skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED ADEQUATELY CONSPICUOUS FOR DISCLAIMING WARRANTY BY THE COURTS, THAT IS WHY IT IS A COMMON WAY TO MAKE STATEMENTS CONSPICUOUS. UNFORTUNATELY, IF YOU DON'T EVEN SHOW PEOPLE THE EULA, IT WON'T MATTER HOW CONSPICUOUS THE DISCLAIMER IS.
Oh boy, don't give them any ideas.
Right, but genetic diversity of the breeding population would be very low, making the population itself very fragile. And that's assuming the spawn survive their first season. (Most young salmon spawn do not survive, and those not native to the local waters face unique challenges.)

This doesn't seem to be a case where the invading species gains an immediate upper hand in its new environment. (Cf., the rampant python population in the Florida Everglades.) In this case, the invading Atlantic species faces stiff and probably superior competition from the various Pacific salmon species, which are every bit as big and fast, and which fill the same ecological niche. Hell, a Pacific Chinook will get twice as big as an Atlantic salmon. It also knows the territory, including where and what to hunt, and its wild instincts haven't been dulled in a fish farm.

If I were a betting man, I'd wager on the native Pacific populations over the scattered pockets of farm-raised exotics nearly 99 times out of 100. Barring human involvement, of course. If we hunt the Pacific species out of existence, or damage the environment beyond recognition, all bets are off.
I don't understand what is fuzzy about it - Deutsche Welle might be a state actor but the US intelligence agencies apparently don't consider it hostile/dangerous to the US. This argument basically comes down to the childish "if they don't take money from 1 state actor, they should stop taking money from every state actor in the world".

To me it makes perfect sense that when a foreign state actor is determined to be hostile to your country by your intelligence community, that you are going to stop accepting money from them.

Also seems (if RT is telling the truth) that the paid RT election propaganda on twitter was actually twitter's idea that they pitched to RT, so perhaps twitter got greedy and is complicit (as opposed to just having ran ads indiscriminately) and now they're trying to wash their hands to avoid a PR disaster.

Link: https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/923519609269116928
Curious, what did a physics PhD think of software development/research in industry in comparison to the wonders of equations and abstract beauty?
Based on this article, I would not be left feeling too concerned that Atlantic salmon escaped in the pacific northwest. It seems this isn't the first time its happened, and the many previous releases have come to basically nothing.
Please don't put "Show HN" on blog posts. Everything would be a "Show HN" if we allowed that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Twitter can control the algorithm indirectly through selective banning of sock puppet or spam accounts, since many exist that help create virality for many different agendas.

For years now Twitter has allowed a lot of shady accounts to be created simply because they help its growth and engagement numbers. If a Russian hacker writes a bot that retweets scintillating stories about an American politician, and this leads to more Twitter users scrolling their feed and viewing ads, Twitter wins.

This is why the sock puppet ecosystem has been allowed to exist in spite of the very easy detection of various spam rings (they are easily detectable through simple graph analysis).

The problem for Twitter is that it can't say "oops the engaged users numbers we've been talking about for the past few years are all massively inflated, we just deleted 100M sock puppet accounts and it turns out that our service is a lot less popular and a lot less engaging than we thought".

So I'm not worried about Twitter tuning the algorithm since it has much easier ways of nudging the politics of the average user's news feed in whatever direction it wants.

The concern is that Twitter bowed to political pressure from US politicians and penalized a news organization that should be investigated and shut down by an appropriate legal process if it's actually doing something more propaganda-like than other news orgs.

Last time I checked, most news orgs (including CNN, the NYT, etc.) were all doing massive clickbait campaigns through many different advertising channels. RT is no exception.

This is a dangerous form of scapegoating and censorship that happens to be legal because Twitter is a private firm. But it's very ugly and reveals a fear of or complicity with various elected officials in the US.
> Jeans of all brands still have antiquated watch pockets, now too small to be useful

I disagree. They make great coin pockets, which also helps keep my phone from getting scratched up by the coins.

Things can still be useful for reasons other than their original purpose.
As others have commented, Flattr itself keeps 7.5%. The detailed fees are described here: https://blog.flattr.net/2017/10/our-new-fee-structure/
Hopefully the payment cost will go down again, but unfortunately micropayments come with high transaction cost.
Compared to revenue streams like App-Stores or even advertising, this is still much more efficient.

Regarding keeping money in the system:
In the new version, there are separate accounts for "givers" (contributors) and "receivers" (creators / publishers).
So, just shuffling money around is neither the obvious nor the intended solution.
>unless the stock has a fairly historic pattern and is currently oversold

If you can predict and act on these patterns better than the market, you should go open your own hedge fund.
There should be NN trained on eathing accounts posting stories with near-similar content who have been proven wrong.
I believe it is a GM story. Monsanto's GM is to allow chemicals like dicambra, and glyphosate to be sprayed on these crops, their modifications make them resistant.

So, the GM application is mainly pesticide resistance, and the subsequent shitty pesticides they use which kill everything that hasn't been modified. The use of these pesticides is because they are growing GM crops.
Analog beats digital for some things because it's only 2017. In 2047, our tech will seem as clunky and limited as 1987 looks to us today.

Paper notebooks still beat computers in some ways. Acknowledging this is the key to keep moving forward. Computer screens are rigid, paper is flexible. Computers take Wi-Fi and batteries, paper doesn't. Screens often cut up their space with sticky navbars at the top, disclaimers at the bottom, ads on the right and even in the middle. Computer input is by a rigid and limited keyboard or by a blunt stylus across a slippery screen. Pen on paper provides friction for feedback and control.

Relevant quote from article: " [...] I got out an unused Moleskine notebook. [...] I instantly remembered how much I love writing, just the physical sensation of it and the flexibility of analog tools. [...] It's been a revelation to use a paper notebook for this. Before [...] I would try to take handwritten notes using my iPad, or use Evernote. It was always fussy and frustrating: The wifi wouldn’t connect, for example. Or, the pen would lag on my iPad and the resulting notes were illegible. Or, I was using Evernote and couldn’t easily hand-annotate what I was typing; or using OneNote and experiencing horrific data corruption and sync issues."
This isn't about Glyphosate (Round Up), this is about Dicamba
Please don't. You can make your point quite effectively without violating the guidelines. (I'll delete this comment if you lowercase your comment.)
As an engineer that's been tasked to interview in this style, I have to say that it's possible to do with a few candidates without too much interruption to my regular duties, and it's actually my favorite method of interviewing. Having an inbound candidate build some simplified version of the thing we're making is extremely helpful and doesn't cost too much. You can easily define the simplified work sample project once and reuse it many times without spending too much time on it. The parent's criticisms are valid because there almost certainly won't be some work sample that fit all of the criteria mentioned and is actually a part of the product. But a work sample of a simplified version of the product they'll be working on is absolutely easy to do and insightful for both you and the candidate. Maybe they just really don't like the kind of thing you're working on. Well, this gives them a chance to dip their toe in the pool.
You made no points about this subject. You made points about a different conversation.
> Wasn't it revealed the Trump Dossier was paid ofr by Pedestal/DNC?

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-trump-russia-dossier-cli...

Allegedly also partially "funded by an unknown Republican during the GOP primary."

> That said, what has WikiLeaks published that has turned out untrue?

I don't think anybody is arguing that WikiLeaks is posting fake news or untrue information - the argument is that WikiLeaks is curating the information it releases in order to send a specific message.
Note that I did edit the above post as you were replying.

Also I should note that I'm writing this from the perspective of developing game engine style code.

D:

* D's garbage collector can be switched off, but last I checked (to be fair a few years ago) this even locked you out of parts of the stdlib. For smaller game engine projects, this is an issue. For larger ones, they often rewrite the stdlib anyway, though I'd expect growing pains while bootstrapping up to that point.

* Memory safety guarantees appear to be much stronger in Rust than in D. The difference in approach demonstrates this well I think, Rust has an `unsafe` keyword while D has a `@safe` attribute.

* It's great at its goal, which is to be (C++)++. It sidesteps a lot of the problems found in C++ and appears much more intentionally designed.

* Despite a 7-8 year headstart for D, from the outside of both communities the Rust community appears much more vibrant.

I've not heard of Ante, I'll go take a look.
Making a candidate do actual company-related work during the interview process without compensation violates minimum wage laws in many states. It also could potentially violate IRS laws around employer obligations (tax disclosures, I-9, etc).

I don't see how objectively criticizing the above practice lands squarely in this ivory tower strawman you're invoking.
I was thinking it was just my laptop.
Not using Emacs myself, but read reports of long-time users getting RSI from all the keyboard shortcuts.
I wasn't aware of that.

So I could write a website that grabs all facebook's users' public updates and put it on my site? (I suspect the answer to this is No)
Sometimes I wonder if Waze sends you a weird way just to test the route to see how it compares. If it's faster, it'll send more people that way. If it's not, it won't suggest it. But someone has to be the Guinea pig the first time.
Analyzing HN Posts with Generalized Linear Models
Astroturfing is real, but it is disingenuous to say that an entire side of a debate, particularly a scientific debate, is fake.

It has a chilling effect and silences the discussion.

An argument should be able to stand on its own regardless of whether an astroturf exists or not. Money doesn't change the facts, and astroturf is by definition finite. Facts, especially quantitative facts will win in the long term.
Isn't > 55 micrograms essentially anyone who takes a multi-vitamin?

Maybe it's just denial as I take one, but this study is a bit hard for me to believe.
Objectify scalars and non objects in PHP ;)
I am currently using a pure command-line build, with Ninja build files, and a standalone NDK toolchain (https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_toolchai...). It's a pretty hacky solution but it works and it's very fast.

This is for C++ code, which is kind of a special case. Android Studio now has C++ support but I tried it and wasn't impressed. Among other problems, the build process seems to be extremely slow.
It's the second time I've gotten full screen, fake gift card ads on unrelated sites served from cloud front.
Yes, but the issue is not the GM crops causing issues, but the pesticide they are engineered to survive.

If people just grew the GM crops, there wouldn't be a problem, but it's the use of the accompanying pesticide that is destroying innocent crops.
"BAE, Nissan, Seimens"

I'd guess UK and in my experience your description is correct - people can only have a very vague idea when they start a PhD and you've got to work out the detail of what exactly you are doing with your supervisor over the first 6 months to 1 year.
I'm not sure how it's hypocritical per se, when looked at from the angle that Twitter is headquartered in the United States.

It seems like a fair portion of the US government now strongly believes that Russian social media propaganda is attempting to destabilize the United States government, with Twitter being a dominant platform for spreading the disinformation. So I'm sure there was quite an incentive to block some of this in some form.

The US has its own propaganda networks, of course. Russia's response to them tends to be far harsher. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-turns-off-voice-...)
Thanks for writing it! Reading the source was an easy intro to babel for me when I was writing a trampoline-based TCO plugin.
You're calling out RT for being state-run, but some of ours are almost just as bad. They just convinced you they aren't(1,2).

And what you're suggesting is that Twitter take sides in this, support US propoganda and suppress others... How is this different than RT?

Some are starting to talk about some of our mainstream journalists as belonging in a "special kind of journalistic hell(3)."

1-https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-f...
2-https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-...
3-https://www.salon.com/2016/09/20/betraying-snowden-theres-a-...
Figma Now Integrates with Zeplin – Figma Design
Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner: traceable turkeys
I agree with you. Everyone has their own hobbies.

But certain people believe that in order to be a good coder, one of your hobbies MUST be coding.
I've worked for companies that created subsidiaries with the sole intent of purchasing competitors products with the intent to reverse-engineer them and do competitive performance analysis. Good legal counsel probably would have suggested the same.
Are there junior scientists who don't know how dim the prospects are for an academic position are?

I've been hearing this for two decades. Seems like the sort of thing that any mildly educated person would be aware of, let alone smart people in the field.
Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢. So on $3 that would be 0.387 cents that is 12.9% fee.
I've been accused of being a Monsanto shill so many times online, its not even funny. I researched a lot of the claims against Monsanto or GM crops and I found many of them untrue, largely exaggerated, although I do agree most of the Dicamba debacle is mostly Monsanto's fault.

Ironically, there is a lot of propaganda pushed by the likes of USRTK and the OCA, calling anyone including university scientists that contradict them as Monsanto shills. These groups are also anti vaccine, against water fluoridation [1] etc...

I've largely stopped arguing online, because conversations become really super polarised and sometimes nasty. Its hard to have an intelligent discussion. A good place to find info on these issues is the Food and Farm Discussion Lab

https://facebook.com/groups/FAFDL/

[0] https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/how-mainstream-media...
[1] https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/water-fluoridation-che...
Trashing memory, or thrashing? Because with AS, I’ll believe either.
No. This only give me access to my data. I'm looking for the ability to re-publish all public data on a site.

So, with this ability i could e.g. build a twitter clone and populate it with data from twitter.
How much work the parsers, layout engine and renderer have to do in a browser is far more opaque than what a game engine does.

For game engines there is a lot of material out there explaining the basic processes and data flows; there are free or open source games and game engines around as well: Unreal engine, used in the article, is free, including full access to the source code. (This is by far the most widely used game engine in the entire gaming industry). And with a graphics debugger (free) you can look fairly easily at how games (pretty much any game you can run on your PC) render things as well.

That's not to say that game engines are simple, however, it is relatively easy to understand how they work on a basic level (i.e. what they have to accomplish and how they do so in general terms) and, specifically considering graphics, simple renderers are not particularly hard to develop yourself as a small side project.

With browsers, this is a lot more difficult. There are perhaps three modern browser engines, which are mostly open source but also very large pieces of software. There are no books or tutorials explaining how to develop browser engines. And the debugging tools in the browser only tell you how often a "DOM update" or "render" happened and perhaps how long it took.
Russell Brand: Society is collapsing
Classifications are so hard.

One could surely argue that America's democracy is somewhat corrupted as well.

I guess it's all a matter of manner and degree :)
Not just that, but they timed releases to benefit one side. The Podesta emails dropped an hour after the Access Hollywood video. That's not a coincidence.
What on Earth should we be doing, then?

You should accept that the process is going to cost you, and that there are going to be both false positives and false negatives.

Trial periods solve false positives, and you eat the cost of onboarding someone and their 1st 3 months or whatever. It sucks, but make the decision and move on. If you have this happen multiple times, your interview process isn't rigorous enough.

To improve false negatives you need a mix of inputs in your interview process. One way to get this is long/multistaged interview, but you will lose people this way too. Accept that if you are asking an interviewee to do real work (e.g. real world code) independently you should pay them for the time, and know that you'll lose some good candidates if you ask.
LXQt 0.12 Released
you can't.

in typical Google being evil fashion, using their central authority on Android they now discontinued android sdk and made the sdk a piece of android studio. for no reason other than forcing everyone to beta test their "version 3" (ha) studio. so much so that you now have to download the whole studio, and pick the sdk from within it. there are still some ways to find the sdk directly, but they are going away.
DigitalOcean for GPUs, awesome! For someone wanting to play around learning more about machine learning, would one of your Standard GPU units be ideal? If so, which one would you recommend? (Or do you think I'd need a dedicated GPU unit?)
For Halloween It’s Time Slay Your Inner Zombie and Thrive
Source please. He appears to know how government works from his working with Congress to pass bills
That is just plain wrong.
Check the privacy policy: https://flattr.com/files/privacy_policy.pdf

The extension keeps everything locally, only the information necessary to make payments is transferred.
There is even a blacklist in place that prevents any information about sensitive sites (online banking, mail accounts, other adult content) from ever being stored.

Here is a blogpost about it: https://blog.flattr.net/2017/06/key-elements-of-the-new-flat...
What downsides does it have compared to a more traditional environment? I'm a C# developer so Xamarin sounds really tempting, it's just that I don't want to break my head on "simple" stuff I could easily avoid with a traditional environment
Currently I liquidate 90% of it, or so, and then use the proceeds to fund my index fund buys and my covered-call/put strategies in a number of other equities. I used to liquidate 100% of it, but things are happening that make me suspect a modest boost to the share price has a slim chance to occur in the next year, so I'm keeping some to share in that benefit, if it happens. If it doesn't, I'm not out that much in terms of the opportunity cost.
> For those who may be unaware, Kotaku is hated by a certain subset of the alt-right.

For those who may be unaware, Kotaku is part of the Gawker Group (yes, _that_ Gawker Group, of Hulk Hogan infamy). They're held in low esteem by pretty much everybody for their lengthy history of slanted and click-baity reporting.

Not that Mr. Schreier is wrong about deplorable conditions in the games industry but your accusations about the motivations behind people's dislike of Kotaku are, ahem, difficult to take seriously. They worked hard to earn their disrespect.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair
What is concerning is that Twitter controls a massive platform and has revealed itself to be heavily biased and intent upon ideological control of the content that exists on its platform.

My statement is simply my opinion, I am not controlling anyone else's access to a platform or to information by holding that opinion. I encourage you to read some RT stories.

You will find that the reporting is generally solid but simply lacks the "Rah Rah USA USA" attitude that has become (embarrassingly) commonplace in our culture. I cringe when I see politicians wearing red or blue ties and American flag pins, as if doing that signals their devout patriotism.

It's a similarly shallow world view that leads people to overlook RT's reporting and focus on its state sponsored origin before evaluating its contribution to American political discourse.

I'd personally prefer if there were more anger about certain kinds of issues in the US -- such as the Flint Water crisis, lead in the water in many cities, foolish and corrupt infrastructure projects, etc.
It seems like this is the bigger problem. Few people think RT/Sputnik are unbiased, but when you have some foreign intelligence agency micro-targeting voters it's hard to even judge the extent of the influence operations taking place.

They use pseudonyms and stock photos to seem like part of an in-group, then amplify divisive hashtags and messaging. They disappear from historical records when they delete the accounts, making it even harder to track their activity.

Reddit, twitter, facebook, and newspaper comment sections are all filled with disinformation and nobody seems to be doing much about it.
Yev, would you ever consider opening the software and hardware design of the vault?

It seems that you could lead this and give the industry a standard way, with vendors producing the fitting hardware, and allowing others to maintain their own vaults. Maybe this is a business advantage you don't want to lose right now. Then, I'm sorry to have asked :). If not then I think you might benefit by lower prices if the hardware is readily available and not a Backblaze custom production run.

There are many places who cannot for technical or won't for political reasons offload their storage to S3 and friends and need it all locally most of the time which would use a vault or two.
I think the lawsuits started before Eyeo introduced the whitelist?

But imagine if uBO was used by 90% of all Users, so the big publishers would notice and lobby to get ad-blocking banned, there would be no one to defend it then.

Or if google took over ad-blocking by making it build-in in chrome (and of course whitelisting it's own ads).

edit: just realized you're the ublock author! I didn't mean what I said as an insult to you (like you wouldn't care to defend adblocking). I just think it might be beneficial to have a commercial player in ad-blocking (that isn't google) from time to time.
The case for Uber at $95B
Or you can just check the code.
Or European privacy laws. Hint: They take this stuff serious!