skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the OP's granularity preference of "monthly" for current-affairs consumption deserves such an strong rebuke. I have limited interest in the toxic modern ouroboros of the so-called "news cycle" and the hysterical yelping of politicians of any colour. I don't believe I have a civic obligation to follow the tedious, self-serving minutiae of political horse-trading. My time and energy are allocated to making things, and real-time news is a productivity-destroying distraction.

But I still like to be informed. A monthly summary of goings-on in the world, written specifically according to my general (but not immediate) interests, why, yes, that'd be something I'd pay for as well.

So this isn't "ignorance of politics": when the next election comes around, then I'll make my assessment based on what I've read, and play my part in choosing the next government.

In the meantime, I've got work to do.
The UK has had a succession of self-regulatory bodies which have conspicuously failed to prevent the worst criminal impulses of Fleet Street, let alone make an impact on merely poor reporting.

It's also, interestingly, had some of the most outrageously claimant-friendly libel laws in the world, which hasn't made much of a difference either (though defaming somebody rich and bloody-minded can get pretty expensive).
She had every advantage: more money, more favorable media coverage, more experience, more endorsements, more support from big money. Still fucked it up, few million in Russian spending would not have been able to destabilize a strong campaign.

It's not "lost fair and square", its "lied and cheated like hell and still lost".

In the words of Colin Powell: “Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris”
I want an install of wordpress for 500 dollars, i'll handle the hosting costs dont worry

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oh can i have a special blog template with x

oh can i have a store as well, i'll pay any associated licensing fees.

oh can i add a new payment processor

oh can i ...

why did you make me spend so much on this. I'll report to the media how awful you are.

Said nobody but government.
Well I was thinking that light could impact the availability of their food source and so what the researchers interpret as sleep is just some other form of energy conservation, but the 'groggy' behavior of the jellyfish in their one experiment made me think that their energy conserving state does involve their neurons and so at that point it's hard to distinguish energy conservation from sleep.
How Facebook plans to fight election interference – CNN Video
I want an install of wordpress for 500 dollars, i'll handle the hosting costs dont worry

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oh can i have a special blog template with x

oh can i have a store as well, i'll pay any associated licensing fees.

oh can i have x plugin

oh can i have another x plugin

oh can i add a new payment processor

oh can i add bitbcoin

oh can i add some no-value features.

why did you make me spend so much on this. I'll report to the media how awful you are.

Said nobody but government. (just the above bit)
Facebook Turns Over Russia-Linked Ads to Congress – $100,000 Spent on 3000 Posts
Please be careful when truncating submission titles.
Agreed - great write up, but can you expand on this a bit more please?
Eyo, sorry for the delay on this reply. I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said, and didn't mean to come off too aggressive with my first comment, even though I probably did. There is a lot of bullshit going around these days around Bitcoin and Crypto, and sometimes it can be pretty grinding to see "big media" out-and-out gunning it down without exposing their true intentions and who it is that they're backing with their comments. Either way, this isn't your fault. So I apologise for coming off aggro.

The transaction fee thing is a problem many people, in particular new users notice, and it's on the forefront of issues being solved by the community right now. In regards to your comments on 30 cent transaction costs, from what I understand, they are indeed on the path to this. If you are interested in seeing what this will look/feel like, buy a small amount of LTC, and send it to another wallet. I had many of the same issues you had with Bitcoin a few months ago, but as soon as I gave LTC a go I was blown away. This, for all intents and purposes, is what the BTC Core team intends to bring to Bitcoin. To give you an idea, transactions cost 2c on the LTC network, with a max time to completion of 2.5 minutes. When you first experience this, it's a great feeling.

Coinbase is always gonna be tricky, their transaction costs for buying BTC are, to put it bluntly, fucking horrendous.

In regards to your comments on not having to pay the fee, there are some wallets that allow you to pick the priority of your transaction, one that springs to mind is IndieSquare Wallet. Bear in mind this will affect the way your transaction goes through, speed wise.

Hope I actually answered your questions on this, sorry for my intial comment. If you have any more q's, just holla. I can either answer them, or get someone with more knowledge than I to answer them.

However, in the interest of getting you to fall in love with Crypto, please, buy a small amount of LTC, transfer it, pay the fractional charges and be blown away. If you aren't impressed by it, I will be surprised.
Being pre-revenue doesn't mean something has no value. They are calculating it based on what value they deem it to have. If the stolen tech is of vital importance to producing a product that could be worth a nearly 3 billion dollars, then that's what they'll sue for. Actually they'll sue for a bit more, but that's roughly how it works. Like anything, it's better to ask for $10 when someone is only willing to pay $8, than to ask for $5 when someone is willing to pay $8.
Good point. Fixt.
relativity?
generally with every major release you can compile and target code to earlier JVMs with minimal, if any changes. I've heard that the module system is not backwards incompatible, and I would be shocked if it was incompatible with java 8 code out of the box
The article did provide reasonable support for claim 1. Thousands or tens of thousands of people would have to buy the combination for it to be recommended, and aspiring terrorists don't usually purchase their terrorism supplies in a manner that makes it trivially easy to identify them (since Amazon knows who its customers are).

The article also provided a far more plausible explanation for the recommendation than people building bombs.
> The american media ... bad

This is too easy an answer to serious problems. It is similar to saying 'all American developers are bad', because a lot of my software is buggy. It depends on the developer and on the news source. Some news sources are exceptional, though like all human endeavors they are always far from ideal. Some are far better than others; to lump in the National Enquirer with the New York Times is to "completely fail to disentangle the serious from the merely ridiculous."
modules are a massive enhancement that will benefit kotlin as well as any other jvm language
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> But what are you basing that belief on?

Which part of it? Not too many generations ago, many people lived entirely off the land. A large portion of people's "jobs" were displaced from agriculture and yet over time new jobs keep getting created. There are jobs that no one had even thought of that are now providing for the livelihood of many people.

Yes I believe there will also be new things that people want and new ways that other want to help them get it that will keep fueling the economy. There are things that are inaccessible to many people now that will become more everyday and "middle class".

> Unless you don't think computers will be able to do most of the things that create fundamental value in society.

No not at all. Of course I think automation can keep getting better but there are plenty of jobs that I don't see computers doing anywhere in the near term - building a house, paving a street, cooking food, being a nurse, being a garbage man, etc etc.

> What fundamentally new jobs have we really seen the last 100 years besides computer engineer...

Um seriously? I know people who literally are "social media managers". I know people who sell eBooks for a living or do Youtube. I know folks who attempt to at least live off the music they make.

These are just "new" jobs that no one could have envisioned before. But think of all the greater demand there could be existing jobs. I have a friend in Fiji and apparently there nearly everyone has a housekeeper, even "middle class" people. There is a demand for stuff like that even in America - people keep pushing toward whatever improves their standard of living as long as they can afford it.

Technology is growing fast but its far from the only thing desired by people.
I'm sorry. can you provide a link, a source, that says "lopping off someone's head" is a common practice in Turkey? Why would you lie about something like this? What is your purpose?
I'm surprised there is a static analyzer available for clang that isn't somewhat equivalently offered in gcc toolchains. I guess I'm assuming folks would be using something like Coverity for major static analysis.

Specifically, this sounds like it is just preferring the other toolchain. Are there literally things that don't have equivalents?
I understand why Microsoft would issue a "patent promise" rather than a bona fide license (the issuer of a promise can play games with its interpretation, whereas courts get to interpret a license), but why Red Hat?

If the folks at RH are 100% dedicated to Free Software, why not place their patents under something like the Defensive Patent License?

https://defensivepatentlicense.org
I think this is a good guess. I'm not a neuroscientist (but I am a biochemist), but I could see a valid hypothesis involving receptor desensitization.
I took a seminar class in Go in my final year of school, in the spring of 2010. I was hooked pretty early. It was a very chaotic time to be writing Go; the language would change from week to week, so if we did a pull from the Go repo, there was no guarantee last week's assignment would still compile! At the time, the canonical way to compile code was by makefile:

include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.$(GOARCH)

TARG=bin/command
GOFILES=main.go

include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.cmd

The thing I miss most is the netchan. I understand the reasons they got rid of it (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Er3Tetnt...) but when it worked, it was fantastic.
Interesting how >80% of the commenters are defending panics, or attacking the website or author itself instead of actually debating the findings.
Yeah, the Wikipedia page on 'fighting words' goes on to describe how the doctrine has since been limited. Shouting 'you are a fascist' at a cop probably wouldn't pass muster as unprotected speech these days (if you managed to make it to court alive and weren't preaching gibberish to a large crowd that was blocking traffic at the time.)

Still, speech isn't somehow inherently harmless or different from other actions that we take. It's bad to take someone's things with a knife, but I'd say that it's even worse to take someone's humanity with a word.
It's at least transparent. If a foreign politician publicly supports a candidate in my country, I have a better idea about what the motivations are, and can evaluate it appropriately (which might be negative, if I think my future government shouldn't be so friendly with them)

(Given the levels of ad targeting possible, this also is a possible argument against domestic targeted election ads)
...removing the main reason to use WhatsApp.
Any that are both open-source and C++11 compliant? Guess you can still build g++-4.6 with just C, then a newer g++ from that, but it's a bit of a pain.
_The Week_ is quite good (US or UK). They have people read many of the things you don't have time to (including _The Economist_ :) ) and pull highlights from them across a broad range of topics.
> Why do we compare ourselves to others?

This condition is called 'Keeping Up With the Joneses', or a more modern term is 'Status Anxiety'. We compare ourselves to others because of the Status differences and societal hierarchy that has come to exist in modern civilization.

> Is this beneficial?

Not at all. Comparing yourself to others is said to make you depressed, sick even.

> Peasant communities have far lower levels of depression than urban societies. There are many possible explanations but one key factor may be that farming communities are far less interested in status striving. Subsistence farmers did not try to impress each other with limousines and caviar. Status differences were minor.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201304/...

Being on Facebook or Instagram and watching your friends living a "great exciting life" (which is usually an embellishment of their real life) is also said to cause anxiety and depression.

> Why would heavy social media usage cause depression? The exposure to “highly idealized representations of peers on social media elicits feelings of envy and the distorted belief that others lead happier, more successful lives".

Source: Research Links Heavy Facebook And Social Media Usage To Depression => https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/04/30/study-l...
What you are saying is that you are leaving your part for someone else to do; thanks.

If you were involved you would know that the number one reason that bad things - and many are obviously bad - happen is that so many people don't pay attention. They let the sharks and con artists run rampant over them, use them like suckers, and of course they complain later.
No, this is way off.

MMT doesn't model fiscal policy as unconstrained in real terms, only nominal terms. And given the legal authority, of course a sovereign issuer is always able to spend. In this case spending is merely typing digits into a computer. This fact doesn't imply deficits/debt "aren't relevant", but rather deficits/debt work very differently for the currency issuer as opposed to the currency user.
There would be an industry overnight that would pop up to help people migrate where cost of living is affordable on a UBI because that is an insane amount of dependable profit to be made. It would be as simple as "your first month pays the move, and every month after that is last months rent payment".

There already exist communities and retirement homes whose entire agreement with its residents is "give us your social security checks, we give you food shelter etc". If you know constant money is coming in, arranging your business around being super easy to use for that money is a very lucrative opportunity.
Optical computing.

Quantum ICs attract billions in research dollars. With cybersecurity perhaps being the key industry driver. But recent materials and design advancements in "electronic-photonic" interfaces have yielded incredible boosts to matrix multiplication and FFT calculation. And the temptation to create machine learning and AI capable mobile devices may speed adoption of a new generation of photonics.

Lightmatter, a startup using light to accelerate artificial intelligence, wins the 2017 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lightmatter-a-startu...

Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI’s Future

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-powered-com...
I agree. I think a lot would move to affordable places where that guaranteed income goes a lot further. If that's true then we aren't going to be as competitive on a global scale. Maybe that's not a big deal, maybe it's a huge deal; I don't know.

Anecdotally my friend is part Native-American and gets 4k/mo from the tribe's casino money and they're bumping it up more soon. She's chosen to be a stay at home mom.
It looks like this is using Blueprint JS for the UI framework: http://blueprintjs.com/
https://developers.coinbase.com/blog/2016/10/31/sunsetting-t...
Cool, that's good to hear.
Yeah, these "tests" of UBI always seem to be about the attractive side, people getting money for nothing, and never about the funding side.

With a large-scale UBI in practice, you'd also have the effect of higher taxes that would claw back the UBI from those who have jobs, as well as an additional amount to cover the UBI for those who don't work.

I still prefer a job guarantee scheme for dealing with under-employment. This gives anyone who is willing and capable of working the chance to earn the minimum wage, and hopefully gets some productive benefit in return.
Nationalistic flamewar of any kind is not welcome on Hacker News. Your comments in this thread are so egregious that I'm banning this account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise to follow the site guidelines in the future.

Hacker News has many users in Turkey. They are as welcome here as anyone, and have a right not to see their country insulted on HN—as does anybody from any country and/or with any taste or feeling for others.
It broke android studio's jdk selector and it broke android gradle for me. Also eclipse needed a hack in eclipse.ini to even start. Looks like the ecosystem isn't ready yet.
Your issue is then with using App Engine, not with them giving you a certificate. There is no way to use App Engine without them getting the plaintext in the end.
Are you sure its to the Left? They're far more conservative Right from all I've seen.
> what testable predictions has evolutionary theory made about existing organisms on this planet?

I mentioned antibiotic resistant bacteria elsewhere in this thread. You can find plenty of other examples if you look at the scientific literature in this field.

> Not interested in any prediction about things long past as you can modify any theory in any field to match up to such findings.

No, you can't. Evolution makes quite specific predictions about what we will not find in the fossil record--for example, J. B. S. Haldane's famous response when asked what could falsify evolution: "fossil rabbits in the Precambrian". Alternative theories for how the life we see on Earth today came to be make no such predictions--they could "explain" fossil rabbits in the Precambrian as well as anything else.

More generally, evolution predicts that we should find a "tree of life" like the one we find--where we can compare relationships between organisms that we derive using DNA, fossils, anatomy, and other evidence and find that, to within a good approximation, they all agree. Alternative theories for how the life we see on Earth today came to be make no such predictions--they offer no reason why all those different "trees of life" should be the same or even close to each other.
>because so many people find paid idleness a desirable lifestyle.

You're close, and it's an easy mistake to make since it seems intuitive. However, the reality is that people find THE IDEA of paid idleness desirable. Small N, but everyone I know who has found themselves in that position has only remained idle for a very short time. Productivity quickly returns, although not in the form of trading time for money.
I'm pretty sure you can just buy black powder in the store for muskets. You don't even have to go through the trouble of buying all the ingredients off Amazon and mixing them.
I worry that having things "all handled by the system" can be even more of a performance footgun. I mean that users will be able to do things that are allowed by the docs, but which result in, expensive and hard-to-see things are happening under the hood.
My attempt to build a trustworthy Twitter bot
The problem is that some Java 8 code relies on implementation-specific code in the JVM – for example, JetBrains’ IDEs do.

As a result, this doesn’t work with Java 9 the same anymore, as basically all that stuff has been moved around.
Not to mention the fact that the article is literally about finding the _first_ animal that did something, so using past data is pretty useless.
I spent $500 on a twitter ad and reached $86,000 people. I can't imagine how many users $100,000 could reach on Facebook.
> if you can hide a backdoor in a simple ARX Feistel block cipher that can be implemented in 100 lines of code, we probably have bigger concerns than these algorithms.

It wasn't a backdoor, but doesn't this sound a lot like SHA-0? The NSA fixed the mistake and published SHA-1, but they didn't say why. They might as well have designed the cyphers a similar issue and kept it hidden.

SIMON and SPECK have been analyzed by the wider cryptography community, but in principle something like the above wouldn't be surprising from the NSA...
Compulsory reading before any legal discussion of free speech—

https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...

"Trope Seven: "Fighting words"

Example: "There are two exceptions from the constitutional right to free speech – defamation and the doctrine of “fighting words” or “incitement,” said John Szmer, an associate professor of political science and a constitutional law expert at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte." McClatchy.com, May 4, 2015.

No discussion of controversial speech is complete without some idiot suggesting that it may be "fighting words."

In 1942 the Supreme Court held that the government could prohibit "fighting words" — "those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." The Supreme Court has been retreating from that pronouncement ever since. If the "fighting words" doctrine survives — that's in serious doubt — it's limited to face-to-face insults likely to provoke a reasonable person to violent retaliation. The Supreme Court has rejected every opportunity to use the doctrine to support restrictions on speech. The "which by their very utterance inflict injury" language the Supreme Court dropped in passing finds no support whatsoever in modern law — the only remaining focus is on whether the speech will provoke immediate face-to-face violence.

That's almost always irrelevant to the sort of speech at issue when the media invokes the trope."
> "For awhile, we had found no evidence of fake accounts linked to Russia running ads," Zuckerberg said Thursday. "When we recently uncovered this activity, we provided that information to the special council. We also briefed Congress."

What would Congress do if Zuckerberg is saying the advertisers were not fake accounts i.e. nothing illegal ?
> It was unclear how the authorities can monitor apps such as WhatsApp, which says its messages are supported by end-to-end encryption, meaning the company cannot read customers’ messages even if approached by law enforcement agencies.

I'm both fascinated and perplexed too.

Any ideas/theories?

Does anyone know if you're governmentally required to install an SSL cert on your device, for example?
I'm using DDG, ProtonMail, locally saved documents (because I don't need the cloud for the stuff I'm doing), Firefox Developer Edition, which has gotten so much better recently that I don't miss Chrome. Blogs/ personal websites are are static sites on Github pages or similar services. I have a crappy old iPhone4.