skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that one commenter glibly pronounces that Donald Trump has "Russian collaborators" - ostensibly for nefarious purposes - even though, with nearly a year of investigation, I'm not made aware of conclusive proof of such collaboration.

More interesting is the article itself, which I might summarise as: an eyecatching headline (which is of course the one thing all readers will see), 98% of the text being some historical context concerning one of Oscar Wilde's plays, and then the last few sentences straining to relate the headline with the article and the headlines of other modern articles--on supposed "Russia collusion".

Though the effort, this time, - given the headline and closing remarks - seems quite clearly to suggest that 'this whole Russia collusion thing might not be so bad after all'.

Most interesting is how this article has been cobbled together and published within just a few days of the reemerging Uranium One scandal, this time, suggesting collusion between none other than the past Democrat presidential candidate and Russia:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncov...

Though I've been "very" surprised at the lack of attention this got from many major American media corporations, at least on the first day of its release. Some outlets other than The Hill covered it - Breitbart, Fox News, and perhaps more ("names that shall not be mentioned") - but Reddit, for example, had quite a lot of nothing to say about the matter, at least on the most visible portions of the site.

I suppose some prefer to speak of "Oscar Wilde's collusion with Russians" instead of other, important matters.
No, I didn't plan to have a desktop version until now. But anything could change, based on feedback :)
Signatures on important documents are often witnessed, and it's more about having some mark on the page that indicates 'yep I agree to this too' in case of dispute.

You can pretty much write your name any way you like; as you say it would come down to an argument of you saying it wasn't you and a reasonable arbiter deciding how likely it is that the pages you're disputing have been added after the fact
Markdown is as different from Textile as it is from Wikitext, which is another precursor I mentioned.

Evenhanded and informative? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9345962

Any time Apple has a product in a space where there are other competitors, Apple's products are magically always the best in Gruber's blog.
I was interested until I read javascript
Funny, the bulk of the changes in property values nationwide have also been in the past 5 years. Seems like a great way to cherry-pick data.

Before everyone was whining about the recent increase in property values, they were bitching about the increase from 02-7, and then before that....
Why are we so confident?
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Thanks for the feedback! Well, I hate it when some sites show you a large monthly price and in a corner it says "billed anually." So I wanted to be as clear as possible.
Runtimes are already being delivered by the majority of languages that compile to JavaScript.

A GC runtime for a language with like Oberon semantics is just a few hundred KB, way less than sonething like minified jQuery.
Immediately reminded of http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml
Only from those that want to rely on LLVM for their compiler backends.

Using LLVM to target WebAssembly is not a requirement.

Also the point isn't implementing the best GC algorithm, rather a good enough one.
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I enjoyed the article, and always thought it was strange that the people think there is any resemblance between the brain (something beyond comprehension) and some simple man-made tool following basic 1+1=2. I think people are unable to come to terms with their ignorance , indeed, eternal ignorance.
The Appendix of the pdf - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03242 has more examples, including living rooms.
I like to joke that nobody ever thanks me for moving to CA, the way they viciously gnash their teeth about all of the horrible Californians moving north (been whining that way at LEAST as long as I can remember, into the 80s, but I've heard it predates that by many decades).

Funny, I know more people who have moved from the PNW to CA and particularly the Bay Area than the opposite. Offhand I can only think of one person who moved north who wasn't returning 'home' after college.
> I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion".

It was 5 billion over ten years compared with nearly 5 billion each year.

When you do that comparisons it is a mere 5 billion.

Now I'm not arguing that governments should be propping up sectors with pork barrelling. That is something for the electorate to decide.

However, the current government always claimed they had to stop propping up the car industry, because governments should not be in the business of handing out subsidies.

That government statement is disingenuous and total hypocrisy, since they will not be removing those coal, oil and mining subsides any time soon.
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Norway does seem to be exceptional in this regard.
I'm 'young' but it's still funny to hear someone say "I remember when.." about something that seems new to you. One of my last memories of the area was Amazon getting too big for the hospital and moving to the I-district. Hard to believe those were the "olden days".
> The problem is that the person receiving your signature usually has no way to verify that the signature belongs to the person authorized to whatever it is you signed for

And that's why most of the rest of the world uses pin numbers instead of this signature farce

Or, you know, ask for some ID. "but it violates the card agreement" card companies can go take a hike
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The Doughnut = GCHQ (think UK NSA) headquarters in Cheltenham. The building is ring-shaped. (To save anyone else having to look it up.)
Some part of my reply got lost in translation. Please disregard "The first one is basically".

And another one I like to use is this one:

>"It's so much harder to start than it is to stop."

In other words, it takes a lot of effort to get a large ball moving, but once its moving its hard to stop the momentum. What this means is that once you get going you'll often find it easier than you thought it would be. Besides that, there is, rationally speaking, basically no excuse for not starting early. Either you finish earlier which is great, or you find out that the task is significantly harder than you expected which is also great because this means that you have more time to fix it.

Finally, please keep in mind that "all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it." In this case, a European PhD student in econometrics, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Feel free to add your own mantras or advice of course.
> - products with horrible UIs and horrible graphic design, but awesome user experience (UXs) -- because they solve a problem perfectly while enabling a good workflow, or are extensible and adaptable to new unanticipated workflows

Thank you for articulating this point so well. I think websites like HN, 4Chan to an extent Reddit are best examples for this category
You replied to a comment that presented a situation where a valid card was not needed at all.
Brought to you by the same geniuses behind "security by mother's maiden name" and VbV/3dS
Conveniently co-inciding with the overall housing boom nationwide.
Casey Neistat on his studio "functionality breeds its own aesthetic". I try to operate with that mental model as much as possible
Yeah, but that's more about The Stranger than it is about you. Or Amazon. That all vastly predates Amazon.
You are severely distorting reality. Japan has only become powerful again after WW2 because of massive investments in the Japanese economy by the US when they were fighting the Korean war and then the Vietnam War. The Japanese economy grew tremendously ONLY because of that. And every Japanese is very well aware of that.

Same story in Western Germany; massive investments from the West to prevent them from turning to the Soviet block.

And so on. Don't oversimplify History.
And wherever your friends move to, people like you will look down on then for being "outsiders".

Many newcomers didn't choose to not have enough jobs in their home town. I'm sure many would have preferred being able to stay with their friends instead of moving to Seattle for jobs.

You could try making friends with newcomers instead of walling yourself off from them.
> smartphone lets you choose

That's not really the case when apps are designed to make you come back to them the whole time like Facebook and Twitter.
For a "corporate death penalty" why would the state need to concern itself with the notion of shareholders to begin with? Loss of stake would merely be a part of the penalty. There's certainly precedent outside of the US for nationalization of corporate resources.
Take a close look at the teams. A friend of mine had several offers from teams at Google. The first team she choose sucked and she was ready to leave a month after she joined. After a chat with HR, she was transferred to her second choice and has been there for years.

Let the companies know you have multiple offers and that you wish to have one more additional meeting with your potential workmates.
When a huge corporation is deciding which cloud provider to use, the decision falls to the IT departmen

Cute. The decision is made by an executive based on a magazine article they read on a plane, or on what their buddies on the golf course said, then handed down by diktat to the workers. Same with all outsourcing deals.
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Once a company gets listed in NYSE, govt should impose tax on its revenues, not profits;
I get the stereotype, but disagree. An awful lot of people are toxic IRL, that’s been the case for forever and nobody bats an eye. “old people rants”, “neighborhood gossip”, “backroom talk”, you call it what you want.

It’s mostly accepted. Growing up we learn to ignore it, avoid these people, or enjoy getting caught up in sterile discussions.
Discussing with a hedgie friend the other night (a) what can he do that Goldman's can't and (b) in US stocks no managed fund seems to reliably outdo a tracker once fees are factored in.

My friend has a niche where GS may not go, but I'm not sure that IBM's path is so clear...
A biotech management recruiter commented:

MA will pull away with the lead soon from Bay Area
based on cost of living. I have senior management
members tell me daily that they'll move anywhere
BUT Bay Area. You'll pay $3.2m for 3/4 BR in Palo
Alto. South Bay and North Bay aren't too much better.
I've been wondering about that.

What if they gave a third group a prominently visible dummy body cam that did not record, and the police officer knew it, but to others it would look like there was a body cam?

And possibly a fourth group a working body cam that was barely visible to others?

With variations like these, one might be able to tease out more information about the causal relationships.
A "natural monopoly" is something like the water or sewage or electricity provider where is isn't sensible to physically run more than one set of pipes into everyone's house. That dynamic doesn't apply at all to search engines.
The fact that there are no tests makes me feel incredibly sad - there are probably plenty of people who were unfairly sentenced because of this.
Does it protect me from Google?
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
No love for autotools?
Bitcoin hits 100B market cap
A "communist country" has rather more monopoly power than Google has today, but why would you wait until the Google States of America are indistinguishable from a communist country (and unassailable) before you break up Google?
Chris Sacca was under a $2M debt at 25
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The guards are probably just doing what they’ve been trained and paid to do.

In the US, security guards are paid somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000, annually. I imagine at that pay rate, a typical guard doesn’t have much motivation to do anything more than follow policy and procedure. That is if they even have policy and procedure.
Urban employees live in tall apartments and use public transit. Suburban employees live in houses and drive cars to work.
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Firstly I would start with some introspection. Techniques from afar can help, but you may find that you have resources well known to you, near at hand, that may offer some immediate relief. What springs to mind if you imagine "running away"? Where and what would you like to run away to? What do you associate with joy and freedom? If you spend a little time introspecting & remembering, you might already find you know of some things to do, whether it be surfing or reading or walking in the moonlight. In my case a good run, or certain types of gigs, offer peaks that can counter much day-to-day difficulty. These resources can become a bit hidden by the daily grind. Digging them up and allocating time for them might be useful.

Secondly, if you're a reader I think Jon Kabat-Zinn's book The Mindful Way through Depression is an excellent intro to meditation. Don't be put off by the title -- it's useful for more than just depression. It's a decent read, is very secular in tone, offers various ways in to thinking about and approaching meditation that have been fruitfully used in clinical settings, and has a set of guided meditations on the associated CD that are easier to start with than trying to remember instructions.

Thirdly, if meditation appeals to you, why not find a local zen or vipassana group? There's something a little heightened about meditating with a group that can be motivating. Many such groups offer a weekly sitting, and are usually pretty relaxed (not demanding you believe anything, join up, etc).

Good luck.
Yeah, but SF has the money, so they'll just have to put up with it. I mean, is there any other reason to be in SF for a biotech startup?
Debugging a failing dependency update for a Depfu client
And where?
Next up: tell inexperienced people to try to exit Vim and use it as entropy source for random number generation
Every day is a new horror.
He didn't mention some of the stuff Viewpoints was working on which seems to have petered out (although maybe "bad funders" was a dig at that). I'd like to know what happened to those projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)
What is fun is how if there is an oversupply of say lithium, the demand for electric cars can restore demand. If the dollar collapses though for example, it will take until car loans are restored before there are any demand.
This is kind of what mrustc does? It's a Rust-to-C compiler in C++; one which assumes the Rust program is correct (i.e. passes type/borrow check).

But you still need to resolve types to do dispatch, so that's a nontrivial amount of work.

mrustc can currently compile rustc, but the produced rustc doesn't pass the entire rustc testsuite (yet).

A colleague of mine was considering writing a Rust-to-C++ compiler that was similar, but offloading most of the dispatch/resolution work onto C++. This is actually possible, you can turn method dispatch and autoderef into template resolution. You can do stuff to fake type inference too if you know the program is correct already. This is much harder however and I'm not yet sure if it's 100% possible without doing some typechecking in the Rust-to-C++ compiler itself.

You could however take rustc --unpretty=typed (or whatever that option is these days) output and transform that really easily.

This requires you to be able to independently verify that the two ASTs are equal if you resugar, because you can't trust rustc's output for this. In fact, the poc trusting trust attack I wrote[1] would still go under the radar here.

Verifying ASTs as semantically equal is much less work. But there's a loophole here, it is possible to add type annotations to type inference'd Rust to get different behavior. This is because (among other things) integers are inferred more loosely (an uninferable integer type is defaulted as u32). It's possible that a trusting trust attack would be able to propagate itself merely by flipping around the results of inference.

Even if we looked out for that, you still have the problem of dispatch, where a backdoored rustc could change the method being dispatched to be a different trait. Now this isn't something that would work if you assume that the original code was code which compiled fine with rustc (because rustc complains when there's unqualified ambiguity). But we can't actually trust the original compiler to have handled this correctly either!

In both cases there would be need to be traces of weird code in rustc for this to work, but it might be possible to hide this.

(This is also somewhat a problem for mrustc, but to much a lesser degree)

[1]: http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-...
So everyone working on books, movies and computer games is a theft apparently.

Not everyone wants to give their work for free, dress in coloured cothles, sing about peace and love and grow tomatos in a community.
As I said, it really just comes down to business goals. Setting up a shared DO box with iptables isnt worth my time when it's still just a single DO box at the end of the day.

S3 + Cloudfront + ad hoc Lambdas is a far far easier cost benefit ratio when it comes out what my time is worth. To each their own :)
mods, thanks for not permabanning him. it’s nice to read his posts and see he’s doing okay
Unfortunate coincidences where a word or phrase in an unsupported language looks like something offensive in a supportrd language.
At least their Maps product originated outside Google.
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To be honest temporary bans for that kind of language would only help Twitter.

You can express the same amount of outrage with cleaner language.
You can also type the path in spotlight and press enter. And voila the folder will open
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most of Australia's population lives in the suburbs surrounding the city.

Public transport from the suburbs to anywhere but the city or somewhere directly on the way, is terrible.

Will we have better cars that are less polluting, safer, even self driving? Sure. Will we get rid of personal motorised transportation? No.
>Is it a mistake though to think of people as machines?

Yes and no... It is not a mistake because much (and perhaps eventually all) of observable human functionality and behavior can be logically explained and therefore eventually simulated. However, when logic becomes one's "Maslow's hammer" then of course not only are people machines but all of existence is just a giant machine. It's an easy mistake to make because we tend to conflate a very powerful tool used by the mind to operate in reality with reality itself. I think humans are unique (at least on this planet) in their ability to ask this question, but also in their ability to discover that the answer is negative - i.e there is much more to reality than a complex "dead" machine.
Hi eugenv,

Very nice! Here is my first impression:

- the landing page is well done: it is very clear what this app does and who it is for!

- I liked the onboarding flow

- one thing I didn't like: Your app is very well designed, and I can tell that you spend a lot of effort into every last detail of the design... but for reading, and especially skimming over article headlines, the tile design isn't ideal in my opinion. It looks good, definitely! But I think for readability, a simple text-only list, like on HN would be more suitable.

> Another nice feature: related news are grouped together.

one reason I signed up, was to check out how you would do that. maybe I didn't select enough feeds to see it... but do you only group articles by category tags (e.g. Startup, Europe, Games, etc.), or do you group articles within the same category, if they write about the same topic. E.g. within the Startup category, there are two articles about the latest Uber scandal. Are they grouped together? If so, do you do that manually, or do you have some smart ML implemented?

Also, for your press kit: you might be interested in my app PressKitHero (https://presskithero.com), to present a bit more information about you and your company.
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Seems like the problem is the system is letting any idiot communicate with you. 0 cost for an idiot to say something to you, via @reply etc.

Create tiers of accounts, a verified account can @reply 100 times a day to people who aren't following them, an anonymous account: 0.
#metoo.
Length is kind of the default dimension for a tunnel. Seeing one unspecified number, that's what we automatically assume it describes.
So the only people that can live in the city are ones that can afford buying a home? No youth, no elderly, no low-income people, etc.? Doesn't sound like an well thought-through idea.
Looking at the provided data, it sounds like they gave most officers cameras. In my experience, police rarely travel alone, yet I couldn't find anything showing they tracked whether another officer on the scene had a camera.

This seems like an issue with the study as the control group is also under the watch of a camera.
When I was talking about discoverability I meant assuming you don’t know all the exact command names and what they do. I thought you neeeded to know the exact command name to use :help, so I’m not seeing how that’s an answer here.

Also, yes the mouse can be slow for some purposes, but if you’re not in a typing frenzy it’s probably easier to be in mouse mode which is something like reading mode. Scrolling is much easier for me outside of vim than inside of vim. Also I considered that this is maybe a better match to my workflow, which is often more readingand thinking than actual keyboard input. So it’s ok for keyboard input to be less prioritized. For this workflow having inline documentation, intellisense and compiler errors as you type is fundamental.

Also I doubt I ran into the beginner traps. I used it pretty seriously and exclusively for a year or two and am still proficient at navigating. I even got into using macros like other commenters mentioned, and learned all the different edit mode shortcuts (cxsSDCiaAOo). Seriously editing in vim is really really fast. Although maybe there are traps for people that I don’t already know about, and you could fill me in on those.
Mongo's business model is "exploiting the technically naive". They are the CueCat of databases.
I only killed one laptop in the end, the rest of the testing was done with VMs and a system that had a hardware EFI variable reset button. The issue that was triggering it on Samsungs was the driver that supported backlight control - it worked by writing a value to an address which triggered some system management mode code in the firmware, but that code only worked properly in BIOS mode. In EFI mode it generated machine check exceptions, which in turn caused the kernel to dump the backtrace to EFI variables.
Please stop linking to articles with paywalls.
If you count the number of transactions, then yes there's a lot in the mid-market range. But most of that is buying and selling presales; it doesn't affect the supply, because it's not eating up any housing units which actually exist. (In fact, there's a strong argument that this increases housing supply, since a strong presale market encourages more construction.)

The real estate crash you're talking about had nothing to do with the Japanese economy; it coincided with the Hong Kong handover and an overnight 50% reduction in immigration. Keeping the supply of new homes fixed while the number of prospective new homeowners dropped dramatically had exactly the effect one would expect...