skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that framework how do you explain the cultural revolution, and the inversion of power that resulted from that?

Younger red guards denouncing their elders, the attempt to get rid of the four 'olds' doesn't seem like a particularly conservative or Confucian agenda to me.

If it were impossible for this kind of thought to take root in China, I doubt that this movement could have gotten off the ground.

The right time to judge whether the Chinese people really value social harmony more than the west does is when economic growth stalls or even reverses for a decade or so.
I think Theresa May (and tens of thousands of bureaucrats) should be able to see everything on your phone at all times. Not anyone else's, just yours.
I wonder if the United States under the Obama admin (with Secretary Clinton) tried to influence Russian elections. Maybe this is some personal score settling between HRC and Putin.

That said, I support better relations with Russia.
i reckon that state actors are (often) in their own universe when it comes to behavioral expectations.
Google was not the first search engine. A better version of an existing thing can hit big growth. Rate of growth seems to be what people are talking about when they distinguish startups from normal new businesses. It isn't actually necessary for it to be some new fangled thingamajig the likes of which the world has never seen before.
An estimated 40 million SSNs are associated with more than one person.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3004654/government/a-tale-of...
>You lose virtually nothing if you just block Disqus wholesale with an ad blocker.

Unfortunately, that's not true for the blogs I read.

I used to block Disqus because (#1) it loads slowly, and (#2) it is a memory hog (Disqus' javascript code always has a memory leak in both Firefox and Chrome)

However, I ended up missing out on critical information that readers left in the Disqus comments. For example, if a blogger might review a power tool and a commenter might ask "what's that accessory you're attaching to it?", the blogger will then reply with the answer and may attach a link to the product in Disqus.

Similar situation with programming blog. Some followup Disqus comment may have a correction of syntax, etc.

(I wish people would stop leaving useful information in Disqus comments so I can go back to blocking it again.)
ID Analytics did a study in 2010 that found 40 million out of 290 million SSNs were assigned to more than one person. The conclusion is that the odds of someone else having your SSN are roughly 1:6.

Other highlights of the study include:

1) How many SSNs do you have? – 6.1 percent of
Americans have at least two SSNs associated
with their name. More than 100,000 Americans
have five or more SSNs associated with their name.

2) Some SSNs are very popular – More than 15 percent
of SSNs are associated with two or more people.
More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with five
or more people. Significantly, more than 27,000
SSNs are associated with 10 or more people.*

http://www.idanalytics.com/blog/press-releases/20-million-am...
> > If they mean something to you, pick up a phone and call them

> that is nonsense imho; calling is also nothing (I also don't see the difference between calling and chatting) (ah, I mean so much to you, you couldn't be bothered to get off your couch). If they mean something you meet them; people important to me I fly out to go to their birthdays, weddings, divorces and funerals.

I agree with you, and probably chose the wrong example/wording to get my point across. My point was just that you'd put more effort in for people you care about.
And Facebooks blocks free speech.

In the race to control what people say, think and see, between the governments and the mega corporations, it's the people who are losing.

China blocks whatsapp... meh.
Took a class with him in college, perhaps one of the smartest people I've had the opportunity to meet.

Nobody tells a story quite like Bjarne, and nothing beats the classes he would open with a story straight out of Bell Labs. Him and his brilliant TA, David (if you're reading this definitely send me a message!), were awesome in showing not just how C++ has been built over the years, but how a steadfast approach to building a culture focused on particular metrics was crucial to C++'s development (and to the development of any other project as well).

Congratulations Bjarne; learned a lot about benchmarking from your class!
Maybe it can rove around on wind power and gears, but if it can't send pictures back, it's going to be a disappointment.
I just wondering, for normal people, what kind of information you concerned to not be monitored, seriously? I knew most western take the privacy higher than anything. But for most normal people living outside of US, they really don't care. You would say they are dumb, but they care more about food, entertainment than the privacy, and liberal.
To be honesty, nobody in China cared WhatsApp be blocked or not. As maybe 99.9999% Chinese even don't know there is an App called WhatsApp.
Are the media still going on about this? WaPo and the media did far more to exploit the divisions over BLM and muslims than anything russia could have done.
I think they've mostly been developed and sold in the US but given the creativity of the Cuban people when it comes to reuse, it's not hard to imagine a few have converted old microwaves. It's also not hard to imagine that higher-end accommodations, in order to control termites with the least amount of 'impact' to customers in terms of smell or possibly even as a result of lack of access to pesticides are using exterminators who use termite microwaves.
It's interesting to watch how Apple marketing - at least on some products - has become increasingly technical over time. It was certainly rarer to see them explaining the intricacies of a file system - the cost of retrieving the size of files within a directory, etc - in, say, 2001 or 2011.

They've gone from "here are five colors you can chose from" to, in some cases, something almost approaching an lwn article.
Good article and makes sense. It’s a lot harder to establish a group and get traction versus just creating an another account. It would be like starting a company vs just getting a job (although that second one gets harder everyday).
Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet
There's an AR project in here, I tell ya!
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A Taxonomy of Urban Branded Space
That is a fair point - I should have thought back to the time when I knew even less than I do now.
I'm all for better relations with Russia too, but only if they give Crimea back. This isn't the 1600s, you can't simply invade a country and make it part of yours.
I would argue that this is the case indeed.
The guys at Basecamp have preaching this stuff for years.
Have you found the Notifications preference pane, which allows you to control notifications including turning them off completely if you like?
Speaking for Chicago: f*ck yeah! I imagine your issues with Amazon evolve around traffic congestion and competition for housing... Chicago is a much larger city and one that experienced years of decline. Adding an Amazon will speed up the redevelopment of whatever part of the city they enter. Chicago is already second behind Seattle in construction cranes and building condos like crazy. Still, notwithstanding the tax breaks and cheap land coming Amazon’s way, there’s almost nothing but upside for this city, because the infrastructure here is that good. Perhaps some would argue against that notion, given that we have traffic too. I’d argue that past patterns of suburban development caused that. That’s why the city is sucking all the corporate jobs right back into the city (McDs, Motorola, et al).
Guessing they mean land-owners.
All forms of authoritarianism are justified by some.
Pulleys Within Pulleys Form a Unique Transmission for Robots
First, the $100,000 may not be the full spend, it's just the minimum based on what has been identified as false-flag accounts linked to Russia. There may well have been orders of magnitude more spending that has not been identified as false flag accounts (further, it's not even the total expenditure of resources on the false flag accounts, just the part actually spent buying placement—when comparing to campaign spending numbers, when all the resources spent on content development, etc., and not just placement are counted.)

Second, people may discount messages that are official campaign messages (which have required disclosures to prevent falsifying origin), so there may be a significant influence multiplier for false-flag “astroturf” spending of the kind Russia engaged in.
Facebook should be blocked in US as the foreign intelligence agency's actor.
New York has really come a long way.
side note:

People decry Trump for his words on 'starting a trade war' with China.

I am no fan of Trump or Bannon - but on this they are right: we are already in a trade war.

Blocking companies from participating arbitrarily, making it 'very difficult' for others, currency manipulation, capital controls, outright theft of IP.

This, in any other situation is a trade war.

Imagine the EU just says 'no Google in Europe'. That's crazy. It's a trade war.

Because back in the 1980's, the world basically let China do as they please because they were 'rebuilding' (think Japan or Korea after their wars) - we sort of got used to it.

But if China is going to play this game (hey, it's their right), then there should be a response of some kind.

Responding to 'trade intransigence' is not a 'trade war' - it's just tit for tat.

Won't happen though - as big USA corps are so greedy to want a big massive slice of the magic unicorn dangled in front of the by the Chinese gov, they shut up and 'kow-tow' :). It's changing maybe a little bit though, what I'm saying is not new, it's just not spoken that much publicly.

For some interesting insight see Charlie Rose w/Richard McGregor:

https://charlierose.com/videos/30937
China’s Strategic Thinking on Building Power in Cyberspace
I was expecting a street view like Google Maps. The name seems a bit misleading to me.
Seems like you can either...

A) Reach a predetermined level of technology you are comfortable with |OR|
B) Look spacewards.

Very hard to do both of those.
Take that with a huge "3D Xpoint is 1,000x faster than flash" grain of salt.
When did Safari Google searches ever go via Apple? I think you have got a bit confused somewhere.
That one day will be the day I stop wearing clothing and move to a nudist colony.

"I wasn't masturbating, officer, I swear. I was just swiping through my contact list"
One note as to the doubleclick ad server. That's coming from Google Analytics where your page view tags require the demographics add on (the name of which escapes me at the moment).

GA uses the double click network to give you those age, gender, and interest category information.
I'm generally in favor of rehabilitation, but in the case of Alex, I thought that the punishment was fitting.
We are fairly far behind but nature does have it a bit easier because animals are making much smaller holes through dirt and soil instead of solid rock like most human tunnels want to go through. Also they can just avoid any particularly difficult areas and move somewhere else.
We're working mostly with the Serverless framework. Cool to see you're working on a plugin for that. Will give it a spin once that's ready. Any timeline for that?
I was just curious on how other people think this through.

It's a question I love hearing feedback on from other hackers who are building things to solve problems. A useful way I like to think about the MVP is : "if I removed everything, what's the last thing I could possibly remove without the solution no longer addressing the problem?"

I try to stop just before that line. That being said, it's always easier said than done.

DM me on Twitter/I just followed you! I'd love to try out your product when you're ready!
amazon listed things it was looking for in their RFP
There's though that they won't chose a Canadian city due to wanting to not lose favor with America's Gov't. Especially with the complexity of Amazon dealing with the Gov't.
Up and Down the Python Data and Web Visualization Stack
"Rage porn" is a whole lot easier to sell than happiness. CGP Grey covers it pretty well in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Yeah, isolating yourself from the outside world will cause you to lose. See: North Korea.
Are you absolutely certain that everything that jQuery does can now be done in a clear and concise way using plain Javascript? I've written some fairly complex jQuery selector over the years, perhaps I'm wrong but I something tells me that while the simple use cases can be done with plain old js the more complex selectors might not be so easy.

I find this debate so aggravating. I'm glad you can do some of the stuff jQuery does using modern vanilla js. Perhaps jQuery is overkill for doing one hide/show (or toggle) action on the page. But what about the more complex stuff. What is primary motivation behind this nagging issue, of the load time of jQuery?

I suspect it is that many developers have some obsession over shaving a few milliseconds on their load time. For jQuery? One library? Is it that bad that you need to write vanilla js? So you can save a few milliseconds?

Can you have a sophisticated selector for Event Delegation without using jQuery but make the code concise and easy to read? What about child selectors ("ul.thisClass > li.thatClass" > span.otherClass").

I like jQuery because the syntax makes sense, its clear and concise, you can do complex things with less code. Maybe some of the new stuff can be clean and concise and easy to read, but all of it? I have my doubts.
"It's surprising that any country would allow that to continue unchecked."

Hold on now - Google still provides immense value.

And what does it cost?

Nothing.

The 'consumer surplus' value of G and FB are quite immense.

Google captures a tiny fraction of the value they create via ads.

What would Canada do without Google?

There is no Google here.

If we started with with 'government backing' it would be a s-show.

I understand about the issue from taxation perspective etc. - but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Google has a high degree of utility and FB does as well for many individuals.

Some jiggering with tax and investment laws might help, but on the whole, this is a 'good thing'.

Twitter. Well ... America can keep that :):):)
It occasionally would drop, but I could simply reconnect.
> ID Analytics did a study in 2010 that found 40 million out of 290 million SSNs were assigned to more than one person.

Since their count of duplication the other way was based on SSNs associated with names, I wonder if they made the same mistake for that direction (assuming name = person). People can both share identical names and have different names over their lifetime, so even if SSNs were 1:1 with people there would be SSNs associated with multiple names and names with multiple associated SSNs.
I don't see the advantage of tying assessments to singular institutions especially ones structured like College Board. What this promotes a bottleneck of what can be communicated to others meaningfully. Currently the SAT can be broadly communicated (because CB and others have invested very large amounts of resources into it) and so students optimize for it. Instead they could be putting their efforts to towards learning that is more personally and socially valuable.

I don't think this is just because the SATs are bad tests but fundamentally emerges from the institutional single source of truth model, where the incentive is for the institution to make their test as general/broad as possible and the most broadly accepted , as to capture the most students and hence fees.
Yeah, and Google's HR is supposed to rock. They got my business cards on my desk on day one, but really.

I will look Clerky over. I admit I was just thinking of them as a formation forms generator.

I'm more worried about operations after formation. I'm surprised that Xero doesn't get much discussion. Founders are going to be everything early on. They're going to be accountants too.
I made a list about a year ago, but some things that come to mind:

- No cut (to paste) (so I have to have two windows open or go back and forth to perform a cut?)

- In tree view, pasting pastes to root folder, not selected folder.

- I think `enter/return` to `rename` instead of `open` is absurd.

- Have to memorize shortcut to open 'go to folder' path field, instead of toggling always enabling path field.

(Grew up using Windows, started using Mac 2 years ago)
Correct. It was a poor choice of words.

s/affiliated with/an evangelist for/

The implication here is that he may see fewer problems with Microsoft or its subsidiaries, e.g. LinkedIn, having access to stolen personal data than another user who may take a different view of these companies, for a variety of reasons. I am implying he has a high opinion of Microsoft.

Contrary to the other commenter's interpretation, I am not implying he shares data with any companies under some special arrangement or assists them in locating dumps. Of course, given his comments that he believes these companies only use such data to protect users, it seems reasonable to imagine that he might not have any ethical issues with doing that.
why bother with git grep vs. just vanilla grep. i could see the use if you're working with an older binary, but you didn't mention.
It is paradoxical in the sense that "more time working" should equal "more output", but most of us know that past a certain point the result of "more time working" is worse code that has to be fixed, leading to overall less productivity.

I'm not saying "more time working" equals more output. I'm saying there is a belief that it does, even among some people who should know better. The office I was working in did have occasional crunch times, and they'd put in extra hours; sometimes maybe it was necessary. But, old-timer I was talking about didn't really participate. His part of the job would have already been done earlier in the week.
You have to imagine a school full of children like a room full of hackers that will work harder to break your system than they will to follow it.

On this forum people say "all you need is a library card" to learn Computer Science, but you also need to read those library books.

How does your system deal with students that just refuse to do anything?
Why wouldn't the Chinese hear about the next best mouse trap if whatsapp is banned?

Why wouldn't the manufacturer of next best mouse trap like to sell the product in China if whatsapp is banned?

As far as Chinese government is concerned there is no downside to banning whatsapp.

It's not like whatsapp has turned into substitute for Nature for scientific publication.

Many capitalist companies like the controls of communist China. They find it easier to do business in. Does that make China more innovative for new businesses compared to open monitoring in the western world?

Is Apple going to move manufacturing to USA because China banned whatsapp? hell, no.

China gets to make an example out of whatsapp to make smaller players play by their rules, giving auditing powers and speech controls to Chinese government, or get locked out of 15% of world's emerging market population.

Lesson to progressive liberals of western world, appreciate what you got here and work to protect it, instead of insulting western values at every opportunity.
WeChat is pretty innovative
I love tech lore from the Bell Labs, PARC era. Wish I knew where to find them. Computerphile on YouTube has some.
Sad that that's probably true.
But then, there are some products that really need a bit more than just a one-liner. At least when talking about B2B. For sure I don't sign up and try a new product without at least getting some idea what it's about from the landing page.
The data says that in 2010 there were ~160K jobs in advertising in the US but in 2015 there were 200K.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/498424/number-advertisin...

However, it's the newspaper jobs that have gone:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/06/alm...

The next thing to look at would be the change in IT jobs.
A few years ago I migrated my company's dynamic site with blogs, articles and marketing info to a static site generator (Pelikan? Nikola? I don't remember). Part of that was moving our commetns all over to Disqus, and converting a few small marketing functions to Javascript (showing testimonials).

Disqus was pretty cool at the time, including their presentations to Pycon and their design. I wondered how the funding would go but was a pretty big fan.

Switching to a static site generator was the right choice, since 2-3 new blog posts have been written since I left. ;-)
It’s not a cooking recipe that you can pass on over the phone. The page also states: “The new production scientists noticed that certain problems in production resembled those noted by the original team”. So the new team apparently had access to whatever knowledge had survived.
Clinton and Trump are US Citizens.
> Is there even anything wrong with any country

It's illegal?

But you ask good questions.
Seems right out of Foundations of Geopolitics [1].

> Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Some things that came to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15334905

At one point I looked at alternatives, but I wasn't ready to buy one. And since most editors and IDEs have "Show in Finder" options, that I use sometimes, I'd still have to augment my workflow to get around it.
maybe it is a consequence of increased technological knowledge in the general populace? i don't feel that it has increased, but maybe Apple's marketing team arrived to that conclusion.
For government purposes, Name and DoB has sometimes been considered "unique enough". There was an article[1] about two women in NYC that ran into this issue; it caused one of them (the one with good credit) lots of heartache.

It's stupid, but "mother's maiden name", "name of your first pet", "street that you lived on when you were young", etc are now de facto sensitive data by virtue of the fact that they can be frequently used to bypass your website passwords. In 2008, Sarah Palin's Yahoo mail account was breached because the answers to all of her security questions were effectively on her Wikipedia page.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-the...
Guns are a constitutional right and a crucial part of self-defense. Not sure what the issue is to you.

>What's the difference?

One is access, one is privacy. Very different things. Why conflate them.
One minor thing I'm excited about is instant folder sizes. Right now, I open the info panel and go do something else for a minute while it calculates the size.
There are several frameworks for the construction of spiking neural networks given an abstract mathematical description of the desired function. The most complete (note that I'm currently a student in the lab that developed this method) is the Neural Engineering Framework [1]. There is a Python reference implementation called Nengo [2] which can target several backends, including neuromorphic hardware.

Training deep spiking neural networks is possible as well [3].

[1] http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/research/nef.html
[2] https://www.nengo.ai/
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05141