skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>he still lost despite facing perhaps the weakest Tory candidate in a very long time.

Or, to look at it another way, he triggered a hung parliament in spite of:

* 60% of the PLP openly and covertly sabotaging him.

* The entire mainstream print and broadcast media attacking him relentlessly ("left wing" Independent and Guardian included) until the day the election was called.

>Given that you just made a claim that's provably false

I was talking specifically about the claim made in 2015 that Corbyn was "unelectable" and would "render the Labour party unelectable for a generation" by members of the media and Blairite members of his own party.

They were arguing that the UK was going to become essentially a one party state with Labour polling similarly to the Lib Dems in all of the following elections for a generation (~25 years).

What followed was the largest vote gain in history by any UK party since 1945.

That is not provably false, it is provably true.

>I'd be careful about tossing around accusations that those you disagree with are all brainwashed

I'm not arguing that people who disagree with me are all brainwashed. I'm arguing that people who agreed with that specific idea were brainwashed. What else do you call people who buy into ideas promoted heavily in the media that are so divergent from reality?
Ha ha, I guess my cars are too cheap. I have never had a car with more than one VHF antenna.
I can't tell whether you misread or are intentionally misrepresenting my words.
Came across a slightly related article earlier today when searching about other stuff: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-par...

A bit too long, but it's making a point of the importance for the "unsafe" plays that modern kids are denied. It claims this is leading to drop in creativity and can lead to increase with mental problems.
So then it goes without saying that you reported this bug, before calling people nefarious, bad-intentioned crooks?
> If the technology is bad and dangerous, stop buying it. Convince people that biometrics are dangerous.

As an individual, I do what you suggest. The problem happens when it's imposed on you. Since most people couldn't care less about privacy, surveillance, and continuous data collection, the result is this:

- You don't want to give your biometrics for a driver's license or passport? Fine, but you won't be allowed to drive or travel. Or open a bank account or work or get social services.

- You don't want to enroll your fingerprints (or palm/retina/iris) for the locks and access cards at your new job. OK, but don't come back to work tomorrow.

- Soon, 3-5 years from now, when every smartphone uses facial recognition and it is mandatory, then what? Stick with your older smartphone? It won't run any future apps and won't have access to whatever new communication technologies that emerge.

You're giving constructive advice -- which is great. But it's not that easy when most people don't give a hoot about privacy and data collection, and it's very difficult to convince them otherwise.
Well, if someone says your irresponsible and a social worker comes along, it will give a good impression of responsable thinking. Not everything must/can be legally validated.

In the same reasoning, that's why a judge can have a jury
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Ask HN: How can I become a self-taught software engineer?
I don't know where to exactly start. I was thinking of first learning Python by studying from the book "Automate the Boring Stuff." Then for the actual CS stuff, maybe taking the online course CS50 offered by Harvard, then moving on from there.

But after learning Python then what? I'm not exactly sure where my interest lies or what I actually feel like building. Thus, I'm not sure if I want to go the web route, which seems common to many, or going some different area?

I looked at the Google Software Engineer minimum qualifications, just to get an idea of areas to pursue. It reads: "Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development."

I'm not so fond of mobile development, and web I'm unsure of. From those areas which are most accessible to a non-CS/Math/Engineering degree holder (bachelors in biology)? I believe Machine learning and NLP are more suited to Masters/PhDs? So maybe they are out of the question.

Any advice on how to tackle my journey in becoming a Software Engineer? Maybe an outline on how to approach my learning in steps?
It's a Jupyter notebook: http://jupyter.org/
Then I suggest that you open the bugs that are now private that discuss this.
Another linked Forbes article fingers the UPU, a UN agency, as the source of the rate schedules: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...

Wikipedia on the UPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
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It is a play on the observed phenomenon that many who are either vegan or into CrossFit bring it up all the time, even when it does not directly relate to the situation at hand. For example, my post above. The style of my workout routine doesn't add much to the context of long commutes.
This is actually a really good video by Wendover Productions that explains the UPU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dHhkNwE7pr8
> Additionally, since freeways capacities are so much higher, they encourage high density land use, since they can support so much more transportation of people.

High speed transportation of people is the exact opposite of what encourages high density land use. If you can live 30 miles from work, and get to work in 30 minutes by freeway-driving, that's acceptable. If that same trip would take two hours, perhaps you'd consider living closer to work.
Winspace, the new startup !
It's difficult to trust that Microsoft claimed it when you only provide a link to iota website.
Personally I'd rather be shot and killed than be stabbed in the face repeatedly with a broken bottle (and potentially live). To each his own, though.
Oh, but I probably am a racist dick.

In this case, however, I don't need to be. A simple look at statistics will do fine.

Another hint: It is not native young Swedes who have suddenly gone on a rampage and turned shootings, killings, and the occasional grenade into mundane, everyday background-noise in places like Malmø.

Now your turn to be an overt anatomical metafor.
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Citation for your claim? The story I've read is that the IOTA Foundation will hold your funds so you can reclaim them.
What the author wrote is a IPython / Jupyter notebook [0], which is implemented as a JSON document [1]. The notebooks are pretty much markdown with runnable code blocks in between.

Jupyter notebooks are popular in the data science / Python communities to explain concepts, for examples see here [2].

[0] https://jupyter.org/

[1] https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/notebook/nbformat.html

[2] https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...
I use Droid48: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48&hl=... (https://github.com/shagr4th/droid48)
Yeah but the fact that they have the ability to block this means they can block other things too.
Typical for "got ya" style responses there is a lot more details you should consider:

1. They have been bailed out numerous times. Yes, they paid their debt back but it was lent at a preferred rate by congress to an entity that no commercial lender to would do at those rates. (see Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 5714))

2. The Post Office is except from all local state, city, and federal taxes. That also includes road tolls, vehicle registration, etc (wouldn't Fedex love that)

3. The Post Office has an open line of credit from Treasury under preferred rates and terms that no regular business would get.

4.Finally, they hold a monopoly status on delivery of first-class mail. This monopoly status, and the legal issues surrounding "whats considered legal notification" is tantamount to an indirect tax.
Sounds similar to the Scouts. In my country I don't think they accept 4-year-olds, but from 6 they do go camping for a few days without their parents. And at least until four years ago, cellphones were not allowed.
No amount of downvoting will contradict my claim. It's a simple matter of publicly available statistics.
The author appears to misunderstand the advice. “Read widely” doesn’t mean “ignore quality”, or “read things you hate”, or “the next book you read should be a different author than the last”. It also doesn’t mean “read everything”.

Meanwhile this author loves advice about semicolons and em-dashes? Okay.
Are you specifically including Bitcoin's fixed coin emission cap in your reasoning? It is known to be problematic. One of the things it apparently prevents is a flexible blocksize because that apparently requires a tail emission instead of fixed cap. Tail emission yields an inflationary coin (see Monero's economics) whereas the fixed cap of Bitcoin causes it to be continuously and strongly deflationary. I'm not an expert in QE but you're comparing a centrally governed fiat system to a system which places governance in the hands of strong social/financial incentives. Such incentives eventually lead to asking the most qualified person for guidance (which becomes governance). I'll be very interested to read your reply in case this modifies your thinking at all. Thanks
Interesting! Are you implicitly claiming non-Chtistmas-celebrating individuals are inherently less moral than Christmas-celebrating counterparts? I would love a citation to a survey of scientific studies supporting this claim. Mostly because I'm pretty sure it's bogus.
> fingerprint reader works brilliantly

I'm not making any comment on Face ID, but the fingerprint reader does not work brilliantly. I think it's pretty good, but it has some major shortcomings.

It works really poorly if you have moisture on your fingers (which is not uncommon for me). And on a number of occasions I've accidentally (and unknowingly) unlocked my phone while it's been in my pocket and subsequently a bunch of crazy stuff has happened (web-pages being opened, clicked through to weird places, accidental reply to an SMS etc).
> If you use drugs, and you don't have a job, selling a bit of the stuff is the most obvious way to make some money.

That's interesting - it points to something special about drugs. Most people I know without jobs eat, but they're not inclined to become grocers to make a little on the side. It seems there's some scarcity introduced because dealing is illegal. The unintended consequence of legalization might be the elimination of the casual dealer.
It’s a Jupyter-Notebook (http://jupyter.org/)
The horrors of the american (lack of) urban planning and fixation with the suburban house. A satelite view of LA area shows vast areas of suburban houses with pools and lawns - people living in those areas don't want tall buildings in their backyard and enjoy the appreciation in property value, but the society as a whole is losing 10 times as much by commuting, infrastructure to suport it and lost productivity.
Please stop posting paywalled links
The full article is available on archive.org.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171203140509/https://www.wsj.c...
Can Turbo be used server side?

Yarn keeps deleting all compiled libraries and Selenium binaries, and using `yarn install --check-files` instead didn’t help (as suggested here: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/1955#issuecomment-327... )

(I asked this at Medium too)
You're right, my apologies. I frequently forget that I am not always writing from middle America to San Francisco on this website. I'll try to keep my blinders in check.

This chapter was almost certainly posted in the context of Sam Altman's recent blog post[0], which itself echoes an essay Paul Graham wrote a decade or so ago.[1] But there's a more immediate connection between Sam Altman's essay and the essay James Damore circulated at Google.

I was very interested in reading Stephen's "contemporary conservative" reaction to Mill, and wanted to place it within the timeline of human culture that I could understand: just a few years after the abolition of slavery and recognition of voting rights for black men in the United States, but a couple of generations before voting rights for women.

So, Altman is writing about unpopular opinions a few months after Damore is fired from Google for circulating a set of opinions, emphasizing that men and women are fundamentally different. A century and a half ago, J.F. Stephen's most substantial disagreement with J.S. Mill's treatise on liberty is... Mill's advocacy to fundamentally alter society to treat men and women equally in the name of justice.

Despite what Professor Stove said in 1987, Mill's opinion was the unpopular one in 1873.

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
There's at least one thing to stop them: fundamentals and speculation. People buy back in (in part) because Bitcoin is designed to strengthen itself (not price, I'm mainly referring to incentives to mine and to steward). (And it's not equivalent to the shitcoins that it spawned so the assumption it it's not special is invalid.) That makes Bitcoin a completely different asset to model than a fiat currency. If there's one difference, there are probably more. And there certainly are.
Do you really think your opinion represent the opinion of power users?

Do you really believe you're an influencer?
I think maybe the only way to be a good artist though is to explore the things that resonate with you. If rap-funk-metal-folk-electro-bluegrass speaks to your soul, and creating that music fulfills you, then who’s to say exploring those genres is a mistake? There are other measures of success than recognition.

Austin Kleon puts this especially well in “Steal Like An Artist.” He says that you can cut off some of your passions, and try to focus on one thing, but eventually you will “feel the pain of the phantom limb.”
This got down voted so much I could barely read it... But it has an actual argument that's not even being contested, that's a horrible way to down vote.
That works until they stop offering the ability to use a passcode.
I would summarize the article as exactly the opposite: structural inequality is the cause of most of the problems facing the millennial generation.
While I don't disagree with the author on his points, I find them premised on faulty logic. His thesis assumes that depth and breadth are zero-sum pursuits. I suppose they are if time and energy are limiting factors, but to those who read and write for the love of the game, those limits are lifted.

When it comes time to settle down on a voice and hone your craft, sure, I would never recommend you switch up your style for the hell of it. But if you want to read widely, and if doing so refines your style, great. Go for it. It probably will.

Again, the way the author characterizes this 'problem' is jarringly foreign and antithetical to my own experience. Perhaps I lack the objectivity to see it the way the author does.
with self driving car, ai and robot house automation fabrication + virtual reality ... will drive the cost of home ownership very affordable ... with virtual reality just like the real world ..people does not have to travel that far
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The https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says pay-walled articles are fine.
Exactly. People allow themselves to be steeped in the hype and don't look at this rationally.

Most people who are still in the media saying it can be done have a financial stake in saying those things. This doesn't make it true.

They'll get 90% there and never really figure out the other 10%.
>How did this "deal" happen?

Although no expert, I do know enough to possibly answer your question. This has been going on since the 60's and to some extend the Universal Postal Union goes back to 1863[1]. At the time, when you wanted to mail a letter, it was fairly complex. You had to arrange for the details of your shipping for every route your letter took. Meaning you had to calculate for every leg of the shipment ahead of time. So they came up with these 3 points (From Wikipedia):

There should be a uniform flat rate to mail a letter anywhere in the world
Postal authorities should give equal treatment to foreign and domestic mail
Each country should retain all money it has collected for international postage. [2]

The problem is that this system hasn't really been updated that often. So rates do not make sense anymore, especially not since ecommerce took off.

Along came USPS and signed a special deal with China in 2010 to increase their presence in China (well, that's the official statement anyway[3]).

That statement however leaves out a very important part. Which is that USPS lost so much money under UNU, that although they had a net loss of $29.4 million in 2012[4]. They would have "lost another $1 million or so in 2012 had Chinese shippers opted for regular mail instead of ePacket."[4].

So basically the USPS was already losing a ton of money, and this is a way of minimizing the damage.

The real issue is that the broader picture isn't really taken into consideration. Which is, that China is literally sending things for rates cheaper than Amazon which is estimated to pay USPS $2 per package[5]. Take the fact that most items are manufactured in China for cheap anyway, and you have just signed away a lot of domestic business opportunities.

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

[3]https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_037....

[4]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...

[5]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/it-s-amaz...

Anyone feel free to correct or add information, it's an interesting topic.
Probably the same pretty much anywhere in the world. I have a hard time imagining a kid asking an adult for help and the adult refusing, even if it's a stranger.
What is Cardano? An introduction to the cryptocurrency being built by scientists
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IOTA made the announcement on their official blog, so as far as I know it's the source. If you're saying you don't trust the devs, then I guess we're talking about something different than I thought.

Here's the quote from the Microsoft guy involved, that caused the confusion:

> We are excited to partner with IOTA foundation and proud to be associated with its new data marketplace initiative. This next generation technology will accelerate the connected, intelligent world and go beyond blockchain that will foster innovation real world solutions, applications and pilots for our customers. --Omkar Naik
>Kaito, a 12-year-old in Tokyo, has been riding the train by himself between the homes of his parents, who share his custody, since he was nine.

Normal thing here in Russia. Why would 9-10 year old need a guardian on his way to school anyways? Same for some shopping.
My partner and I also do the six-hour commute. From Connecticut, I take a train to Boston and he takes one (plus subway) to Brooklyn. But only two days a week and only during the college semester (about 28 weeks a year). In my case, the train has decent wifi and tables, so I use it as office time. It's really been just fine, though sometimes I do regret the expense.
Have they suggested they'll do such a thing? I'm pretty sure that will never be the case.

And if for some reason they do, change platforms then.
Stupidly bad design - storing other people's private keys in a protected memory region. This is as good as entrusting a safe with your money to a thief, thinking that the guy will be unable to open it.

Marlinspike, yet again, flops face down with his credibility as a crypto researcher.

Remember his his angry letter about silent key renegotiation hole in Facebook messenger
Politicians care about appearance over reality. Pushing for a bill codifying net neutrality would call out the lie, but the Democrats are also more concerned with the appearance.
This is actually an idea I had started working on, but specifically for PCI requirement 6.2 in conjunction with some kind of automated threat analysis.

If I can list every software used in the card processing environment and get automated alerts fired straight into my ticketing system to create an event, this would be good.
>pretending that this responsibility didn't exist.

We are not pretending that responsibility does not exist: we are denying it. I spent 12 years in school being told to care about people who didn't give any shit about me, just so they could exploit how naive I was. It took me way to long to see through that shit and I am not falling for it again.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940674
How do your kids go to school?
Fear. When i grew up this was pretty common, but over time it got less and less frequent.
No, I am not. I am claiming - or reporting, rather - that violent crime has escalated vastly in certain parts of Sweden, and that immigrants almost exclusively are behind this escalation.
I don't understand this approach to get level 5 automation right away. It's too wide a scope to implement. Why don't we start with an experimental inter-city highway where cars could run with full automation?

You drive up to the highway, and then relax until you need to get off - sounds like a great start to me. You can equip that highway with a boat load of sensors and transmitters to understand these fancy brainy machines. After a few years, build more such highways with the lessons learnt from the experiments.
> Because my point, that a story doesn't have to be factually correct to still be indicative of a larger truth

At the moment, American Politics is all F'd up because Mr. Trump and his Press Team (led by Huckabee Sanders at the moment) relies on this.

They plant false ideas like "The Crowd Size at the last rally was huge" into the American Public's mind, and then MAKE UP the larger truth in such a way that most benefits them.

False stories are the bread-and-butter of Mr. Trump's press strategy right now.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...

Fortunately, it seems unordered merchandise is yours to keep. If I was targeted by this, I'd probably find a local store to take them rather than just throwing it all away.
“IOTA clarifies it has no formal partnership with Microsoft”:
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/12/12/iota-partnership-...
You can visit and only see the appearance without understanding. Even if you live there, if you're insulated by your lifestyle, community, or location, you might assume things are pretty much the same everywhere.
The point wasn't to avoid people (I consider that a downside actually), it was to save having to have a vehicle come pick you up twice a day or generally having to drive around without a fare. It'd be your own personal vehicle and it'd have to be as small and light as possible for this exact reason - I had imagined golf cart sized. The vehicle would only need a minimal battery because it only has to take you from the station to work and home to the station (and could charge on the train and at work). You're right though, I dunno if the economics would ever work out.

With the disclaimer that this was just a fantasy and probably shouldn't be taken too seriously.