skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume 50% of its news won't be about Trump?

I'd like to see journalistic projects that cover stuff that isn't covered by mainstream media, yet it's equally, or perhaps much more important. The mainstream media seems to mainly focus on whatever brings them most page views. And it often has a skin-deep understanding of the issues they cover, which often leads them to draw the wrong conclusions, too.

A good start, but certainly not the only place to explore, would be the war in Yemen, the drone strike operations in the Middle East or any other operation the U.S. or other countries do "illegally", without informing their populace, the Saudi Arabia influence on the western world, stuff like that for which there is almost an unwritten rule that the mainstream media can't cover.
It doesn't seem odd if you've worked in enterprise, just sad :)
S&P500 has only 10% return if you ignore a number of things

a) your pick of the moment. You might be tempted to pick today as a neutral point in time. Of course, it's not. The S&P500 is at a complete all-time-high. It's literally never done this well, ever. Gold is not doing so well. In fact, gold has done quite poorly for about 5 years now, and perhaps a bit better over the last year (despite central bank interventions to keep it down I might add). Comparisons at this time, will of course be skewed towards the S&P returning more. In 2012 Gold would have been the outperforming asset, and trust me on this one: it will be again. When ? Good question.

Which will be the best investment for the next 10 years. The asset that's never ever been up this high, or the asset that has systematically kept it's value for 7000 (not a typo) years, but has been going down quite a bit for the last 5 years ? Much more difficult question isn't it ?

I think it's quite a safe bet to say that gold will, firstly, have much worse returns than the S&P500 over the next month or two, and much better returns than the S&P500 over the next 2-5 years.

When it comes right down to it, it's effectively a bet on government policy. If the FED restarts Yellen's "competitive devaluation" craze of 2011 (which is definitely a possibility), gold will have an amazing performance. Again, not going to happen over the next 2 months. Very likely going to happen within the next 5 years.

b) transaction costs from buying and selling when the index gets modified, which are not counted in the index (they are counted in things like SPY, which does indeed systematically underperform the index).

c) (closely related to b) the fact that quite a few stocks got thrown out when they either went bankrupt or the stocks dropped enough. This is not reflected in the index, but of course anyone actually invested would get dented in the process, more so than for transaction costs.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/5-fam...

The trouble is there is no true answer to how much the S&P500 returned over the past century to an actual investor. One thing's for sure: it would be less than the index, and (especially in the earlier part of the century) significantly so.
I think dogs will do this too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806104
Learn C programming and the rest will come
Is there a browser or extension which doesn't enable mouse and keyboard events by default? I would like to see permission alerts for mouse and keyboard listeners similar to location permission requests.
This should be a criminal offence with jail time; not a refund.
C++ unit testing with Qt Test, part 2: advanced testing
‪An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms
Empowering Readers: How to Tackle Fake News Online
Soda's fine as long as you get out of the "this is an ordinary thing to drink" thought pattern into the "this is basically the same as eating a giant cupcake" one.

You wouldn't feel right having a giant cupcake every single day, right? Let alone more than one? Do you have a largish, nutrient-free dessert with every single meal ("free refills")? Wow, of course not. But once a month, or even once every couple weeks, that's still not good for you but at least you're not the gross dude eating (drinking) five desserts a day or whatever, and it's basically not gonna hurt you enough to be worth worrying about.

The "it's an exceptionally unhealthy dessert that I should absolutely feel bad about having too often" mindset is the correct one, because that's exactly what it is. People who wouldn't take a pile of ho-hos to the checkout counter (god, what will people think of me?) buy 32-64oz sodas like it's nothing because they don't make the connection that soda = very bad dessert, and feel the consequent second thoughts (and shame) over buying and consuming such a thing regularly, in large quantities.

Of course if everyone did that Coca-Cola's sales would drop to 5% or less of what they currently are. So their advertising contributes to making drinking lots of soda all the time seem normal. Combat this by imagining all the models in their ads messily smashing cupcakes into their mouths instead of drinking coke, while doing whatever they're doing.
I suppose it depends what your tolerance for risk is and how much of your overall investments are in crypto.

I trust one or two exchanges (Bitstamp and Bittrex). I trust Arrington's new crypto fund. I trust CME group. I trust Ripple (in so much as locking up their XRP goes and not abruptly shuttering the project 6 months from now because a founder got bored). I think Vitalik is the real deal (although I worry about what happens to ETH from an investment PoV if regulators start really turning the screws on ICOs).

Of course there's also a list a mile long of the crypto currencies, exchanges and ICOs I wouldn't touch with a barge pole :)

The gains at the moment are so large and so fast, if you have even $1K or $2K that you can afford to lose you almost can't go wrong. If you get even slightly lucky, you could likely pay that $2K back in to your savings account within a month or three and keep the remaining profits in crypto long term to see where it goes. The main risk is losing too much time to watching price tickers move on exchanges. That shit can get quite addictive if you don't keep a tab on it :)
They could add some filters and drilldowns available to the user. For example, you could get a feed of news with a certain name, tag, or regarding locations you care about.
I hope this goes somewhere. I have been very disappointed that the social technology of a wiki has not been used much after Wikipedia itself.

In theory, an openly editable wiki cannot work. People will just vandalize everything and ruin it. Amazingly, it works in practice. Not perfectly, there are definitely biased articles and bad things in the community, but it works so much better than anyone could have predicted in 2001.

Yet, noone has used that insight to create other great user-created websites with almost universal write access. There are various smaller wikis that cover areas too niche for Wikipedia, like minor Star Wars characters. There's been various ideas of more locked down wikis, or wikis overseen by an editorial team, but that's just missing the point. Wikipedia is great because of the amazing scale you get when anyone can go in and add their bit, without asking for permission.
An interesting take on a very difficult task...

https://theoutline.com/post/2435/wikitribune-is-already-bias...

Something we all would like to work - but I'm not sure it's easily possible to be neutral.
I have "trump" as a blocked word in my Twitter feed but would also concede that he requires a disproportionately sized slice of the daily news pie
Services like Oracleize already allow you to do something similar to this.
That's where the generational GC makes all the difference. Go people don't agree[1] with almost all the industry on this topic though.

[1] : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/KJiyv2mV...
Itanium had many things that needed sorting, and it would have taken one hell of a compiler to sort it all.

The RISC "victory" was called in the early 90s, and it was mostly benchmarked off of late 1980s compilers that were targeted to least-common-denominator register machines, so most fancy CISC instructions were never emitted, and stack architectures were barely even a consideration.

Even on RISC-to-RISC comparisons, having a compiler that caters to your specific ISA makes a huge difference. So, if it was a victory, I wouldn't call it a clear one.
1) Standing desk, 2) daily cardio to a hard sweat, 3) no boxed food or fast food; wife and I cook healthy lunches for the week 4) no alcohol.

Note: formerly muscle bound as a teen, a serious injury put an end to heavy weights. But my cardio workouts seem to maintain my bulk, so that's nice.

I'm 53, quite fit, actually look like a QB: slim and buff at the same time.
How does one scan for these? I stay in AirBnbs all the time.
Resilience in the Age of Automated Hacking
Forty years ago, I worked for a small magazine company that had its type set by Linotype. The machines were fascinating to watch. However, I remember the time that an editor specced an article in "Spartan", then discovered that 10-point Spartan looked smaller than 9-point everything else. There was nothing to do but have the linotypist key the whole thing again. At that point, I started to see what advantages there might be to computerization.
If it's active IR then it's pretty easy to find using a detector. If it's a passive optical device with a wired connection, then you can't find it with a detector that wouldn't also find a ton of other signal cables.

It's then probably easier to find a camera by looking in the network rather than physically. The problem with that is you can only find it when it's transmitting and not if it's sleeping (unless it happens to also have a public endpoint that's always open).
The choice isn't a binary between corporate monopolies or a non capitalist alternative, there is a very wide spectrum of possible 'topias between those two extremes.

Methinks public discourse is overdue for a revival of good old fashioned Aristotelian Virtue Ethics.
> Most of my colleagues from the UK went through a similar curve, taking in Atari and Amiga machines at home not just as games machines but piqued by their capability to produce software of their own.

Yep, that's exactly my programming history!

> The UK 8-bit market was one of the biggest economic helpers the country has had in generations. We then went about squandering it.

Yeah, such a shame that happened. I wonder why?
I own my own calibrator. I calibrate every monitor I use for Video. I have never seen a accurate monitor in the wild yet. The funny thing is I can get a horrible cheap monitor to be calibrated in a dark room and it is better than anything not calibrated.

People need to buy calibrators. I use the open source ColorHug it runs on Linux so I actually use a live cd and do the calibration. http://www.hughski.com/
_Red gave two examples of Ethereum applications.

SeckimJohn quite quickly showed why neither work. The are some niche digital uses, but not the ones people often tout.

Ethereum contracts basically break down at the point they need to interact with the real world.
Can you please just post the info. Intel deserves to be shamed
Meetup.com is getting acquired by WeWork
Since my first reply to your comment I went to the campus library and had a librarian help me search for both books. There's an electronic version of MMM available to us, whereas the other book you mentioned -- Augustine's Laws -- is not available at any of the university libraries in our entire country apparently.

I am currently reading MMM. I think it will prove to be valuable even though I don't have time to read it quite as closely as I would have liked to.
All about routine. Once you get it going, it becomes part of your day and you feel lost without it. It's like getting coffee now (lifting). Days I miss I don't feel complete and I go to bed emotionally and mentally off.

Don't stop either, the first couple weeks are the hardest but stick to it. If you start skipping days here and there or make excuses you'll never get in the groove you need.

Source: Been lifting routinely for a few years now, recently got hurt and couldn't lift for a week or two. It's been a struggle to jump back in (even with such a tiny break!) but since I've been here before I know I need force myself over this little bump.

Best of luck!
Bitcoin, once 'sketchy,' becomes more mainstream
Show HN: Buttercal – Sunrise Calendar Meet, Back from the Dead
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Coinbase is down
DDoS?
Wheeler was certainly visionary.

The most faithful contemporary worldview is probably the "QBist" interpretation [0-2] espoused by Chris Fuchs (who studied under Wheeler), Ruediger Schack, Carlton Caves, David Mermin and others. It's growing in popularity but is not mainstream.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/06/private-view-quantum-reality/

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/physics-qbism-puts-the-scientist...

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-bayesian/
I guess this will mean the dead to WikiNews (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ) of Wikipedia. The history showed us...

Jim has the power to remove things of Wikipedia and turn it t his own startup for profit.

Remember the trivia sections in almost all a Wikipedia articles. Suddenly one day, Jim launched Wikia and in the same swoosh trivia sections got transferred over to Wikia and banned on Wikipedia. Including many articles about movie characters got removed from Wikipedia.

We have to thank him for the initial Wikipedia, and for the short stint of Wikia Web search (the he unfortunately killed after a short while). But he should not be involved with Wikipedia anymore, in case he is still lurking around.
Hmm, I completely missed that, thanks for pointing it out (https://makecode.com/language#static-compilation-vs-a-dynami...)

I assumed that the PXT worked the same as MicroPython, but it seems like it actually compiles directly to machine code, nice!
Yeah, all the fitness principles are the same. But getting from 0 to doing all the things right is different for different kind and groups of people. And reading how to do it from somebody similar as you, with similar challenges, could be helpful. It would be for me at least.
Yeah, but we're dealing with an order of magnitude difference if we give them control over > 1Million mobile bombs (ie 1 large self-driving car network).
An interesting thought exercise is to think about how much of your life is now being spent under surveillance. Not only all the cameras everywhere, but also Gmail, Facebook, and whatever else you might use. Maybe George Orwell's predictions aren't too far off.
don't forget stackoverflow ! It doesn't have all the answers easy to google, but /u/shepmaster is doing an amazing job as a curator here. You usually get an answer in less than half an hour (assuming he's awake, but I'm not even sure he sleeps :p)
I've often wondered if that's intentional or not, people seem to have real difficulty with comparing things if it's any more complicated than X being bigger than Y.

fivethirtyeight.com seem to have a policy of getting numbers correct rather than chasing a story which seems to help.

Another good thing is experts that comment on news stories, to place their numbers in context e.g. the NHS in the news service, that covers all the details and is happy to concede that "we don't know" rather than always wrap things up neatly.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/scarlet-fever-ca...
And sometimes they don't: https://twitter.com/goodyerin/status/935442561283559424
Likely you don't need a generic implementation of Decimal.

What money do you want to represent, they all have a "atomic value".

For instance, when working with dollars store cents. When working with Eth, store wei. etc.

I can't think of a use case of money that needs decimals except maybe computing ownerships percentage. but that should never be stored, but rather computed.

Anything that needs to be converted is a "front end" view. all computations should use atomic store of value, thus no conversion is needed in contracts.
I wonder what's going to happen to wikinews: https://wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
"There are a number of very valid reasons to install cameras and microphones in every living room. Consider the amount of domestic abuse that could be prevented this way! Also, interior designers could further understand and tweak the layout of people's living rooms for optimal recreation and entertainment."
I'm not sure how this differs meanibgfully from web standards as published by the w3c.
How about getting the police involved? My guess is that this is a felony.
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Exercise: run twice a week. Do weights.
Diet: mostly vegan/vegetarian. Two meals a day - lunch & dinner, no breakfast. Zero dairy - no milk, butter or cheese. Zero refined sugar - no cakes, biscuits, chocolate. Never buy anything > 5% sugars. No fruit juice. No "white" carbs - only brown bread and basmati rice.
Alcohol: wine & beer only, no spirits.
Tobacco: I'm a social smoker. Drum rolling tobacco only, never touch Marlboro or other processed ready rolled.
Can you contact the sender and tell them to sort it out? They are the courier's customer so really it's their problem to resolve. Just say "I never received my parcel" and let them figure it out.
This might me valid for the US. Anecdotally, where I live (Switzerland/central Europe) almost nobody uses iMessage, and WhatsApp is the big dominator.
Is there something wrong with coinbase/GDAX?
I know plenty of companies would pay a lot for usability sessions if they were remotely accurate (and they do anyway), but they really aren't like regular users using the site naturally.
The Ethereum-blockchain size will not exceed 1TB anytime soon
How to build a Minimalistic Social App in just few days
Three pillars:

- Physical Activity:
Using Freeletics app for bodyweight training in alternance with running in the morning. Use my bike whenever I can for transport. Practice Systema martial art when I'm in Paris (try to practice Systema breathing also, I suggest the book from Vladimir Vasiliev "Let every breath").
Take a cold shower after training for boosting energy levels. Try to meditate 10 mn in the morning before my workout.

- Good Sleep: Use Sleep Cycle app, try to have at least 7,5 hour of sleep (a multiple of a 1h30 cycle for me), try to detect your "sleep train" (for me it's 22h30 in the evening, usually I go to bed at midnight and wake up at 7:30).

- Good diet: vegetarian, lots of leguminous and oleaginous for proteins, green leaf (made 1 to 1,5L of green smoothies in the morning) a salad in the evening. Avoid sugar and carbs (or only some rice from time to time). Take some vitamins supplements and amino acid for sports. Drink green tea through the day and coffee (though I try to reduce...), also try to reduce my alcohol consumption (or only the week-end). Don't count any calories...
404. Looks like it was Bloomberg the one who was tamed.
I predict this will end up somewhere between (HuffPost - celebrity news) on the low end and Atlantic on the high end. Not a news site but a service that crafts content for specific tastes and views with a veneer of respectability... but no dissent. There won't be ads, but most of the typical readers will use adblockers so this is just a moral position.

Fact-gathering is done, it's called Reuters. Or AP. Reuters already fact-gathers in a timely manner and in many languages. Everything else is just opinion pieces disguised as journalism. Increasingly, this also encompasses WaPo and NYT, where most of the content is editorial rather than journalistic. There is actually little demand for another Reuters.

Basically no one with power enters the news business to actually deliver the news. Look at Bezos, Jobs' widow, Koch(s), etc...they are promoting their worldviews and trying to steer society
I knew that a lot of work went into MicroPython, but I didn't appreciate that is was all done by community volunteers. That's very impressive!
This is a criminal offence in the UK, providing intent can be proven. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67
But can you play PUBG at max settings?
It's not just snark: PUBG is a new kind of game, with a level of realism, open-worldness and massive player numbers that hasn't been a hit before. Though it's said to be "not optimized", I think many of its performance issues won't be easily optimized away, because they are intrinsic to this new type of game. (Fortnite runs smoother, but has far less realism, amd its netcode has comparable latency),
how good is it though? I couldn't care less about "non-intrusive ads" of adblock plus for example, that's not very efficient.

microBlock origin on the other hand, that's pretty much required these days, especially on tiny mobile screens.
In Germany it is illegal to own or sell hidden cameras.
SDL does allow you to grab the platform specific window handle (HWND on windows), so you can still do platform specific logic while letting SDL do the boilerplate for you.

SDL_SysWMinfo info;
#ifdef _WIN32
if(SDL_GetWindowWMInfo(window, &info)) {
assert(info.subsystem == SDL_SYSWM_WINDOWS);
HWND hwnd = win.window;
HDC hdc = win.hdc;
HINSTANCE hinstance = win.hinstance;
...
}
#endif
Operators of unregulated flophouses engage in shady, unethical practices? Color me shocked.
"I'd also question just how much better journalism was versus today (although I'm on shakier ground here)."

You do well to question. It was all over the place, and frequently awful. Examples that occur to me: Murray Kempton quoted Westbrook Pegler's father as saying that the tone of the Hearst press during WW I was that of a woman running down the street with her throat cut; any number of H.L. Mencken's articles on the failings of the press; Walter Duranty's reports from the Soviet Union. I will add that Kempton, the Peglers, and Mencken were all lifelong journalists.

Actually, the competition for advertising is what hurts the newspapers. If suddenly all the classified advertising left Craig's List tomorrow and went back into print, the metropolitan newspapers would be fat again.
I don't have any malicious intent, but don't mind me as I set up camp here in your bedroom...
iMessages is the lock-in. It is the primary reason why I switched to the iPhone.

I have the macbook pro, iphone, watch, airpods, and they all work pretty great together. It's a cohesive experience that is going to be really hard for me to break out of it.
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America’s flat-Earth movement will soon become a global movement (LOL)