skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a combination of clickbait and residual election rage (blame offloading). Hillary spent ~$2.2 billion on her total campaign start to finish and ran one of the worst campaigns in modern US history. She lost a very easy state like Wisconsin, a semi-easy state like Pennsylvania and nearly lost New Hampshire and Minnesota (states Obama took soundly). Trump spent a third as much across his entire Presidential campaign.

There's definitely some democracy destruction going on alright, with Russia and Silicon Valley low on the list of issues.

Russia has been tampering with US elections as long as the US has been tampering with Russian elections, it goes back to before WW2. Nothing is going to stop world powers from messing with each other. The US has been screwing with Putin's Russia when it comes to elections, since he has been in power. That's not to ignore Putin's authoritarian rule or its abuses, it's a fact of what the US has been doing for many decades: aggressive meddling in Russian politics. Why wouldn't Russia meddle in US politics? It's fair game.

The hysteria is about control and regulation, it's not about $100k in Russia ad spend, that's the boogeyman necessary to implement the changes.
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It makes sense that the pixels are there, as rotating the phone by 180 degrees shows those pixels, too.

I expect the notch disappears in screen shots, too.
Is This Silicon Valley's Marie-Antoinette Moment?
Good point - BigchainDB wraps MongoDB, which is in C++. I updated my comment above to help future readers.
US law currently allows the prescription of methamphetamine (Desoxyn) for extreme obesity.
I wasn't aware the client connectors (like MySQL-python) I'm using with MariaDB everyday are not "official". I'm just using them as usual.
OK! :)
Good point! I think the Python folks made a great design choice there. I updated my comment above to help future readers.
> When George W Bush won the election it was all the fault of Fox News and right wing radio.

I was pretty sure we're laying that one at the feet of the Florida State Supreme Court.
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> Al Gore lives in a 10,000 square foot mansion that uses more energy in a month than the average American home uses in a year.

I don't know if this is true, but if it is it has no bearing on the truth or urgency of the climate change problem.

> I believe Elon Musk, or someone of his ilk, is more likely to solve the problem with a tech breakthrough, than a treaty drawn up in Brussels.

This seems unlikely to me. Everyone has an incentive to pollute because they don't have to pay for the externality of destroying the environment. Without regulation factories and plants would be dumping effluent into rivers and belching oceans of smoke into the sky. Governments and international cooperation are the only practical way to pressure everyone to play fair and pay for the negative externalities.

> If GW is the existential threat many make it out to be, why is nuclear energy given so little consideration?

If GW is the existential threat many make it out to be, why are solutions to GW in general given so little consideration? It's a polarizing issue fraught with political perils. By the way, there is a huge amount of support behind thorium reactor research but it hasn't gained enough traction to compete due to the political environment and people's fears of nuclear. And it's extraordinarily capital-intensive to build a nuclear plant; very few profitable opportunities for one exist in the first place.

> Data seems to show the negative effects of global warming are arriving more slowly than expected. It seems like we'll have the ability to slowly adjust to changes that come, rather than imposing radical sanctions on us today.

An unfortunate aspect of this problem is that we have to make investments now when the catastrophic effects aren't being felt yet in order to head off disaster in the future. Even if follow the Paris accords we're still a long way off from being projected to weather worldwide environmental disaster. Projections will be adjusted as we gather more data, and those projections may have moved forward in the past, but what the best available data shows now is that we need to start making radical changes now.
Someone from Korea (S. Korea of course) told me this story that he read in a South Korean newspaper.

When Lehman was trying desperately to sell themselves in order to get more funding in 2008, one place they tried it was in S Korea. Lehman's ex head of Korean office was in a high place in Korean banking industry at the time.

Supposedly some local press was painting it like it was going to be a great chance for a Korean bank to own the famous Lehman. Probably due to well placed phone calls.

So Lehman's ceo and his management team came to S. Korea to work the deal. Like 10 guys.

Guess what, the CEO and his entourage had NOT 1 piece of paper to show during the negotiation. For a deal that was to involve billions of dollars, the seller had not prepare even 1 piece of paper to show to the potential buyer/funder about anything.

To me this suggests

1. Lehman management was really full of it and thought they could swindle S. Korean to throw money into a black hole, despite not having done any prep work on their part.

2. Lehman management was just going through the motions, while fully knowing they were doomed.

3. All of the above.
Though, it is wrong for non-US organizations to try to influence US elections? They paid for the ads fair and square.

The fear mongering isn't any worse than local tv news ads...
Can you help with product design questions as well?
Can someone explain root certificates to me and why this is an issue? I know they sign certificates with a private key at a high level, but don't get the implications of that generally.
Don't forget to notify the user the reason their service isn't working as expected (if the permission is required).
lol @ u spouting nonsense. i think your trying to say you can use bayes to adjust for small sample sizes, like with beta-binomial models, or comparing posterior distributions for different models and params.
Thank you for sharing this! One outsider/laymen question:

> When one of these brokers came into the pit and yelled out "what's the market on DEC '9 crude" traders guessed he was hedging for mexico and quoted a price a full dollar above where the market was at

> The brokers had no choice but to accept this higher price.

I don't understand this. They didn't say they want to buy or sell anything. Why were they obligated to do either?
I have been programming R for some work and enjoyed it but it wasn't very good code. So after digging a while to figure out how to get better with R I learned Racket.

1) "How to Design Programs" is the best book I have ever gone through for any language. http://www.htdp.org/

2) Went through "Realm of Racket" with my 11 year old daughter. http://www.realmofracket.com/

3) The documentation is the most consistent and well maintained. they created their own language 'pollen' just for this purpose. Best thing ever. https://docs.racket-lang.org/

4) I thought this was an academic playground and wasn't going to stick beside teaching me. Well, it is just awesome. I don't really touch Python much and my R code is light years better. I just went through a 1000 line program in R and It is now 40 lines.

Have been hobbyist programmer since 1978 and love Racket more than the other languages.
Basic airmanship could've prevented the crash too. The pilot-in-command got a stall warning and pulled back on the stick, climbing to 38,000 feet.

That's not a UI issue, it's a forgetting one of the most fundamental rules of flying issue.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1418/what-happe...
In the last few months of the presidential campaign, a BuzzFeed analysis concluded, fake news stories got more Facebook engagement than the most widely read stories from major news outlets.

Isn't there a problem with this Buzzfeed analysis in that it assumes that the engagement for fake news is actually real? We know that a ton of the engagement for fake news is itself faked for ad fraud purposes -- http://sadbottrue.com/article/profitable-info-dump/ -- so I'm not sure what we can learn from the raw numbers that Buzzfeed had access to.
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In addition to the popular gspread project, there is a port that uses api v4 here: https://github.com/nithinmurali/pygsheets

Since v4 was substantially different from v3, it's (almost) a complete rewrite and unfortunately still not as stable as gspread.

Anyone here writing some interesting code using the GoogleDocs APIs?

While this (https://digitalinspiration.com/google-addons) is interesting, I would like to see some client code (preferably Python!)

Also of interest:

https://sheetsu.com
I can even make a bitcoin tx take more than a month by not attaching any tx fee to it.

Attach a higher fee, and it will get cleared in 10 mins, attach a lower fee, and it would take time.
Interesting that for all of his clever derivatives idea/sale and post-crash fortitude/rebound, he overlooked the size of the market he was playing. That was a pretty newb mistake.
I read your entire paragraph and this just seems like a hammer looking for a nail. Credit cards automatically handle all of this (blacklisting, risk and fraud management, trustful 3rd party, etc.) so why would anyone want to use BTC for payments unless it's for things that CC companies won't touch (drugs, pirated software, etc.)?
It's ridiculous, but it's ubiquitous (and thus worth bringing, at least to acknowledge its existence in the discourse and decision making around this topic). Most people simply don't think very hard, and "no pain no gain" virtue arguments are apparently deeply ingrained in most people's approach to things like this.
You mean like some private cloud software? I'm in this same boat from the dev side trying to negotiate a sustainable option that doesn't slow us down.
There's butterdb (formerly known as fuckitdb) which is based on gspread. It made its rounds on HN and other sites a while ago as an abstraction on top of gspread.
I suspect there's a mismatch between what you expect Stack Overflow to be and what the other users expect it to be. From the tour ( https://stackoverflow.com/tour ):

> With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.

The "build a library" being the key part. Vague questions aren't that useful in building the library in particular because lacking the necessary information, they can have too many unhelpful answers. Thus the focus on the problem with example demonstrating the problem (so the next person with the problem can verify that it is their problem or not) that gets answers.

Furthermore, you appear to be under a misunderstanding of how the stack overflow reputation system works.

> Their whole goal is to score points for asking more details.

No one gets points for comments. At all. The voting on comments is purely for visibility ranking of helpful and constructive aspects to the post they are on... and nothing else. No points.

The reason that people ask those clarifying questions is to make sure that they are answering the right question and aren't wasting their time on trying to answer something that turns out to not be the problem. Say someone asks how to do XYZ in C++... and the person gives an answer for C++17... and then the OP comes back and says "sorry, I'm using turbo C++ and that doesn't work." Instead a comment asking "what version of C++ are you using" up front to make sure that the person asking the question gets the correct answer rather than something that is unhelpful.

There is no private messaging on Stack Overflow, probably for the same reason there's none on HN. It increases the moderation workload and possibility of bullying in private. I'd hate to be Jon Skeet if there was private massing. Furthermore, having it be a comment presents the information in public (including the clarification) so that if someone else has the problem they can read the comments and be aware that something may not work in their situation even if parts of the questions match. ("You didn't include a version of C++ in this and it appears to be a very old version, could you update the question with the version you are using?")
I hear ya. I do, in theory, agree with you. But the reality is most people don't care to take care of themselves. And they wonder why healthcare costs are so high.
There is an upcomming advisory (i.e. non-binding) referendum about this law coming up.
Specifically, the referendum is about reversing the law.

Notably, some parties in the newly minted government have declared their intention to ignore the referendum. They back this by two arguments "It is needed for security" and "We are going to remove the advisory referendum anyway, so we get to ignore this one".

That second point is kind of interesting, because the referendum is possible due to a rather new law. We had one before that went rather poorly, so now we want to get rid of it.

The actual law is here [1] this site [2] advocates for the referendum. I'm afraid I don't know of any english sources.

Quoting from the law, and applying my own translation

>>

Article 45. Member 1

The services are authorized to:

a. (Basically, do exploratory searches of networks)

b. Use false signals, false keys, false identity or intervention by third parties to gain acces to automated systems. This can be done with the help of technical tooling.

Article 45. Member 2
The authorization from member 1b above also authorizes:

a. The defeating of any security measures

b. Installing technical measures to reverse encryption on data stored or processed by automated systems.
c. (references article 40)

d. To copy data stored or processed by an automated system.

Article 45 Member 2
(summarized, the government needs to give written permission for any of the above to happen)

>>

This seems to be the referenced passage based on a preliminary search.

[1] https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-34588-A.html

[2]https://sleepwet.nl/
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> because this comment reflects the idea that browsers should be developed as independent ethical entities that represent different groups

I'm not sure where "ethical" came into that.

Some users want to have features that allow them to read websites in their preferred fonts. Other users don't care about fonts, but _really_ care about the colors and want high contrast. Still others want to have strong privacy safeguards (think Tor), while a fourth set care about privacy a bit less than that, and a fifth set don't care about privacy at all. These diverse needs might best be served by multiple different browsers that focus on different aspects of the user experience.

I see no reason why a browser that explicitly tries to make the web more usable for people who are red/green colorblind, say, should be a problem, though it seems to me that you do....

> it's dangerous to put the onus of security on everyone but the user

No one is suggesting that. However the reality is that there are maybe at most double-digit numbers of different browsers, maybe hundreds of millions of websites, if you're very generous, and billions of users. You ideally want to enforce security at chokepoints, which is why the browsers do most of the lifting here, then websites, then users.

There have been tons of user education campaigns in the history of the internet. To some extent they've even worked.

> The browser should not become a political toy. It should be simply a tool

Sure, and no one suggested it should be a "political toy". But maybe one user wants a flathead screwdriver and another wants a phillips head. And a third one wants a hammer, or hex wrench.

> This could have been trivially handled by simply asking users how much concern they want to have over their security

Been done, via surveys. The answer is "a lot". And yes, we could just say that if they care then they should be constantly vigilant. But constant vigilance is something people are really bad at (on a hardware level!), compared to computers. So any time we can design systems that don't require constant vigilance from people we probably should. I would go so far as to claim that requiring constant vigilance from people when we don't have to, and then blaming or punishing them when they cannot comply, is simply unethical.

> or providing some mechanism for organizations to easily transition into technology changes at a pace that works for them

This is why browsers have been cooperating at creating things like Lets Encrypt, precisely to provide such a mechanism. The question of timeframes is a complicated one, of course.

> Browsers are completely at fault for handling security so poorly in the first place.

No argument there. This is something browsers have been trying to do better.

> Now it's clear that a mentality of moral superiority and special interests is the cause.

I think you're reading things into what I said that were simply not there.
Seriously this. Not wrapping text doesn't also mean fixed width 200px viewport.

The problem isn't "because they used codeblock" the problem is codeblock is broken.
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I mean, you're not wrong. If I'm reading his comment correctly, coldtea holds exactly the view you're describing.
I'm not defining "decentralized" as simply "distributed between multiple corporations, where multiple people have read/write access".

To be "decentralized", it's key that there are >1 sysadmins (ie runners of server nodes); and bad behavior from some sysadmins does not take the whole system down.

We experimented with a bit with decentralizing Cassandra. From what we saw, it is possible to decentralized it in the way I define it. We also tested other DBs. We chose RethinkDB because we liked their approach to global oplog; and we preferred a document-store interface over a column store interface. Later we added MongoDB support because of customer interest and some technical benefits. (For the record we added this support before Rethink's woes. Glad to see it found a foundation:)
Anyone who installed this audio driver could have all their https traffic intercepted by Savitech.
But it's still possible to install a custom root cert?

That's madness.
This is a very arrogant and insensitive thing to say. Work hours + commute + family obligations doesn't leave a lot (or any) time for many people. And you have the gall to imply they don't have the "willpower" to commit the remaining time they have left to yet another chore.
There's also nothing new about that. The 1996 Clinton Campaign broke the law by illegally taking piles of foreign Chinese money. The foreign money scandals have followed the Clintons for decades, which has seen several of the money runners arrested. Naturally nobody on the left has ever cared about any of that.
>Either you take the position adults can make up their own minds or you dismantle democracy and media as voters are easily influenced and cannot be trusted.

Reducing the solution set to a binary is emblematic of the problems of the US political system.

Another possible solution is to increase awareness of cognitive biases in decision making and perhaps improving our educational system by elevating the importance of critical analysis.

However, I steer towards the latter of your proposed solutions. That such a large % of the voting public gets its news from facebook is depressing.
I'd imagine you can potentially get that by connections with strength, weakness, dexterity, etc.
This guy created a very epic game while doing his PhD: http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/

I imagine he must have gotten tired for similar reasons as you and just wanted to build something.
I believe this is the official transcript: https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/annexe.01_04...

I see that the first link I posted doesn't contain everything, but I don't see any major omissions either.

At 2:11:37.5, Robert takes control of the plane. According to the report, he pushed the stick to the left twice. Bonin then took back control. Figure 69 on page 96 of the report you linked shows Bonin's pitch inputs during this period. He applies near maximum nose-up pitch right as Robert takes control, and keeps it there. Robert would have felt this had the controls been connected, since he was attempting to control the plane at that time. The report says that Bonin quickly took back control, but the transcript indicates no communication regarding this, which makes it likely they were both attempting to control it for at least a brief period. That figure also indicates that at no time was Bonin's stick ever neutral, so it seems that he never stopped trying to fly the plane even when Robert was nominally in control. Without physical feedback, neither one seems to have realized this. No wonder they were confused about what was going on!
If you'd like to add specific features, please let me know at jan@apify.com, I'm sure we'll figure it out
I don't want people who produce videos like that to continue to make videos. I want them to go out of business.
Trent, dean here. met you at ICCAD few years ago (2014?) and we had dinner with Bill Swartz at an Asian place. We discussed bitcoin and I remember it was $600 back then. Funny that it's now 6k$ and I didn't know you're gonna be in this space. Just wanna shout out that bigchaindb looks legit/cool and good luck in the future!!
Think of trust relationships as a forest of trees. Initial seeds of these trees are root certificates installed by browser vendors(Chrome: Google, Safari: Apple, Firefox: Mozilla, etc). Whenever you open an https site, if your browser checks whether to trust that https site. So, your browser trusts it if that site's public key is signed by the one of roots shipped/installed by the browser vendor.

You can also add your own cert to the root certs list of any of the browser, then any site's key's signed by your cert is gonna be trusted. Next time, check whenever your browser says "Don't trust this site", then explore the key chain.
Why would you care? Well the complexity makes tooling difficult, the engineers expensive, and arguably ongoing development could be slower depending on how many c++ features they have to deal with in one code unit. Are these any strikes against the language itself? No, of course not, but one can see why e.g. using go instead might afford more flexibility if the underlying c++ distinguishing features aren’t necessary. The language complexity is still something to consider even if c++ is sufficient.

I am by no means arguing that C++ committees are making any mistakes.
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Mac usage is a metric for sophistication? What a silly set of comments. People seem to grossly underestimate China. That hubris will only hurt you in the long run. Half or more of the stuff in those “sophisticated” computers is sourced in China.
Many people have kids, commute to work, etc. As well as require a certain amount of wind down time to relax.

If he says it's time why not just give him the benefit of the doubt. He has a very large information advantage over you and me.
I think the idea is that if you are stuck in a dark train tunnel and there's a train coming towards you, there may be doorways, recesses, etc in the walls that are invisible without the proper tools (flashlight, etc).