skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing how the U.S. presidential election is one of the most important world events every 4 years, it's not surprising that people are perturbed about the possibility of tampering. But are you asserting that the media wasn't complaining about the effects and influence of Google and Facebook before Trump?

Honest question: do you think the main difference between how Obama used his Twitter account (IMO, very dry and vanilla and bureaucratically) and how Trump uses his is in their politics, i.e. we could take this Trump's tweet:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/93187759903438848...

> Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!

And replace it Mad-Lib style with Republican targets:

> Crooked Sarah Palin is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Democratic Party. Sarah, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!

And you think we'd be able to find a similar tweet in content in @BarackObama's tweets during his time in office?
All the cryptocurrencies might be the place to go for the next few years.
Yes, MI is where GOP state appointed emergency managers override city and county governments (mostly to the detriment of said localities)
The effects of alcohol are interesting in that it slows down your central nervous system which makes it a depressant but it also can reduce anxiety and trigger the release of dopamine and other chemicals in the brain that make you feel good. So, it's not a simple question since depending on the brain chemistry of the person, it does both.
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From what I've seen, the point of Tesla is to burn money as fast as possible. I have two episodes of a podcast with a friend about exactly this topic:

First episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQW1fEUsbk

Most recent episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyIriINVK0

I highly recommend them if you're interested in investing in Tesla (long or short)
A note, not to distract from the validity of your points, but the sb6190 used to be 150 [0] (yes both prices are somewhat negligable in the long term but if I phrase it in terms of "I'm out a nice dinner" vs 2 I'm still pretty miffed)

That being said, thanks for the clarity on 3.0 vs 3.1, I had pulled up the recommended SB8200 since I had broadly heard positive things about Arris in the past and saw it to be ~190; didn't realize the cutoff was as high as 300mbps, so I should be fine with my 250mb down to get a cheaper one.

[0]https://camelcamelcamel.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6190-DOCSIS-Ca...
Going to a cheap school is another very important consideration. You can easily end up with 10x the student loans without gaining much for the cost difference.
Revenue from PC free-to-play microtransactions has doubled since 2012
Selling side porjects
My friend and I have worked on our side project which is a online emotional support service for 2 years and spent thousands of dollars on it. It's been through few beta testing and officially launched on Product Hunt. Now we are at the step where we either raise money to market or transfer it to an interested buyer. We chose the former due to our full-time jobs and visa issue. I've tried transferslot.com or few other sites for selling side projects mentioned on HN but to no avail. Most of those sites aren't active. Any pointers?
Being proud of your lack of understanding is quite sad.
As an Australian, living in a society where betting is legal albeit fairly regulated: I sincerely hope not.

The reason for that hope is that gambling and gambling advertising, with the rise of online betting sites and smartphone apps, has started to become a fairly genuine social issue. With advertisements like this one (https://twitter.com/sportsbetcomau/status/863634984682233856) [note: Ben Johnson recently was found to be on PEDs], or advertisements blanketing one of the busiest train stations in the country, like the following (https://twitter.com/Doc_Samantha/status/786665869787078656). These companies are, anecdotally of course, targeting their advertisements to the youngest possible market, in the worst possible way. The pushiness of their advertisements are a 'joke' amongst my friends.

Widespread gambling is generally seen as harmful to a society. It would be nice if the USA didn't voluntarily allow its citizens to be taken advantage of for corporate profits, for once.
The first link I get for "Viktor Vojnovski" is what I assume is your twitter. Which has a link to your site. Isn't that good enough? https://twitter.com/vojnovski?lang=en

And your site is like link number five on the first results page for me. So that's climbing the ranks pretty fast.

I have done absolutely zero SEO and my personal site (egypt.urnash.com) is the first result for every search for "egypt urnash" I've ever done on any search engine. I have also had this URL be my main presence on the internet for at least a decade, I've lost track. There's a ton of content on there with lots of links pointing to it, too. Have patience. And put some stuff on your site.
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>The most obvious example for me is git, which I use nearly every day, but still have an embarrassingly shallow understanding of. Any time something “goes wrong” I’m googling for a magic command to fix it,

This is basically the reason I use Mercurial. It actually makes sense without getting a bloody degree in "how to use your DVCS", and the help is quite nice, and not a godawful clusterfuck like some popular DCVSes that were developed by developers of major FOSS kernels circa 2005.
We are living in Universe 25. The millennial are the beautiful ones for sure.
A short history of flash photography
There's a difference between "the government"--the federal government--and thousands of local municipalities.

If anything, having thousands of small ISPs would make it harder for the feds to spy on everyone.
Show HN: Accompanied – Online Emotional Support
News feeds are basically slot machines, and intermittent reinforcement is psychologically powerful
Some suggestions:

1) I would make a better distinction between the function declaration and the program output. e.g: format the output differently. like gray.

2) Capitalization. "InvalidWRTargError".
It would help if you could capitalize it as "InvalidWrtArgError". This is a guideline in most coding standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case#In_abbreviations

3) Better naming:

- "getNumericalForwardGradient": Are there non-numerical gradients?

- "applyGradientOnce": A function is applied once per invocation by convention.

Then it would be good if you formatted using PEP8, as it is standard in Python.
A JavaScript JIT requires memory that is writable and executable. W^X is a security feature and required for the security model of walled gardens. Otherwise you could pull down unapproved code and make the walled garden useless.

They don’t want shitty JavaScript interpreters making their platform look bad, so they force you to use their system JavaScript engine.
Yeah, but "You're not some lost genius in a world full of idiots" is an argument.

It's actually a rather punchy restatement of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. :-)
I'm not sure if that was the goal, but I think that's the way it's going to play out.
Why is kernel programming any different from user-level programming here?

I tend to think that the driver and network level, which is where most problems in the real world tend to lie, is similar to userland in how often unsafe code gets used and the impact of unsafe code on the correctness of the kernel. In fact, the fact that you can write some drivers in userland on certain OS's--and they can crash without bringing down the whole OS--is strong evidence of this.
Since this is written in assembly is it much faster than a C version since this one can manage its own stack frames and stack variables and such? I always imagined that’s the case and that a lisp implemented fully in assembly would be the trick to a super fast lisp that can complete with Go.
It might sound silly, foregoing most apps and using private/incognito browsing on all my devices 100% of the time is a productivity booster for me.

The friction of having to log into every site all the time means I'll only go if I feel I need to, thereby keeping my device usage "productive".

A huge bonus is not being bombarded with push notifications and a lot less tracking.
Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, Reimagined for Linguistic Transgressions
Earth. They're ("we're") at the bottom of a steeper gravity well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Ironically, this post will actually help you achieve what you are looking to do. As another has mentioned it is now on page 1 for me. And as another has said search results are now personalized.

So how do you get it to #1 for your name. Content can help but is not 100% needed in this case. Your name is rather unique. I am in the similar situation as I have a fairly unique name too.

So what I recommend is making your site a destination. Make sure all your social profiles link to the domain. Reference your name in the link where possible. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Github, etc.

Lastly as someone else has mentioned, give it some time. It will move up as you build up the importance of the website.

And if you want, while you could change domains to include your name, you could also just have a page (url) that has your full name in it.
Appealing to worst instincts (and shaming those who are folly to them) is a real classic. Shaping products towards maximum capital extraction instead of holding that secondary to some kind of human-focused philosophy is also called 'efficiency' nowadays.
(Preface: I'm not particularly interested in the ethical debates around gambling with this comment, though I personally think it's something people should be allowed to do.).

I've been slowly getting into Machine Learning for a while now, and have been looking for projects to accelerate my focus. I also happen to like to gamble (responsibly), so I've recently started researching how to apply Machine/Deep Learning to Baseball betting, and possibly other sports.

It would be mostly a side project I would imagine, I have no dreams of becoming wealthy from this, and since it mixes scraping (which I really like to play with) with machine learning, it will probably be entertaining at least. I'm very curious if I could actually get decent success with it though.

Anyone done this before? Or know of stories/books about this?
I don't think you are correct, unless the language has changed substantially.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

Among other things, you need to opt in to unsafe with the `/unsafe` compiler flag. I'm pretty much 100% certain that the `unsafe` keyword applied to scopes does not mean "treat the contained scope as if it were safe, but permit the use of unsafe operators" which is how it works in Rust.

Edit: to put some more words here, I think what you may be saying is "the unsafe fragment of C# behaves like Rust", which sounds sane to me: `unsafe` decorates regions and the compiler will complain at you if you use unsafe things outside such scopes. When I said "C#" I meant the larger language in which programs are either "safe" (verifiable) or not, and for which `unsafe { .. }` forces you into the unsafe fragment.

Rust doesn't have safe and unsafe language fragments; there is one language which follows rules similar to (as you say) unsafe C#, but which advertises itself as safe. In that language, `unsafe` moves you back in to "safe" code (or we could agree that it was never safe in the same sense that languages like C# are).
Of course ISPs are going to claim this fosters choice and competition.

Not just ISPs. Reasonable people can disagree on net neutrality you know.
Nuclear disaster sites become unacceptable to human life, thus becoming havens for wildlife. See also Chernobyl.

So at what point do eco-terrorists seek to cause nuclear incidents with the intent of causing less harm than human development and presence would cause?

(This has probably been explored in a Tom Clancy/Michael Crichton -type novel...)
> However, I think there is disagreement about whether saying only "there's always unsafe code somewhere at the bottom" is better or worse than saying "it's 100% unsafe".

Are you saying that Rust doesn't have a better memory safety story than C++? In practice, that hasn't been our experience.
Might I suggest a new alternative to Facebook, called "Path"? Path is a simple and beautiful space to capture and share everyday moments of your life with 5̶0̶ 1̶5̶0̶ any people who matter most to y̶o̶u̶ investors.
I'm almost sure they will. They don't have much of a NIH problem (look at how many DBs they support, anyone remember SimpleDB?), ECS hasn't exactly taken off, and they're generally very good at giving whatever their customers want.
Bilton also wrote about it when Trump was still just the likely nominee:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/how-silicon-valley-c...
Sure you can get tens of thousands of connections, but there aren't tens of thousands of customers along the rural roads where this will really hit. For some of the areas there may not be tens of thousands of people in that entire half of the state.
For most stocks, you are correct.

However, there are a whole class of stocks where the stock price is based on nothing more than perception of value. There is almost zero actual, intrinsic value. You see this often with penny stocks (and even larger companies, back in the dot-com days.)
3X leveraged ETFs

https://www.direxioninvestments.com/etfs#!/

Good luck!
The thing about the reviling of social networks is it generally takes this sort of media as an upsurge that came out of nowhere and could somehow stop in a fashion that returns things to people making nebulous "face to face" contacts, in a world that's not changed since the pre-social-network era. Actually, there was an explosion of isolation before all this[1].

It seems to me that the world has become massively more socially isolated and social networks are as much a response to this as they are an addictive phenomena unto themselves - indeed, explosion of opioids, addiction and suicide has very much also been an effect of this social isolation and is naturally more destructive.

TL;DR; If one complains about social dysfunction, give us a path to social function, please.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
LOLLIBCUCKZ
I would love to hear a decent answer to this as well. To this day i have never received a satisfying answer to this as most inflation supporters think I am a deflation supporter. While i really support No-deflation and No-inflation.
I think it's an interesting idea. I wouldn't summarily dismiss it.

Your questions about it are interesting, unanswered, and not fatal to the idea.

After all, don't Foxconn, et al., have a stranglehold on the manufacture of Apple's iPhones? That seems to be working out ok for all parties.
Huh, that Viber icon looks odd. Is it my browser or is it just poorly drawn?
They've already IPO'd.
They also get 1000$ from future model 3's before they are built, which reduces the impact. It's effectively a zero intrest loan and market validation, though eventually they are going to run out of customers willing to front that money.
How much is ability to use the power of government to force property owners to let you build on their land worth?

It's possible that it's worth more than a 5% cut--in which case it's still a subsidy.
Superlatives in this phrase: intuitive, simple.

These should be ideally determined by the reader, not the author.
Perhaps they see where one candidate spent less than half the other on ads and in addition how one candidate greatly undermined the need to make media buys --so they see a heretofore uncontested source of revenue disappearing right before them.

The result is a double whammy of reduced spending and the spending that does occur goes to different kind of media.
> But my take is that devoting a lot of mental and emotional energy to distant relationships comes at the expense of time that could be spent developing local relationships, which can be more important.

This implies that one replaced the other, or that one can be brought about by eliminating the other.

IMNSHO, this is a form of false nostalgia: I saw how much of my parent's generation lived: for most people, social networks haven't replace real world socializing.
I like it and would potentially be interested in contributing. Link me the repo?
This discussion could be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15523186

tldr: keep it fun; if you bet professionally, you'll run into hurdles from bookies.
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How do you mean? That's a rather trivial amount.
Trust here is in the context of assets used in trade, not in literally anything people can have "trust" in.

They're stating that "intrinsic value", e.g. gold being usable for things other than trade, is not necessary for a tradable thing to have value. It is only necessary for people to be able to trust that the thing has value and having "intrinsic value" is one way for that trust to be gained.

With cryptocurrency, it's gained with a bunch o math.
“It’d be wrong of us to forget that we dropped 23 atomic bombs on a coral reef to see what would happen, displaced all those people and created scars on the planet that will never heal,” he says. “Can we please not forget what we did here?”

Of course, the whole article amounts to a description of how the island has healed, but let's not let that get in the way of a good finger-wagging exercise.
Not surprised to see a modem/router from Australia's biggest Telco on the list.

Australia's internet is in such a confusing state. At the moment a house could potentially get internet via one of ADSL1/2/2+, VDSL2+, HFC, Fiber, Wireless or satellite and on top of that most telcos are shipping woefully bad modems/router hardware with equally bad, gimped, and undersupported firmware to consumers.
What is an "illusion of a relationship?" If you think of someone and appreciate the little bit of their life story they shared on Facebook, is that an illusion? After all, that's what relationships in real life are built on as well: telling each other what happened at work, about that new restaurant you went to, the joke you heard, the stupid thing your kid did. Facebook is a pretty good vehicle for doing those things over distance.
What makes a C++/Rust/etc vector distinct from an array is that it's resizable. That is its defining property.

On the other hand, a mathematical vector is not a resizable thing: a vector in R² is of a fundamentally different type from a vector in R³.

A type named "vector" should be more like Vec<T, n> for some type T and some integer n. Failing that, the reasonable representation of an n-length mathematical vector, in C++/whatever, is an array.
Your rhetorical question aside, it is still true that

Some people genuinely believe free markets are the best thing for consumers.
> I use a combination of Google Hangouts, email, and just plain old phone calls to keep up to date with their lives. I share photos daily, via google photos, directly to those that I want to see them. And my family, who happen to use Facebook, know to send me photos using other methods.

This seems like an inconvenience you impose on everyone else to do things Facebook handles natively.
No unit tests. With good code structure regressions are minimal, most are caught with practical testing. Ocationally one slips through to production, is reported, and quickly patched. It's rare and something that I'm sure happens to everyone, even with unit tests. I don't tell people to do it my way, but it works for me and my company.
"Surely real estate prices will keep going up!"

The worry is that when the crash comes, no one will be willing to buy. Or even if you find buyers, what if everyone starts withdrawing their money from the exchange, and the exchange doesn't actually have that liquidity...
Ask HN: Examples of really great ReactJS code bases?
I want to learn from the best.

Do you know of any open source ReactJS code bases that are very well implemented? Ideally using Redux, and ideally the application should not be so large that it would be hard to extract good lessons from without first understanding the architecture.
You could compare number of nodes explored rather than absolute timings to see how inaccuracy solving the relaxations affects branch-and-bound.
Speaking as an American, the choice in our society isn't between "voluntarily allow its citizens to be taken advantage of" and not that. It's between allowing gambling to be run by organized crime and creating a system that enables at least a modicum of accountability.
The way the campaigns used Facebook and YouTube is probably more comparable.

(Clinton's campaign used them too; the Trump/RNC apparatus was probably better https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-th... )
So does Honda. Theses fall under normal 'subsidies', hell Trump was known for getting similar subsidies on Hotels and golf courses that don't create large numbers of high paying jobs.

As long as it's local not federal money I don't see the need to complain, because it's not my money.
What is a "practical test"?
I've seen this kind of scenario before. Don't let circumstances bleed you dry. Take decisive action to clear up the financial questions and go to a judge/lawyer if that's what it takes. Keep records of every dollar that goes anywhere, evidence of infidelity, etc.

You can always decide to be more generous later, but let that be your decision, not hers or some disinterested third party that will assume that you went on living this way because you consented.
I have to disagree. These are some of the worst investments known to man. Overtime you are virtually guaranteed to lose money.

https://www.google.com/search?q=leveraged+etfs+lose+money+ov...
Why did you ask what people did before Facebook, if your intent was simply try to discredit a genuine response with statistics?

Do the math. 17 hours per day with the TV not turned on. And even the hours it was on doesn't mean the whole family was watching. Let also consider how many people watched the news every night, and stayed up for Carson. And an hour of TV after school was probably the norm. Soap operas also were popular in the 80s. Tack on an hour of MTV somewhere in the day, and that just about accounts for the average even before we consider how we spent our evenings.

There was plenty of time for all kinds of things.
Not silly at all. I think we as humans vastly underestimate the degree that we're influenced by small subconscious things, even though there's entire professional fields and countless dollars devoted to the practice (e.g. design, copy-writing, ui-ux). It feels better to see things as rational decisions, sometimes between good versus evil, rather than to admit our mundane weaknesses.

I do something similar to you, except that I log off at the desktop (except for HN, sadly). If I want to send out a pointless but time-consuming rant about something ultimately trivial, I'm going to have to do it on my phone's touchscreen. And the thought of doing so is often more than enough to kill the desire so I can just focus on real work and writing.

When I find myself lying in bed longer than I should because I'm touchscreen-typing these comments/posts, then I go cold turkey on my phone :).