skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are talking about promoting their own coverage of the election. They're a news media organization, that's what they all do... this has nothing specifically to do with them admitting to 'influencing the election' any differently than any other news organization.

There is zero admission of guilt here... unless you're looking for very weak correlations that fit your worldview.
You introduced an arbitrary, irrelevant constraint as though it was the only valid criterion and got called on it. No need to be sore about it.
Pipenv: Python Development Workflow for Humans
> known hostile foreign propagandists

If you believe this statement is true, then how do you know the post we’re commenting on is not propaganda?
This is a great comment, not sure why it's at the bottom of the thread. Gets to the core values underlying the main religious beliefs about testing.
Creator of the Matrix code reveals its mysterious origins
> I’m surprised that no one is considering taxing (highly) unoccupied flats.

It's the logistics. How would you police it?
Well my stepmother has a cat, and I may have been using her WiFi. But I was logged into YouTube as me, and the videos I watch would not be of interest to her so Google could be very confident that they were indeed advertising to me. (By the way, Google also have my location history so they can see that I never visit the pet food ailse at the supermarket).

So I'm inclined to think Google is not optimising their ads.

This episode has made me think Google should have a "Human vs AI" internal competition: Take a specific Google end user, and see whether a Google employee can tweak that user's ads to get a better conversion rate. If so, the employee gets a big bonus and the engineering team get to know where their ad algorithm is lacking.
We get around the shared folder performance problem using NFS. Adds one extra step to setup (mount a network share), but we've never had performance issues with it.
Here is a programming language that reads like a recipe
I am currently in a project where we do not use TDD, even remotely, but we do have almost 100% coverage, since we need it for certification purposes.

These tests are fairly easy to write, actually, with a test framework that helps mock everything automatically.

Then we have some internal tools written that makes these tests worth a lot less, we produce a lot of the test data and then just record the outputs as "correct". We have no real idea if they are correct, but at least the tests as they are now works as regression tests. This is what happens when you realize you need unit tests for tens of thousands of line of code in a few weeks' time, instead of writing the tests when you write the code.

There are of course testing on higher levels for this industrial system, multiple levels even and I have to say that the unit tests are fairly useless in comparison.
Best Alternative to Nagios for Network, Server and Application Monitoring
Hack the Gibson – Proving a tech conference is a fraud
Yes, that's kind of how I feel too.
Windows user here. .mediumTextViewer class has a overflow-x: scroll on it which makes everything look like this:

https://i.imgur.com/kE2ElEv.png

Switch it to auto and it will look a lot cleaner.

Otherwise cool site
Tesla Muzzling Model 3 Buyers – Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) – Seeking Alpha
10 things you can use Docker for
maybe OP meant the greek Golden Age, rather than Twain's Gilded Age.
It is, but tax policy can drive behavior. No residential exemption == higher carrying cost.
The "Supported Services" is the table of contents
I get why they do it and I get why it hurts. Saying 'team not good enough' would imply that the rest is a recipe for acceptance. What if everything was lacking? Would you want to hear that?

"The whole idea, market and the complete team are all crap. Improvement on any of these factors is impossible as everything about your idea, team and execution is shit." I can't imagine that being helpful.

To be honest, your question and example feedback "Not good enough team" give me the image of someone who has no savvy in the field of startups that YC is involved with. That you'd think that that would be a valuable piece of feedback formulated in such a way does not really strike me as something that a founder of a successful startup would think. From what I have read and heard about YC and their projects is that having a good feeling about applications is the nr 1 requirement in the whole founding process, so maybe it was that.
Are you planning to use L4?
I try to make the analysis more about the facts and the situation rather than about parties' identities. I don't want to make it sound like I have any kind of agenda toward a particular type of entity. I hear what you're saying though.
> Its not like the real world places any restrictions on math

There has been an ongoing debate about whether that statement is true for the last couple of millennia. Many people are arguing that mathematics were not developed out of the blue, but to describe the physical world around us.
Let them write the comprehensive test suite, then. Your reasoning is a classic context for YAGNI.
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in the distribution system I am in, excess inventory is concern. not only identifying over stocked items but rounding up all obsolete inventory taking space in stores and warehouses. then understanding why it is there.

since wal mart doesn't close stores often or deal with private stores I am curious how they account for take backs from such. that alone can upset the inventory of any business.

accurate inventory is so key with both the seller and supplier. I am not surprised they want to focus there. plus another issue is shrink, by having robots fulfill the role the chance of it vanishing on a count is gone
> the extra demand increases the value of properties the locals own.

Which is exactly the problem. Housing is for living, not speculating. Basic human needs should probably not be subject to such speculation.

That said, regulations in building new housing can also exacerbate this problem. At the very least, density should be increasing at approximately the rate of population growth in a region, or you will obviously have a growing sprawl problem.
> If you want to make it more popular

I don't think that's a desirable goal. COBOL is not a very good programming language: it's verbose, clunky, cumbersome and outdated. It still exists because of tons of legacy systems and (understandably) conservative businesses like banks. But if you start a new project, please DON'T consider COBOL. To be honest, even my recommendation is irrelevant: you wouldn't start a new COBOL project just as you wouldn't start a new GW Basic project -- it'd be unnatural.

Disclaimer: worked with COBOL for a bank. It wasn't pretty.
Infinities show up in currently used models to describe physical processes. Is there an actual infinite quantity in nature? I’m a mathematician and not a physicist but it always seemed to me that the answer is no.
Yes, lets suppress actual popular movements because they deviate from the norm and therefore could be suspicious.
People don't whine about DST, people hate the one hour change every year.
[citation needed]

I see this claim constantly on Reddit. I'd love to see examples of these 'bots' and paid trolls that everyone is so privy to...
It's a snowball effect. Bigger numbers and more activity help indirectly, eg by attracting celebrities. In turn they attract more real people.
Speculation always drives empty units.

If you’re well capitalized it is often cheaper and less hassle to leave them empty. Renting is a pain in the ass and makes unloading the property harder.
As an ethical vegan who tries to avoid tropical plant materials, would you mind specifying if your plant inputs are from the US or from a 3rd world country?
While I know so many programmers are vehemently opposed to "visual programming" I wonder if we can make programming multimodal. Such as a programming language that supports both visual and text modes, where both are first class citizens to the language. This would allow us to use visual tools to see macrostructure; a place where text falls short. But still let us have our tools for the micro-editing that is modern programming. I know some work has been done in this area: http://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/.
Never blindly listen to advice.
That's probably just a bad ad. That has never happened to me there. Sorry, though.
Great quote: "If you rewrite that app as a PWA today it will work as intended 50 years from now"
> From a human point of view, the data is all we care about: my pictures, my mail, my documents.

I don’t think it’s that simple.

Consider messaging apps: do users care about their own messages? No - a list of sentences is meaningless when detached from the overall conversation.

So in who’s $HOME do you store that conversation?
Impressive screenshots, but how does it work? Is it some kind of "artificial intelligence"? Can you configure your parsers? Is it some kind of preconfigured regex?

Is it in the same domain as https://monique.io/?
Hmm don't you have to pay to access the full newspaper? How does that mix with Tor anonymity?
> So if you have income tax in the country then you can get exempt from one property tax.

This is easily gamed if Chinese millionaires are truly at fault. They just set up a numbered corporation and "employ" their nephew whose living there.
"going" to end up with
Any new services that utilize Tor so we don't have to use exit nodes is a step in the right direction.
> Now your testing will dirty whatever database you're using, as well as run 10x slower

It sounds like a problem is a few layers higher. Why is there a live database in your unit testing environment? Why are working credentials configured? If they're unit test, not integration tests, all db operations should be DId / mocked / whatever. Any call that isn't should fail, not take longer time. Db interaction is for the integration tests.
91800 kmh per hour incoming, 158400 kmh outgoing. This space puppy just gained 66600 kmh from passing through our solar gravity well. Not particularly relevant, but very interesting!
If captchas are gone, is that the end of semi-anonymous online accounts?
Wow, this is crazy. As a huge vue.js fan I'd argue that the percentage value would be much lower with vue. But, I’m not totally sure.
> Why do you want to give ignorant idiots a platform to spread their ignorant idiocy to other ignorant idiots (and e.g. provoke easily influenced mentally ill idiots who might want to drive cars into crowds).

Because otherwise you would be shocked to wake up and realize that it is your views that are in a bubble and not theirs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJfMsbe7Ks

Edit: It must be fun downvoting reality. Here: blast from the past - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-s...

Those who did not pay attention to the unpalatable media had conniptions on TV when Podesta came out.
I agree counter balance is indeed healthy and I think generally, in the west, we are served a wealth of different viewpoints on any given issue, so much so that we can take it for granted. My point above was that RT, in the Kremlins own words, plays a core role in their wider global strategy and it absolutely plays a part in undermining the west.

For my own reference, could you supply some links to support you assertion that the American press is highly influenced by American intelligence? My perception of the US press is that this type of manipulation is really not prevalent on a large coordinated scale.
Bittorrent itself may or may not exhibit power law issues. I'm guessing that it does... certainly the ratio of seeders to downloaders has always been bad.

But even if that were not true, Bittorrent is just a subcategory of filesharing in general, and it is abundantly obvious that the vast majority of filesharing occurs through centralized networks. (Google, Dropbox, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc)

So, in this case, Bittorrent is akin to these bespoke decentralized social networks that very few people use, and doesn't contradict the article at all.
And they're using an Extended Validation certificate from DigiCert for it

CN = nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
OU = Technology
O = The New York Times Company
Object Identifier (2 5 4 15) = Private Organization

along with some other addresses

DNS Name: nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
DNS Name: *.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
DNS Name: *.dev.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
DNS Name: *.stg.graylady3jvrrxbe.onion
DNS Name: *.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.api.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.api.dev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.api.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.blogs.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.blogs5.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.dev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.dev.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.newsdev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.prd.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.sbx.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.stg.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.stg.blogs.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: *.stg.newsdev.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: www.bestsellers.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
DNS Name: www.homedelivery.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
hey, if they could deliver as an add on item I would be happy. still with the the number of grocery and similar around me offering many common medicines for nothing I have done surprisingly well.

if it can be delivered, managed without quick degradation of quality, then it probably can be fit into Amazon's distribution system
Or more likely no news sources at all besides bloggers who totally aren't pushing agendas...

I've read a few good articles on RT and used it for news on a number of occasions. I'd never look to it for any balanced view about the Ukraine conflict, but I also wouldn't look to WaPo/NYT for a balanced view on US geopolitics either.
$14.50/day is "not unreasonable" for a home connection only if there is literally no competition with anything approaching acceptable speeds.
Java Reflection Example Tutorial – JournalDev
All these packages provide wheels on OS X, there is no need to install gfortran these days.

A good point about a known stack.
Everything about this space object is odd. Is it a visitor from nearby Vega?
If this is the intention, then it is a really terrible one. First link sends me 1/3 down the page. This actually only links to the examples, the 10 other (documentation) sections/headlines are missing.
i think the theory is that Amazon's ultimate goal is to dominate all of commerce in its entirety, which is obviously impossible. However, if you consider that as the end goal, Amazon is really far from achieving it. And as long as Amazon can continue to build parts of this impossible machine in a way that does not deteriorate the system (i.e cause major losses that hold back the company), the value of the system will keep going up as the Amazon machine consumes more and more of the world's commercial activities. Since it's practically impossible to achieve that end goal, within any reasonable number of lifetimes, bezos's and amazon's wealth is unlikely to decline without government intervention.
Non sequiter. Interest and promotion in a movement != pushing an agenda. In the same way, interest in topics on reddit != spamming upvotes. It's literally the exact same process of looking for suspicious behavior and then moderating it.

Of course, reddit doesn't do that either nowadays. But the point stands: Blocking bot behavior does not necessarily mean blocking real users.
Artificial Intelligence Can Make Your Life Easier. But Only If You’re Prepared
Here is how I handle it

1) Write a test that runs the service and saves output to a file.
2) Mock out the call to just return the data from the file and validate results.
3) If you need variations on this data just modify the file/data (often as part of the test)

I usually leave number 1 in the code but disabled since it often relies on remote data that may not be stable. Having the test run more than once is not very beneficial but being able to run it later and see what exactly has changed is great.
That doesn't make sense.
If the Earth is 12,000km in diameter, surely it will take a few minutes to traverse and not multiple times per second?

Edit: Oh never mind, you meant the velocity needed to catch up with it.
Not directly related, but I've been looking for a human-friendly DSL for creating simple parsers. Can anyone recommend me one?

I'm looking for something that would take a parser definition like

<user> (likes|prefers) <fruit>

and generate a parser that will turn

Joanna likes apples

into

{"user": "Joanna", "fruit": "apples"}

Does that make sense? I know it is easy to write something like that, but maybe there is already something battle-tested out there.
Interesting project, and nice to see some data on it. I've been mulling something like this as well.

One issue I have with pure keyword filters when I apply them to e.g. RSS feeds is that they can't capture details well - e.g. I'd like seeing a detailed article about how V8 works and wouldn't to exclude an otherwise interesting thing just because it is in JS, then you spend quite a lot of finetuning the filters.
Gender-inclusive French is a ‘mortal danger’ to the language
it all helps though, and I imagine that if they (RT) spent large for the election and got their chosen candidate elected they would keep on spending to support him, see the numerous russian bot accounts following Trump or those that are being used to comment on BLM/flag protestors etc

http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
Comments / tests are a bad analogy. HN will over index on this and go down a rabbit hole.
[Clojure] Transducers from the ground up: the practice
nonono, you have it all wrong, my aganda is 'objective truth from an unbiased source' but your agenda is propaganda
> ...improvement on our landing page

React on a landing page sounds like an overkill to begin with.
Do a little more research. NY has not built nearly enough to keep up with demand and much of the outer boroughs are not zoned to build as dense as needed. That's before even getting into the weird economics of rent control.

Today's luxury housing is tomorrow's affordable housing. Being angry at lux high rises is like a dog being angry at its owner after a bee stings its ass. Without those high rises for the hedge fund bros to move into, they occupy merely nice apartments, pushing the rest of us into tenements and everybody else out to the fringes.
As others have covered, the stars you can see are all in our galaxy. The closest star to us is around 4 light years (the sun is around 8 light minutes).

The two obvious extra-galactic objects you can see are (1) Andromeda, which appears as a small smudge but is actually huge: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Z_aNPDvDVU/UtvEsVBCzSI/AAAAAAAAD... and (2) the large magellanic clouds which are a bit more obvious.

Andromeda is the nearest big galaxy to us, but the LMC still has its own stars.

To answer your last question - yes, this is the concept of apparent magnitude. Stars are so incredibly bright that you can see them despite the fact they're very distant. We can see the planets even though the only light we're getting is from reflection. Look at how bright Jupiter or Saturn are, for example, and then think what a miserable fraction of the Sun's light they actually reflect, and how much of that we receive on Earth. It's a very small percentage - the Sun is just really bright.

This is an important point though - you cannot measure the size of most stars directly. We've been able to do it with very large stars, but mostly all you know is (a) That star is this bright and (b) it's this colour. From that astronomers can derive models to figure out how large it is. Even if you know the distance, it's not trivial: is it a really tiny, but stupidly bright object or is it a massive, but really dim object? Beyond a certain distance you have to use models and make educated guesses.
Author order matters for AI/ML papers, which this one is
Yes, at least for now. We are good with more specialized AI yet and those have a much longer ROI. Optimized ads hits now. I guess we can hope that this money pays for the development of the other stuff but.....
I'm struggling to see how why Dynamic Land would be no longer be funded by HARC. Doesn't it fit the HARC goal of: "HARC’s mission is to ensure human wisdom exceeds human power, by inventing and freely sharing ideas and technology that allow all humans to see further and understand more deeply."[1] pretty well?

Maybe HARC is just a year-long thing? If so Bret/Dynamic Land team can you please put up a Patreon account and let us fund you. I will gladly give money to you as it is the most human form of computing I have ever seen and would like progress on it to continue.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/harc/
Maybe writing code for exploration and production should be considered separate activities? The problem with these coding ideologies is that they assume there is only one type of programming, which is BS, the same as assuming a prototype is the same as a working product.
Of course you're right. Evidently I cannot accurately exponentiate before coffee!

But, yes, the velocity difference is a killer. The closest we've ever come was the Apollo-Saturn stack, and even that only had ~9km/s left over after reaching escape velocity.
> I mean, what people want should be accounted somehow, that's the point of a democracy, isn't it?

What people want is often contradictory. They want affordable, nice housing near their work, but given most people work near other people, they don't want high density housing like condos. You can satisfy all of these demands simultaneously.
What does this mean in regular human terms?
> guarantee that all sides can say whatever they want

The thing is - the Nazis can say whatever they want. No-one is obliged to give them a platform to do that. Which means you actually want to modify it to

> guarantee that all sides can say whatever they want [and be heard]

Which is an entirely different kettle of fish and something we don't have currently (and never will, really, whilst there is an imbalance in money and power.)
The current open source AMD driver is supposedly rather nice. I'm seriously considering to replace my ancient GTX460 with a shiny new RX560.
> Where are the cries of UK and Qatari collusion and interference?

^^ my point exactly.. does anyone honestly believe that russia is the only state actor that attempted to influence the elections, and further, the only one that broke the law to do so? or is it only those countries who agree with status quo policies are allowed to interfere to maintain the status quo?
I wouldn't blame aging. I got sick normally (e.g. once per year) until my 25's or so when I started getting tonsillitis and related symptoms every 1-2 months.

After a year of that I had my tonsils out and suddenly I just didn't get sick anymore. I think in the 15 year period since I've maybe been sick twice (and not nearly as heavily).
Not positive, but I pointed out in the comments on TPG that I think they made a mistake in their headline.

The Uber card page doesn't state anywhere that the 4/3/2/1 reward percentages are cash back. In any case, it's something ambiguous for Uber to clarify. I'm hoping my assumption here is incorrect.

Edit: I dug into the terms on Barclaycard's site and you do get the same full percentages for cash back with the caveat that you can only redeem reward balances of $25+ for cash (vs $5+ for Uber credits). See the section "Cash Back Redemptions".

https://www.barclaycardus.com/apply/action/tncContent?prodid....
Pravda was a complete failure in terms of influencing an international audience. RT is not repeating mistakes.
UltraType+Aggresive+Turbo+Mode
In the talk they say they are still using react server side to make this mostly static page. I suppose with some cache in front of it though.
RT know how to troll.

Anyone who's visited, or is a resident of London recently might have noticed these ads on the tube or in the stations

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rt-adverts-london-mout...
Especially people who debug calendar software.
Just sayin..