skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senate Intelligence Committee has expressed concerns that Jack Dorsey is favoring the Russian government over the United States government.

Senator Tom Cotton, CIA Director John Brennan, transcript from Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on June 2016:

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=414

SENATOR COTTON: I want to discuss cooperation with our Intelligence Community from Silicon Valley, specifically Twitter and a company called Dataminr. According to the Wall Street Journal from May 8th, as well as some other media reports, Dataminr which is owned in part by Twitter and is the only company authorized to access the full real-time stream of public tweets that Twitter has, recently cooperated with the CIA. But just a few weeks ago ended that cooperation. So our Intelligence Community no longer has access to Dataminr's information, could you comment on these reports?

DIRECTOR BRENNAN: It appears as though Dataminr was directed to not provide its service to the CIA Intelligence Community and so therefore, we need to be able to leverage other capabilities in order to make sure that we have the insight we need to protect this country.

COTTON: So those reports are correct?

BRENNAN: I am not going to dispute them.

COTTON: The Wall Street Journal also reported that the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, directed Dataminr to stop the contract because he was worried about the "optics" of helping intelligence agencies. Do you believe that to be accurate?

BRENNAN: I do not know his motivation for any corporate decision he may have made, but I have no basis to dispute that.

COTTON: The Wall Street Journal also reports that among customers of Dataminr remains RT, Russia Today, a propaganda outlet of Vladimir Putin's government, which Putin has said is "trying to break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on global information streams." To your knowledge, is Russia Today a client of Dataminr?

BRENNAN: I believe so, I'm not certain of that. But I don't have any information that they have been excluded from their services.
This breaks both the HN guideline against personal attacks ('be civil') and the one against insinuations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence. Someone having an opposing opinion is not evidence. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The rest of the internet may be losing its mind; that doesn't mean we need to. Commenters here can do better than this.
I don't think there's any question as to whether or not mainstream media outlets across the Western world have been capitilizing on the "War on Terror" for decades, but one that has remained unanswered is how effective have the Western world's anti-terrorist measures been?

There are some measures, like TSA in America, that appear to be more focused around the illusion of security than actually preventing acts of terrorism. But what about some of the surveillance efforts conducted by intelligence organizations within the Five Eyes?

Maybe this merely a display of my own ignorance, but I don't understand why the efficacy of surveillance measures (both domestic and non-domestic) isn't discussed more often. If governments were more open about all the terrorist attacks they were able to prevent ahead of time, maybe the general public wouldn't have such a negative opinion of them when one terrorist slips through the cracks.

This paper (https://www.cepol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/26-reinhard-...) has some interesting insights into the matter. While admittedly a slightly biased source, this ProPublica article also has some interesting things to say about mass surveillance (https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-the-evidence-mass-s...)
Since 2006 it has been illegal in the UK to "glorify an act of terrorism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006

However, as per the article, it's been law since 1606 to "glorify" this particular act; especially because it was foiled.
There are BDSM groups. There are people into polyamory. There are fetish groups.

Given how many "normal" people are into "weird" sex, the idea that a handicapped person is somehow less entitled to a sexuality looks to me like pure prejudice.
Daily resolution makes these graphs very hard to read. Aggregating weekwise would make it much clearer.
I remember getting replacement capacitors for a motherboard I bought during that time, fortunately I never had to use them.
If Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit, et al, manifestly demonstrated that they produced and distributed more rather than less accurate information your comment might have merits.

The fact is that they don't, that the platforms have been very much wide open to manipulation, that the founders and executives of the companies have denied that there is any such problem, and that malicious agents have subverted the systems and through them social and political dynamics.

Your last paragraph frankly makes your first nonsensical. Either ensuring a sound epistemic and media system is good, or it is not. You're trying to have it both ways. The fact that manipulating media for control and influence is undertaken is very widely recognised, and has been for millennia.
Shame the Ikea Bekant isn't listed (Perhaps not available in the US?). I love mine and was definitely worth the £500 investment.
Thanks - I'll check it out!
this is like scourging the prices on runescape and alching them lool
This doesn't make sense. What makes money 'dirty'? What about banks like Goldman Sachs? Is their money 'clean'? What about the Saudi and UAE investment funds? How does one decide what is 'dirty' and 'clean' money and identify it?
>People already have a sense that things aren't fair. There's a reason why tax reform is polling so poorly. There's a reason why most of the country thinks taxes should be higher on the wealthy and corporations. They have a feeling that they are not seeing the rise of productivity in their own life, and they want justice.

There's also just the sheer sense of stagnation. I get mildly enraged every time I look at America's idea of a middle-school and high-school curriculum, then compare it to what people learn abroad. How is it that "everyone else" has more leisure, suffers less stress, and still winds up doing harder things than Americans more easily? America has started thinking like a less developed country, that productivity arises from suffering.
I've been holding my breath ever since 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that followed shortly thereafter, dreading more attacks on that scale or larger. Not to jinx us, but surprisingly they haven't.

It's like the existing terrorists aren't smart enough to think of such attacks, aren't skilled enough to execute them, or aren't interested and are content with relatively minor (though still very tragic and media attention-grabbing) attacks.

It could also be that the agencies charged with keeping us safe are actually doing a good job at preventing those larger scale attacks, which makes sense for attacks like the 9/11 ones, which required a lot of coordination and cooperation between the participants and are therefore vulnerable to being spied upon and/or infiltrated, but not so much for other "lone-wolf" sort of attacks, many of which really don't require much skill and no cooperation or coordination with anyone else.

So I'm not sure how to explain not seeing any large-scale attacks by lone-wolves or even small terrorist cells except as lack of interest or knowledge on the part of the terrorists.
Well imagine you use language foo, bar and go. Go insists all code lives in ~/go/src and foo insists it all lives in ~/foo/source. Neither likes symlinks, which one wins?

Also people like to keep other artefacts alongside source code like scripts, resources, templates, tools etc and often have an existing elaborate project structure in order to accommodate that. Go forces them to throw that out and use something under gopath. It's annoying and an unnecessary stumbling block for people starting out in Go.
The Cecils where the equivalent of the DCI or the heads of MI5 and MI6 - the BBC has a series on them currently airing
Western governments would only pay 'cost' for digging up Uranium in Canadian (or other sanctioned) mines, thereby creating 0 demand for Uranium on global markets.

Nothing would stop the Russians from doing whatever they please. If this 'massive project' done by private entities - Uranium prices would rise dramatically, thereby creating incentive for Russian gov/private entities to ramp up Uranium production.

But with a 'nationalization' - well, global Urainum prices might remain weak knowing ain't nobody in the 'Western World' going to pay crazy prices for something that's too dangerous and no government would allow the sale of.

The 'nationalization' by Western Governments would surely be accompanied by a ban on private sale of it.

So the market would collapse making Russian gov/private entities less willing to put any dollars behind it.

But of course they can do whatever they want whenever they please - as they can today.

By the way - even with governments notorious and dysfunctional bureaucracy - I still think it would be cheaper than buying it from private entities where most of the cost would be in the form of some kind of rent extraction, not very related to the cost of extracting it.
"As a practical matter, what do you think happens to any society that suffers a class divide severe enough that (a) the majority of the citizenry ends up in the underclass and (b) being in the underclass sucks badly enough to really piss people off?"

It has a violent revolution. But your question contains an unstated assumption: that capitalism leads to "the majority of the citizenry [ending] up in the underclass". Feudal societies saw most people living in poverty. Communist societies saw most people living in poverty. Properly functioning capitalist societies have a healthy middle class, and a tolerable standard of living even for people at the bottom.

"So you can pontificate about the ideological merits of extreme Libertarianism all you want, but in practice it works exactly as well as extreme socialism."

The society that came closest to "extreme Libertarianism" was the United States in the 19th century. (Especially after the civil war). That was the century of the industrial revolution, huge advances in technology and wealth production, and an unprecedented rise in the standard of living.
Where did you get the number that he paid 1/8th the market price ? You provided zero evidence to this effect. If he did pay 1/8th the market price, I'll concede that something shady was taking place
Teaching “Madame Bovary”
I started reading GEB, and enjoyed hearing about things like Goedel's incompleteness theorem, but Hofstadter is really hard to get through. What did those who persevered get from it?
Fair point. I guess Reality is what we make of it, so I stand corrected.
I didn't put discussion on the page in order to keep it as code-light as possible. Reddit is a good option for discussion (at the time of writing), especially considering I didn't want to clutter HN up with a discussion page for each article (no problem on a subreddit).

I agree with you on the value of reddit and platforms (and I actually value Facebook-type platforms as well, with the obvious qualifications), but the old html sites I write about here have a different type of construction, material, and value.

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https://github.com/timkpaine/pyEX-zipline
He "purposely" overpaid by $50m for a house in Los Altos -> http://www.businessinsider.com/yuri-milners-100-million-sili...
I hope they realize that their elected legislative representatives matter a lot more for this... The president is chief diplomat, chief military and legal executive, a veto holder. They also do a lot of appointing. Not much else, in reality. So we elected a bloviating racist to be our chief diplomat, because we don't like corporatist legislators? Ok...
You've stooped to the kind of personal attack that is most unwelcome in HN threads, especially partisan/political flamewars that we don't want on HN in the first place.

We ban users that do this, so please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here.
Also, call me cynical but this is about running machine learning on impossibly large datasets meaning huge profits for AWS.
With great difficulty and annoyance.

Once when developing with the 8051 family (using a development board that included a debugger), the program worked perfectly on the dev board, but when I burned it onto EEPROM, a subtle timing issue with a peripheral caused the program to fail. Much frustration ensued; had to develop that section with a long winded code->compile->burn->test cycle. Then we found out the particular 8051 variant we were using had been discontinued :(
Check out https://openaddresses.io

It has ~477 million freely-licensed addresses.
It seems obvious now, but you only have to look at an HN thread 6 years ago discussing Yuri Milner to see that many people in tech (or at least on HN), including pg, did not believe Yuri was an extension of the Russian state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143604. (Of course, many also recognized this as obvious at the time).
And yet the comment you just replied to gives evidence that you are the one actually incorrect, as it backs up his original statement and strongly counters your assertion.

To paraphrase for you:

vonnik: $1m purchase price is shady

vasilipupkin: No its not it is the real estate game, unless you can show me $1m in mid 90's is shady for a 71 story office building in premium location on Wall Street

vonnik: OK here is source: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/business/40-wall-street-is...

vasilipupkin: <comment I am replying to>

My advice is it would help to have evidence, instead of seeding conversations with comments that cast doubt with very little evidence.
This was a nightmare before tabs were a thing.
Presumably you are talking about the vector dataset? I think most of the raster imagery comes from commercial aerial imagery sources (certainly they have no monopoly whatsoever on that). I think there are other global vector datasets that are broadly comparable, no? Streetview excepted.

Maybe also worth pointing out that Google's record in geo isn't without its failures.
Look up Peter Turchin.

http://peterturchin.com
Well it's more convenient for someone to buy, that adds value.
This is still dodging the point that societies don't survive long with large numbers of poor, unhappy citizens.

But anyway, your belief doesn't agree with reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSH9_IWeSK4

"Terry Bossert, Range’s vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs, told a Pennsylvania Bar Institute gathering in Harrisburg earlier this month, that the company tries to avoid siting its shale gas wells near “big houses” where residents might have the financial resources to challenge the industrial-type developments."
http://www.post-gazette.com/powersource/latest-oil-and-gas/2...

"I’m a public defender. It’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-public-defender-...

"How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/how-compa...

"I make a lot of poor financial decisions. None of them matter, in the long term. I will never not be poor, so what does it matter if I don’t pay a thing and a half this week instead of just one thing?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...

"How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/03/...

"As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price"
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312158516/increasing-court-fee...

I have 5,233 carefully-organized bookmarks in Pinboard. I can keep doing this for a while.

The fact of the matter is that poverty by itself is unfair treatment. Those living in poverty automatically have fewer judicial options in legal disputes, bear an unfair proportion of costs in legal matters, have their communities unfairly targeted by exploitative businesses that know the citizens don't have the resources to fight back, and are subjected to poorer nutrition and harmful living environments which virtually guarantee that those people born into poverty will also die in it -- and of it.
Thanks for the tips and reassurance – it's good to hear that using Visual Code is acceptable; it's what I'm more comfortable in, and I'll persevere with it!
It doesn't say much for the level of economic/political debate on HN that simple factual observations like this are systematically downvoted.
I disagree entirely. Every minute wasted in transit is wasted. I was lucky to make the most of a private school scholarship (Baltimore) and received overlapping theater, voice, writing, instrumental and athletic training alongside academic training and "gifted" early science training provided by state government. From city centers like Boston and DC I was exposed to the world many Americans only know through pictures or books.

Nothing is more damaging to adults or children than lives in remote isolation with delusions of Swiss Family Robinson self-sufficiency on government road, school and mortgage subsidies. We must stop claiming any normalcy to that post-Eisenhower makeshift accounting fiction. Lives in remote isolation are one of the reasons business formation is so low in the United States. Shyness is never any value. Shy people are takers.
Actually, it wasn't meant as a critique, as I like most people highly value the modern internet.

I will be putting in more internal hyperlinks as I have more pages on the website to link to. Most of the articles there are still in progress, and this one is a sort of introduction to the HN community (which is my main source of news and analysis these days).

Please link me to your ham radio site when you get it ready for us. I'm also building a list of these types of blogs/sites.

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No, government spending got us super expensive connections between a handful of universities. Free markets took that and brought it as the internet to our doors.

Military invented expensive microwave radar. Free markets turned it into $100 kitchen appliances.

The government put satellites on orbit at tremendous cost for military positioning system. Free markets put Waze driving directions on my phone.

Yes, we have a bunch of expensive things due to government spending. Imagine how many more we would've had and how much cheaper if free markets were allowed to create them...
Thanks, I'll have to find that
The bay area got so caught up in their liberalism and inclusion, they didn't think that some of the people they are accepting (not just Russia, Chineese are everywhere in SF and many don't speak any english) might have deceptive and un-american intentions.
Almost every one of my Samsung Monitors I bought between 2000 and 2007 has experienced this problem. I went thru and replaced them and now my 17 year old 19 inch monitors work like a charm.
Another question I would like to ask what HN thinks, or perhaps if it is known or statistically reported some where.

What's the risk of death or injury in the Middle East or in any theater of action at the hands of the West? Both from unintended collateral damage or from negligence/mistakes (e.g. drone attacks or similar)? How does that compare to the risks that the West face from terrorists?

There was an element of truth to the narrative projected by media at specific events such as the terrorist attacks in London (15/9) and New York (11/9). But largely, the narrative we're accepting as truth doesn't hold merit.

The amount of exposure we receive for death or injury on a day to day basis across the West is not an accurate reflection of the danger or risk of being injured or hurt my terrorist fringe elements. Your husband, brother or other male member is a bigger threat to your health when comparing domestic and sexual violence with terrorism.

I don't know if I'd put this down to the success of our anti-terrorist programs (even if it was which in probability is likely, no such credit would ever be sought and this is obviously by design).

Or whether we as a region (i.e The West) have always overstated risks associated to terrorism because of the potential for financial gain from fear mongering by the media?
A similar phenomenon is that of swollen lithium ion batteries: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=swollen+battery
How is RT at all comparable to the CIA? Even if you accept the premise that RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service.
One notable example from the 90s that I was referring to with this statement was a site that had many, many pages about unusual science/mystery/gnosis/anarchism. I haven't been able to locate it.

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History says that there is (at least) one counter example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia

In fact, people flocked to it.
The 14 JavaScript debugging tips you probably didn't know – Raygun
Superdelegates weren't the only thing against him, as said in this exact thread.
McDonald's doesn't want to deal with your nonsense. If you don't have proper fiat currency to give them they'll tell you to go buy your food somewhere else.
We already trust Trump with world ending power.
I wasn't exactly talking about webrings, but now I'd like to see one. Can you link me to one please?

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You mean, an arcade? Like Flappy Bird?
This seems like an enormous amount of tooling complexity to simply have a few dependencies for your program.
“We”
I wish all technology announcements included that and put it up front. I'm often surprised at the number of interesting-sounding things I follow from HN's front page only to end up with no idea of what they're good for or why I might want to invest time in learning about them.

Your most enthusiastic customers can sometimes be the people who didn't know what was possible until your product came along.
Besides, there's very little politics in niche subreddits. I'm subscribed to /r/pic (not /r/pics!), /r/flute, /r/stonerrock, /r/chess, /r/boardgames, /foreignmovies, /r/vermiculture and /r/japanlife and the latter is the only one where American politics sometimes creeps up.
Ah I should update the README For sure. Both of those are chips (ICs). I should also provide a link to the AVRM libraries which are crucial to this working.

The DS1307 is a RTC (real time clock).
The MAX7221 is an LED driver.

Maybe I’ll even add a picture of the hacked together curcuit.

More information can be found at http://nixpulvis.github.io/nixpulvis/projects/clock/index.ht...

https://github.com/nixpulvis/avrm
https://github.com/nixpulvis/ds1307
https://github.com/nixpulvis/max7221
>Some problems for sure, but it's probably manageable. Poverty is not and should never be an excuse for crime. Rich people can build as many prisons as necessary.

You are one of the people for whom they build gulags.
All forms of government, historically, lead to autocracy.
Make them big enough to provide radiation protection and small enough such that they burn up in the atmosphere.
Paul Graham on Yuri Milner at the time:

"If there's one mistake this story makes, it's in trying to come up with complicated theories about why Yuri does well. He's simply smart."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143894
Software engineer in Munich, salary $120k, it's around $6k per month after taxes, healthcare, pension fund; 30 days paid vacation; 11 months paid parental leave; $2k rent for a big new 3 bedroom in city center, $500 for day care. Free schools, short commute, lots of inexpensive free time perks.
So your argument is that a foreign propaganda entity is preferable to a domestic intelligence agency?