skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Just like the election

This seems far worse than what happened with the election. The hacked emails at issue in the election were real, and they revealed bad things that the Clinton campaign was involved in. I have always found it laughable that the complaint seems to be “we lost because the Russians uncovered the bad things I was doing, and it’s not fair that people found out about them”. If the emails had all been about how she was going to bend over backwards to help the American people, perhaps it wouldn’t have been such a problem for her.

In this case, the data being given to a comparatively minuscule group of “voters” (the FCC) was fake, and intended to completely misrepresent public opinion. To the extent that the FCC cares about public opinion, this is worse than simply exposing the actual misdeeds of a political candidate and her henchmen.
I got a new Model S in October and it came with free supercharging for life, because I had a referral code from another Tesla owner.
I dislike mine so much as well. The battery life is so disappointing and the Touch Bar makes everything worst. I now need twice the number of taps to increase the volume or switch to the next song. For me this computer is a disaster.
How are those suspicious? It's an issue redditors care a lot about. A lot of those posts were done by moderators in their respective communities and don't appear to be copied and pasted content. It looks from the screengrab like you upvoted them too...
If you want something more ready-to-go, you can use https://www.wombatdialer.com/ - works with Asterisk clusters and requires no explicit programming - you just declare what you want done, and it takes care of the rest. You just feed it through an API.
One of my all-time favourites is this: suppose you have a linked list that eventually cycles: that is, the link of one of the nodes in the list points to a previous node in the list, but not necessarily the first node. Write a function to compute the cycle length of the cycle. Now if it was just a simple circular list, this would be trivial: set a pointer to a node, and move another pointer a node at a time until the two pointers meet. However, this list has an initial sequence of nodes of unknown length that is not in the cycle. So the trick is really to find a node that is guaranteed to be in the cycle.

A nice way to do this is to start with two pointers to the head to the list, and then advance one by a single node at a time, and the other by two nodes at a time. It is easy to see that they will eventually meet on the cycle. Once that happens, it is easy to count the cycle length.

Now suppose you are running a casino and you are using a random number generator. For any given seed, the generator will eventually cycle, but not necessarily to the seed. You can compute the cycle lengths for a given seed with two variables by analogy with the linked list solution stated above.
Given that the FCC resisted efforts to investigate, I wouldn’t be surprised if the FCC was complit in the fake messages (so they could claim they were in line with public opinion)
You’re doing a specific high intensity form of childcare. There are lower intensity approaches. When full time child care was the norm, parents didn’t fuss over their kids. “Is she dying or soaking in shit/piss? Ok, then she’s fine for an hour”
You created a new account to demoralize the GP?
But "immutable" way of doing things have been encouraged, suggested, marked-in-stone as best-practices in most languages since 2005... am I missing something?

People have been saying that:

- Global Object is bad

- Stateless is better than Stateful

- Singleton becomes an anti-pattern

- Methods/Functions without side-effect (avoid mutation)

Nobody really mentioned to do things the Functional programming way per-se but the characteristics are there.
And if there's anyone who has good estimations to extrapolate the price and density development of batteries, it's the company that's building the world's biggest battery factory in close collaboration with one of the world's foremost battery manufacturers.
Secret management, yes!

Secret management + Automatic Deployments + Cronjobs + Lets encrypt management is what I'm really looking for.

It could be solved on Amazon: codepipeline + ECS + lambda + route53 (although no let's encrypt here) but they are all really separated products which need some tinkering to set up nicely. And even then, cronjobs through lambda feel like such a dirty hack.

ARM sounds interesting, but judging by the extensive documentation it's need way too much configuration.
The article is about C where not everything can be solved with a typedef, enum or templates. Think about feature macros (e.g. _C_POSIX_SOURCE), generics (pre-C11 or what was it), attributes or calling conventions, conditional compilation, function-like macros, compatibility (e.g. errno when it isn't just an extern int), and indeed shorthands.
Also for extracting geothermal energy, but this is usually done in more active areas.
What's your upstream speed at home?
He says because of cache misses due to each element being allocated individually.

But then working with references is bad in general? If your vector stores references to objects it's bad? Your object fields point to strings - bad too.

Should we ditch Lisp and Java?

Note, data should not be continuous to stay in cache. Cache is more like paged virtual memory, it consists of cache lines.

Before subscribing to the "never use linked lists" view I would like to see a nontrivial program rewritten from lists and references to the "allocate everything at once" approach and measure the performance.

If you want to avoid references and allocate everything in place, it may force your program to do a lot of copying.

Also, not only CPU performance matters - programmer performance is important too. So-called "high-level languages" try to optimise this.
What about the repos which have documentation off github and do sponsorships. Would code sponsor work in that space? Sorry I don't know the details of how code sponsor works but I do see lots of sponsorships on the main docs for lots of solid open source projects.
For me, I need breaks, and stimulation. Sometimes, tinkering with fonts and colors is just the right kind of distraction to get a project back on track, and to replenish my joy of coding.

Honestly, I think I have about six hours of full-concentration work in me in a typical day. Less, if it's mentally demanding work. Sometimes, the best thing I can do for a project is take a walk, or let it rest for a bit and let my subconscious keep churning on it.
I'm sorry to hear, I thought this was a good idea.
Yeah. Mass conformance is never suspicious.
This was a manual process, but we do have several projects like this sponsored.
SSH tunnel as proxy is easier and simpler to use if you have a VPS.

Setup the tunnel: ssh -D 8080 vv@xx.xx.xx.xxx

Change your system proxy settings: Socks proxy, 127.0.0.1, 8080

Done!
Excellent article. Definitely can see this in the industry as well as in myself.
This is too bad to hear, I only recently learned of Code Sponsor on JavaScript Jabber[0] - a pretty excellent podcast. I’m hoping there are good things to learn here and maybe iterate on to find what can work in the space.

[0] https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-281-codesponsor-sustaining-...
> The messages the post points out to are not duplicates, though.

There were two separate categories from the article. This is text from the article, "The vast majority of FCC comments were submitted as exact duplicates or as part of letter-writing/spam campaigns."
I bought a Macbook pro for personal use in 2013.

Pros: Just about everything.

Cons: The X key stopped working. Apple charged me $400 to fix it. Then the G key stopped working 8 months later. Apple wanted to charge me another $400 to fix it again, and I can't afford that. So now I have a beautiful, useless slab of metal and glass sitting on my endtable and I'm using a Chromebook I bought for $80 as my primary computer.

You see, I have the letter G in my disk unlock password, and every time the computer powers up it immediately starts ghost typing the letter G, causing the OS to disable the letter G globally, so plugging in an external keyboard doesn't let me type a G to unlock the disk, either.
New Nature Journal: Nature Machine Intelligence
Nature ML journal - launching in 2019
Agreed. I don't know why there's so much anti-Tesla sentiment on HN.
I'd love to see Trump's emails. But, very curiously, wikileaks didn't release anything negative about Trump. Only seeing one side's dirty laundry is the problem. Don't kid yourself that only one side had it.
The centralization of the web is what worries me. I suppose non-neutral net can contribute to that, but even with a neutral net we've seen extraordinary centralization around a few major sites. Will neutrality really save us?
If you interpret no longer being on cholesterol medication, high blood pressure medication, PPI's, along with no longer having elevated AST/ALT levels and elevated triglyceride levels, then yes, I guess I'm terribly sick - for over 3 years now.

Stick to what you know because nutrition is not it.
Wow I would love to see that!

Am I reading this right? A electric ship?
Except that the question that the experiment wants to answer isn't what happens when you present users with the option. That would only become relevant later. The question right now is whether Cliqz' address bar autocomplete results are superior to the status quo.
If you read the article you will see that whether this is a campaign or not is asked rhetorically, but the question it is not answered. These campaigns are extremely common in the world of online commenting, especially around government commenting systems.
They'd rather break ties than acknowledge history. Much like Holocaust denial in the Muslim world/middle East [1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
There was also a lot of direct copypaste spam on the pro-NN side

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*Sc4-R2waeRrGnNL90...
Show HN: My first mobile app, a simple budget manager
Ask HN: Best development laptop?
Title kinda says it all, but in the market for a development laptop. Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks!
This isn't directed at the commenter, but the concept above: Can we all come to an agreement that a person running an endeavor be permitted to feed, cloth, and accomodate themselves reasonably?

Specifically, this crab mentality of dashing hopes of someone ending up right side up on a side project or even a nonprofit. Why pick on the little guys who are just trying to get by, especially if they have a noble intention of funding open source projects.

This is something that we really need, and I feel larger organizations that fund open source - not naming names - aren't transparent or egalitarian enough with who and how they fund. So many people do open source and don't see a penny from it. In 2017, if you want to receive any funding for an open source project, you have to be in a certain social circle, very popular, or very fortunate.

There are organizations that horde millions in cash reserves and give six figures to people just for sitting on a board. Then, there are people just trying to bootstrap themselves on a shoestring budget to buy groceries and pay rent to their roommate. It is my sincere hope we are more generous to people just trying to scrape by and not trying to unduly hound them and guilt trip them into not being able to pay their basic living expenses.

$3,413.20 over a period of four months? Thankfully he also had a day job, because we also don't know if he had other developers, or what were his true needs were to be able to sustain his project.
For products like that I do two things:

1) Ask Amazon support if they use commingled inventory

2) Only buy from "Shipped and Sold by Amazon"
There was evidence that some of the leaked emails were subtly altered to make them look worse [1].

Additionally every campaign, company, even private individual has emails that wouldn't look good if they were leaked to the public with no context.

I'd bet there were emails from the other side that would have been just as damaging had they been leaked. In fact we know there were, because several damaging emails from Donald Trump Jr. have been leaked since.

One more point. Many of the leaked Clinton emails weren't actually damaging in and of themselves. They were damaging because of the conspiracy theories that they spawned. Innocuous party planning emails morphed into Pizza Gate, which was spread in large part by Russian trolls.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2017/11/03/the-dncs-emails-werent-only...
I’m sure a lot of the pro duplicates are from websites that help the person post a comment, but they just use the form comment instead of adding their own stuff.
I recommend reading The 7 Day Startup. I found that to be a very good and interesting perspektive on things when it comes to starting up. I wouldnt consider it The Truth(tm) and do everything it says, but it was really thought provoking and a fun read.
Thank you so much for this! :hugs:
Nice. I'll use this in the future, thanks.
EFF Unboxes the iPhone X
You'd still have to transfer the heat from the cells inside the battery. That would probably lead to a design with increased battery surface, maybe even a radiator or cooling lines.
Rockafeller got up to around $340 billion in today's dollar. Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and a few others built huge fortunes before the trust busters and regulation came along.
I was thinking about this earlier - what could we have done better to intercept this one? Because that's the only way we'll catch the next one...

Maybe wide-field Hubble-equivalents in the LaGrange points of the outer planets to help spot them on the way in? Ideally larger satellites with 25/50/100 years of cryogens available for long-duration missions? Although past a certain point your cryogen consumption would be constant - you're not getting heat from Sol, you're getting heat from your detectors/equipment... so a sunshield is useless.
Given that the emails were like one of many necessary factors[0] for the election result, and the FCC's actions are a direct result of that election, it appears that the latter is a strict subset of the former.

It is also important to point out that absolutely nothing illegal was discovered in the hacked emails. Give me 10,000 emails from anybody, and I'll find quotes that people will not like. Yes, maybe HC was too sympathetic to Wall Street in private. So people voted for the other guy, and now banks can continue to add mandatory arbitration to the fine print. The Consumer Financial Services Protection Agency is about to be gutted. That is the agency that fined Wells Fargo and Equifax. The next offenders will probably get off with a stern warning.

But yeah, at least we know HC's chicken recipe.

[0]: The email hack, the social media campaign, the FBI's back-and-forth on its investigations, and, yes, people's antipathy against HC were probably all needed for the result, considering the extremely slim margins and the popular vote/electoral college split.
HSL color values
How Software Groups Rot: Legacy of the Expert Beginner
Does the FCC take copy pasted online comments seriously to being with? This seems like the stupidest way to decide legislation.
Many people are only familiar with RGB, but HSL is usually more useful and intuitive. The CSS feature is supported on all browsers [0], but it's surprisingly rare to see its usage in libraries or tutorials.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=css3-colors
Ask HN: Is it harder to learn to code, if your native language is not English?
Lets say you're learning python and english is your first language.

print('Hello world') is intuitive for you.

Would it be as intuitive if you didn't know the word 'print'?

Suppose it were xaoweir('Hello world').

Seems like it would be harder for a non native speaker. Thoughts?
Smart people like to try to take down the smartest person in the room.
If they live within the city, use public transportation systems and don't bring additional cars into it, it sounds like they aren't the ones causing or even contributing to congestion problems. Therefore, why should they pay for a problem they aren't causing?
Slightly OT, but Firefox's reading mode is a great help to consume that post...
Yup, definitely 3 phase. But then it has to supply a charger or an array of chargers on the vehicle that convert the power to DC, leading to increased bulk and costs. So we're back to the 501 terminal plug again.
It was always a slippery slope. The last thing Github wants is banner ads all over the place. Sure, this one was tasteful, but if they allow it the door is open for less savory actors.
Most all US politicians are inherently captured by special interest groups. One of the few things that works as an accurate predictor of who wins an election is money. And that money comes in the form of "donations" which leaves politicians to do the bidding of those that donate to them. They need it to get into office and then literally the first day they get into office they begin fund raising for the next run

Counter example: Trump.
> The core developers (employed by Blockstream)

There are hundreds of Core developers; only about 6 of them are related to Blockstream. Your conspiracy theory does not hold up to reality.

> have intentionally kept the block size at 1MB

The block size has already been lifted to 2MB-4MB with SegWit.

> Blockstream ... support the product they're attempting to develop (lightening network layers)

Lightning Network was invented by people that have nothing to do with Blockstream, who founded their own company for that: https://lightning.engineering/team.html

There are 5 different teams developing Lightning Network implementations. Blockstream is merely responsible for the C implementation, they have no special control over Lightning.

> It's a red herring to claim larger blocks increase centralization when it's just data storage.

It's not just storage; the main issues are bandwidth, latency and IBD time. There are very real engineering limitations and trade-offs that have been discussed in depth over the years that you're just brushing off here. It's not as simple as you make it appear.
/user/geoffhinton 1 year ago

> Over the last three years at Google I have put a huge amount of work into trying to get an impressive result with capsule-based neural networks. I haven't yet succeeded. That's the problem with basic research. There is no guarantee that ideas will work even if they seem very promising. Probably the best results so far are in Tijmen Tieleman's PhD thesis. But it took 17 years after Terry Sejnowski and I invented the Boltzmann machine learning algorithm before I found a version of it that worked efficiently. If you really believe in an idea you just have to keep trying.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4w6tsv/ama...

Most of the deep learning papers published are just exploring and incrementally building upon the ideas 'Canadian Mafia' (Hinton, LeCun and Bengio) discovered years ago. At some point this 'idea space' is explored and understood and we hit the wall just like before. Let's hope that people doing basic research can find new breakthroughs in less than 17 years.
While I agree wholeheartedly that peer review is fundamentally a risk-averse, conservative process, I bristled when I read the statement that LeCun as a "lesser mind." That's quite rude, and uncalled for.
More like millions of years hence, if they haven't been active for 300 million years.
Are you able to use docker's multi-stage builds in order to both start nginx and use letsencrypt?
That's far better than what I managed to extract. I only got the first two points, after which it all became a meaningless word salad (plus, he read a book that impressed him). I was about to post a WTF-type comment, but then I found yours.

I also couldn't ignore the headline referring to the "West" (whatever it is) in general, while the author only had some limited experience working in the US and studying in the UK.

I live in Singapore now, and one thing that made me laugh once was an establishment called "Johnson's Western food". Like, that tiny stall encompasses the entire culinary wisdom of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and more. In reality, they sell soggy pizza and pasta sourced from Mars (at least by the looks of it).

This article is the literary equivalent of the Johnson's Western food stall, although with better pictures.
pq - nice doublentendre! Post quantum and p * q - prime numbers.
He created a new account to troll. It's an ugly trend; while it's minor, HN has a bit of a problem with this sort of thing. I assume that 'dang and 'sctb are on the case when this arises (and I flagged the post because of it), but it's probably a hard one to solve.
Dell XPS last time i checked
Subway are everywhere in the UK. Having colonised most town centres they’re now popping up in garage forcourts (service stations).
Norving [sic] has no idea what he's talking about.

There's a sentence I literally never thought I'd hear anyone ever say.
I wonder if they might do some sort of powerwall setup where they install a battery bank at the truck stop that can supply the power, it gets charged off the grid constantly, periodically trucks come in and suck big chunks of power out of it.
One of the major causes of always-on street lighting are the electricity companies who offer local authorities bargain rates overnight in order to smooth usage.

My local authority looked at turning-off street lights from 02:00 to 06:00 each day ( as they did before 1968 ) but calculated that the doubled cycle load on the sodium lights would lead to more failures. Given that unknown cost, versus fractions of a penny in electricity per light per night, they elected to keep the lights lit.

So now we have more LED lights and always-lit.
Pictures Of Bollywood Actors You May Have Never Seen Before

rare and unseen snaps of bollywood stars
must watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHam1l8I8nc
Isn't that basically Google Fi? See post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769192 above for some examples of entrenched landline ISPs like AT&T interfering with this approach...
>There was evidence that some of the leaked emails were subtly altered to make them look worse [1].

And yet nobody denied their authenticity. Getting rid of Bernie, leaking debate questions to the Clinton campaign, and on and on were all things that nobody denied doing after they were exposed. Regardless, my point was that the conduct in this case (creating fake data that a very small group of voters may rely on) is far worse than exposing what seems to be undisputed questionable conduct.
It might not be enough to create exactly the net you want. But yes, net neutrality is strictly better for decentralisation than the alternative.

That is because neutrality creates a (somewhat) level playing field. Without it, Facebook could, theoretically, pay Comcast to slow down a new competitor that is just emerging.

I say "theoretically", because such an action, if taken overtly, would probably still run afoul of competition law. But there will be other, more subtle, ways to achieve similar results. I would expect the result to be worse for data-heavy and latency-sensitive applications, as well as anything using a non-standard protocol (i. e. peer-to-peer networking etc).

It's possible, although not certain, that current service levels might remain accessible for new startups. But any future improvements would be tied to signing contracts with any provider whose customers any new startup would want to reach. Prices will tend to be exactly the value of these customers to the startup, minus one cent–or as close to that as can be measured.
I understand the difficulties of donate buttons, though marketing budgets is a bit of an interesting angle.

Thanks for the explanation
My question is what if someone is logging internet traffic right now to crack post-quantum? They'd have the formidable challenge of deciding what to log of all the stuff ... but spy agencies might be harvesting data for example.

Credit card transactions are ok but other secrets maybe not so ok.