skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What remains unclear to me is how Facebook makes misinformation and fraudulent content so powerful, but not factual content.

I have yet to hear one person admit they did any of the following:

1) Switch their vote from HRC to DJT;
2) Decide to stay home instead of vote for HRC;
3) Decide to vote for DJT instead of staying home.

If we're going to consider whether FB was complicit in a dirty win by DJT, we should at least also consider some of the polls were fabricated in a attempt to make HRC's victory look inevitable and depress R turnout.
This reminds me of aloha 243

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

> As a result of the accident, the airplane was determined to be damaged beyond repair and was dismantled on-site

Amazing that one one person lost her life.
You can also use dot

import (
. "fmt"
)

....

// now call function without prefix
Println("Read more docs")
>Catalonia is a well-defined region

That's not enough though. There are people who have tried to declare an independent country of their land, or their house, or their bedroom[1]. Clearly one person declaring their bedroom to be independent is silly and not allowable, but a large reason is. So somewhere there's a line, right?

[1] - http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kingdom-of-talossa
Thanks for the clarification. But what does Barcelona gain then ?

Can't they just ignore the results on the basis it's illegal ?
All Spaniards have the right, not only a part of Spaniards (like those living in Catalonia).
40 years ago Puyol used to say, first "paciencia" then "independencia".

Now that independentists are doing what they have repeated millions of times they were going to do, it is a problem of the PP???

Leave me guess: You are leftist, communist maybe? How do I know? because your visceral hate is so strong you can't think at all.
Send text messages to annoy your friends
Blade Runner 2049 first reactions: sci-fi masterpiece, better than the original
Watching this it's easy to see a clear path toward civil war.

If this continues, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the army step in & impose peace until such time as the situation can be resolved peacefully. I would bet good money that Spanish generals are dusting off old contingency plans as we speak.
I already did give these tools a try and first rat out of the trap the sample code generated by React Native had build errors in production XCode8. I will confess that it did confirm my bias against bringing in any 3rd party dependency at all unless there is absolutely no choice in the matter and it also confirmed my practice of structuring my code so that any dependencies I'm forced to bring into a project (either by time crunch or clueless management) can be removed as soon as possible.
It's a direct translation, miserable in spanish doesn't mean miserable in english, it means vile.
The OP was right, though. Just making the data accessible and documented is a huge undertaking. It's truly a laudable effort.

From the other side, I cannot imagine using the data without intimate knowledge of the entire setup. There are very few people that can look meaningfully at such kind of data, which is why publishing the dataset (and all the work it involves) is often neglected.

Not to defend the behavior in any way, but remind yourself: in the current research model, if you can't make a publication with it, it's not worth your time. For a dataset, I've seen people factor-in the effort to make it public VS the potential citations you could get out of it.

disclaimer: I work in research
It is very simple if they are storing some identifier in keychains. Keychain items persist between the app install. There are a lot of apps which do this.
Catalonia has it's own language though, whereas Mancunians may speak strangely, but it is still considered English.
> This is not like England and Scotland, is more like Manchester wanting to leave England.

In what way?

(Let's ignore for now the fact Manchester did have a semi-serious independence movement during the Scotland referendum, and no police were necessary.)
Let them eat coca de sucre!
Also, coding in the React style is the "best DX for UI development" mainly if you're a web developer who doesn't want to learn the platform or the native tools but still wants to have "mobile developer" on your resume. (IMO)
While its a false generalisation, most of modern philosophers specialized on morals/ethics whether they are utilitarists or not agree that excluding the intolerant (more like banning intolerant behavior) is beneficial for the "common good".

From an utilitarist point of view, this isn't even a question: intolerant behavior leads to less people being happy (not even talking about hypotethical fights resulting of intolerance, just people feeling excluded), therefore it should be banned.
I feel once people who know nothing about an asset start 'investing' in it, the likelihood of the whole thing coming crashing down only increases. People not knowing what they are doing, or why they are doing, is a surefire way to add volatility to the marketplace.
You could decentish vi bindings within this by using vi mode for bash I'd guess? I'd probably usually just end up vim notes.md5 TBH.
And obesity levels are higher than ever too. Dismissing this article's message because we are living longer is missing the point. We are living longer despite our poor physical health.
`go vet -shadowstrict` works pretty well for the shadowing problem.

Look at go's `net/url` package. The type is `URL` because it's exported, there's no `New` function. It instead uses the conversational `Parse`.

`url.URL` does stutter, and `url.Parse` probably belongs in the url module, with the type in `net` to reduce stutter.

This would make `net/URL` a clearer non-stuttering type. It would also make 'net/url' a library of functions with which `net/URL`s are manipulated and a clean-room fashion.
Cloudflare: We dumped Daily Stormer not because they're Nazis but because they said we love Nazis

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/16/cloudflare_ceo_dail...
This is usual in history. They have some sources and try to do their best effort to make a reliable map. [I'm not a historian, so I can't be sure how good is this map.]

When you see a map of Europe in 1000AD, you have almost the same problems. Europe is easier because they had a written record, and some map from that epoch. Anyway, the historical records may be wrong due to political reasons ... so it's not easy.

Another point is that maps changes with time. The map of Europe in 1000AD, 1100AD, 1200AD, 1300AD, 1400AD, 1500AD are different. The maps of America in the same years should show the change of the territories each one had.

Edit: Fixed DC->AD
People still blow past them, in my experience. The only real way to make roads safer for pedestrians is to remove all the cars.
> there wouldn't be much left of Europe

Only if you believe "Europe" = "nation states" or an EU super state.

Independence for smaller states - ie, taking back control and power from a greater/globalist state - would, if anything, make Europe (people and culture) more European again.

> They are using rubber bullets to disperse the crowds, that's not exactly a crime against humanity as some seem to suggest here.

So people are wrong to suggest the maiming and potential killing of civilians by police is a crime against humanity, but it's reasonable for you to claim the police are "awesome" based on a couple of them sharing a joke with you once, when you were high?
Why does that matter? It's no secret who runs the site.
Man shouting “Allahu Akbar” kills two at French train station
I have to assume their is, if you're purchasing directly for yourself, but are also considered a full-time employee of an employer that doesn't offer it to you.

Hrm... found this, to explain it...

http://www.healthedeals.com/articles/are-health-insurance-pr...

" if you’re self-employed and claiming the self-employed health insurance deduction on Form 1040, you don’t have to exceed the 10 percent mark. That’s because you’re writing the premiums off as an adjustment to your income rather than as a deduction."

This is what I do.

The standard approach many folks take is to "take a deduction" (which occurs at a different point in the tax calculating) - and for that, you can only deduct any amount that exceeds 10% of your "adjusted gross income". In my case, I'm adjusting the gross income by deducting the insurance expense there. That may only be something I can do because I'm not an employee of anyone? I do this every year and it's still confusing as heck to me.

But the original point stands - anyone that is purchasing health insurance should be able to not pay any tax on the premiums. Or... no one should be able to(employee, employer, freelance). Level playing field theory and all that jazz...
Wall Street to move trillions onto blockchains
Can you expand on this? I looked at the blog post and as far as I can tell piCards operate the same way as plickers. In my use of Plickers, I can either choose to give each student a specific card for personalized polling, but I can also just not identify the student with each card which allows for anonymous polling.

What have I missed here?
That was eons ago under completely different circumstances. Spain is a democracy, Norway-Sweden was not.
This wasn't a free speech case.
That sounds flawed - IMO the UX should be time based, not pixel based. It turns out when users click, it's often very easy for them to drag their mouse while doing it, 5 pixels sounds like it could still be prone to accidental drags.
Exactly. Medicinal marihuana or more recently MDMA for PTSD treatment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15120656) all took a while too.
My Citi-issued Costco Visa card has no embossed numbers. I figure it's just Citi being cheap.
> If you allow a referendum on such topic in a part of Spain, it doesn't matter the result because you're accepting implicitly that a part of Spain can rule over the whole

Let's boil it down to the basics: an election decides who is going to be leader of a group of people. For that leader to be legitimate every member has to voluntarily decide they want to be part of the group and thus the election.

The problem here is not that Catalonia doesn't accept the government because they didn't like who won the elections. The problem here is that they never agreed to even be part of those elections.

If we have a group of 10 people who decide to democratically pick a leader, and the majority chooses Steve. That's fine. What is not fine is taking 2 random people of the street and tell them they have to now do what Steve tells them because he was voted leader 10 against 2. They never agreed to take part in the election and respect its results.
Google and Levi make smart jacket with a few tricks up its sleeve
If you allow any region to declare independence then there will be thousands or maybe even more states. Different provinces and regions are united into a country because this way they have more military power to defend themselves. When there is a lot of small states it will be easy to conquer them one by one - either by external enemy or by one of those small states. At least this is what happened in the Middle Age.
It is good exercise to actually learn this branching model and then use it in practice. You will soon realize that most projects will suddenly start taking unnecessary toll on you just because now you want to maintain multiple branches and it is a huge PITA.

Instead just follow this simple routine - stay as close to the master as possible. If a temporary diversion is needed, create a new branch (and maintain both master and the diversion for a while). Delete the diversion once the job is done.

If you are never able to delete the diversion, it is not your git branching model that failed, it is you and your code who failed. Diversions may be long term (and I hope you have the workforce to maintain that branch as well) but still finite time. How to prepare that diversion is a software engineering problem and not git's fault.
That doesn't seem to address the point made in the comment you are responding too - if the referendum is illegal, then why not just make the point that it is illegal clear, and ignore the result, rather than attempting to shut it down violently?
I remember Plaxo for being the first to "disrupt Outlook signatures" (and build a huge database of everyone's contacts). I'm amazed they survived this long. Good riddance.
How to Sleep Better?  Stress and Anxiety
You are right and they are wrong. Sitting for extended periods is correlated with heart disease and other problems regardless of fitness.

I've talked with multiple physical therapists about it and they've been very clear about that distinction. Other commenters here are missing the point.
Working in the field I rather have the feeling that it is slowly but surely falling asleep.

One of Voevodsky's views was that all the foundation for a dependently typed formalization of maths is already there, and that it mainly needs to be organized in a better way (cf his unimath project).
Install an app and start - Headspace is popular and easy to get going with.

There are lots of different practices, sure, but it's a lot like jogging: you don't need to learn a lot of technique, just need to get up and do it.
There's substantial bi-directional traffic between the Catalan and Scottish independence movements.

Also, Manchester doesn't have its own language which the central government tried to suppress.
No, Walmartlabs is the SV based version of walmart meant to build a walmart.com 3rd party merchant amazon killer. They use a lot of node and JS.

Jet.com is a NY based startup. They use F#.

They have quite separate code bases, and as far as I can tell no plans to merge them.
There is a possible ‘win’ - if a clear & open referendum is held, and the results do not give independence a clear mandate.

Both the lose-lose paths - and the government’s current actions - seem to presume independence would win that mandate in a fair vote. This was never presumed until the government started acting like it was.
To make a circuit reversible generally requires more gates, because you need a place to store the information that you normally might have gotten rid of (say in an AND gate you simply store one of the variables). Practically this would make chips much slower if you assume everything else in fabrication stays the same (e.g., die size). Not a whole lot of benefits it seems, except for energy consumption, but that's the consumer's problem.
Ayahuasca is a South American brew consisting of two plants one consisting of a MAOI and another of DMT (the exact plant genus differs). DMT without a MAOI gets broken down by the blood brain barrier, so its not efficient without the MAOI.

The MAOI however puts dietary restrictions before the drug is being administered, and also makes the drug last vastly longer. Without the MAOI, the DMT wouldn't last long (IIRC even less long than Salvia). That might be an interesting use case.

Apart from that, there's all the time research on tryptamines [1] (MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, etc) used to treat mental diseases and personality disorders. The advantage synthetic drugs have is they're easier to standardise. I'm not sure why you'd want to research MAOI + DMT instead of the ones already mentioned? What advantages could it have over those?

[1] http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/Psychedelic-Pharma...
> Let's say you're writing a crud app on an express server that communicates via http to a database service.

As a side note - a 'database service' that's only job is to serve as an HTTP wrapper over DB seems like an anti-pattern. Service boundaries here are not related to any business concern (if you're thinking along the SOA lines) and rewriting already existing DB remote interfaces via http seems like overengineering (if you're doing n-tier architecture).
Some additional reasoning on the matter by Udi Dahan: https://vimeo.com/113515335

Would be interesting to hear your thoughts if you think otherwise.
> Catalonia didn't voluntarily join Spain, they got annexed.

This is how most countries were formed in the Middle Ages. You either are big enough to defend yourself or become a part of big enough country.
No, I'm arguing that I should have a choice wether to be a member of a society and as a result get all the benefits thereof and be subject to that society's laws, or not.

It's a package deal. I either join the club, benefit from being a member, and have to play by the clubs rules or I don't.
EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning
I think the key distinction here is between “intolerance” and refusal of services. No one should be going out of their way to hear or publish the Nazi point of view, and people ought to call them disgusting and monstrous when they appear in the news.

That said we shouldn’t deny them services like hosting, because maintaing a neutral hosting stance is what allows for a firm argument that protects imprortant discourse like legitimate political dissent. Once you allow for a line to be drawn, suddenly bickering over that line becomes a an endless problem that might stifle any idea.
Crystal Language in Production
What annexation are you talking about? As far as I can tell, Catalonia lost it's independence with the Nueva Planta decrees in 1716 [0], which is far from "within living memory".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_decrees
Many of the answers are stupidly narrow.
I also grew up in hurricane country. You always wanted to have several hundred in cash at the house. The point about small bills is a good one. I was without power for 10 days after Hugo, so now I keep a week's worth of freeze-dried food and bottled water, plus a backpacking stove to heat the water.

The small backpacker sized solar cells are fairly worthless for charging a modern smartphone - the difference between the current they put out and power draw by the phone is too great, even with a supplemental LiOn battery pack.
I think you can assume goodwill here. If OP is mistaken, clue them in. Reputable sources of info on the history of Catalonia are plentiful, whether online or in the library. In this case, OP is probably referring to the Spanish Civil War, which indeed happened within living memory and prior to which Catalonia was autonomous under the Second Spanish Republic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Catalonia#Republic_...
Atherton, California is a well-defined region with a rather fabulous level of wealth. Are you suggesting that the town of Atherton ought to be able to vote for independence, in order to avoid paying state and federal taxes? May any geographically delineated group opt out of the local government structure?

Surely you can see the flaw in your line of reasoning.
Difficult when big pharma is involved. Profits take precedence over wellbeing.
This is a conditional and temporary win. It legitimizes the referendum path meaning Catalonia may try it again in a few years and other regions may attempt the same.
Only when you're being pedantic.
"real men"?
[video] Cops and Robbers Theorem
Or extend to anyone with a mobile an automatic line of credit they can use in emergencies or at will. PayTM in India is expanding on consumer credit and lending services at the "auto-rickshaw" level and for the micro amounts we are talking about here (>$100 per month) it seems more a question of distributing the phones than the wealth. Further if feeless peer to peer transactions via Digital Gold or cryptocurrency become ubiquitous, analagous peer to peer lending would also be universal.

The interesting case is in Puerto Rico after Hurrican Irma when all cell towers are wiped out. You have the common scenario of a CNN reporter with a sat phone relaying messages on behalf of stranded locals who just want to let their relatives know they are alive.

Deployment of Iridium Next with cheap sat phones with integrated digital payments could work wonders.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/DeLorme-InReach-Explorer-Sate...
Founder is trying to avoid being served papers in a lawsuit- if he gives up his actual current residency he makes it easier to get served:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/lawsuit-against-...
So really, the Spanish government should just have let the referendum go ahead peacefully, and thereby have had that fact publicly demonstrated.
If something is a complete new subject to me, then I'm trying to develop an anxiety about failing to learn it. I try to tackle the upcoming problems at any time and thinking about it especially before sleeping, at the morning and while meditating. This forces me to make process but often results in days where I'm very frustrated and depressed, but sometimes ends up in learning new things which I didn't ever expect to be able to understand. Probably not the healthiest way but it works for me.
Obviously this is fine only if you feel safe that no two imported packages share the same function/variable names.

import (
. "fmt"
. "log"
)

func main() {
Println("broken!")
}
> And all the while he sees people doing stupid stuff just like the rest of us. So it's hard for him to imagine his officers can drive around for an entire shift and never see someone speeding, running a red light, or making an illegal u-turn.

Then they should stop and cite those violations. No one said that the police should not write tickets for minor misdemeanors. The complaint is the practice of using those misdemeanors as a way to pad their productivity, and by extension their department's budget.

Police departments should be a sunk cost. There shouldn't be pressure to make arrests, as an arrest can only be made when someone breaks the law and is caught. Look at the whole Arpaio mess. Sure, Illegal Immigrants are here illegally, but it's a national problem, not a local problem. We've sat complaining (at least we were as of last year before shit got fucked) that the feds are going after medical marijuana dispensaries in CA despite the fact that locally, those dispensaries are by-and-large complying with local laws. An illegal immigrant in Arizona isn't all that different. They may be breaking a federal law, but they're a productive member of their community. They aren't breaking any local laws, and it's been ruled countless times that local police departments should not be enforcing those laws much like a local patrolman can't really arrest and cite someone for treason. It's above their pay grade. When you do have departments focusing on one kind of violation, like treason or illegal immigration, as Arpaio ended up doing, the department pulls resources from other violations, like rape and statutory rape, that are mostly violent crime with victims that want justice for the pain and suffering they endured by their neighbors. Those are the people that should be arrested, and the fortunate (or unfortunate) reality is that a lawful community will have officers that are not "productive".
> If you allow any region to declare independence then there will be thousands or maybe even more states.

You say this like it's a bad thing.

> Different provinces and regions are united into a country because this way they have more military power to defend themselves.

Exactly. So there are many benefits for people to form larger groups, but please let them decide that for themselves. This kind of negates your first point, if there are obvious benefits then there won't be thousands of states, because people would recognise they are better off together.
I think one big reason to avoid giving out money is to try to avoid fraud. There are a number of people who are not refugees who would certainly find ways to get at the cash if it were being given out. So the refugees may all be great, honest folks but you have to think about other ways programs can be subverted by people who aren't honest.
In 1945 there were 51 members of the United Nations. There are now 193. What's the problem?