skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article was eye opening for me.

"For [Russians], it is maddening to watch the news organisations they so admire building Mr Putin into an all-powerful Bond villain, thereby elevating his stature... The aim of Mr Navalny’s campaign, by contrast, is to show that the king is naked, not to dress him up in armour."
I'd like to see HN get full Markdown support.

I've just added the following rule to my local HN CSS stylesheet (using the Stylus CSS manager):

pre { white-space: pre-wrap; }

This solves the problem ... on my desktop, on a per-browser basis. I still get fuxnored viewing via mobile.

My full set of mods: https://pastebin.com/jWFqQSj9
Pro has zero ads, never seen them.
Doesn't matter. They produce heat, which must be got rid of somehow. The point is, steady growth is disastrous on surprisingly short timescales.
Bah what an horror. I doubt anyone can spot a more unreadable language (except maybe brainfuck).

One of the issues I have with C++ is that they seem to have used basically all the symbols you can find on a keyboard to create unspellable operators or modifiers, and since they didn't have enough to avoid colliding with C, they mixed them to create even more unreadable combinations. The other examples in the doc are good readings as well suggesting I never approach this "modern art".
Markdown provides for this by double-spacing at the end of a line to indicate a hard wrap.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p
> The first choice is not currently workable, since competition between ISPs is impractical.

Could you explain why that is?
Strictly speaking, Mexico has the lowest cancer rate (not death rate) of the OECD, so the USA should emulate them for healthcare.

On the flip side, Denmark has the highest cancer rate, so they must be doing something wrong.

The alternative explanation is that people in Mexico generally die before they can get cancer.
Navigate to coinbase.com, scroll to bottom: Products - GDAX. Hardly a secret.
> All comments though were fake - I never sent any of them in to the FCC.

Or your name isn't that uncommon. Have you ever tried being the first google result for your name, as an SEO experiment? It is hard!

I say this as someone who shares a name with a minor league baseball player, numerous facebook/linkedin/etc profiles and a baby whose life/death was covered by the BBC.

I don't go around accusing all of these people of being fake.
Well you certainly do make the US system sound bad, and heavily taxed.

In most cases though, as a non-US person it's the avoidance of taxes in the overseas countries that concerns me. It seems that many multinationals are finding creative ways to pay no tax in the UK. Starbucks, famously, but also amazon and others. Apple have this sweetheart deal in Ireland which amounts to a way to operate in the whole EU with no corporation tax owed. That's why both Apple and Ireland are in trouble here.

If you need to look at it in pro-business terms - it's skewed the playing market and left other companies less able to compete.
With the exception of the ones with insane politics involving execution, dictatorships or the ones that have a harsh posture because of religious motives, I can't find a single one that has a war on drugs at the same level as the United States, can you point me to some sources about democratic countries that are worse than the United States on this specific point?
I mean... In my lifetime we have had literally this exact thing. AT&T was a monopoly. It was inherently bad for literally everyone that wasn't employed by AT&T, and even most of them. The government didn't grant them exclusive rights, but they did step in to fix the situation. Assuming he doesn't have Alzheimers (literally), that would be a really, really bad argument given we've lived it and seen the results.
In addition to reducing exposure to more dangerous drugs, it would make harder drugs safer by ensuring they were of known potency and purity - after all, hard drugs distributed illegally are diluted with just about any substance available.

While hard drugs will never be good for you as such, we can do a lot to reduce the consequences of taking them by ensuring addicts have access to drugs of farmaceutical quality.
The op is complaining about calling 'computer' rather than 'tablet' this ms product. The ipad and iphones and android phones are tablet and phones, not computers.
So ... what if you combined Stockfish and AG0, and let AG0 explore 70M positions instead of 80K? Would it improve even faster?
"I think" also marks a reflection on the state of mind without any implied uncertainty. That is, it implies that the thought originates from your own mind, rather than from some deferred authority. As in "I think we should do X" in opposition to "we should do X" where I've just walked into a meeting after getting off the phone with my boss. I don't want anyone to get the impression that I'm merely relaying orders.

>Removing it would change the statement to one of fact or make it prescriptive when it may be better taken as descriptive or a possibility among many.

There are better ways to make these distinctions, and in most contexts, you don't need to differentiate between facts and opinions on account of the difference being obvious. And where it isn't obvious, it's obviously debatable, and people will do that regardless of whether you make such a qualification.
Why Python string class? The Python 2 one or the Python 3 one? ;-)

String classes are fickle things. It's very hard to get them right. Still, std::string, for all of its age, does let you do a lot of what Python does with manipulation of bytes, particularly when combined with locales (admittedly painful to use) and iostreams (also a bit painful at times).

Python does have a LOT of other functionality tied into strings, but there's a legit design question as to whether that's really a good idea or not. What particular functionality do you think ought to be there?
Didn't know that - now I do.

Don't really agree they are the same observations, but do see the similarities.
My question is: if Amazon doesn't want to resolve this in good faith, then what other avenues does Google have?
What? That was really not the point. The GP's point was 'As long as India periphery is culturally diverse from Hindi core, India is not going to get anywhere', which is kind of opposite of what you are saying. Also see 'India will develop unevenly Gujarat, Maharashtra, TN, AP will forge ahead' which shows kind of unhappiness from development of some areas.
They are all technically still 'computers'. Their form factor doesn't change that.
Nope. They just got a minor update.
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>No doubt. But lets not forget that a lang like C++ needed to evolve while still working, so how much of those security issues are there given the use of ancient code practices of the past? software coded in the 90's even the 80's

But C++ was a mess from the very beginning, many of its problems are inherited from C, and the language itself was an ugly extension to C, not a carefully elaborated new language. So most new features were introduced to repair the breaches of such messy design.
Not a "traditional" book (although there are pirated PDFs and ebook versions of it out there), but the Worm Web Serial is absolutely amazing.

Alternate reality where superheroes and villains are common, but told from the perspective of different heroes and villains. Also, it goes really deep into the Universe's logic and science around how powers function and intermingle with each other, their origin, and most importantly, what the experience is like to actually USE the powers by those that have them.

It is also quite long--I've heard it is longer than all the Harry Potter books combined. I was sad when it ended though.

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
Scholarly papers* on the design of atomic weapons would be better if the equations indicated how many humans would be killed.

So why cavil at the author suggesting, through the thoughful use of examples that certain modes of acting have real world consequences ?

* Undoubtedly heavily classified.
But have a look at the unclassified article I have linked to in another submission on nuclear warhead reentry
vehicle design...

Certain assumptions would have to be made on the density of inhabitation of the target zones.
The title of the book is "Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features", not "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, plus my rambling political edge"
Well yes it's still hype. Obviously subjective in many ways. "Greatest" is nothing more than routine clickbait. Casablanca can be a great achievement without needing to call it the greatest, which is an attempt at both ending and starting an argument. Clickbait.

It's a shame that article writers can't use a sensible title such as "re-visting Casablanca's greatest scene." or similar. When the subject matter strikes a chord, that's no reason to elevate a scene's achievement relative to other cinematic scenes in other movies unrelated to war.
There aren't a lot of languages that combine functional programming/generics & OO together quite so extensively. There's a lot of power you can unlock there if you can just manage the cognitive load of the syntax.
But then we're talking about raising taxes on people other than the 0.1% to fund whatever initiatives we're talking about which was cperciva's point. You can only get so far taxing the ultra rich.
Criminal justice in the western world is substantially based on the (faulty) premise of retributive punishment. Not rehabilitation, not harm reduction, vengeance. That has a ton of negative consequences. It means that prisons are horrid and destroy people rather than building them back up to a state worthy of re-entering civilized society. It means that the police are encouraged to dispense street justice extra-judicially (even up to executions) because it is part and parcel of the spectrum of "hurting the bad guys". It means that addicts are punished and harmed by the system for the sin of being vulnerable and falling victim to a common "vice". It's not about science, it's about feeling what is "right" and "just". Bit by bit we've occasionally made some improvements and injected some humanity into this brutally inhumane process, but we're still scraping by at medieval levels of justice. In the US more than 95% of executions by the criminal justice system happen on the street without a trial. And, of course, addiction is treated as a crime instead of a public health concern, to the detriment of all.
I'm using the normal home version of Windows 10.

I've never seen the office nagging. I've never seen a single ad. Not from first boot that I can recall. There are no ads on my lock screen, there are no ads on my start menu.

The only things I can think of, is that I immediately turned off as many bs anti-privacy type settings as possible when I initially set up the system. I also use glasswire and restrict most things that try to go out without my permission (or anything I don't want to allow in general).

When I fire up my start-menu, I've got it defaulted to pinned tiles, there doesn't even appear to be space for an ad that might be getting blocked on there. There are no ads in the all apps section either.

My lock screen only has a background image.
This will break the search integrity that Google says it upholds(leaving out government and DMCA requests)
I guess the question I have is: how fast can it run everything?
Replying directly because I'm not sure if you'll get notified otherwise, but here's a longer response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859024
Features that break other features (or introduce vulnerabilities) because they haven't been through a basic testing are anti-features.
There's no such thing as corporate income tax in the UK, not sure about Ireland.
It's a consistent, fixed standard that you hope you have trained your employees to adhere. Fingers crossed. /s
An American Sickness, detailing he misaligned incentives and "brokenness" of the American healthcare system.
That doesn't help for all kinds of data analysis - frequency analysis of a given interaction is one example.
About 1/3 of households itemize deductions, including myself. I live in a two bedroom condo with two kids, I consider myself "middle class." Itemizing deductions is much more common in high tax ("Blue") states due to the state/local tax deduction. This tax "cut" is targeted to raise taxes on blue states by eliminating that.

The standard deduction increase is a bit of a trick, since they removed the personal deduction. So it's not a "doubling" of the standard deduction, but an increase of a few thousand. It is not enough to cover the removal of other deductions for many middle/upper-middle class families.
I wish more people understood this.
Look at those responses he got from upset readers of the book. They are polite and articulate their point. Nowadays, he would get death threats.
I have now responded in more detail - at the time I was busy trying to spread the love around, and also support my team as they dealt with the support requests and digesting the response on here.

Check out the longer response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15859024
Only if you count the marketing budget. Samsung is highly vertically integrated, even more so than Apple. Paradoxically, the reason why flagship Android devices are as expensive as they are is to give the appearance that they are the same class of device as an iPhone. Price signalling is very important in the "flagship" segment.

A "Note 8" likely costs Samsung less to produce than the Mix 2 does to Xiaomi (Xiaomi does not own factories or component suppliers unlike Samsung), and yet the Mix 2 sells for about 2/3rds what the Note 8 does. The rest is profit for Samsung. Though of course since Samsung is a conglomerate, the profit is distributed across multiple business units.
Unclassified: nuclear reentry vehicle development
I'm not sure why you think that's a prohibition on political content in examples. Lots of technical books have diatribes concerning many things irrelevant to the subject matter.

I read a programming book that dared to have jokes in it once. Gasp! One even talked about DNA and the wagging of dogs' tails. I suppose we've got to be extra puritanical and dogmatic once our delicate political sensitivities become more important than learning something. That way lies progress.
I don't think all political views are equivalent. Of course I'm supportive of opinions that I agree with, like you point out. Opinions I disagree with or espouse a world-view that is different than mine? Of course I'm fine with that. I read and own many authors I disagree with because I value the knowledge gained by reading them and understanding their words, even if I disagree.

Your example though?
> Let’s say for advocating for arming every American or against gay marriage.

Arming them for what? To shoot gays? Yeah I would probably be pretty upset about that. Advocating ethnic cleansing? "Alternative facts" about vaccines?

If I were on Twitter or something I might tweet, or write a blog post about it trying to convince the publishers to change their mind or encouraging others to support different publishers. I don't think that makes me a book burner.

In reality though unless it was something truly vile or dangerous that crosses some sort of hard to define personal line I would probably not do anything at all... I'm not a despotic ruler who cannot abide the existence of mere words I disagree with...
Are those dependent on the OEM? My start menu never had any of that from the first setup. Neither of those are on my system anywhere. The only really super annoying thing on my system has been cortana, being unable to fully remove it.
Have you never used cash?
I know this is probably more of a shared bad behavior situation, it really frustrates me as Google did more or less the same thing against Microsoft. Dunno, feels like if they could silo their services away from every other platform at this point without hurting themselves, they would.
Making psychedelics schedule 1 is criminal in itself. Especially in the light of MAPS studies.
How to write more readable prose.
"The Mark 6 was a huge RV, more than ten feet (three meters) long and 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) wide at its base—a grown man could stand beneath it. The nose cap used phenolic nylon (a nylon cloth impregnated with a resin), while the rest of the vehicle used a special plastic. The material was so effective at eliminating heat during the short reentry period that it could be very thin. The nose cap was about two inches (five centimeters) thick, whereas the rest of the heat shield was only a quarter of an inch (6.35 millimeters) thick."
Would you like to have 30 different companies digging your street to lay cables?

Or 10 energy cables over your street because energy competition would be great?

Even in a perfect world, infrastructure is a natural monopoly.

The government could handle all the big scale infrastructure and let small players handle the last mile, but that's not the case and even if it was, people would still complain.
But it looks like AlphaGo is searching fewer positions per second than Giraffe did.

AlphaZero evaluates 80K positions per second, according to this paper, and the Giraffe paper says that Giraffe averaged 258570 evaluations per second when running STS.

While we can't directly compare the computer power, this implies that AZ has learned a better representation.
In the books I've written I added references to movies that I liked as part of the examples. I remember including a "PC Load Letter" error message as a homage to Office Space. Other examples were more obscure, such an address or phone number of one of the characters in the movie.
From the example listed, it’s political data, not political code.
Mozilla already did this. The google deal was global.. but the yahoo deal was not. Yahoo only purchased the US default. And Mozilla signed deals with Baidu for China, and Yandex for Russia at the same time. Google was left as the default for all other countries.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
At @tomcam's suggestion I put together a quick spreadsheet outlining some of the costs associated with building a wireless Internet network, feel free to check it out:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jjUYOQMuZ4cRyTv1M5X8...

Also I started a Matrix chatroom for discussion around this topic, I'll hang out there and answer any questions that I can:

https://riot.im/app/#/room/#startyourownisp:matrix.org
Of all of the companies you listed, only Comcast needed to obtain the right to dig a trench through much of the private and public property in America prior to doing business. In exchange for that right, they accepted many regulatory burdens (often very explicitly in contracted negotiations with various levels of government), and should be accepting of future regulatory burdens as well.
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The nastier side of this elephant in the room is that three letters in general, the CIA in particular, really dislike the fact that congress holds their purse strings, so by creating and then dominating a black market, they can generate money off the books with no congressional oversight for those black projects and whatever other unconstitutional fad of the day is.

The CIA learned this all the way back in its OSS days from the Brits who have been doing it since before the first opium wars in China, the scars of which which can still be seen to this day. It doesn't matter the black market (prohibition for example) just that you control it.
YES YES YES. FINALLY!
It's the sunk cost fallacy. When you've invested enormous amounts of treasure, careers, political capital, conventional wisdom, etc., in having a position, it is very, very hard to say "oops, that's all a big mistake, my bad!"

It's much easier to double down on it.
You say that like it isn't fast becoming an option for the wealthy and technologically adept.
>vogue words.

Ha. Best example of this I can recall: 'said' meaning 'aforementioned'. "I ate said taco."

Never heard it before. Then suddenly... everyone seemed to be using it.
> Are they buying an option on the right to receive dividends at some indeterminate point in the distant future?

> Do they think they'll receive a fraction of the enterprise value when Google gets bought by a bigger company?

> Will Google get sold off piece by piece and they'll get a pro-rata share of the liquidation proceeds?

Yes, but also a bet on other people's demand for those things - its asset backed. Since they all are based on USD I think they're a little safer bet than a cat fad.
Wait, so you can install other OSes on this? The "big distros" such as Ubuntu, Redhat etc?
They didn't demonstrate that AlphaGo Zero can beat Stockfish in a fair contest: i.e. take the amount of money they spent on Stockfish's CPU and RAM, buy a commodity GPU for AlphaGo and then see.
Any prospects for mid-level engineers in the near future? Thanks!
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>They seem to have found that both sides have been stuffing the ballot box

That's not entirely clear from that source. And even if it were, that's reason to try something different to solicit public feedback, not to go ahead with whatever the telcos say to do.

> That is Google, Facebook, Twitter, as the main gateways to public discourse treat all comments equally without promoting one viewpoint over another that does not enjoy elite sanction?

This has nothing to do with net neutrality. NN is about your right to transmit information over the internet, not your right to have someone else transmit it for you. If you want to talk about regulations on big content providers, fine, but it's totally irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

>What good is NN as it stands if edge providers can treat bits differently?

NN is not about edge providers. It's about not allowing middlemen to use their natural-monopoly power to censor edge providers.
«nobody seems to have developed a Shamir's secret sharing approach to cold wallets»

This has been developed. Search for multisig wallets, N-of-M, etc
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Great to see Myanmar people on HN! Are you in Yangon?
Not sure how your question is relevant to the parent’s point that US centric problems are probably not the sole cause that portugal’s policies have not been adopted, given many countries outside the US also haven’t adopted the policies.

But to your question, I would note that drug laws in Japan and South Korea are among the harshest in the world.
It could be. I think it also depends on if you are online at the time of setup.
It’s very possible — the full source to an older version is on github.

That aside, it might be a poor example and explanation on my part. Other than technical competency, there is nothing inherently stopping everyone from having a shitty one man version of reddit, independent of everyone else’s shitty one man reddit.

For the New Yorker example, everyone must work together — if I cut my neighbors line putting mine in, there’s crosstalk etc, the whole thing falls apart.

The point I am trying to make is that the ISP does one thing only and that thing requires cooperation. Reddit does lots of things, but cooperation is not integral to those things. Granted, it wouldn’t be worth a whole lot, but that’s not the issue.

This is an amendment to the first clause of the original comment. My point about pricing pressure still stands.
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Indeed I want one but all the ones I find cutest are expensive.

I think https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitty/102 this one should probably just be put out of its misery
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