skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I haven't been paying attention. I hear a lot of talk about Trump and supporters being white supremacists, but when I ask his accusers, they aren't able to articulate very significant evidence at all. Most such conversations end with implications that I'm a racist for lacking the astute progressive hearing required to perceive Trump's dog whistles. The irony that dog whistles are (by definition) intended to be perceptible only to actual racists is apparently lost on many progressives.
> do PEGs make solve the problem of ambiguous grammars. Yes they do

That's a problem noone ever had.

By this definition, even grammars generated by yacc and Bison (LR parser generators) aren't ambiguous - even if there are conflicts a working parser will be produced. They even resolve conflicts in a "sensible" way - shift/reduce conflicts are resolve in favour of shift (i.e. longest match - like regexes) whereas reduce/reduce conflicts are resolved in favour of the earlier rule (like PEGs). Hell, I even left one shift/reduce conflict unresolved in a parser I wrote a few days ago (amply documented, of course), because I know precisely where the ambiguity, no, confusion stems from, and I decided that rewriting the grammar to resolve the conflict explicitly would be too much work and would make the grammar much less readable.

So I really see no point in PEGs (except possibly ease of use). LR parser generators apply more-or-less the same conflict resolution, except that they will proactively warn you about where your grammar is, or could be, confusing.
There have been several articles over the past months about an upcoming launch and descriptions of the product. It's just that people here only like to discuss the funding articles because it's easier to cast doubt.
It's on the G Suite blog, so I'm guessing it's for G Suite users first/only at this point.
It was long dead by the time you showed up, so I'm not sure how this was particularly relevant.
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For sure you don't want to be lumped in with the people too cheap to spend $25.
FWIW, I've been very satisfied with mine for three years now. It's a much firmer foam than memory foam, and gives me just the right amount of support for side sleeping.
Yup. Doesn't really exist in american pot culture, though - from that point of view, it is a filter. I think some folks would call those rolled-up paper bits wussy or something. Then again, lots of folks here (Norway) smoke hand-rolled cigarettes without filters as well - mostly starts as a cost-saving thing and cops aren't going to give you crap for having drug paraphernalia because you have cigarette papers like they would in the states.

I can't remember if I've seen actual filters for sale in the shops in Amsterdam or not, but I'm going to guess they'd sell so long as they don't affect the buzz at all.
I would not characterize Boeing as idiots... More like paranoids.

Boeing is scared (panicked?) of having a new entrant. The commercial jet industry has huge costs of entry that act as a very high barrier for newcomers. The C series, if successful, would have acted a stepping stone into bigger jets that would be competing directly with Boeing.

Airbus buying the C series is, in a way, a small victory for Boeing. It leaves the market as a duopoly and ensures that Bombardier will not get into bigger planes. It also sends a strong signal that no third competitor will be allowed. At least until the Chinese government heavily subsidizes a homegrown competitor with huge military tanker contracts.
Last I heard MS were having reliability problems with the Surface:

"The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers’ laptops and tablets, Consumer Reports said, adding that it was removing its “recommended” designation for Surface products."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface/microso...
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CSeries Production for US market will be in USA.

Trump gets to say that he brought jobs to USA.
How does this compare to Gemnasium?
I've also had deliverability problems with SES, and I absolutely did set up DKIM/SPF right.
I didn't... you mean the overuse of commas?
Like any market, cryptocurrencies have value because of the collective valuations of large numbers of individuals.

The simple fact that people like GP exist, and that there have been enough of them to propel the market cap of BTC et al. to billions, suggests that people like GP will continue to exist if the economy crashes.

In fact, if the economy were to crash, it would only take a handful of high volume BTC purchases, I'd bet, to cause another spike in price as people see an opportunity to shelter their finances.

Yes, it is high risk, but you're not just throwing away your money. BTC is much like gold in this manner - to the lay person, there is little value in the commodities other than as a store of value, which becomes more and more appealing as price continues to rise. Look at gold. Markets do not always appear to be rational.
Nazi organiser quits movement, opens up about Jewish heritage, comes out as gay
The title is indeed quite ludicrous. The author clearly needs a good talking to by someone with a sense of proportion (and I write as a long-time macbook user who will never buy another one because of the fake keyboard).
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Usually that conversation is about lesser crimes, not murderers.
Markets see Bombardier shedding a bad investment. Bombardier sees a big strategic failure
Since Tsuru 1.3 (1.4 on the way), besides Tsuru's own docker provisioner, it can handle Kubernetes & Swarm too
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I don't see the extrapolation, can you explain that in more detail?
Yeah, Microsoft is not unique in being unable to sucessfully integrate Wacom tech. And Wacom's own portables leave a lot to be desired as computing devices. It's a hard problem.
The best outcome is the "Culture" endpoint: a post-need society. 10% of people are called upon to work, and the rest thrive on basic income and become artists and inventors, philosophers and musicians and actors.

The worst outcome, on the other hand, is rather more dystopian. A society with a very large percentage of young, unemployed people with no particular path to success is not a stable society.

I suppose it matters how comfortable the 90% is when they become unemployed. Is basic income enough to fulfill individual passions and interests? What happens to a large body of humans whose needs are taken care of but who aren't strictly needed for anything?
For me Ebay is the place where I go to buy x and instead find a million listings for knock off Chinese versions of x, novelty accessories for x and finally when I find x it is a sad worn out x that sells for 80% of the cost of a new x on Amazon. Except Amazon shipping is cheaper.
I think about ebay. No other place to search (learn/discover) used collectable stuff, like maps

A far as buy it now, that is a "wish" price for collectable stuff we buy. Everyone knows the real bidding starts with 2 minutes left in the auction.

Where else is there? When craigslist could search every city - that was the closest.
a bit basic; looks a lot like gryd (https://gryd.us)
Well the entire market is up over 3x since 2009. Also Ebay does indeed make a lot of money. The current P/E ratio is 5.6 which actually makes it a good value. Amazon is starting to struggle with the issue of fake or defective goods that hurt Ebay as well.
While I'm not sure about Da Vinci and Newton, Einstein was always humble
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I think if you are a recruiter and you find someone who doesn't think they can get a job at Google, and you get them a job at Google, you have just changed that individuals life. That seems quite fulfilling.
I use a single TB3 port to connect two 4K displays, 100W power and all USB devices all through a single cable
Which is why C++ became my next favourite language after Pascal, and I joined the C++ side of the C++ vs C USENET "arguments".
In the capitalist interpretation, "seize the means of production" translates to "start your own business and out-compete your competitors". Or put another way: just own the damn robots.

"Private (real) property is ultimately rooted in the theft of the commons"

If only somehow I could capitalize on everyone who believed this nonsense. I would sell them shirts, but for them to receive them would be ownership of private property and therefore a "theft of the commons".

Can I ask what piece of technology you stole from "the commons" to write that comment? What was the brand?
Looking at the negative score my comment received, I now remember, why I stopped visiting HN. (No sense of humor allowed.)
Well, yes, my friends and the other people in their social groups could be lying to me for some mysterious reason, but barring further evidence, I'm going to believe them. It's true that tobacco burns better, but the general agreement is that they would smoke pure marijuana if they could

It doesn't mean your friends are lying. Sure, some folks could do that. My circle surely never mixed the two - we were more likely to mix pot and cheap alcohol to make the pot last a bit longer. The other point does exist in different pot cultures, just like some folks use slightly different tools to smoke.
Nice rant, but I think it would be stronger if it did more to consider the counter arguments.

I see it as:

* perhaps AI will someday rule the world -- in which case there's nothing more to discuss

* if humans do still have a role, then they will work with the machines to figure out a solution

* most moaning about so called under privileged people, such as Uber drivers, ignores that their standard of living is far superior to people of the past (e.g. 1800s farmer) and the millions living in deep poverty or slavery today.

To be clear, I think there are many social problems that need to be addressed.
Dissecting the latest Netflix earnings transcript with NLP
We've occasionally got bounces like "554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [54.240.27.56] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net".

Amazon say SORBS is worthless but unfortunately someone is still using them https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blackl...
I wonder if this is the case with Salmon. I always find fresh wild caught salmon much better during the summer, than the flash frozen stuff. Could be due to the lower fat content in sockeye.
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Acquired in 2005 with 300k users. Had 4m users and maybe 1m MAU in early 2007 before the transition to the v2 site.

Yahoo management did a huge amount of work to kill momentum.

1) We were forced to migrate to PHP. We were not allowed to have ops support until this was complete.

2) We inherited the Yahoo Photos team that brought a backend that they had written for that platform. They estimated it would take six months to migrate delicious to that new platform. It took 2+ years.

3) We were denied having actual access to VESPA and had to reuse MyWeb's backend instead, which was designed for a different feature set.

4) Almost all the staff were placed on Yahoo Answers anyway, which ended up dying of its own accord anyway.
Many coding schools also hire graduates as teaching assistants.
You can use the WiFi on these things from a surprising distance (hundreds of feet) with a proper antenna. Even with an IPSEC tunnel in place, one can achieve a connection with over 100Mbps upload and download with 5ms latency. That's much better than what most ISPs in NYC provide. And it's free. So, there's that.
Why do you think that number is so small?

How many extraordinary people have had their lives ruined by being asked to conquer one too many obstacles?

This story shows that there is potential in prisoners and despite the deck being stacked against him this one person succeeded. How many others would have done the same if they received support instead of discouragement?
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Dang, I missed that one in the daily deluge of AWS product announcements. The Mailchimp HTML5 editor is REALLY nice though. Probably the reason everyone uses them.

Side story: At the former job, we used to create transactional emails with a marketing swing to them in Mailchimp. Marketing loved it! Then we'd copy and paste the HTML to our ratty Salesforce backend and replace some tags and BOOM: super nice transactional emails from SalesHorse!
> I find it unlikely an ICO conviction would help anyone electorally

I've never held elected office. I defer my opinion to those who do. They say ICOs represents a golden trifecta between (a) fraud against moms and pops, (b) complicated financial instruments and (c) Silicon Valley arrogance.
I use eBay all the time. It's my default shopping site. It has the things i want, and it's no more expensive than Amazon, sometimes cheaper.

Indeed, i feel it has a bit of an edge over Amazon in selling slightly odd, not entirely mass-produced things. For example, a while ago, i wanted to grow a couple of plants from cuttings. Just two. To do that, i needed a couple of millilitres of rooting hormone and a couple of peat pellets. No manufacturer packages those things in such small quantities. xxlbigdaves-hydro does, though. He buys big packs of rooting hormone and peat pellets, splits them up, and sells a tiny quantity of both, together. He even throws in a razor blade. Ideal.

More recently, i wanted a very particular make of lipstick for a halloween costume. I could buy a single 2.5 ml tube of it on eBay. On Amazon, you can either buy a big tube, or packs of several 2.5 ml tubes. That's a lot more lipstick than i'm likely to get through in my life.

I'm in the UK, and maybe the sellers here are better than in the US, or Amazon is worse. It probably matters that i am the last surviving human without Prime, so Amazon has a higher marginal cost for me than for the typical Hackernews. And i confess that i use eBay partly out of sheer bloody-minded desire not to see Amazon take over the entire universe.
> That 70 year old law is based on financial models that have been settled for far longer though

No, it's based on the language of a statute that's about a decade older.

Now, the statute may be based on older financial models, but that doesn't control the case law, and disrupting the financial model doesn't, in and of itself, amend the statute underlying the case law.
Detroit 2.
Perhaps, but not necessarily. There are real concerns that with a combination of temperature rises, ocean acidification, and trophic cascades caused by overfishing, the oceans will entirely die in the medium term. They are certainly in the process of dying (like nearly all ecosystems under the assault of 'economic growth').
No, I've been to the Microsoft store and tested out all their new devices. None are on par with even Wacom's Intuos offerings. The Surface Studio seemed especially bad.

I'm sure their digitizers work great for the average user, but Wacoms are primarily devices for pros. None of the Surface stuff is at that "level," unless you're comparing them to other (IMO bad) PC integrations.
I managed to fend off the forced Yahoo logins by virtue of one fact: Three quarters of the users had gmail accounts, or something like that.

I think Delicious had died before AVOS even touched them.
You are beating a dead horse at this point.
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>Let's say there is a big crash coming, where would you put your money for a safe bet

Treasury bills. 4 week T-bills are at 1% yield now, up 10x
from two years ago [0].

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TB4WK
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You also don't see why someone should jump in to correct a wrong statement?

Either way, the potential for damage wasn't that obvious: it could have happened to any company. (Employees often make commercial decisions without understanding the technical ramifications.)

Also, Superfish said it wasn't its fault: it blamed Komodo's tool. This amounts to a similar type of buck-passing.

I've bought a couple of Lenovo machines since Superfish, mainly because they were fantastic value for money. I also know that if I wasn't happy with the installation, I could download Windows 10 from Microsoft and do a clean installation.
Ah yes, I figured I'd forget one. That was all from memory because I looked it up a few weeks ago to elaborate on the distance between Windows 7 and the Fall Creators Update. If you treat all of the in-place upgrades of Windows as semver major, the FCU is very distant from Windows 7 (at least 6 to 8 semver major versions depending on how you count it).
has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-...

Is that possibly a sprite sheet with different background position for each rule?
'Nice error messages' is an important goal - it is one of a few things that tends to stop people from using parser generators for 'production' compilers. Parsing itself is the easy bit, and while things like left recursion can make some things a bit easier, the workarounds are so well understood it is not what stops people.

But error handling does.
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"The company’s research has found that a younger audience wants unique products and “is searching for items that push against conformity.”"

I wonder how much time and money was spent for Ebay to realize the obvious: that young people like (and have always liked) being different.
I am under the impression that altcoins themselves actually aren't that popular at the moment. The days of KanyeWestCoin are probably gone.

What is more popular is ERC20 crowdsale tokens, which are even less useful.

And now the "forkcoins" - Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin 2x. We will see what is next.
I don't think you can reasonably claim that a person who steals candy at age 14 will never be a convicted felon, especially when labels tend to stick with people and influence their later life choices and situation.

Where is the benefit to society in labeling someone a criminal for the rest of their lives? Are you arguing that prison ought to have no rehabilitating effect?
No. The cost just wasn't monetary. If I understand correctly, Airbus gets the CSeries and Bombardier no longer has to make a profit out of their debts. So basically Airbus paid for CSeries by taking on CSeries' debts. Also, Bombardier still owns stake in CSeries, so any profit from CSeries is still positive for them. Since Airbus can provide the manufacturing in the US, this seems like a net profit compared to the alternative.
The argument for not locking up was that "he works hard and has great mind".

Imo, both are weak argument to treat that person any different if that person really commuted crime that would put less great hacker to prison.
Don't need to be a dick to strangers.

He was remarking that a box spring is there to provide certain things and that using another mattress instead of a box spring might not provide those benefits.
Checking in as another 50 year old, still on HN, still an "engineer", experienced enough to use tools, not "stack"s.

Admittedly I didn't start with Pascal, but rather with BASIC and several assembly languages (1802, Z80, & 6809 were among the first I used). I learned Pascal after C, actually. I like things about both, but often wish that Wirthian languages would have won out.

FWIW, these days I primarily use Java, C, C++ (when I must), and a smattering of other languages, with libraries and such chosen to match the problem at hand and the environment in which it must be solved.
Passenger pigeons weren't really a resource and wikipedia page says they were mostly driven to extinction by deforestation for land use and lumber and fuel... which are resources.
> I haven't seen anyone engaging with these "kisoks" for any kind of informational purposes.

How do you see how people are using a public WiFi hub at all? Are you intercepting and inspection traffic?
It might benefit Bombardier and their investors, but if the C series jet was going to be manufactured in Canada by Canadian workers, this ends up harming those (potential?) jobs in favour of American workers who previously never had any sort of relationship with Bombardier.

To me, the whole situation is a schoolyard example of "having your cake and eating it too".
> I haven't seen anyone engaging with these "kisoks" for any kind of informational purposes. On rare occasions I have seen someone using them to charge their USB device.

I think they have the opposite problem -- people who camp out at the kiosk literally all day for the free charging/internet.
At the bootcamp I went to, this was below "get a job at Google" and above "get a job at a generic start-up" in desirability. It both paid well and providing excellent networking opportunities.
I read the GP comment as "A story of redemption should not be uncommon among prisoners". Our goal as a society should be to make that the norm.
I meant faster execution. Browsers don't do that and can't do that because of the dynamic nature of JS.

Chrome can do 31bit signed integer computation when it seems it possible, but it still needs to be converted to 64bit doubles most of the time.

I work on a very compute intensive application and have profiled JS under Chrome down to the generated bytecode for countless hours..
It's small because Georgetown law professors are the most elite of elite in society.

You could do a random sample of non-prisoners and you'd get as many potential Georgetown law professors as in prison.

I don't doubt that there are a lot of prisoners that would thrive with encouragement, but you also aren't being realistic: the people who end up prison often end up there because they made a series of very bad choices which were the result of being raised in an unfavorable environment. Some people in prison will never be rehabilitated and they certainly aren't going to became Georgetown law professors. Prison tends to select for people who aren't law school material, so the likelihood is not surprisingly very low. It's not something that can be fixed by pleading to the better angels of our nature.
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A podcast with him : https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/lessons-b...
It is difficult to do quite a few things in the US once you are convicted of a felony.

You are limited on grants, student loans, SBA loans and most programs in areas like the medical field will not even accept people with criminal backgrounds at all due to the low likelihood of finding employment post training (when there is a waiting list felons will be at the bottom).

So add on top of that the fact that most people won't hire a felon...where do you go. Difficult to find gainful employment, less chance of training and then you are limited in finding funding for a small business.

Edit: In this world to In the US

Also, housing. Having a felony can exclude you from rentals entirely. Most property management companies will not rent to felons regardless of time since last conviction.
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That's because Microsoft is trash. Typing this from an SP3, which I overall like very much. I was given this, so I have no misgivings. But the overall sloppiness of Windows and the years of varying quirky behavior I've had with this thing has been very annoying. Windows has an excuse when the hardware is arbitrary, but with the surface line there is no excuse.

If I had paid more than a few hundred dollars for an SP3, I would be quite upset with the numerous annoyances. As of now, it generally works ok. Of course Windows is still trash (which app do I use for settings again)?

But yeah, once you start taking people's money in Apple ballpark (and these are not cheap), make things work at least as good as Apple (which, yes, isn't perfect), or expect negative comments.