skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the ideology devoted to abolishing markets and private property

It's all encapsulated in the subtitle. You can not do away with that without enslaving people. And enslaving people means killing your opponents which are bound to be numerous in any "normal" situation.
Hang in there, buddy. It sounds like you've got a lot of actually useful skills and I think you and your family will do fine in the long run. Even if you end up going back to a "safe but soulless" job.
Reporting on something that harasses or incites violence is not endorsement of it. Actively spreading the harassing or inciting material is an implicit endorsement - you could stop it if you wanted.
If there is inflation in non-local currency, wouldn't that point to massive supply chain problems on the ground. Can't fault currencies for that.

BTC is not helping Venezuela since there is a state induced apocalypse going on. No currency can help with that.

With less extreme inflationary events, like bad monetary policy, that do not destroy all supply chains, currencies like BTC should be able to help retain wealth.
"A special piece of code is also added to these files to lock them with what is called digital rights management or DRM — a technological measure which prevents piracy of films."

They should probably update this to say "tries to prevent", as NF DRM has been long cracked.
Why would Apple sell a phone that requires bringing it back to the Apple Store every months to correct a problem that no previous model of iPhone developed? This idea is completely nuts.
Thanks. I don't watch South Park so I couldn't get the reference.
Mastodon seems to be growing quickly. It's a decentralised alternative to Twitter.

https://joinmastodon.org
Okay, suppose I have an account, @potustweets, that just repeats the President’s statements. Are you going to ban that too? The words of the elected leader of the most powerful country of the world are by definition newsworthy and worthy of discussion.

Or are you implying that they are allowed, but only with commentary that condemns them? Then you are discriminating based on opinion. You are turning Twitter into a platform in which only certain opinions are allowed, even though the prohibited ones have the support of half of the United States. There is no way around this. You must allow the words of the President.
> As an American I would trust most countries in the EU with stuff like this over even my own country given the direction of the USA

Why?

Europe has had a lot of really serious internal problems over the last 150 years.

> nonviolent political protestors are being prosecuted by the federal government

> and officials are encouraging people to commit violence against the protestors

Have they?

I think you have been listening to a bit too much fake news.

There has been a concentrated media effort to make the US look ignorant and backwards and to make the EU look enlightened.
100-150KB is still quite the downside, especially when there isn't really much of an upside for the user, who is bearing the burden of that download size.
> The words of the President of the United States have to be allowed no matter what.

> Twitter shouldn’t even get into this game. They should allow any content that is legal under US law.

And if the President of the United States were to tweet something illegal?
In my language we call Sunday "First day", we call Monday "Second day", and so on until Saturday which is called "Day of Rest". Additionally, our work week starts on Sunday.
The Story of the Game Genie
Also nice would be a note that DRM prevents fair use.
Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them
We have, back on 1600s when joint stock companies were first invented, eg Dutch East India Company. They had their own armies and we got slavery, colonisation of Philippines, India and other places, all through private, profit-driven enterprise.
Nobody goes to the README for ads. The README is for a description of the project, and maybe some documentation. When I open the file, that's what I should see, not an ad for the paid version of the project and links to five different monetization services. I'm being advertised to and I have no idea what the project does yet! Granted, if I'm reading on GitHub, then I get a brief blurb at the very top of the screen - and even that's followed by another link to the paid version.
Corporations maximize shareholder value. Corporations are not your friend and are not patriotic. Don't expect corporations to have your best interest in mind, or appeal to a greater good. They exist to make themselves more profitable on a quarterly or fiscal year basis.
Because the OS can guess correctly more often than a typical user can type correctly. You can always proof read its work at the end.

Also, in addition to auto correcting words, your phone also auto corrects individual key presses based on the word you are typing. The same physical impact on your screen will register a different letter based on the letters that come before it.

So part of your “typing on glass accuracy” is dependent on a designer designing that feature that “does work ahead of time”.
http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~brown/n-oct04-harddayjib.pdf
Impossible. The President has absolute freedom of speech. He is the elected head of the Executive branch. To read any legal limitation on his ability to speak his mind is to allow the other branches of government to unconstitutionally limit his powers. No other branch of government can claim that authority over him.
It is a bit out of topic, but anyway: Is it possible to defend a PhD thesis without taking a graduate program at all? Imagine an industry researcher without a PhD degree who is willing to obtain one.
SiliconSqueak: A processor optimized for Smalltalk
> I wish hacker news got excited about the filling the pipe post and less excited about this thread.

That's disingenuous considering the number of votes and comments each thread have received. HN IS more excited by the pipe post as reflected by user participation.

Would love to hear more detail insofar as this article is concerned.
The Fourier transform can be introduced at vastly different levels of sophistication - engineers see it freshman year, physics programs usually wait until they've derived the wave equation, and if you're a math professor whose goal is to invent novel math, it's probably not even worth knowing unless you are going to spend years and years on it.
THE LIES BBC AND THE CNN WANT US TO BELIEve ABOUT THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC
If it’s so easy to manufacture majority opinions, why didn’t the candidate with the biggest budget win? ($1.4B)

Social media over-amplifies outrage and pushes the most reactive stories to the top of the feed. That’s a big problem, with or without foreign government involvement. At the same time, news controlled through a handful of TV networks wasn’t a good state of affairs either.

It will be interesting to see how the media evolves.
"Great in theory, lousy in practice" is a misguided saying. What that really means is that the theory itself is lousy.

Social safety nets and the correction of market failures in capitalist economies really have nothing to do with communist theory at all. All they have in common is the very bland observation that "life in a capitalist economy isn't perfect." But the meat of Marxism isn't about that. The core of Marxism is a bizarre theory and a prescription of how to fix the world that leads to misery and slaughter.

The fact we need to smooth the rough edges of the free market does not entail admitting even a mote of recognition to Marxism.
As well as being given a method to compile you can then also request the bytecode and metadata of any other method, for example to inline it.
Keras is probably the best library to get started - Ternsorflow is mainly needed if you need to mess with lower-level details, which for many things is not really necessary.
The responder "Joseph Millar" gets a claim to fame too for answering!
Freedom of speech does not extend to private entities such as twitter.
The abstract:

As the complexity of embedded systems grows, so does the attraction of using object-oriented dynamic languages, like Python or Smalltalk, to implement them. To make this practical, a reduction in the energy and cost of the required computing resources for such languages has become a hot research topic. This project addresses these issues by designing a processor speciﬁ-cally for Smalltalk-80, by optimizing this processor for adaptive compilation, by using both ﬁnegrained and coarse grained parallelism to do more work at lower clock speeds and by taking advantage for the reconﬁgurability of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (which are increasingly present in embedded systems) to adapt the hardware at runtime to variable computing loads.
Show HN: Catchapp – Meet for sports
Ask HN: Is anyone using busycal and busycontacts as CRM and calendar?
I'm looking for a lightweight team collaboration platform. I am using 2do for my personal todo lists and task gathering. Which is sadly, not useful in a team context.

I like the one time fee on busycal, the CRM addon is hopefully well working and therefore very nice to have.

http://busycal.com/
>Freedom of speech does not extend to private entities such as twitter.

I was responding specifically to this claim:

>And if the President of the United States were to tweet something illegal?

Shifting the goal posts mid conversation is incredibly dishonest. You can see my other replies on the larger thread for the reason why Twitter should not censor him, even though they legally could.
This is empirically untrue. Bill Clinton was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice — both limitations on freedom of speech — during his time as President [1], although he was eventually acquitted.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
Why could they not ban that person, too? Twitter has banned people for reasons such as not having a phone number, or making fun of the Prime Minister of India. If the President wants to make his words heard, he can post on his own website. There's no need for twitter to be complicit.
"you should be able to do so in about one-third the time
that most competent people think possible"

I think (I could be wrong) that might attract the wrong type of applicants, such as people who are arrogant or think that building such systems are easy (and thus might not understand the complexities involved).
It is probably maintenance that only rarely/never has to be done, like changing a battery.
I think it brings about about as much change in democracy as TV did. I mean, gradually people will adjust to that new level of openness of information, 'opinions' on social media will simply mean less to people.
Well, of course they're against it, because it's a tool that enables the establishment to silence the AfD.
I’ve seen heaven. And it’s written in JavaScript
I see that sort of feeling a lot. The president is not constitutionally incapable of committing crimes; that would be absurd. He is only able to stop enforcing laws in specific cases, arguably including his own. That’s a big difference. Among other things, it means that (1) his successor could reverse that decision and prosecute him and (2) Congress can take matters into their own hand via the impeachment route.

So, yes, Presidents can definitely break the law, including laws that have to do with speech. However, I’m pretty sure the President hasn’t come within a mile of that so far. The First Anendment is pretty mighty.
There is clearly a difference between lying under oath and having opinions.

Further, impeachment proceedings are 100% political, not legal. Grounds for impeachment are whatever half of the House of Representatives, and 2/3rds of the Senate, say they are.
Picocli 2.0.2: bugfix release for clustered options and scripting-related issues
Because parent is a victim of the manufactured opinion that fake news is the main reason Trump won.

There are many other reasons not to vote Clinton but you get systematically harassed if you even mention the huge failures of the previous administration.

So there is a little bit of hidden irony there.
How is it possible to educate people so that they are likely to form their own opinion rather than to put blind trust into the opinion of their peers?

It would be a big win if this debate would move at least some people into a direction of looking at the information that is served to us in a more critical manner
They don’t, they just let the trendy nerds beat off over unnecessarily complex software. C.f. The entirety of the JavaScript ecosystem.
It was part of the official Apple keynote presentation of the iPhone X. Apple's SVP of Software Engineering demonstrated how you can record your face as a talking poo emoji using the iPhone X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a58ZH63EU0&t=59s
Sounds to me like you don't know how to work in an office.
"No one would accuse Germany of being anything but an open liberal democracy. And it's a liberal democracy with unique protections that will ensure it remains one (while other liberal democracies are hijacked with their own freedoms) [1]."

The point of a liberal democracy is to protect the freedoms of its citizens. If the state sacrifices those freedoms to preserve itself, it remains a state and it may remain a democracy, but it ceases to be liberal in this sense.

Germany is an illiberal democracy.
Yes. People have a very negative view of MAD.

But when you stop and think about it, MAD kept the world safe for 60+ years.

It's a bit paradoxical that the most powerful bomb and the doctorine named after the word "insanity" achieved (relative) world peace.

"Peacemaker" ICBM and "Peace is Our Profession" from Dr Strangelove comes to mind.
I was particularly taken aback the explicit "please help me by generating fraudulent ad clicks" line:

> You can show support by clicking the codesponsor.io ad below

I know ad fraud is a relatively victimless crime and arguably half the internet runs on it, but still, it makes me wonder about the author's moral standpoints. And that's even before I can find out what this project does. :-)
The lag would surely be low single digit ms, unnoticeable. Modern GPUs are really good at compositing big images as games and window managers do it routinely.
Facebook and Google Are Actually Net States. And They Rule the World
Richard Nixon once tried the "it's not illegal if the President does it" approach. It didn't work out so well for him.

There are plenty of things the President of the United States -- any President -- could say on Twitter that would justifiably result in impeachment and conviction of a criminal offense.

allow the other branches of government to unconstitutionally limit his powers. No other branch of government can claim that authority over him.

The Constitution explicitly grants the other two branches of the federal government power to put the President on trial for alleged criminal offenses and convict him. The procedure has even been used twice, though both times it ended in acquittal. It'd be three times, and probably one conviction, if Nixon hadn't resigned.

The President of the United States is not a king who gets to be above the law. And even in the English legal system we derive a lot of principles from, the king was, as Sir Edward Coke famously pointed out, king under law.
Synthesizing Robust Adversarial Examples
I think his point is that Apple's app store is commonly criticized for being a walked garden. While the Android app store may be as well, some complaints seem specific to the Apple side. For instance, releasing a new or updated app requires manual review from someone at Apple. I've only seen complaints about an app release taking an arbitrary amount of time with the Apple app store.

There's a list of guidelines your app must conform to, and Apple is generally more aggressive about catching violations before app release compared to Google. There are consequences to this, like Safari-WebKit being the only permitted browser engine on iOS. Any other browser must wrap this engine.

The grandparent post is likely pointing out the dissatisfaction that devs express regarding the Apple app store review process. It seems like it comes down to an engineering trade-off. At some point you have to choose between developer experience and end user security.
On the Face of It: Darwin and the Evolution of Expression
Cue the ever amazing Bryan Cantrill Oracle rant: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m8s
I find that social media has the exact opposite problem. There's enough politically incindiary material on there that reading Facebook or Twitter frequently leaves me angry.

The friends and co-workers I spend time with in person have a much less diverse set of views than the broader group in my Twitter and Facebook feeds. Literally every person I spend real-world time with is wealthy, educated and liberal. Nobody ever says anything truly upsetting.
Really should be titled "Leninism's Bloody Century"...or maybe I'm just being pedantic.
If it’s so easy to manufacture majority opinions, why didn’t the candidate with the biggest budget win?

For the same reason the side with the most money doesn't always win legal cases. Money is a help, but not a guarantee. Money applied in just the right way, at just the right times, is extremely effective. The better-funded campaign in 2016 did a worse job of manipulating social media, and that certainly had an effect on the outcome.
I did similar thing quite a while ago :)

https://github.com/piranha/webhooker
When George W Bush won the election it was all the fault of Fox News and right wing radio.

Now that HRC lost the fault now lies allegedly with social media and evil foreigners.

It's like people blaming comic books, TV, rock music and video games for what they see as the failings of youth.

Acknowledging that the Democrats chose poor candidates in Gore and Clinton and that winning three Presidential terms in a row is hard is apparently harder than blaming people for voting the 'wrong' way on some new media development.

Clinton spent 1.2Bn and had loads of young people working on media. They probably weren't just telling truths about Trump. But apparently a few hackers around the place were vastly better than them.
Would be really cool to see a generic framework for this, where you can plug in the rules of your discrete-deterministic-game-with-perfect-information and get a superhuman bot. Does something like this already exist?
That’s more a PHP problem than a Linux problem; a lot of the Wordpress hacks don’t care about compromising your system at large as long as they can just take over your www-data user.
Sounds like you work in Perfect Land. Where everything is planned perfectly, everything is executed perfectly, nothing unexpected ever comes up, and everyone does their job perfect. Boy, wouldn't we all like to work there.

When you work with 20 teams and product lines all intermingle and you don't have an unlimited amount of time, money, or "vision", shit needs to be re-evaluated from time to time, and waiting two weeks for the scrum to end is too slow.

I'm sure you're very happy to remain undisturbed, Mr. Important, but the rest of us have blockers we need addressing, so jump on a hangout for five minutes so we can get some shit done.
Oh yes, it's the arsenic wallpapers which made people grow tired of a party which handed over campaign funds during the primaries choosing their president.
> He wasn't fond of their CEO, so he bought the whole company just to fire him.

Slight correction. It was not that he was fond of the CEO, rather he was angry with the CEO for undercutting him on a deal. Here's the exact story from wikipedia:

"In 1964, Stanton (then CEO) made an oral tender offer of $11 1⁄2 per share for the company to buy back Buffett's shares. Buffett agreed to the deal. A few weeks later, Warren Buffett received the tender offer in writing, but the tender offer was for only $11 3⁄8. Buffett later admitted that this lower, undercutting offer made him angry. Instead of selling at the slightly lower price, Buffett decided to buy more of the stock to take control of the company and fire Stanton (which he did). However, this put Buffett in a situation where he was now majority owner of a textile business that was failing."
Unfortunately, it's also open to corporations. It's free exchange of ideas and human communication without borders... but also centralization without borders.

A shop can be only in one place at once, so even a very big and optimized supermarket won't reach everywhere. Smaller shops can survive somewhere. I may be ignorant about both networking and logistics, but apparently Internet lets one deliver a whole supermarket to the most remote corners of the world. And once you're the only game in town, you can set your rules.
An infinite real estate computing environment is a pretty damn good value prop imo; a hell of a lot better than vr is being pushed atm (360 vid and games).

The problem with the gif is that it doesn't make any use of the "virtual" environment, but this is where vr should be heading at least as the intermediate before fully interactive vr.

That, and porn
https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/tutorials/
Yes. I don't recall the details but I think it's required by ICANN. We (Google Registry) support extended Latin and Japanese codebases, and since the registry software that we've written is Free Software, you can see our implementation, e.g. here's extended Latin: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re...
Correct, it is not easy to manufacture majority opinion.

In fact, we are seeing:

1. HRC spent more

2. HRC had total support from media (every major newspaper)

3. HRC even had social media employees manipulating their algos and data to her advantage

And now, after HRC lost, we are still using the same mechanism, and lenses, to form conclusions about why she lost.

That’s the definition of insanity.
It's the package deal that is objectionable
"Note that Germany's "Facebook law" doesn't apply to social media platforms with less than 2 million users,"

This is the magic. Everytime I hear, "be careful with regulations" warning; I think let's just apply it to the big boys.

I just had to repeat this. They big money will use scare tactics, and nothing will change. We can at least do a trial run, and recend it if it doesn't work out, or is too restrictive. And they will use the old, once you enact it--well good luck getting rid of it.

I've noticed they just aren't enforcing anti-trust laws. I wish they were.
Not sure if there were ads the other 11 times this was submitted as Show HN.

It's a nice little tool and I was planning to use it in production but does it really need a Show HN submission every 20 commits?
Such apps are mentioned in the article, they suggest lowering your brightness a little while using them.
Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push
Clinton is so unlikable by the masses that we got Trump.

The DNC ignored the upswell behind Bernie (who I would voted for instead of an independent) and chose her as their candidate. Even Elizabeth Warren agreed the DNC failed us miserably and again because of that we have Trump.
I haven’t seen any proof that FB actually has power.

Instead, I’m seeing that they have inflated the number of users and ad impressions. Also, I’m seeing an argument that FB is somehow so powerful, that under $100k of FB ads swung the election (even though the campaigns bought 10s of millions of FB ads too).
> There is clearly a difference between lying under oath and having opinions.

You're shifting the goalposts here. We're discussing a hypothetical situation in which the President tweets something literally illegal.

> Further, impeachment proceedings are 100% political, not legal.

The aforelinked article about Bill Clinton's impeachment also mentions that while in office, he was cited for contempt of court — another limitation on freedom of speech — by a federal judge.
Depends what you can get for free I suppose. Foreign governmental intervention, that sort of thing.