skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is funny story how it works in reality:

12/23/2017 Facebook banned the page of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Kadyrov (he has more power than police in Russia). FB said “that the accounts appear to be maintained by or on behalf of parties who appear on the U.S. Specially Designated Nationals List and thus, subject to U.S. trade sanctions." [1]

12/24/2017 Russian airline company registered FB page with the same name to get all traffic of the banned page.[2]

12/30/2017 Kadyrov makes this company to return this page back to him. The page is returned back to Chechen Republic[3].

Now FB is violating their TOS for transferring accounts and U.S. trade sanctions.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/facebook-instagram-kadyrov-chechnya-...

[2] https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/12/28/an-airline-makes-the-mo...

[3] https://fb.com/rkadyrov95
No, this makes no sense at all. This is a skit from Dwight of The Office.

The guy is standing fully exposed in the open, blinded by light while a bunch of cops have taken cover behind their cars and are aiming their guns at him. What kind of gun is he going to pull out, aim and shoot and have any chance of hitting anything but a tree.
Same - for me the leading indicator of having "true" ADD is the inability to concentrate on the things I _want_ to do.

I recently chatted with a shrink who said that ADD patients typically _can_ focus on the things they want to do but struggle with the things they don't want to do. I strongly suspect he's mistaken - I don't know a soul who finds it easy to focus on filing their taxes (except sadistic accountant-type friends).

Nothing is more frustrating than having all the "motivation" and desire and curiosity for a task but none of the "ability" to make it happen.
> Just a side note, because you’re from Norway, that may be surprising to some. The US is #1 with 1.01 guns per capita, and Norway is #9 with .31 guns per capita.

Being from #10 on that list, the type, quality and "outings" of guns matters a lot. In France, "owned guns" are either sport or hunting weapons, seeing one outside of hunting season basically does not happen and they're regulated:

* single-shot (per barrel) smooth bore long guns must be registered (for hunting or sports), buying requires showing an ID and either a hunting or a sports license (from an accredited gun club)

* air guns beyond 20j and various types of long runs replace the registering by a declaration (a more complex procedure)

* various more powerful and smaller weapons (including handguns) have to be authorised before they can be bought, for sports or defence (mostly professional). Amongst other concerns the would-be owner must have a clean criminal record, show a clean bill of health (physical & psych) under 1 month old and demonstrate ownership of a safe

* automatic, high-capacity (30 for long guns and 20 for handguns) and very-high caliber (>= 20mm) is forbidden

Guns must be disabled or under lock when not heading to, coming back from, or performing the activity they're used for.

I expect Norway, Finland, Canada or Germany are very similar: though specifics probably vary, weapons ownership is most likely regulated and generally restricted to hunting and sports (the licensed, olympics-able "Shooting Sports" kind, not the "I went at the range to play with a minigun" kind).
> I don't see any value in real name social networks like Facebook

The value is that they're usable, least common denominator (not in a bad way) networks where you can keep in touch with your 80 year-old grandmother.

> The typical example, we all know, is some boring dude working at a VC that just raised a new fund who hourly posts really crappy content on FB

You're in a bubble. For nearly every Facebook user, this is not the typical experience.
Basically, in doing this, Facebook is saying, "the problem is you for not being sharp enough to spot a carefully crafted lie."
Option Alpha: Tell the User, let them Fix the Consumable Themselves.
'healthy skepticism'

My point was that teaching people to just trust what they read has lead them astray. They used to trust the 'mass media' who largely hewed to the 'the establishment' line. Now that the mass media isn't the only source of information for most people, they'll believe basically any nonsense.

People should be skeptical of the establishment media. They should be skeptical of everything. What you need to teach people is how to properly apply skepticism to figure out what might or might not actually be true, and why.
What I find interesting is that Amazon has been adding word cloud for the reviews. It helps in filtering and narrowing down the features. But it is missing on this page. Anyone know if there is any particular reason for that?
It would be nice if they explained what it actually was. This paragraph has zero informational calories:

> The LTSE is designed to remove the short-term pressures that plague today’s public markets and reorient companies and investors around long-term thinking. Through brand new listing standards, software tools, and advocacy, we’re reinventing the public company experience with novel approaches to executive compensation, shareholder voting, disclosure practices, board and stakeholder policies, and community governance.
> Most of these web services made quite a lot of interesting innovations and such but I can't help but wonder what the web would've been like if we'd stayed true to its roots and improved the protocols and infrastructure instead of centralizing everything behind walled gardens.

These walled gardens were built on top of the open web and they are winning (at least at the moment).

How would you stop them from taking over? Regulation?
This is a great read. The principles are also applicable to other problems such as evaluating a constant time comparison function, symmetrical cypher, or hash.
This has already been done for the Netherlands a few times, and is repeated every 5 or so years. See all the data in your browser here: http://ahn2.pointclouds.nl/
Police are not you or I in the context of social roles. They fulfill a particular function in society while on duty that you and I don't. They tend to deal with dangerous people.

People must do exactly as they're told when dealing with the police to minimize uncertainty and confusion.

An officer pulling a gun on someone is not equivalent in any way to a civilian doing the same thing. Officers are empowered by society to enforce the law so we don't have to. That necessitates displaying - and sometimes using - force.

If it's clear that someone presents an immediate mortal danger to others and refuses to comply with orders given to them then the police are justified in acting with force.
Yep. And the next one will happen because of facebook or whatsapp or twitter.
This article is short on details.

I found this one [1] with good details like, "what is different about this exchange?"

* Tenured shareholder voting power, meaning that a shareholder’s votes would be proportionately weighted by the length of time the shares have been held

* Mandated ties at listed companies between executive pay and long-term business performance

* Additional disclosure requirements that allow companies to know who their long-term shareholders are and investors to know what investments the company is making

[1] https://qz.com/704657/eric-ries-ltse-long-term-stock-exchang...
Yeah, who cares about some dumb list? The point is why can't we put any - and all/other - of these languages in the Excel runloop by now? You say Python, I say Lua, someone else says Go.. seems to me that all of the above oughta have a go at it. Excel is freakin' everywhere.
Yeah i like goodreads, still think there is something around who is currently reading something more subtle than just annotation.
Except that Facebook's "Disputed" flag on news stories lead to the stories being read more... https://gizmodo.com/facebook-ditches-disputed-news-tag-after...
That's some heavy hardware! A bike trailer is 3-4 lbs, and a 20-lb road bike is around $1500 new (far less used). You'll pay more in money or weight for a cross or mountain bike, but 40 lbs is still pretty painful.

EDIT: Pro deal is 50-60% of retail, so you can buy a used bike for about half of the sticker price.
I've seen so many social media hoaxes started and spread lately by influential journalists who write for respected outlets, by prominent crusaders against fake news, by well-known employees of companies like Microsoft... Sure, all the news articles are about simple people being led astray by fake news, people who are nothing like the intelligent clued-in readers of those articles - that sells better after all - but that doesn't mean that everyone else is doing any better at it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-vs-wall-street-c...

In the linked WSJ article, that explains this quite a bit better than the medium blogpost. Basically, it appears that the main thing is that the voting power of shares win increase with the time the shares are owen. (Though there's talk of opting in to this process.) There's also going to be a prohibition on companies giving quarterly earnings guidance.

It seems like it's intended to reward founders and long-term employees of startups by privileging them over the more retail class of investor, and people with short-term goals, like activist investors. (But this is a mixed thing - it's more accountable than a setup with multiple stock classes where the founders retain all control.)

EDIT: Random thought: I wonder how this exchange would handle shorting stock, when it comes to the tenure requirement.
I've found that if I don't recognize the number, I answer the phone and don't say anything. If no voice comes over the line within 5-10 seconds, I hang up.
>yes, the average Palestinian without any capital or internet access will just go into his garage and start a new facebook.

Freedom of the Press, to those who own the presses. It's always been that way.

>What a facetious and despicable comment.

If I was responding to a comment about promoting alt-right ideology, it would be +1000 internets for sure. Same response, Facebook's business. You want to promote alt-right, start your own.
> I think the compelling question is why people feel so compelled to take a pill to sell their souls to a rat race?

This seems pejorative. The reason why many take "a pill" isn't to sell their soul, it's to do the work they want to do but are otherwise incapable of doing. You may consider this work that they want to do to be "rat race" work, but that's just your judgment of their desires.
The bit about developing bigger calf muscles from walking on the toe rings true for me. I always ran on the balls of my feet, with my heel almost never hitting the ground - I played a lot of basketball, and you're always moving forward and back, side to side, rarely in a straight line more than a couple dozen yards at most. It's common to say you got "caught flat-footed" if somebody blows by you when playing defense, and we routinely did a drill we called "foot fires," where you step in place on the balls of your feet as fast as possible, keeping balance.

I still have to be careful buying pants; I've blown the inseam out of a few pairs of slim-leg jeans below the knee pulling them on too quickly.
SWAT is usually only involved when it's clear there is an immediate and present danger. So of course they are going to be ready with weapons drawn. Do you want them to just waltz into (probably) dangerous situations with their hands in their pockets whistling a tune?

Edit: The amount of willful ignorance displayed on HN regarding law enforcement is staggering. It's sad to see how many people here view police as the bad guys, and refuse to take a balanced view by empathizing with them and the danger they encounter on a daily basis.
Here we have the exact opposite and police are often prosecuted for firing their weapon. Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or otherwise get 40 hours of public service). Why? Because "police needs to know better and accept it as part of their job".

Maybe US is a bit much to the other side but with the statistics of people with guns there it makes sense.

You know what would help? If the police tells you to do something, do it without question or big mouthing. Cops tell you to put your hands where they can see them? Do it. Tell you to lie down? Do it. Fight them later for any unjust actions but while at gunpoint just beeping comply.

April from all that I hope they will prosecute the idiot swatter to set an example. This ain't no games you do for fun.
When I watch the Philip Brailsford body cam footage, I find it hard to believe this is a sane assumption to operate under. The polite come in, in full tactical armer, to a guy in shorts and t-shirt, and execute him because he couldn't keep his pants up as he crawled across the floor towards them face down? Come on.
I've never been persecuted in the manner you describe. No one has called ever called me a terrorist or a pirate or worse. These anti-competitive strategies like bootlocking, and the sandboxed OS have been marketed, quite successfully, as protecting the privacy of their users. Most people go along with this crap out of fear, I wager.
Would like to see further evidence backing this claim.
http://madb.europa.eu/madb/datasetPreviewFormATpubli.htm?dat...

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/count...

https://www.export.gov/article?id=Tariff-and-Import-Fees
There are immediate applications to data warehousing. I hope that's obvious to you, but if not I'm happy to unpack that.

Whether or not it applies to online databases probably depends on several factors. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are the read/write ratio, the write rate in general, and obviously size of your data set (although the approach works at GB, not TB, so most can take advantage).

Here's a way, I, a systems engineer who doesn't design databases, could imagine using it immediately:

1) Do I have any indexed queries? If not, nothing to do here.
2) Does the data change rapidly? If so, nothing to do here.
3) Okay, now I'm in the zone of profitability:

1) investigate just letting the model do all the work. This is unlikely to be successful in many cases, but it's pretty easy to try.

2) investigate "model-assist", in this mode I let the model give me an answer and, if I don't like it, I use the B-tree. The model is fast enough that this is not a huge hit to my overall performance.

3) investigate "model-replace", in this mode I build my b-tree and do everything like normal. In the meantime I'm training my model. Once my model seems well-trained (I could hand it a randomized subset of queries and, once the accuracy and performance beats the b-tree I consider it well-trained), I switch to using it. As data changes I could potentially go back to the b-tree, update the model (literally throw it away and re-build) and do it again.

4) Investigate "co-opetition" -- make the b-tree a component of the model. If you read the paper, you see how they layer different models. A b-tree is just a particular kind of model that happens to be computationally expensive but has high accuracy. You could include it in the model graph and let it compete for queries like everything else.

Anyway, I'm speculating here, but it seems obvious this has immediate impact in one large space relating to databases (data warehousing) and potential impact in many of the rest.
Do you like end-to-end encryption? Because this is what you get with end-to-end encryption.
My dad just took the computer and tossed it the moment I got a godawful report card. I cried for weeks. Doesn't change the fact that the next day I was physically forced to find something else to do just by virtue of not having it.

Thanks to my Dad for having the strength to let me be angry at him for years before coming to the right conclusion myself.
I read some of the conversations on the site; it’s quite interesting that the boys managed to have the same conversation over and over almost in the exact order.
Check out unumotors.com
Did you watch the video? It showed some evidence in the form of a painting depicting the walking style in question.
I'd be happy to "give" Greenland independence (as if I have any right to deny them independence). I do not pine for the days when Denmark was a mighty bully. Now we're just a small bully—holding on to Greenland the Faroe Islands and pushing around the Afghans, Iraqis, and whomever else NATO tells us to bully—and that's plenty bad enough.
I think there are plenty of societies which would not have responded to this incident with violent force, and would have checked themselves before they wrecked themselves as a consequence of normal, functioning, day-to-day job responsibilities.

The officers failed because the event horizon for each and every one of them was set way, way too high. Before you assume the caller was right, you verify. This thing of "arming for the absolute worst that could happen" is a direct consequence of the rest of society, being allowed to actually procure and apply the weapons of mayhem and crime, to other "innocent citizens".

A kid died tonight. It was because there was a tool of violence in the hands of another kid.
The 'consensual sexual relations with him during those three days' is out of context

The author also states:

> Less than a week later, Jacob raped me in his apartment. Two of Jacob’s friends witnessed the assault, one other participated.

> In June 2016, I published a description of my assault under the pseudonym “River” on jacobappelbaum.net alongside others’ accounts of harassment and assault.

Why ignore some parts of a discussion and only discuss elements that satisfy your predetermined opinion?

You also place the word rape condescendingly in quotes which I interpret as you insisting the definition of the word is important

In that case what is your definition of rape?

In 2012 the doj updated it's, unchanged since 1927, definition of rape: “the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition...

>I'm just saying she put herself in a stupid situation

Can you elaborate? What was the stupid situation? Are you asserting attendance absolves the attacker?

> How is a future husband and wife supposed to meet?

the Geraldo defense: https://youtu.be/-neJp7xRIPk

An aside.. I apologise for bringing the levity of Colbert's comedy into this conversation but I feel sometimes comedy can be a tool to reach out to the people who enter a discussion with their minds obstinately predetermined
Very similar to this guy's article from 2016:
http://dalybulge.blogspot.co.uk/?view=magazine
Would you clarify what you mean by online censorship? Do you believe that there should be no changing or altering content at all? That people should be able to post whatever they want wherever they want? Are there any limits that are reasonable in your opinion?
On Tool Grammar – Articles – Inference: International Review of Science
The Best of 2017 on Dormoshe.io – Front-End – ES8 – Frameworks
What Makes A Great Software Engineer?

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2015GreatEngine...

Metaphors We Compute By
Code is a story that explains how to solve a particular problem

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3130000/3127495/p40-videla.p...
I have heard of these automated systems wait for a sound before it logs you as reachable for further annoyances.

If I do answer, I stay silent even muting my phone.
Usually call just hangs up.

I get the cruise every few months, from a spoofed local numbers.
As soon as I say hello, the automated recording went off.

I had a friend who liked playing around, and drafted fake PayPal confirmations and western union statements as proof he sent the scammers money.
They were confused why they didn't have his funds asking him to triple check recipient info and resend, which he would send another fake confirmation.

They would eventually catch on cussing him out after weeks
This claim is obviously untrue. (I suppose you're hedging with "usually", but even that seems unlikely.)
Thanks for posting that.

Have you found any reference to how they would handle short selling or derivatives? What if my ownership is of negative duration (naked short), how would that affect the average against which the seniority is measured (clearly I would have no title to voting). It has to be a relative measure since otherwise if everybody just bought the stock everybody’s rights would be 0 and nobody could vote to control the company.

How would they handle options? How would they handle ownership by means of intermediate vehicles (e.g. trust funds) that have themselves changed hands?
If you can pedal it, it's a bicycle.
Can you please give some examples of resource-mis-allocations ?!

AFAIK storage is not the system bottle it used to be.
We always want more, but network and cores are relatively plentiful.

If we could magically (and safely) modify the software stack, which areas could give x2 or x3 improvements ?
> when it's clear there is [...] danger

Shouldn't they at least verify for themselves whether there is actual danger?
Detecting Bots on Russian Political Twitter
I don't think that's uniquely American. As a child I consumed plenty of violent media (mostly American, in fact!) but in my country very few people get shot.
The article you link ends on a pretty weak claim, math didn't obsolete biologists and ML won't obsolete systems folks, but every time you write a heuristic you would probably get better results from a model.
I purchased an E-Bike last summer as I am disabled and have difficulty walking, however I can still ride a bicycle with limited ability. This seemed like the perfect solution to getting around.

I have about 300 miles on it so far, I don't use it to commute but just for recreation, but it has been a lot of fun and lets me actually get out instead of being stuck either where I am or driving.

I get annoyed by the "e-bikes give you an unfair advantage" argument I hear all the time. I'm sorry, but LIFE gave YOU an unfair advantage, now that technology gives me an unfair advantage it's suddenly a problem?
The bigger threat than Facebook is Whatsapp. India is Whatsapp's biggest market and while sometimes people point out the fake news on Facebook, the fake WhatsApp forwards go completely unchecked. There can be hopes that Facebook will manage to curb fake news in the future, but the senseless rumors and propaganda will continue on Whatsapp.
Simple question - what % of SWAT encounters should an INNOCENT person be able to survive?
Shares are fractional ownership of a company that can grow or shrink. The whole point is that their value corresponds with the total value of the company.

It becomes a ponzi scheme when the only value from early shares comes from investment in later shares. That's what's happening with bitcoin.
Where is “here”?
It's surprising how the different medications can affect people with seemingly similar symptoms.

Ritalin (and Vyvanse) makes me feel angry and crazy. I've not heard of Focalin, but I may look into it. I've been on varying doses of Adderall for 10+ years and I find it immensely helpful.
If you're doing that, why bother with the meter at all?
Why not make sure that there is some danger first instead of just going off of an anonymous phone call?

Seems pretty simple, just stand outside the house with the megaphone and say “hey what’s going on in there”?
If any rando can call in a 'dangerous situation', then yes, they should be more circumspect. There is just no excuse for killing an innocent civilian. It's outrageous.

Response to the parent's edit: These are supposedly trained officers who acted with absolute incompetence leading to a completely needless death. How is one supposed to empathise with this? It's a complete and utter fuck-up.
> But that doesn't change the fact that it's a genuinely threatening thing to do.

A bunch of police showed up at his house and pointed guns at him, and his behaviour is threatening?