skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, trolling and counter-trolling? Gee...

Also, note that there’s mention of specific political groups exclusively as trolls, but who are the professional counter-trolls? As my mom used to say, when it comes to fighting, it takes two to tango. Aren’t both just trolls?

Internet fights are pretty tedious to witness. Just ask HN’s moderators. But why trust them, when you can read plenty on your own.

One person’s moderator is another person’s censor. Trolling and moderation go hand in hand, and moderation is the true counter-troll.
The last point in my handy WASM FAQ explains the main reasons why WASM (and also asm.js) is faster than 'idiomatic' Javascript:

http://floooh.github.io/2017/06/09/webassembly-demystified.h...
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None of them work well with Linux, despite the Linux folks sometimes bending over backwards to make it work.
https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/

All of the Macs I have require binary firmware blobs for WiFi, for the open source driver to work. And even in that case none of them can do even 802.11n. I have to use the proprietary WiFi driver to get 802.11n or 802.11ac. And yes each model varies in this regard, which makes it something of a Choose Your Own Adventure book.
And this is why Google Reader was amazing. There we were, my friends and I, reading RSS feeds and liking/sharing/commenting amongst ourselves.

pours one out
Home Owners Insurance Makes No Sense
Wish someone will ask Zuckerberg if he feels stupider now that he no longer very young, and why we should listen to him by his words he is getting stupider by the day.
Do the sponsors pay you cash, or free product?

Did you actively reach out to them, or did they contact you when you got big enough?
I actually think it's very pretty, but I'm using Ubuntu-based elementary OS at the moment.
Or, you just catch the panic in a defer up the call chain, log the error, and then exit that goroutine. Like: https://golang.org/src/net/http/server.go#L1694
I'm pretty sure Bing still makes up a large portion of their results. I remember reading some official stats at some point that their own crawler was such a miniscule part of the results that in effect you were just basically using a more limited version of Bing.
> A DAO on the blockchain can be indistinguishable from a platform run by a company from the point of view of the driver.

And it's entirely irrelevant. If the driver is genuinely acting as an independent company, then it's not a problem. If the driver is being treated as an employee, then some entity is the employer and that entity is on the hook for the legal requirements, and it'll be down to courts to figure out who to hold responsible.

> There are no jobs that are guaranteed to be lethal. If there were, there are only two conditions under which someone would work them:

You're evading the question by being pedantic. Reduce "guaranteed to be lethal" to whatever threshold you prefer and it stands.

> I'm dubious about this claim. It sounds like another pop-history claim that is baseless. Do you have a source?

Each and every history book that covers the labour movement and workers rights. I'm not going to fill in gaps in what is high school level history for you. Go read some wikipedia pages for that matter.

> The opposite is true. There were very few labour regulations and no minimum wages instituted during the Industrial Revolution (thanks largely to legal doctrines of substantive due process guaranteeing the freedom to contract in place since the Supreme Court Lochner ruling).

Lochner post-dates the most significant gains in US labor history by decades.

> After the propaganda victory of the socialist parties and labour unions, extensive labour regulations were introduced.

... and so did this. By the 1920's the support for socialism in the US was rapidly headed for collapse.

> This has accelerated since the creation of the OSHA in 1970. The last 40 years have seen wage growth stagnate and life expectancy to even decline for some demographics.

Nonsense. Ca. 1920 or so the US lost it's leadership in labour rights improvements, and especially so after World War II when the social democrats had gained massive influence in Western Europe, and most European countries built universal healthcare systems and expanded unemployment rights and other welfare dramatically while the US mostly stood still.

If you want to blame US stagnation in the last 40 years on something, consider that the US is lagging further behind Europe in workers rights and welfare than it ever has, so whatever the cause is, you'll have to look elsewhere.
He's never not going to be loaded again, so maybe that gives him to feel a certain latitude of perspective which would've only hampered him in the quest for fuck-you money.
From what I've read, it used to be bundled into iTunes, and they wanted to simplify iTunes so they made a standalone app.
I just searched with quotes around the word and it worked.
Perhaps you could explain it rather than making an argument to incredulity?
Aleppo Soap
hckrnews.com is the RSS style interface I used to read HN.
Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant
ARM Assembly Basics Cheatsheet
RFind: Extreme Localization for Billions of Items
If anything, this shows that YouTube is actually spreading the wealth somewhat more. If the salary of the biggest YouTuber with the most sought after audience earns as much as an average baseballer. Or probably what some first class footballer would get for a 15 second spot on tv.
Yes, but in this case there's a big name company putting their name and reputation on the line. AliExpress primarily sells no-name Chinese stuff where reputation is disposable.

I've purchased things from AliExpress that were useful products, but everything was fragile or had substantial bugs I had to work around. Always was happy for the price, but would rather find something in between the AliExpress price and the western price if I could get non-brittle plastic.
Would class fields not be a solution based on mutable state? Isn't that exactly the problem Odersky addresses in the beginning that your state can get mutated while your transaction is ongoing?
Math, history, geography, the technical part of a language (grammar, spelling,...) can be learned. It is simply a matter of effort. Some are better, some are more interested, but ultimately you can learn.
I had Spanish at school (France) and had a hard time just because I did not like it. Then I started to like it and, miracle, my marks sky-rocketed.

If you do not have steady hands you will never be good at drawing because you will not be able to learn it. Salle if you have asthma and want to sing (I guess). You should not be marked dusk because of that.
Same if you are in a wheelchair and cannot run a 100m.
It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done
FWIW: Postal ballots require signatures. Election administrators often use software to assist and sometimes automate this task. The "challenge" rate varies, depending on competency, but can be as high as 1 per 1000. Which has definitely had an impact in close races.

Said as a recovering election integrity activist: the automated signature recognition systems I studied, some 10 years back, should be utterly rejected. The error rate (both false positive and negative) is unacceptable for elections. And much of this cannot be fixed with better algorithms. Signatures change as you age, you injured your wrist, and so forth.

Just as onerous, the election vendor businesses where pushing a "per voter" fee structure. So instead of just selling you the gear, they'd also charge 10 cents for every signature compared. On top of every ballot printed, mailed, tracked, etc.

In short, the push to postal balloting is basically a rent seeking exercise, to make up for the loss of revenue post-touchscreen debacle, and much more expensive overall.

Oh, I almost forgot a tidbit. Our State Patrol, who investigate check fraud, were employed to train our election signature verifiers. At the time, both they and the banks would only use the software to flag signatures, never to fully automate the task.
Cash, and I reached out at first.
+amorphid

works. More tips under "duckduckgo search syntax".

This said, I think google is more accurate. But duckduckgo works well enough and is my default search engine now (Google lost me with THE ONE GOOGLE aggregation since quite a while ago)
I find it surprising that someone would say it's not easily shared, since you can just copy the entry's permalink and send it to someone. I don't think it could be any easier!

Heck, I don't think I ever use a site's sharing button. The only exceptions are probably "retweet" on Twitter and "share now" on Facebook, which reposts content on your timeline in a way that can't be replicated by posting the URL.

On Chrome for Android there's the Web Share API [0], which they claim makes it easier to share content, although I'm unconvinced it's needed or really even desirable.

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-...
There’s simply no way that a sport that requires a court and a hoop is going to beat Soccer as the most played sport in the world.
This paper is sort of about that: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11381

They use a gamma distribution which has more probability density near the origin, which causes samples around the origin and interpolations to be more like real input.
The full paper, which was published at MobiCom 2017, is available here: http://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/RFind-paper.pdf
To be more exact, RSS is headline-oriented, so it's about clickbait. It is not about sharebait.
Use Google search all day and just find it amazing at getting what I am looking for. Never seen Google filter in a way that helps them. I will get negative Google articles and they would be the first Google filtered it there was an issue.
Thank you for sharing this. I think there is a yet-unfulfilled thirst for more structured information regarding the impact that can be made by those doing amateur science as a hobby. I do some coaching for individuals on the side and my clients who fit the HN reader profile almost always have "it's too late for me to become a scientist, isn't it?" really wedged in their belief system. Yet we have people like Koyama-san and other groups (SARA is one I recently found) really setting a great example for what amateurs can do.
Quotes work wonders. For many search engines including google knowing the syntax for more advanced searches is key.
People like Letterman and Leno used to make 20-30 million a year for interviewing celebrities and making lame jokes. What's the difference?
Given the number of not-up-to-spec cables on Amazon (there's that Google guy who reviews them and found a lot of them to be faulty), I would be extremely wary of buying anything USB on Alibaba.
I found BazQux Reader (bazqux.com) and absolutely love it because it’s designed to mimic Google Reader :-)
Maybe get a VPN to a small country.

As an English speaker in Denmark, half the adverts I see on YouTube are from the same company, offering English writing review. Others are either luxury cars or in Danish (broadband, holidays). I don't think it would be Denmark's style to have an HIV thing on YouTube.
One of the most troubling articles I've read recently is an Atlantic piece examining Facebook's effect on kids' brains. Zuckerberg can say connection makes us happier all he wants, but Facebook can make children miserable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/what-...
In line with @tyingq, the "cloud" will become a commodity, and immutable infrastructure will automatically reprovision itself to run on the cheapest set of inventory purchased across multiple clouds.
I would compare it to the old niche hobby magazines, just that the market is now the world and video is the format.
Google has personal blocklist addon for chrome that you can use to block unwanted sites from the search results.

I just wonder why this obvious tool is not account-level functionality that works across browsers and devices. If it is because the sites that people block bring revenue to Google, then Google truly is evil.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
Indeed, Guice even recommends not to use (static) final fields.

https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/Injections
I would rather hope that it would take a brave judge or the EU to forbid this spy-device.

Commercially there's no alternative. Enterprises even use Microsoft over Linux/BSD. Why would they get rid of Intel?
For Anti-US spying a firewall should be enough.
There is a substantial cost to society in subsidizing low paying companies by making it possible for people to survive well enough on these low salaries that they are willing to take these jobs too, in harming companies that innovate in other ways in favor of companies that exploit the opportunity to offer low pay.

We're incentivising companies to squeeze salaries instead of innovating. To me that is the exact opposite of what we should do. If anything, minimum wage should be pushed higher and higher at above inflation, as an incentive to invest in labor saving measures.

There's no reason why we should encourage wasting human capacity by making it easy to exploit people for low wages.

(Yes, this would mean dealing with unemployment by e.g. reducing working time and/or basic income variations or similar)
Or maybe he's like Nobel, and has already started to think about legacy and how he's going to be viewed? On the other hand, maybe he cares about how loaded he is, and since a lot of his wealth is wrapped up in the value of his company, he still cares. Maybe he just likes to win, and not be seen as the equivalent of this era's tobacco barons.
As far as I can tell the first specific thing that the author calls out as something that should disturb all humans is that the Aladdin characters are joined by a character from a different IP. Truly terrifying to any company or copyright holder.
In retrospect it's pretty trivial to see why it is so: it directly results from the basic fact that the hypervolume of an n-body grows as the nth power of linear size.
https://mailcow.email

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

https://mailinabox.email

FreeBSD-specific: http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4
Desks with wheels don't work if you have multiple story buildings or different buildings all together
> Additionally if you're compiling a language to wasm, you're also at the mercy of that compiler as well, so it always depends.

and potentially runtime, depending on the language you are compiling from
This guy wrote a short post on mining income : https://medium.com/@MaxenceCornet/coinhive-review-embeddable...
Indeed, if people would only use implicits the way Odersky recommends, I'd love Scala. The problem is, too many people do exactly what he warns about in this video. And so my love-hate relationship continues... :-)
I also use RSS as a way of publishing configuration and firmware updates to a set of users/devices. Works great: surfs infrastructure we already have, supports browsing past versions etc, and I didn't have to write any clients for looking things up.

This is for a rather large, global, corporate-internal system, not a commercial product, though I got the idea when thinking about solutions for a commercial product a few years ago.
both verbatim and the quotes don't act the same as the + operator did
The source is a great read: https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/
Btw the underlying smart contract is open source and available at: https://etherscan.io/address/0x5bf554632a059ae0537a3eeb20ace...
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20171108150109/https://headmelte...
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
>“Studies have actually proven that the more connected we are, the happier we are, and the healthier we are,” [Zuckerberg] said this summer at Facebook’s first ever communities summit in Chicago, where he announced a new, idealistic mission statement: “To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.”

If that's what MZ believes, he's being selective in the studies he's reading. It's frightening that we have a very smart guy with a fatally flawed anthropological view of Facebook's effect.

Mass media technologies like Facebook/tv/radio/newspapers actually have the opposite effect: They increase tribalism and polarization.

Yes, social networks bring some people together... like distant relatives sharing more photos than the Kodak film days. Or a group that shares a hobby like anonymous unrelated guitar players talking about gear on a music forum.

However, asking for communication platforms to bridge the gap of Democrats vs Republicans or Christians vs Muslims or Pro-life vs Pro-choice doesn't work. What really happens is those groups use the technology to dig in their heels even further and double-down on their entrenched positions. Tribalism amplified to the max.
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I wasn't aware that there was a perception that Google's results had any indication of the truth of the content it returned. I thought everyone just knew that anything on the web is just as likely to be false, spam, shills, or just bad marketing as it is to be an accurate worthwhile piece of content.

So while Google may have its flaws... I wouldn't go to them to solve this problem. I'd teach the people more critical thinking and encourage them to apply it to whatever they read.
Seems like an interesting and successful company.
Nice story, thanks.

Studying cursive, calligraphy, lettering, graffiti, cuneiform, emoji and so forth should all be standard units.

Call it "writing systems and visual languages". Incorporate (adapt) Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" and Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach".

Compare and contrast different systems thru the ages. Have kids invent their own alphabets and fonts.

And then offer elective classes, perhaps under the humanities and arts curriculum.
I think if a product like FB is allegedly ruining people's lives, it's on people not FB. It's not like the opioid crisis. People can leave FB anytime without withdrawals.
Not necessarily. These fields can be references to immutable objects.

Note that Dotty's implicit approach is similar in that respect, it doesn't prescribe anything in terms of mutability/immutability.

But we've already gone down the path of implicits, they are the #1 complaint about Scala, the #1 reason why the compiler is so slow and one of the main reasons why people say that Scala code can be very hard to reason about. I can't believe Odersky is doubling down on the implicit approach with Dotty. He just seems to be stuck in a language design corner and not willing to look at other ways to approach this problem.

It's programming language design myopia.
Apparently I'm an "Upholder" and I fail to see why I would want a "Rebel" in my organization. "I'm not going to do this because I can tell that you expect me to do it" How does that personality benefit any endeavor that requires cooperation between people? Maybe they can work for themselves more effectively, but it just seems destructive.
> This was as much about the process as the result.

Cool - but the process of WHAT? If you’re working on calligraphy, make the post about calligraphy. As a frequent presenter, I read the title and went, “great, let’s see how another presenter prepares.” This wasn’t really about the keynote at all - it’s about designing slides with calligraphy. Step back and think bigger picture - you could write this as, “how to build slides with calligraphy” and get a bigger, happier audience. People would love to see how you lay out that kind of thing, how long it takes, how long you’ve been working at it, etc.

However, it has nothing to do with Python, PyCon, 2017, or a keynote. It’s just long term presentation design. It’s an evergreen post that’s worthwhile for people who do any kind of presentation.

It’s like saying, “2017 Range Rover sale preparation,” and then writing thousands of words about innovative and timeless sales techniques. The title and first few paragraphs really undersell what you’re doing.
Yeah, I can't imagine who would risk using this in production.
I was talking about regular (instance) fields, not static ones.
Every small datacenter has a fake diesel generator that doesn't work. I worked for one datacenter and they purposely bought a non-working diesel generator and moved it into a room with the sole purpose to pitch it to investors that they had a working secondary power source.
The way I see it is that Google is getting closer and closer to showing you only what they want... They tell you that they are guessing what you meant so that if it is completely unrelated, you don't get too suspicious.
Red Hat has something for this that's tied to their acquisition of Qumranet/Spice [1], but I've only seen a demo video so I can't speak to its reliability or suitability for any given deployment. I'm also not sure what the attached marketing terms are if you want to research a supported solution. Basically, each developer's "real" machine is a VM on a beefy server, and terminals are interchangeable. In the demo I saw, each terminal had a contactless smart card reader. When the card is put on the reader, the terminal connects to the corresponding VM. Take the card off, and the terminal locks or switches to a transient/guest VM.

[1] https://www.spice-space.org/
Yeah. I suggest giving them another try. I actually thought they were the most popular RSS reader these days. It's very customizable (even for the free tier).
There are also plenty of studies showing that Facebook makes people depressed https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-mentally-strong-pe...

People tend to predominantly post things that make them look good, and reading that makes people feel like their own lives aren't as great as those of their friends and acquaintances.
Maybe what shows up in Newsblur is a "little" irritating. But trying to get the same quality of stuff from FB is just plain irritating, without qualifications.
Wasn't it only USB C he was finding issues with?
Microscopic unless you have a lot of visitors. You will get much more from ads. However, if you give them an incentive to run the miner for longer durations (like giving them in-app rewards) it may be good.
So I believe you on the Solaris userspace, it was full of System 5 garbage. GNU was a much better answer.

But on SunOS 4.x, you had userspace problems? That was a pretty stock BSD userspace with a lot of bugfixes. Every open source makefile in the world just worked when you typed make on SunOS. Seemed pretty solid to me, I think the only thing I would do is add perl, it took Sun a long time to decide to include perl (if they ever did).
I agree with you ideologically but I've seen people addicted to just about everything from Heroin to World of Warcraft. I've seen gamers neglect their kids, drop out of college, lose their homes.

I don't find it a stretch to believe Facebook could have the same effect.
So what if XML is gross? Feed generators generate it. Feed readers consume it. Computer machine language is gross too. But only some of us need to look at it, while we can all use it.
Exactly, a "Make playlist" button on either a folder of YouTube channels, or on just a channel, that would make a custom playlist of all unviewed videos.