60s/70s, and I believe you are describing the effect of WW2 which happened much earlier
How do you know when a resume has been shortlisted by a company?
Well, the cancelation guys and the fake supervisors could grant exceptions front-line reps weren't allowed to so you can probably just ask for a supervisor. Also, considering the amount of abuse many reps get, they're way more likely to do whatever they can to help if you're not rude or demeaning.
> Look at who resorts to fear and intimidation. Look at who is silencing instead of engaging. Look at who resorts to violence. Look at who revels in the power of the mob.

Not a good look for progressives and antifi, it would seem.

(Nor genuine Nazi skinheads, but they're in the minority.)
"possibly even portals to HIPAA/other PII data of a more commercial nature)."

You bring up a good point about HIPAA. I work in health care and we are allowed to keep a work email client on our phone provided that we keep control of our phone at all time (to keep PHI/HIPAA info safe). A border agent searching through my phone could be considered a HIPAA violation and would have to be reported. Not sure if anything would come out of it fine wise for the company but it would still be a nightmare for compliance.
I love seeing stuff like this. Thanks to all of the people in the world who take the time to identify causes they care about, promising routes to work on them, and then take action on the promising routes.
Of the things he listed, the technical change parameter only represents productivity. Though he does wander quite a bit, I don't know what's particularly obscure about trade.

You should cut the guy some slack.
Bad FSB! No more free access to USG computers for you!
The sad reality of the Bay Area is that many engineers would get into trouble for sharing this link at work.
Many of which fit the legal definition of papers:

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Paper

which are protected from being searched by the fourth amendment:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

(I quoted the modern legal definition of papers, but the proper thing to look up is the colloquial definition of papers at the time the constitution was written. Does anyone have a good reference for how the founders of the US would have used the word "papers"? It clearly included legal and accounting documents, but e.g. was it broader than that?)
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For a very large call center I'd say you're getting prompt and efficient service if your problem is a supported scenario. Something novel and your odds aren't that good.
regarding superconductivity, is there now a new theory, possibly an enhancement of BCS- theory?
I recently tried out Kdenlive and was very impressed.
> "should"

this would make python a different language completely
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I switched from UE to ST entirely because of UE's licensing/activation model.

Maybe it is different now, but UE used to require an internet connection for the registration... or you had to email your info for offline codes.

I have a bunch of isolated machines at work, physical and virtual, and got tired of dealing with UE and its registration requirements. Especially when ST gave a license key file I could copy around as needed.

So I switched. But yeah, I remember UE was a really good editor. Now I'm happy with ST.
They are all applicable, it's just that the notion of monoid is more general and thus its area of applicability is bigger.

[Edit] On the other hand, it is important to realize that even though these structures look (and indeed are) related, each focuses on a completely different aspect of reality. Monoids are useful in describing composability (where associativity is essential); groups are instrumental in analyzing all kinds of symmetries; vector spaces form a scene on which one deals with linear independence, subspaces, and linear transformations. (All this finds its application in computational algorithms, but it would be interesting to see if the program structure also could be understood using the notion of symmetry and/or linearity.)
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You can use vim keybindings in emacs. Check out evil-mode.
And why must the government insert itself into free speech issues by passing radical regulations like the first amendment? For shame!
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but it was productive
It always amazes me how Ultraedit is completely invisible on Hacker News. It's been a very decent option for a very long time.
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Link? I mean, I can't tell which Alexander you mean.
Looks like they put a cylon indicator on it? Not terrifying at all...

As for devising new signals which other drivers are supposed to watch to understand what the car plans to do, I'd say we need a lot more research to understand if this actually helps or just distracts.
Not really. A package can be installed in both base and used in test, and vice versa, so you have no real confidence removing the package doesn't break anything. The best you get is explicit duplication.
This is all nice and all, but of course such language hacks (as I would call them) make for a less elegant language with a higher barrier to entry. At some point it would make sense from a software-engineering standpoint to switch to a cleaner lower level language.

By the way, I like the approach taken in JavaScript engines such as V8, which determine the "slots" dynamically.
Fortunately we don't need to decide "who is and isn't a nazi". They literally say so. They're proud of it, they've got the flags, and the arm bands.

I love how to the "free speech advocates" genocide is something that you just "disapprove" of. Im pretty sure, baring literally nazis, you can get just about every person on board with "It's ok to censor people that want genocide".

Maybe you're one of the exceptions. But if so, I'd so some introspection about why "we should indiscriminately kill people" deserves the same consideration as "we shouldn't indiscriminately kill people"; because that's the debate.
It doesn't need to. You can put the mdash directly in comments: —

As opposed to regular dash: -
Or, the alternative is that some people have also extensively studied history and see no important parallels.
But this is the age where everyone you don't like is a Nazi
Tone policing. You can avoid this ad hominem fallacy and instead reply to / counter the argument made instead of the tone it was presented in.
There's a considerable amount of luck in Zuck's story.

Peter Thiel gave him money and he demolished Myspace somehow.

I don't think he got there by daydreaming ^.^
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To me this doesn't really solve the most painful part of packaging and deploying Python: portability.

You still need to install system files for those c line. You still can't have multiple packages requiring different versions of libraries. What a mess.
How about fascist? That seems to fit very well. Very well.
> I think Amazon was pretty damn close, having started in 1994 as a store that simply stocked a large selection of rare books. The shipping took weeks as I recall.

Afaik, they didn't really carry any stock when they first started. They were re-selling mail order books.

A while back there was a documentary about Amazon's early years. The part that everyone always quotes is the thing about using doors as desks. (Which struck me as silly, doors are expensive compared to many large, flat surfaces.) Anyway, the part that really stuck with me was that they had one favorite mail-order place, except that shop had a ten book minimum order. So Amazon would order the one book someone wanted and then nine copies of some obscure book about snails that was never in stock.
Obviously it is not about the actual few dollars, but the principle.
https://twitter.com/janamjohnson/status/900372990881402880 (linked from the article) is dead. Does anyone have a saved or cached copy of the image in this tweet? Or a similar screen shot? I don't have Facebook, so I haven't seen this engagement email
From what I recall from my childhood, physical typewriters worked slightly differently: the accent keys were non-advancing ("dead") keys. You pressed the "acute" key followed by the "e" key for an é, for instance. If you wanted a bare accent, you pressed the accent key followed by the space bar.

(The typewriters I recall also didn't have a 0 or 1 key, you used uppercase O or I for these numbers.)
Oh yeah, I mean I'm definitely plowing through the tail end of a manic phase here, and HN isn't the appropriate place. C'est la vie.
I worded my post poorly. The "However, I think it's fair" was me agreeing with you. Pretty much completely.

I was just musing on how the arbitrary line is probably not as difficult to see as many other lines we have out there. I think this would fall into "systems languages" and related things.
Like I said in another comment, I think a company breakup would help make the interop mandate work. If Facebook is left as dominant as it is now, it would have lots of opportunity to kneecap the mandate. I think you need the right social conditions to make interoperability work in practice.
I'm surprised to not see any discussion about the cost to effectively harden a home solar system (or business one depending on size) against this kind of surge and damage. I could easily see locations with adequate rooftop solar to be mostly grid independent becoming a valuable part of rebuilding. If nothing else they might provide powered community centers and a way for people to recharge surviving small electronics. I can kind of understand why utilities would not be going ahead in investing in this on their own, because they are basically having to look at interests of their investors and anyone spending hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to protect effectively their part of the grid would probably not last long in a position. In addition, even if they took steps it's entirely possible or even likely that they would be negatively impacted or completely neutralized by incoming damage from other parts of the grid. It's also worth keeping in mind that the power grid in the US is not uniform. I believe the Texas is mostly a separate grid, and I'm pretty sure that there are multiple other places where there's some cross connect but the bulk of power control is through separate regional grids.
Ah, the p-zombies: you know they are there, waiting for it to get murky enough for them to come out (wait a minute... am I mistaking them for p-vampires?)

Has anyone seen a good argument that p-zombies are logically possible, that goes beyond being some form of "I can string these words together, and they form a grammatically-correct sentence?"
Parks: Isn’t this pretty much the same divide made by Galileo and Descartes? I mean Galileo’s claim that “tastes, smells, colors exist only in the sensitive body” while “quantities, numbers, and relations” exist in the physical world.

Manzotti: Of course, and Chalmers on a number of occasions has espoused dualist positions, the idea that the world is divided into separate “realms of reality.”

Has there been any substantive new work on the consciousness question? This feels like someone finding something old and then trying to shoehorn it onto computing.

The idea is to develop more and more complex computers with numbers and arrangements of connections similar to those of the brain, until consciousness “emerges.”

It's not even worth discussing this anymore.
to add to the confusion:

' PRIME (U+2032)

" DOUBLE PRIME aka inch mark (U+2033)

have their own codepoints

http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html

which describes implications for typesetting coordinates and other things:

118° 19′ 43.5″

118° 19’ 43.5”	wrong (curly quotes, although it renders identical in some fonts)

118° 19' 43.5"	right
I wonder if it's also beneficial to make eye contact since you have to turn your face towards the driver. Our brains are pretty good at picking out faces from a sea of visual information.
94% of Muslims outside the Middle-East are antisemites, see Wikipedia.

You don't want to force Western Jewry to migrate to Israel, do you? Besides, people have a right to self-determination and that's why nation states exist, so if you say the US doesn't have this right you're trying to deligitimize the United States.
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Perhaps I didn't explain well. test.txt would only consist of packages such as "pytest". The name means a specific function. If you have a platform package that provides APIs for test classes, and APIs for other things like wrapper around AWS apis, then my recommendation is make them distinct package, even if they reside in the same repository. Just have a seperate setup.py. A package in simple terms is just a folder, module is a single file.
One year ten months, to be precise.
That reminds me of Vector Spaces. Is there any relation? Are Vector Spaces monoids?
Yes, lets dilute the fascist actions of the current administration with hyperbole from different times and environments. They are clearly one and the same.
Have to agree with you on all counts. I forgot about parsing, I generally don't have to do that. The final project my group attempted was a simple game/simulator in Haskell and it was by all counts a pain to work around the statelessness. When we were trying to create an interface for the game we also noticed the lack of good GUI libraries.
Well, arguing that higher salaries in tech would attract more women is ridiculous, mainly because salaries are high already. Arguing that women in tech are suspect sexual predators would be absurd. The social bs (beers and games up etc) are not mentioned in case of techers, because teachers are not expected to socialize with each other as much as techies are.

Then there are other cultural reasons that seems to be sa me in both cases - role models and societal idea of what is appropriate for males and females. The sexism in the assumption that gender x is less qualify is stated in both cases.

It seems to be roughly the same except completely unapplicable arguments?
I would assume that more than 0.001% of the people use the Tor browser.
When I'm jogging in the local park I'll often avoid making eye contact, as I think that this often works better to get people to stop (they aren't convinced you see them). Of course I'm prepared to stop if the vehicle doesn't.

I'm sort of intentionally being abrasive there though, as I think people drive too aggressively given the surroundings.
Several comments here blame profits of the military-industrial complex as motivation for these arm exports, yet these weapons are produced in former USSR countries not in the US.

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet, since it's even in the title of the article. Of course, there are still profits for the US military-industrial complex. For instance the article states that "US-based Alliant Techsystems Operations" has a contract for buying these weapons from countries like Bulgaria. In addition, one can cynically assume that heating up the conflict will increase demand for US involvement and subsequent increase demand for US weapons. Still, I find it interesting, that after initially arming rebels with US weapons, the US switched to soviet-style weapons. According to the article, the rebels "were already using and familiar with" the soviet-style weapons. I would say that makes sense, but would hardly be a deal breaker if your main motivation was selling US weapons. This is not meant to defend US policies, but I think their geopolitical motivations are much more important than mere profit seeking and corruption.

By the way, this seems to be a very well researched article, thanks for the submission @rapeofthelocke.
Yup. P/E of Equifax way up next quarter.
I guess the underlying discussion here is about viewing programming as a kind of applied algebra, which is common within functional programming and not so common in other traditions.

I happen to find that view really fascinating and generative, but I don't blame others if they aren't interested.

I also wouldn't insert the monoid concept into a codebase that isn't Haskell or doesn't already have some alignment with algebra, because it would seem weird... and Haskell has features (typeclasses and purity) that make monoids really nice to use.

I also don't generally do language advocacy, and I have a great respect for the diversity of ways of thinking and learning. But I also wish people wouldn't dismiss concepts that other people find useful and good just because they don't immediately see the point.
(Did Hitler ever talk about exterminating the Jews? I thought that was a baseless claim with no evidence.)

Oy vey, I was mistaken! There's no documentation of him actually ordering "the final solution" but he did publicly state his intent.
Citation needed. It's a neutrally worded data visualization article, it doesn't even reference IT or the SV drama wrt gender distribution, nor does it pass judgment on the data it presents.

(I shared it in my work slack, mind you I don't work in Bay Area and we haven't had trouble with aggressive political correctness etc yet)
This seems like a pretty off-topic veer from the conversation at hand.
Because whoever invented them called them "smart contracts" doesn't mean they're considered as such in the jurisdiction where people using the said "smart contract" are living. Matt Levine has written extensively about the subject.
I don't take quite so pessimistic a view on Chalmers, whose exact ideas I'd agree are difficult to nail down. Where I do wholly concur with Manzotti is that "p-zombies" are basically begging the dualist question. I do not believe true p-zombies who outwardly act identical are possible, and if they were consciousness would be truly winnowed down to something almost irrelevant.

That said, a lot of Chalmers acclaim has to be related to the inability of any of the rest of us to truly pose an alternative. The hard problem is hard because it seems something deep in science and reality itself would have to give way to come up with a real solution.
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I only think it is useful once you're comfortable with it. Before you are you are probably better off using whatever mental intuition you already have about the idea. Personally I consider it useful to associate the concept to the idea of distributed systems (together with other concepts like commutativity). Having this association can help guide me towards either common appropriate ways of solving problems in that space, or as a good search-phrase to include when I google for algorithms.
The antitrust case involving Microsoft ultimately ended up with sort of an interop mandate, where Windows was required to "interop" with other browsers. Couldn't the same sort of ruling be made in these other areas?
It'd have to be on a very small scale.

Countries get to limit the number of staff a foreign embassy is allowed to bring in, and they can kick folks out of the country.
> close to 50% of our country

You mean close to 50% of registered voters. Which are less than 40% of the population who are eligible voters. And that number is probably off too, thanks to voter suppression, disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering of voting districts.

Furthermore, it was the electoral college who decided who the president should be, in many cases going against the popular vote within their state. When you understand how the electoral votes are decided upon, the number of voters who voted for our current president grows even smaller.

In short, it's a relative minority who actually voted for Trump, and all the voters together are in the minority of all eligible citizens who can vote. Why those others didn't vote is up for debate, but I've already mentioned three potential reasons (not counting apathy).

So that other portion of the population that didn't vote - we have no idea how they stand ideologically on political and social issues. But we can certainly say there's a percentage of them who would have voted for Trump, and the ideology that supports him.

Greater than 50% of the population? Not likely. But it isn't a small percentage, either (in fact, it is probably somewhere close to his polling numbers - around 30%).