skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russians giving donations to organisations controlled by one of your politicians would not be a hostile act?
> Both actions are legal under your election laws though, correct?

No, foreigners donating to political campaigns or issue-advocacy groups (PACs), or engaging in electioneering or electioneering communications is illegal.

Hence why it's a big deal that Facebook was letting Russians engage in electioneering - if they had attempted to purchase this advertising at, say, a local TV or radio station they would have been denied, but Facebook let them do it. Even if they added sufficient shell companies and lied their way through, the act would still have been logged and disclosed as all electioneering communications are - which again, Facebook was not doing.

Facebook may not fall neatly into the existing rules, though (I'm unclear) as those are mainly targeted at broadcast media. Thus they're trying to scramble to make a show of compliance to avoid actual regulation. But this is very clearly something that will happen again unless something is done.

http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/electioneering.sht...
Different strategies work for people in different situations. Renting cheaply and saving while single has worked for some people. If the situation changes, you'll have the down payment (and then some) to buy a house somewhere when it's time to make a change.

Maybe not in Silicon Valley. Or maybe the housing bubble will be over by then? There's no crystal ball.
Surprisingly, the article was not bad, although the libertarian bias is pretty bare with the last paragraph. But really, World News Group?
Ruuvitag, now with IOTA
I don't know why, but just by reading the title my mind implied JavaScript, and I noticed it doesn't have that word only after reading your comment.

Weird.
This seems so useful. It's really surprising how something like this didn't take off sooner. It's like Amazon reviews, but for websites, and built right into your browser.
Pre-2006 systems, maybe. I have a PIII based laptop that I'm reasonably sure doesn't contain any malicious microcode or BIOS shenanigans. It certainly doesn't have IME or equivalent. However, that was the CPU that started Intel's serial number controversy, and while I do have a BIOS setting to turn it off, is it really off?

It's a pretty deep rabbit hole if you really want to go down it. You can make a case for not trusting any CPU that you didn't design and fab yourself, and even then you have to watch out for your own mistakes and bugs that can be used against you.
I've been meaning to stand up Zulip at home. Are there good mobile clients for it?
Waiting for my Mineserver
Indian laptops that crash if users try to remove pictures of minister (2013)
>He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students in the first year class at Olin College of Engineering.

It's impressive not so much that he did that, but that he bothered to try.

Most lecturers (myself included) will try very hard not to learn anything about their students because they consider actually dealing with undergrads (particularly first-years!) on an individual level is beneath them.
maybe the blog post is a clever way to get people to offer to help pack and load the truck
I don't think non-Europeans should waltz in and install a totally foreign system of property and governance, and then make a special effort to fuck over those Europeans who still try to maintain a semblance of their former way of life at the margins of the new regime.

Greenbean account makes unsupported and projective accusation of racism? I'm shocked!
May I ask what industry you ended up in? I assume it's something that you feel is adding value to the world?
Aadhar card: Over 200 Indian govt websites made Aadhaar details public
that my point though. AFAICT all the major bay area companies have bonuses to salary in the 50% to 100% range and more of they are doing well.

they give you a yearly bonus and they give you some kind of equity. They do this because it's what the local competition for employees requires.

So ... to reiterate ... the person I was replying to seemed to only be looking at salaries. You need to compare total comp not just salaries
JavaScript classes are syntactic sugar, the class type doesn't exist in ES2015; everything still works with prototypical inheritance.

So, I'd say that this book is still relevant Today. If you don't understand how inheritance work behind the scenes, you don't understand JavaScript.
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This is useless, you can't "just smile" when you have depression, that's not how it works. You can't "just snap out of it"
If you think writing code in haskell is monad acrobatics, you don’t grok monads.
Yes. Every day. It's a better search engine for developers than Google, not that anyone actually tries it to find out. It's easier to be one of the cool kids who mocks on it.
https://cappsule.github.io/

It's unmaintained now, but it is basically the same idea as WDAG. Essentially similar to firejail but the container gets its own lightweight kernel and runs in a stripped down VM, so the attack surface is KVM, not all parts of the kernel that aren't firewalled off by SECCOMP.
have you read Byzantine history? They were sworn enemies of Islam throughout this entire period not discussing the nuances of philosophy.

I can keep citing articles claiming Aristotle was not forgotten but it seems pointless at this stage. Many of the early church fathers mention Aristotle.

Aristotle was considered a minor philosopher throughout this time but his work was still available.

Another article for you: https://books.google.ie/books?id=Hkf6n9oKFmYC&pg=PA159&lpg=P...
There's garnishment limits. Since they have to leave you with at least 30 hours worth of minimum-wage earnings per week, a lot of people who can't afford their loans are effectively un-garnishable.
Happiness. However, you'd want to maximize this through the longest possible time frame.
Ban Capitalism. Ban borders.
It might sound like it, it might be the way you wish things to be, but that does not define a monopoly even by the loosest definition.
Steelcase Gesture. Big fan, very adaptable.
Ah yes, homelessness in California again. I've worked on a bunch of homeless service projects (I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies), and the biggest problem with homeless services is actually zoning—for reasons I describe in "L.A. digs a hole more slowly than economics fills it back in: The Proposition HHH Facilities Program RFP:" http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f... .

Until the zoning / NIMBY / Prop 13 problems get addressed, there isn't enough money in the world to do enough on the homeless challenges.
I read the article and I found the headline to be rather uninspired and obvious. No policy works for everyone. Instead: “When ‘housing first’ fails, some homeless turn to more structured aid.”
Some of the most striking things about the show Narcos, are the amazing visuals of Colombian cities and country. It's extremely beautiful. Which is also one of the reasons why I found the depiction of the cartels and their ruthlessness in the show to be pretty tragic.

If what this article claims about Colombia today is true, then I'm very happy for the country and it's people.
These allegations are not unsubstantiated, as the article clearly shows.
The Ideal Digital Currency Needs to Be Programmable
Computer-Generated Jigsaw Puzzles Based on Geological Forms
I share your intuition. Absent credible evidence to the contrary, I would not use anything on Windows other than the default from Microsoft. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't expend a lot of energy arguing with Grandpa when Grandpa has decided Grandpa knows better.

However, my first level advice would be not to do banking online, but that's another story.
That's absolutely not how reputation works. Your logic is easily flipped onto its back: if they're lying, they're doing horrific damage to him. Why is he not suing?

We know why he's not suing, and that's why he's finished.
Amazon is far more dangerous than 1990s Microsoft. Amazon is:

- Using third party proxies to avoid accountability for sale of countfeit products, and liability for the same.

- Using its market position and sock puppet partners to replicate and promote knockoff products.

- Using its domination of book market share to bully book publishers into a accepting its terms, and capriciously raising prices and removing pre-order options to those the tow the line. (Hachette)

- Notorious for poor working conditions, for both blue collar and white collar workforces.

I could go on, at length.

Amazon doesn’t force you to use your products, it instead raises the cost of everything you buy by owning the wholesale and distribution channels. Their UPS rates are the price floor. Their predatory tactics allow them to avoid collection of sales and use taxes — pushing them to the consumer. Their wholesale pricing is a price floor in many categories, or shared with WalMart.

Amazon is a monopolist and negative force in the American economy. They exist with their current business practices because the US courts changed their interpretation of what a monopoly is, which is now strictly determined by how corporate actions impact consumer retail prices.
...Intense competition with little real reward other than being able to tell people that you work in SV. While you may make 150,000, you can barely afford one room in a shared house. But, you DO work in SV so, there's that. If one wants to work in tech, there are a ton of places one can do so. I know that SV holds this position of tech nirvana in the minds of nerds (said affectionately, not as a pejorative)... but some folks really do enjoy having tangible real rewards for their hard work.
A detailed example of data generators with Keras
Okay, I'll concede that one, my apologies. A tablebase is essentially a precomputed endgame solution for all positions with that many pieces. Likewise, it has an opening book, which is a database that contains moves for the first few turns of the game.

It's still a heuristic searcher when it's not using those though.
Nothing is actually deleted on Facebook anyway, is anything - this change actually makes it less misleading.
They are. For instance: more than one college basketball coach has been fired over allegations of physical abuse of players.
I wouldn't trust that company at all, they lied and misrepresented themselves for nearly three years before finally claiming to make good on what they sold their customers. Beyond that, they didn't fix it themselves as they say, they relied on the work of other projects then claimed they did it alone.

Considering the researchers who actually disabled IME require physical access to the machine[1], Purism's claim that they can do it to previously sold devices with only a software update[2] stinks of BS to me.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Di...

[2] https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
The correlation is there, but I'm not convinced about causality. I know people pay good money to buy properties near a good public school... so, I suspect it's not that "public schools are great where upper middle class live", but that upper middle class moved where great public schools are.
Just like KVM, bhyve includes a whole unix kernel in the TCB. Sure it's a better one :) but still.

Tiny hypervisors like NOVA http://hypervisor.org, seL4-based are the ideal solution, but sadly no one seems to be pushing to make them usable and production-ready :(
Amazon is becoming the new Microsoft. Microsoft is becoming the new Apple. Apple is becoming the new Sony. I don't know what's Sony going to be..
"At Chernobyl, the Soviets simply entombed the charred reactor in concrete after the deadly 1986 accident. But Japan has pledged to dismantle the Fukushima plant and decontaminate the surrounding countryside, which was home to about 160,000 people who were evacuated after accident."

How much of this decision is simply about space? Russia is the largest country by area, with 21 people per square mile, while Japan is much smaller, with 873 people per square mile. If you compare GDP/area the difference is even greater.
Does DuckDuckGo use Bing to get results?
If they see a dollar they can earn, they owe it to their shareholders to do everything they can to earn it.

I understand there's no legal obligation to do so, and that companies have a number of motives and desirable outcomes, of which giving money to shareholders is but one. It has become fashionable in recent years to suggest it's all about "shareholder value", but there's no supreme obligation to pursue that.
That may eventually be true, but that just underlines that there are economic reasons to diversify whether or not you care about the environment.
Delete option still shows up for me as of 11/19 using Chrome on Windows 10.
Yes, the 93% success rate seems to be for people who finish the initial 1000 days so they exclude anyone who doesn't complete the program.
I think it's a feedback loop.
It certainly doesn't help that around mid-2016 Facebook did away with their hand-curated Trending Topics feature and attempted to machine-learn trending topics. The new machine-learning approach was very susceptible to botnets spreading fake-news sites in a way that the old hand-curated topics were not, and this was exploited with botnets/etc. It was an extraordinarily bad time to test this feature in production with the Russian meddling that was taking place.

But conservatives were whining that the "Trending News" section had a liberal bias, so it had to go.

https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-un...
>It's very rude to pimp on other people's projects and articles to get something off your chest though.

this isn't a refereed journal - you can't prescribe how people engage with the material. i was prompted to post what i did on the back of having experimented with every ide-ish thing for haskell out there about 6 months ago (this one included).

>As for the comment, F# is a fine language, but reading the comparison I'm fairly certain that you haven't learned Haskell and I say this in order to help you

not only is this patronizing but it commits the fallacy of begging the question - i did learn haskell while working on a fairly sizable codebase at my last job. i won't reiterate all of my complaints here (i've posted several times to r/haskell) but the tooling sucks and pure code is a set of handcuffs - golden handcuffs maybe but handcuffs nonetheless. that we disagree on whether pure code is the one true god does not mean i don't understand fp - it means just that, that i disagree! to conclude from my disagreement with you that i don't understand fp begs the question (petitio principii) of whether pure code is the one true god.

>That you haven't learned Haskell is more of a failure of Haskell's community — but there have been recent projects trying to address that. One is the Haskell for Mac project here in TFA, others are the Stack build tool and http://haskellbook.com, a really good book meant for beginners.

i read the haskell book and learnyouahaskell and real world haskell and many many tutorials and wrestled with stack and cabal. certainly they're better than the tools/resources available for e.g. cobol but they do not compare to the ecosystem around other, much more welcoming languages.
From 1968 to 2004 the average home value in the US had an average 6.4% YoY growth[1]. An index fund will grow your money much faster than that, all without saddling yourself with debt or exposing you to the risks of the housing market, both as a whole and in your area.

You were lucky to buy your house at the bottom of the 2008 housing crash, it doesn't mean that houses are a good investment today.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortages-real-estate/1...
[1609.03543] Logical Induction
I doubt it. Jets, drones, and satellites vs peasants with automatics is a fairly stark disparity.

I'm making more of a long-term guess here. Unlike uranium enrichment or jet construction, I suspect that state-of-the-art drone manufacturing may eventually reach a level of affordability to where drone-facilitated hits, feuds, and drive-bys become a thing on domestic soil.

edit: And key part of the wiki quote is "the best weapons available". If the best weapon available is a six-shooter, and it has a price that almost everyone can afford, you've got an "equalizer". Democracy! If the best weapon available is a nuke, and it takes billions in supply chains and hundreds of millions in materials and know-how to make one, that is a lot of extra leverage for the guys at the top.
Security is not about getting the most safety you can get. Otherwise why stop there? You could store the password protected private key itself as an encrypted file on the encrypted disk, and add one more layer, or double-encrypt it and add yet another layer etc.
Here is one example that I'm aware of.

I have friends who live in Baltimore and make over $200k+ as software engineers. One guy likes to be thrifty so he bought a house for $150k because it was cheaper than renting. You can't tell me that he would be better off in SF. He would need to be making over $300k to be in a similar financial position. No Startup is going to pay him that kind of money.

I agree the weather is often nice and I love visiting SF but that's a non financial reason.
Ello Again…
I agree in large part with your characterization of the super wealthy being that way in no small part because of luck and privilege. That doesn't invalidate the idea that Mark Z's wealth and fame change his personal security risk profile compared to someone who is neither wealthy or famous.

The injustice is that because of the societal wealth disparity, the poorer you are, the less security you can afford.
Here’s what I learned as my video rental industry died in 25 years (2016)
Another vote for this here. The 2015/3rd edition is recommended over older editions. The previous one was 1989!
An interesting docker with tools for Twitter analysis
I'm not saying that "just smiling" is a magic incantation that will somehow make your depression vanish instantly. But you can "just smile" when you're depressed. It's not easy, but it's possible. I know because I've been there. The important thing about smiling is not what it does to you (although it turns out that merely smiling actually can make you feel better in and of itself) but what it does to those you interact with: it conceals the fact that you're depressed, and makes them more likely to want to interact with you, and that is what actually helps. But yes, it can take a little while to get over the hump.
> Go buy an iPhone if you don't like that.

Or use LineageOS + microG [1]

> What were you going to buy computer-wise in 2001? A desktop or laptop that came with Microsoft Windows whether you wanted it or not. That was your practical choice, and the courts found that though it was fine for Microsoft to own the OS market, it was not fine to leverage that into driving Netscape out of business.

Yep, not only that, Microsoft insisted a computer should come preinstalled with an OS (an anti-piracy argument IIRC). So eventually, some vendors included FreeDOS. Also, if you wanted to run something else like Linux on a computer it would cost you serious work. An example is "winmodem", an onboard software modem instead of a traditional dedicated 'hardware' modem. Or WiFi drivers which wouldn't work because the drivers were closed source.

The main alternative was building your own computer. That's not feasible with a laptop though.

Also I recommend people not just look at only SCO but the whole Halloween documents (and do realise even those are a summary). For example, have a peak at one of the earlier Halloween documents which described how Netscape was driven out of business.

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Disadvantage is that creating a new function on every render ruins performance optimizations like `React.PureComponent`. Although that's a pretty minor detail, (you shouldn't prematurely optimize, and sometimes PureComponent is actually more expensive than rerendering since computing whether props have changed can be more expensive than just rerendering.)
It is always interesting to think why the people living in gated communities are against border control.
KISS the JavaScript
No, Amazon is forcing buyers looking to purchase goods to accept counterfeit crap at retail prices.

If I want a fake DVD, I can pay $3 in Chinatown, I don’t need to pay Amazon $20.
Another good checklist https://stayintech.com/info/UX
How to organize and stay focused on (side) projects
Listen, you can say "I don't think so" all day long, but the lack of sales says what you think is wrong. The product, as described, is not worth what you are asking for it. You _know_ this to be true because not one person bought it.

_Something_ will have to change in your offering to make it successful, so stop arguing with the people who disagree with you and start working on understanding _why_ they disagree with you. You will want to do this in a way that doesn't start by telling them they're wrong and then listing reasons why they're wrong as you've been doing.
Towards a Universal Browser for Deals
Yes. The Instant Answers are from specialized sources, but the general search results are afaik primarily based on Bing/Yahoo.
The problem I see in the area I grew up is that no one thinks about anything related to their career or future until they're graduating high school. The sole focus seemed to be drinking and getting high and school was considered a place to socialize and get into fights by the average student. I think a lot of places in the US are like this to be honest. The concept of a school that fits everyone does not make sense past grammar school in my opinion. It's led to masses of aimless adults who seem to have no purpose or goals in life.
There is an easy fix to the Electoral College though. The number of electoral votes a state gets is equal to the number of senators plus the number of representatives it gets.

The number of representatives has been fixed by statute at 435 for a century now, which has led to drastic decrease in the level of representation (more constituents per representative). All we need to do to fix the Electoral College is to bring those numbers a bit closer to historical norms.

If you quadruple the number of reps, then the distribution of Eletoral College votes is going to resemble the underlying distribution of population a lot more closely. It should also help make gerrymandering a bit more difficult as a side benefit.

The Senate has always been a poor idea right from the start (especially in its original conception as a body that is appointed by the state legislatures rather than elected) but there's really not a lot we can do about it at this point. It's essentially been a regressive and negative force on American politics right from its conception.

The Electoral College, however, is trivially fixable even without an action like the National Popular Vote Compact. We literally just need to crank up the number of reps and it stops being an issue (even if the root problem isn't actually solved).
IIRC they didn't really lie, everything was always worded like "will be free in the future".

Also the post you linked to directly gives credit to me_cleaner and Positive Technologies.

The reason the researchers required physical access:

> Although some systems do allow the full contents of the BIOS flash chip to be reprogrammed using software tools only (so called 'internal flashing'), on most PCs this facility is either completely unavailable, or can only write to the unprotected areas of the flash filesystem (excluding the ME area), or will only write vendor-signed images. Accordingly, we will describe the approach of using 'external' flashing in this guide, as that is the most reliable.

Purism being, uhhhh, the vendor, allowed full write access.
Inside Croatia’s pioneering mental health centre
Yes agree - never forget analogue!