skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people who want a white genocide. Probably not that professor but others might think that way. For example a BLM member that co-funded the BLM Toronto chapter.

>A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out,” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.

http://torontosun.com/2017/02/11/black-lives-matter-co-found...

And while hate crimes are still targeting black people far more according to FBI reports there is a rise of hate crimes against white people.

>In 2016, anti-white hate crimes rose 17%, to a reported 720 incidents, accounting for about 20% of all racially motivated hate crimes.
>When you consider sheer numbers, anti-black crime is overwhelmingly the most commonly reported type of racially motivated crime. There were 1,739 such reported incidents -- roughly half of the 3,489 racially motivated incidents in 2016.
>Accounting for the number of incidents and national population demographics, that means black people are far more likely to be victims of hate crimes than white people.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/14/us/hate-crimes-muslim-whit...

I don't think there is some white genocide going on but I do think that using different measuring sticks when it comes to racism and hate is something that will only increase the divide. How can the "alt-right" NOT increase in membership when people tell young white guys that racism is wrong and then excuse others when they say racist shit; often by including some intersectionality theories how only white can be racist.
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It's not like the idea should surprise anyone. It has always been a discussion whether or not to invest in oil.

A big part of the idea behind the oil fund is to make sure the county has resources if the income from oil where to decline. Investing in oil when such a high percentage of Norway's income is from oil might be a bad idea.

This is nothing more than "it might be a bad idea to put all the eggs in the same basket".
I have to wonder how hard it would really be to detect and target somebody whose scope is laser-ranging and has wifi. These seem like tactical giveaways.

That's not to say this sort of technology couldn't be useful, but putting active broadcasting equipment on your gun is going to backfire in next generation warfare.
Disabling in a moment :)
Meet the people building their own Internet in Detroit [video] 12 mins
In what situation is immutable important?
It basically means that a line is overflowing past where it’s supposed to, e.g. if you put in a hyperlink that isn’t allowed to contain a line break, but it’s too long to fit in one line. It overflows.
We paid nothing, it was all from Product hunt. We were on the top 5 day before yesterday.
Ask HN: What are some rigorous ways to review and test usability of web apps?
I am looking for a better and rigorous ways of reviewing and testing web applications' usability. I use some of this criteria as a measure. But I am not satisfied, I believe even this criteria are vague and can be simplified. What are some you use? Or how can we simplify these points, maybe break them down into something specific?

1. Consistent theme - pattern, layout colour, icons and fonts,

2. Simplicity and minimalism (Avoids unnecessary repetition)

3. Consistent messaging and communication,

4. User assistant and user guidance, with data. Expecting less from the user.

5. Inline help and other documentation

6. Error handling and communication of errors,

7. Error prevention and fallbacks

Are there any that I should include? Is there any way to make them be more specific and dead simple?
Price has nothing to do with sq. ft. I think owning a (really nice) townhouse is fine, regardless of the purchase price. Some markets are just more expensive than others.

Just pointing out that, just because a house is massive, it won't make you happy. It's often seen as a status symbol, though it doesn't make much sense anymore in this day and age in my eyes, unless you constantly have people around and you have a large family.
Opening economist links in pivate/incognito mode removes the limit barrier on paywalled sites that use cookies
Published research also has bias. How many first authors actually did the innovating? Versus ran the lab the innovation happened in or advised the innovator. Depends on the field, but I think most people can reasonably agree that those folks are listed as authors on the publication for reasons other than having actually innovated. But let me nip this in the bud: I am not saying those people don't deserve credit for their part, just that published research has its own share of bias.
Noted, thanks :)
The development of photoshop over the years is very impressive But autodesk is becoming powerful in some softwares too. So the question is: Photoshop or Autodesk?
If you are interested you can read about it here: https://www.arch2o.com/adobe-or-autodesk/
New White House Announcement on the Vulnerability Equities Process
VR, Video, Messaging
On a whim I programmed a symbolic integral-solving library in Python (I am not a professional programmer) and, as an ill-advised ’extension’, bolted on the ability to receive and emit LATEX expressions. Long story short, I was boasting about it on Nichols Nassim Taleb’s twitter feed, submitted an answer to a problem question he had posed that got mis-parsed by the front end, gave the wrong answer (which was entirely consistent, because the check stage compared the answer by deriving the flawed question), and got banned, flamed, and persecuted to Hell and back. True story.

From this I learnt the hard way that tokenisation and representation (in LATEX or MathML) do not belong in the same place as a CAS (Computer-assisted Algebra System).
I always want to be alone, but sometimes I fear, I may end up really being alone my whole life. (I.e., I may never be able to find a partner myself.)

I like to talk with someone who has a good character, and probably I prefer a CS partner.

I love to have perfection in many things, I don't want to do, anything stupid with my life-partner. This perfection of mine may lead to something bad.
> Regarding the 2/3-operand instruction problem, this is very interesting but must admit I need to do some reading about graph theory. I do very vaguely understand it but for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory doesn't mention the world "chord" anywhere.

Concerning chordal graphs:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chordal_graph&old...

Concerning using graph coloring for register allocation:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Register_allocati...

I remark that in particular on architectures that have lots of different register sizes and the capability to reinterprete parts as subregisters (such as x86) graph coloring is only some rough approximate of register allocation; here one has develop more complicated models.
> The first AI War is going to be a really brutal wakeup call

Strange. The video and everyone here keeps talking about this as a scary future dystopia, while Pakistan and many other countries have been living in it for years.

Drone strikes are exactly what the video describes: surgical precision attacks from machines with automatic weapons that the targets couldn't defend themselves from, used by both governments and terrorists, and routinely relying on mass surveillance for targeting.

The weakly conveyed message of the video was that there needs to be a human pressing the trigger so that they can appreciate whether the act conflicts with their values, but we have millennia of evidence that humans can act mindlessly too.
A simple webpack starter without a framework
That's not a quick video. It seems slow even speeded up 2X. Even so, the first page ("Hello There") disappears in about a second, despite having some important information. You can't expect people to wait as text is slowly being entered into text fields, so I hope by "raw" you meant that it will be edited to speed up the text entry somehow. (And check your grammar. One page asks, "What is the monetization plans or business model?" This will lose you customers! Hire an editor.)
Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.11
Yes, this is nothing new, there are a few meta-circular JVMs, just they weren't commercial products.

Jalapeño from IBM,

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.25.8...

Sun's own Squawk VM, used on Sun SPOT before IoT was a thing.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221320697_The_squaw...

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

Regarding Project Metropolis specifically, you can find the information here.

"Your next JVM: Panama, Valhalla, Metropolis by John Rose"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMk5KoUIOy4

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/metropolis/Metropolis-Prop...

Note that I wasn't completely fair, the .NET team also has some plans to incrementally move the runtime into C#, but so far it has only been mentioned on an InfoQ interview, no official plans revealed.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/virtual-panel-dotnet-future

"So, in my view, the primary trend is moving our existing C++ codebase to C#. It makes us so much more efficient and enables a broader set of .NET developers to reason about the base platform more easily and also contribute."
In Norway you get everything for free, education, healthcare, retirement, etc.
I'm sure that's part of the difference
Each publishing house and newspaper has a home-grown pipeline to do something close to this.

With work, you can get something that does most of what you want with a few stacks. You can cobble it together for markdown. Alternatively, there are strong plugins to emacs org mode that can go to TeX, then postscript, then PDF. There is probably a stack centred around docbook as well.

My experience has been that if you care about details, you will need to write parts yourself, as you have done. Emacs org mode is a good starting point. You can create your foundation data structures in org-mode trees, and then transform out to the main render pipelines (TeX, etc).
See my comment above about my experiences with this: I tried, and a corner case killed me. There’s a reason why Mathematica and other CAS packages have invented their own idiosyncratic notations. LATEX and MathML are truly hopeless when it comes to communicating with algebra systems. It looks deceptively ’doable’, but really it’s a recipe for disaster.
There's a reason you get a discount. Are employees who buy options generally unaware of the risks?
Using Apache Nifi to Stream Live Twitter Feeds to Hadoop
Manifold hypothesis, neural nets & optimal packing: look into the hidden layers
I read about that service somewhere, they basically cut the boat in half to replace the engines and then welded it back togethe

It's not that unusual in submarine refits to cut the boat in half and slot in an entire new section!
The saying is usually Trigger's Broom, after the character in Only Fools And Horses.
(536) adrtariq – Minds
The first I heard of it was a translation of a 13th Century Sufi tale. So,... older than Baby Huey.
That website is obviously a joke:

>”We immediately noticed a large majority of the pigeons display external signs of chemical addiction. They are often found standing in a group outside of a building. They twitch often and look around with sharp turns of the head. They have anti-social tendencies and are quick to fly when confronted. Their breath smells terrible and they leave droppings everywhere they go. After thorough research we have proven that 98% of pigeons in New York City are hooked on nicotine. Each of the birds in the study reek of smoke and are constantly fidgeting and adjusting their wings. We have also observed the hoarse, raspy mating calls of these nicotine-addicted birds."

>The Mayor has started a new program to help these city birds break their addiction. If you notice a pigeon displaying signs of nicotine addiction call 311 to report it and get it the help it needs.
Interesting comment, I'll take a better look. Just that you mentioned about the different sides of business, here is a piece I've written about the whole larger vision https://medium.com/@cod3boy/startup-101-philosophy-vision-an...
That article is a joke, and there's no real study (it's not even named). The final sentence is obviously not serious: "If you notice a pigeon displaying signs of nicotine addiction call 311 to report it and get it the help it needs."
This sentiment is basically the default from my experience and one I know all too well myself. It's a lot like makefiles and shell scripts in this way.

I can't really comment on what Knuth did right or wrong, but for me reading The TeXBook pretty much made Tex fun where it had previously felt arcane and frustrating. I'm convinced that overall the few hours invested there ended up saving me more hours of frustration on my masters thesis.

It seems that there's room to say that we should learn our tools before cursing them. Typography is surprisingly subtle and fraught with challenges, and I'm not yet convinced that it's a problem that can be made to Just Work in all cases.
iPhone costs, say $800 on average. How much of it is in assembling it ....? USA can and should tax the rest.
> There are people who want a white genocide.

By "no one", I didn't mean not a single person on the planet ever, but that the desire for some sort of ethnic cleansing against whites simply does not exist as any non-negligible social phenomenon. But I also disagree with your assessment of the statements made by that activist. A legal system does not call for a mechanical application of the law, but always for an exercise of judgment to determine context (e.g., criminal intent is a very important element of many crimes), which is why all legal enforcement requires judges. The way I read it, that speaker is simply co-opting white supremacist language as a defensive act. That may well still be an infringement of some law or rule, but it's not the same kind of infringement.

> I do think that using different measuring sticks when it comes to racism and hate is something that will only increase the divide

The problem isn't the different measuring sticks, but the different reality. The actual position of blacks and whites in Western society is not equal. As the law addresses the actual situation rather than some ideal, it must take those differences into account. For example, employees slacking on the job and thus stealing from their employers are treated differently by the legal system than employers refusing to pay their employees. The factual difference in power justifies different treatment by a legal system made for the real world rather than for some ideal world and takes such considerations into account.

As to whether or not this increases the divide, your opinion is legitimate, but the question is an empirical one, and should therefore be settled by an empirical study.
De-authentication attack on #AmazonKey could let crooks to disable your camera
what then is the best approach to learning how a bank works? where would one such programmer start?
I don’t think your numbers are bad. But I think you are expecting too much. It is not unusual for a new saas company to hand carry the first many customers and only much later be able to get new customers from online ads or organic traffic.

By hand carry I mean do the sale in person to people who you know or get to know by classic salesmanship ie running a meetup or showing up at conferences.
> The problem isn't controversy, but actual harm inflicted by dehumanizing others, as I explained in my other comment.

No, the problem is controversy. Spewing bullshit on Twitter and gloating at "idiots", isn't going to solve anything. The person that talked about "white genocide" is a professor I believe, so he is supposed to be a bit smarter than the ones who he likes to call "idiots" yet falls into the same trap as them, with his excessive, divisive rhetoric that gets him brownie point on Twitter, but that's about it.

What you don't get is that you're not going to build bridges and inform people on these various subjects if the first thing you do is antagonize them. He is absolutely part of the problem. He didn't need to say that, it's genuinely offensive and gratuitous. You can talk about context all you want, don't expect context on social media, there is none, his comment was heard by the entire planet, and in European countries that suffered greatly from genocidal attempts like Bosnia,Ukraine and others. Go tell an Bosnian 'your genocide is less important than what happened to black people'.
That was my (sarcasm) point...unless we change, they'll find NOTHING.
If you don't like the economist paywall here's another aricle: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2138655-birds-use-cigar...

> To firm up the conclusion, Macías Garcia and his team experimented with 32 house finch nests. One day after the eggs in the nest had hatched, the researchers removed the natural nest lining and replaced it with artificial felt, to remove any parasites that might have moved in during brooding. They then added live ticks to 10 of the nests, dead ticks to another 10 and left 12 free of ticks.

> They found that the adult finches were significantly more likely to add cigarette butt fibres to the nest if it contained ticks. What’s more, the weight of cigarette butt material added to nests containing live ticks was, on average, 40 per cent greater than the weight of cigarette butt material added to nests containing dead ticks.
Ask HN: What office chair do you use?
I spend a lot of time at home programming and I feel like being on a usual office chair is not best and not very comfortable. Do any of you use a less usual chair like the Altwork Station for example ?
Nixcloud-webservices: stateless deployment of web services
He mentioned it during one of his podcasts, and unfortunately I listen to all of them so I'd have no idea which one he mentioned it in.
For me personally it is just about beeing under people. I would hate if people think this invites them to talk
It seems to require my LinkedIn profile mandatorily. Don’t have one. Also, not putting my credit card in a Typeform.

Not a freelancer, but maybe this will help in some way. I’ve never signed up for a service asking for compulsory links to other social websites. Why not just put a sign in with LinkedIn button and take credit card using stripe pop up later?
Manushi Chhillar Indian medical student is crowned Miss World 2017 in China
How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos
The biggest issue with a project under big tech giant is that they could afford to trash it at the moment notice.

There is super low commitment on new projects (say <1% of work force), compared to a startup that is betting all money and talent it could get on a chance that there is an overlooked market for product X. 100% focus, staying far from a comfort zone and taking the risk is what (in a very few cases though) makes it work.

Basically tech gaint doesn’t have to “burn the ships” and therefore has lower commitment, poor focus, has no sense of (get big or go home) urgency and eventually drops the idea before it bears fruit.

It can offord to say “pass”, but doesn’t need to “bluf” and it doesn’t have the same risk.
In Europe you have to pay your social security fee. In many countries even if you don't have any income, just for running a business.
It is almost as if they hope the price goes down so they can actually buy more. Then if their share purchases increases share price, maybe selling later to please policy makers whilst still making money...

As this seems just at a discussion level still, it still would have to pass through several levels of parliament debates etc, it is not really an announcement of policy, more just possible ideas made by someone associated with the fund.

Though as they have already been ordered to divest from tar sand and armaments companies it does seem possible from an ethical stand point. Slightly hypocritical though.

It does makes sense in spreading out future risk, divesting from oil & gas, but honestly not something they have to rush into for quite a few decades.
If you had an "EMP wristwatch" that could disable even a pocket calculator (without blowing your hand off), I'd be impressed.
What the parent is saying is that diesel subs don't get to stay down like nuke subs. Nuke subs regularly stay underwater for the duration of their deployments, which last months. Diesel subs cannot stay underwater for very long at all. We're talking on the order of hours.
JSON Patch with Rails 5 and React
These are always fantastic to read. Some great detail on how rendering is achieved.
'knowingly receiving' means you know what you're receiving before you look at it.
Going to have to try this out
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Is that not the same side?
When You Are Consumed by Anger and Chaos, You Have Lost Your Way
Thanks...since Firefox Quantum blew me away the other day, I have been playing with Pocket. It's actually pretty cool.
It definitely is a hard problem, and I agree that there's no way that this could happen without regulation. I could imagine it being enforced across all companies that reach a certain scale. Below some scale threshhold the damage that can be done through bad actors is minimal anyway, at scale, it can alter elections.

I think another side-effect here is that it could turn the act of buying advertising into an arms race, where those buying advertising are forced to monitor their competitor's advertising buys since they know that their competitors are doing it to them.
Span definitely requires VM updates (Mono has been picking up commits to support it) so that feature at least is not going to work on 4.5/4.0 without a polyfill.
Yeah for it to work it would have to be a regulation for all companies that allowed targeted advertising and reach a certain scale.
Would you say the same about swastika/nazi flag? My family was a victim of a communist regime, it's incredibly stupid to use those symbols. You can never compare that to Catalonia and Spain, this comparison is absurd.
Your new article doesn't list anything new in the period discussed, a few people writing about his logic for hundreds of years.

Going back to your first source offered,

"It deserves to be noted that before the 12th century, the whole Byzantine output of Aristotelian commentaries dealt exclusively with the works on logic."

Your opinion on what the better philosophy is does not matter. It's funny to see you take a neoplatonic view and try to argue that they welcomed competing ideas.
PlantUML: V1.2017.19 (12 Nov, 2017)
The cost of online voting
A Guide to Not Getting Hacked
I don't need a trigger warning but if you haven't lived under a communist regime you should hold your mouth shut.

If you're privileged enough to live in a free society, leave the communist symbols home or invent new ones.
I had a different process. I started with thinking (Basic, assembler and Java) that different paradigms were uniquely suited for different problems. Learning logic programming and functional programming changed this notion. It's possible to reduce a paradigm to explicit boilerplate code. In most cases you can reduce the boilerplate to almost nothing and get mostly idiomatic code without changing your initial approach.

The only thing left are non-functional requirements and while you could get a constant factor of slowdown, most compilers take care of 99% and you won't change complexities.
Eerie viral A.I. video “Slaughterbots”
Stopped reading at It transpiles to PASCAL.