skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, your feed seems fine, my feed seems fine, but somehow the electorate at large is subject to mass mind manipulations by bots?
What is Extensionist Art
And Rome lets the mob run the Comitia Tributa via popularity contests, including dismissing opposition Tribunes.

I'd argue Rome died not in 476 but in -121 when the Senate killed Gaius Gracchus and didn't realize they needed reform and create an actual political process that doesn't lead to smooth talkers and thus tyranny.

I believe Plato's and the Founding Fathers' preferred solution here would be for each individual to find the smartest willing person they know and let them offer their analysis for consideration.
Thank you. I know what you mean, I'm not happy with how the serialization is done right now, it's too complicated.

Maybe someone on HN knows a Python serialization library beyond pickle that would allow to describe how the data is laid out and take care of the rest. It looks like struct is not flexible enough for this usage.
A $100,000 ad campaign overpowered the dems $1.4B budget? The DNC should hire those guys! They're political geniuses!
This article is over 3 weeks old talking of warning strikes to begin 2 weeks ago. Something more current couldn't be found, at least after the warning strikes were to begin or did begin.
This paper should have the most relevant answers to your questions:

Beyond Corp: The Access Proxy

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45728.html
On the Streets of Women's March 2.0 – NYT
That rule is more realistically enforced when both parents speak the language fluently. Even with families that try to enforce this rule, much depends on the aptitude and character of the children, as we know many that can listen but never bothered to expand their fluency beyond a narrow set of home topics which unfortunately in many cases never extended to conversations dealing with emotions.
In the few times I've tried to follow a completely unknown protocol, I've often failed to make the kind of leaps that this person was able to. To that end, I often get stuck and unable to make progress. I really want to learn to reverse engineer, but I feel like I don't innately know enough of the patterns.

In the same vein, I often missed the patterns required to solve difficult integration and derivatives in calculus. I believe I need more practice in that regard. Anyone have recommendations for simple protocol reverse engineering practice?
We did look for a Russian daycare, but there wasn't one close enough to where we live. A Russian nanny was also a bit hard to find. Our daycare staff is fluent in Spanish, and our regular babysitter speaks Spanish as well, so hopefully she'll pick up at least enough of that to be able to speak without an accent.

I learned English easily and fluently at 10 years of age, so at least I'm telling myself that I've got about a decade before she's linguistically crippled as we all are :P
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Poutine and wings are both pure magic. I'd buy a $440m boat just to make sure I could get between Buffalo and Montreal to have the best of both worlds.
> It also strikes me as one of those measures that assumes that the good times (good order books, low unemployment) are here to stay.

42 people holding as much wealth as 3.7 billion might also have something to do with it:

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/22/inequalit...
> The issue cannot be fixed in any way by changing hiring policies.

...it's a strategic play. Changing hiring needs influences post-secondary institutions which influences secondary and primary schooling decisions at the policy level, or such is what's envisioned.

Same as I've said above. I also made a point about people not understanding the strategic play, which you've evidently validated.
What would the relationship be between Vit D and this (or any) flu?
No kidding.

It was pretty obvious from the beginning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175707
Why ads keep redirecting you to scammy sites and what we’re doing about it
22LR is deadly to small rodents or a cat, not allowed for hunting of anything larger (and I am not suggesting anyone hunts cats, it is just to give an example of size).
Don't forget about the aptitude of the parents! My Russian is so rusty it's liable to give people tetanus. My mom laments my loss of language, and I can feel myself stumbling every time I speak it.
And in the further future when humans colonize other planets, petroleum will be a uniquely Earth-based resource making it even more valuable.

If you have electricity, water, and a carbon source, you can manufacture the hydrocarbons currently sourced from petroleum. Small scientific colonies would import terrestrial hydrocarbons just like they would import terrestrial aluminum and glass, of course, but if you're picturing self-sustaining space industrialization and colonization, it won't be worth sending hydrocarbons from Earth to Mars.

Hydrocarbon synthesis also puts an (admittedly high) upper limit on the cost of making organic chemicals on Earth. Some Peak Oilers were confused about this, imagining fossil resources as irreplaceable magic. "It's not just fuel -- pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and dyes are made from oil too!" they'd say, implying that you can't have modern pharmaceuticals without oil. But that's like saying that you can't make paper without trees. The reason that paper is overwhelmingly made from trees is because that's currently the cheapest way, not because other ways are unknown. If the abundance/cheapness of feedstocks changes, so will their share of the market. (And costs will go up too, of course. The cost of refined liquid fuels goes up nearly linearly with the cost of crude oil. The cost of drugs/dyes/pesticides rises much less, because only a small share of their total cost of production came from simple hydrocarbon feedstocks in the first place.)

With the exception of nuclear fuels, which are truly "used up" during fission or fusion, all atoms are recyclable.
Why is aluminium considered suitable for smaller runs only out of interest?
When I was young, Don Bluth movies, along with few others, were placed by my mother on that high shelf I couldn't reach of movies that made me sob uncontrollably and spend the rest of the day depressed.

I highly recommend them.
4. If we invest in you, your group is expected to move to
the Bay Area for June–August 2018.

6. Y Combinator doesn’t supply office space. We have space
you can use if you need to, but we expect you to work out
of wherever you find to live.

Why is it so important to be in the Bay Area? I get that for some interactions it'd be ideal to be there, but I don't see the need for a team to actually move there.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I feel this is a real fear many people are feeling right now.
Ten year olds is outside the range for this book, the recommended ages are 5 to 9.

Also, allegories have nothing to do with "talking down". There's plenty of artwork for adults with allegories. Plato wasn't writing for toddlers.
The Aaronson Oracle
Slides from our presentation: https://conferences.oreilly.com/security/sec-ny/public/sched...
Stoicism is a good philosophy to read up on and practice... it definitely helps being ingrained with this from a young age (parents who had an approach to problems this way) it's more difficult to re-wire your "impulse" responses later in life, but through constant evaluation of your responses to things, you can successfully retrain your brain. It will help you be more calm, composed, and confident under pressure.
I get amusement from these people, the people who voted against their interest WRT Trump and now reap the consequences.

What is a proper term for this?

I don't want to use "schadenfreude", the "enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others".

That is way too broad. I only "enjoy" the suffering of Trump supporters. (And only if it's not serious. And "enjoy" is probably not the right word.)
The Dublin hotel that snubbed a social media influencer billed her £4.6M
Passionate reactions about pronunciation must be a British thing. I really don't think Americans care very much unless the pronunciation is outright wrong, and probably not even then. I really can't imagine an American radio host receiving such complaints.

This is the country that gave the world "nucular" after all. (Sorry about that.)

That said, if any word in America can provoke a passionate pronunciation reaction, it's pecan:

https://www.ourstate.com/pecan-how-do-you-say-it/
I'd be interested to actually see a discussion of what the reboot issue was.

However, it's good news for everyone who uses affected products that Intel has produced a working fix.
Maybe naive but can this sort of thing be accomplished with the likes of FreeIPA and NFSv4 (with k auth) or this is entirely another ballpark?
>>I’d like to, but I’ve got higher priorities with three kids under 5 and things I’d rather do with my free time. *

Learning the languages that I had opportunities to learn throughout my childhood (but squandered) is on my bucket list. We can all hope to find the time when the kids are older and we're hopefully able to retire while our mental faculties are still intact.
Not the OP, but my whole family also caught this flu (type A) during Christmas week, followed by bronchitis. We've had coughs for going on 3-4 weeks.

I take 2,000 IUs of extra Vitamin D a day and we all got the flu shot in September. From what I've read, this year's flu shot is largely ineffective.

This is a brutal flu. If you catch it, stay home and get rest.
When I get drunk enough I'll get a super thick accent and my words will switch over to ${OTHER_LANG}.
This is a very good article...but I feel the title -- although as original as it is on the original web page -- is a bit misleading...

When I first read the title, I thought it was about certain big specific research problems in certain specific disciplines (or multidisciplinary ones at best ); after I read several beginning paragraphs and the subsection titles, I realized it was more about the conflict between the survivals of researchers, especially those less established and more vulnerable ones -- as individuals in the academic world that is becoming increasingly bureaucratic each day -- and the survivals of our genuine pursuits after truth and knowledge, or less grandiosely, mere personal curiosities, which would make the life of each of us ultimately meaningful...

I think the problems presented in the article are quite real (according to my personal experience)...and just for a tl;dr, let me list those problems below,

"Is the point of research to make other
professional academics happy, or is it
to learn more about the world?
-- Noah Grand
former lecturer in sociology, UCLA"

1. Academia has a huge money problem
2. Too many studies are poorly designed. Blame bad incentives
3. Replicating results is crucial. But scientists rarely do it.
4. Peer review is broken.
5. Too much science is locked behind paywalls.
6. Science is poorly communicated to the public.
7. Life as a young academic is incredibly stressful.
And I've also seen the opposite with prosciutto.
I got both, the flu (type A) and the strep throat a few weeks ago. I started taking Vitamin D after that. During the weekend I started feeling bad and I thought I was going to catch something. I am doing fine.

Edit: I am taking 5,000 units daily. Didn't have the flu vaccine this year.
Which is correct is a difficult line to draw though to some extent. Whilst altering the pronunciation of Pakistan makes some sense (because it's the same word), pronouncing a country the same way as the inhabitants is not necessary correct in English -- you'd probably get some sideways glances if you starting insisting on Nippon for Japan or Deutschland for Germany (or even México for Mexico to some extent).

I'd also say that language as a political/shared identity is not a new phenomenon.
My tinfoil hat theory is that there is currently a giant transfer (or several transfers) of wealth going on outside of the purview of regulators (e.g. evasion of sanctions). The big uptick was the dark money moving into bitcoin and other cryptos. The bullish HODL propaganda is meant to pull in people to (a) provide camouflage, and (b) buttress/stabilize the price so the dark money can get out. And the suckers are the average Joes who are going to be left holding the bag once all the dark money moves out.

This is pure speculation, and I have absolutely no evidence to back this up.
It has become clear to me that sub-40 hour work weeks don't really work from many perspectives. The most important factor is that many jobs require a minimum degree of attention. More focus does translate into better results.

So instead of sub-40 hour work weeks, we should maybe introduce partial yearly roles. So for example if you want to do 30 hours per week, simply work 3/4 weeks per year (39 of 52), but do work these weeks 40h.
Please name one of the alternatives which is secure as the "Proof of work", needs less energy for mining and doesn't have high transaction costs.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/charlottesville-and-the...

This link goes into detail about the perspectives of some whites on the BLM movement and how Trump played on those fears and represented a solution to growing minority influence (presumably at the expense of whites) in the wider culture. This also needs to be understood in the context of disruptive BLM protests as well as the white nationalist protests in Charolettesville.

>yet any adversary of the United States could conceivably benefit from "sowing division"

This is just so obtuse on so many levels.
The inequality doesn't bother me so much, but I do think such inequality gives labor a bargaining position - a position the union in this article is wisely using to its advantage.
> who believe that it's better for their kid not to learn both their father tongue and mother tongue together with the language from the country they live in so that they don't get confused.

I grew up with 4 languages. It only helped me seamlessly "understand" most other foreign languages I listen to.
I commented up above. I was in your daughter’s position. She may not know what’s she’s missing now, but please use it as often as you can!

Even little stuff like “grab the ketchup from the fridge” is enormous. I can’t do it with my dad’s language, but I can with Spanish and I do things like pointing at the light:

Me: What’s that

Kid: Light

Me: What’s that in Spanish?

Kid: -shrug-

Me: La luz

It doesn’t have to be a dedicated lesson, just sneak it in. I’ve got three kids under five, I know there’s 50 billion things going on, but man I wish my dad would’ve kept it up with us.
We're all gonna look back at this in 15 years with a good laugh at our naivety. New paradigms will emerge, and with them new competitors we can't even imagine today. Google and Facebook are one technical/cultural shift away from irrelevancy. Amazon is much closer to a traditional monopolist and will perhaps require regulatory intervention.

I literally had this same conversation about Microsoft and Yahoo in 2000. Remember when we all thought that George W Bush was the worst possible president imaginable? Yeah, those were good times . . .
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> The suckers are the barbers

In the adage about the shoe-shine boy handing out stock tips, the shoe-shine boy loses money. But so does everyone else. The non-suckers are the ones who sold and settled for cash before shit hit the fan.

> If you are wise enough to know there are suckers in the first place, you'll likely take steps to avoid being one

The entire history of frauds and schemes flies in the fact of this hypothesis. Let's pick apart a recent one: Bitconnect. Many participants seemed to know it was a Ponzi scheme. At the end of the day, only the organizers and paid promoters who cashed out their BCC came out ahead.
The idea, I think, is that introducing the concept of tragic arms races between people who are enemies for silly reasons is enough for that child to grow up, read about the cold war, and immediately recognize it for what it was.
Red January?
Lets say we agree that this timestampting service is trustless (I don't, but for the sake of the argument lets say I do).

Care to explain how you go from that to "few cents per bitcoin"? I'm asking for an actual calculation.
I disagree. You need to have someway of filtering out companies that don't have potential. These 'gateways' are vetting on behalf of investors who don't have the time/resources to perform a rigorous due diligence of everyone who wants funding. Without any sort of closed system, investors would get swarmed with people asking for money. ICOs are interesting, but how do you get around the scams and pretenders without any sort of filter, if anyone can host an ICO?
Worst medical study ever.
If you publish an article that uses embedded media, please don't do it like this. Not one of the media embeds in this article is accompanied by anything resembling a useful byline or caption.
Aluminum is softer than steel, so the mold wears out quicker—the models lose details.
If you wanted to be cynical, they'd send a c&d letter because usage of the term "star wars" was caught by their filters
It's been reported many times on HN, that even VCs from SV invested in cryptocurrencies directly - example:

http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiels-founders-fund-in...

Not sure if they are the suckers or the pumpers in the context of the article.
Germany already has the right to reduce working hours (for companies with over 15 employees). Employers need to cite a very good reason to refuse the request. However, you don't have the right to ramp up yours hours later on (but if there is an open vacancy later, you need to be preferred).
But why only one real gateway?
The commute to the office hours/dinners?
Murdoch: Facebook has become 'inherently unreliable' and should pay publishers
The benefit of YC is specifically that they are a trusted club member, so investors have some idea about the chances that their investment will pay off. It's a good signal.

ICOs don't have the same level of trust because anybody can offer one. I'd rather have PG vouching for me than Kanye West. Sure, when Kanye tells his Twitter followers to buy your ICO it's going to go gangbusters, which is good for your company. But eventually enough of those ICOs are going to go sour in the public's eye and people will stop investing with them. YC will still be around after that.
They have several machines at the Lowry Park Zoo, in Tampa, Florida. I got one a few years back—the hippopotamus that is shown in the article. I love it, and if I ever get back there, I'm going to get a few more. It was cool to do!
Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
That's the point, yes?
Not really. There are plenty of ICOs with legit projects. Have they gotten too much capital? Probably. But that doesn't make it a scam necessarily.
For NASA, almost all excepted employees are those involved in protection of life or property, as defined in this 1981 OMB memo:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/furlough...

Sorry, I know it's not that detailed.
This article seems to be talking about two things.
One is trust in the government, and the other is trust in the media.

Regarding the media,is this really a shock?

I always find it hilarious when looking at what happens when someone makes a mistake in certain fields and if they are related to the business model in that field/respective industry.

For example, when engineering a car, their are standards for safety. In the event of an engineering mistake/failure, someone dies.

In journalism , their are supposed to be standards of integrity. If someone makes a mistake/failure, they make a retraction. Their is no death.

That is not to say that they are not serious about their jobs, rather a consequence of the business model and people's willingness to demand better journalism. (Whoever is first, gets all the eyeballs/clicks for advertising.)

Regarding the government, can you blame people?

For too long, we as a society do not prosecute people who lie let alone prosecute.

We as people tend to persecute/ villainize public corporations but turn a blind eye on our own local governments. It is quite concerning.

For some reason, Americans love to worry about things they cannot change at a federal level rather than focusing on the things they can change at a local level.
> I think some of it might be the convenience of being able to speak to one another without the children knowing what is being said as well. My father's parents knew German and he wasn't taught, but recalled many times where his parents would speak German to each other in front of him, ostensibly so the children couldn't understand.

It was the same with my parents but more out of necessity than a deliberate act. I grew up with 4 languages but my parents spoke another 2. It would be difficult to understand those extra 2 languages as they had different scripts and were really different in nature. The result was that my parents used it as an encryption framework to have a private conversation while I was around. I understood zilch.
> I’ve got three kids under five

Congratulations and condolences - my single one is pushing me to my limit as a parent and a person :P

It's a good suggestion. She knew a few words for common, frequent words - like "give me", and "here, take this". I'm trying to work it back into her vocabulary again; I need to get my wife to start using those terms as well.
How do VCs "get around the scams and pretenders?" Presumably regular people would do the same thing.
Ethereum or another blockchain?
The "comparison to fiat currency" is becoming a copypasta by now. The reality of the US dollar versus a bitcoin is so outlandishly different that it is getting painful seeing these things compared together. You might not see a reason why it might not succeed, but there are several thousand plausible reasons that are not based on delusions of grandeur that many other people, many of whom are intelligent and very influential, are aware of
I've always found I am most productive during short, intense intervals.

A 40 hour work week for 50 weeks a year is 2000 hrs. I've never been able to do it, but I believe I could be far far more productive working 25, 80-hour weeks or 20, 100-hour weeks - probably split into two or three separate chunks.
> A centralized solution - something like Transferwise - does not use as much energy as Bitcoin.

Then your choice comes down to this: Use a centralized system for less energy consuming transaction but greater centralization of wealth -- or -- Use a distributed system that requires more energy but distributes wealth amongst network participants.
Personally, I would choose the system that distributes wealth at the expense of additional energy cost.
Ideally, I would choose the system that distribute wealth and has the least environmental impact.
Plenty of pyramid schemes lay on the back of some sort of product, knives or energy drinks or what have you. The existence of a product doesn't mean it isn't a scam
I view it in terms of opportunity cost. Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning. You can either teach them your native tongue or something else, like math and science, or better English.

Kids still pick up some vocabulary from speaking to their parents/grandparents. And even if they spoke it toddler-fluently before getting into preschooler, they won't be able to read a newspaper by the time they're teenagers. Without constant immersion, kids just don't have the discipline to keep going at it. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Rust is a "Javaization" of C++ checked by the compiler.