skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s like writing off the green revolution because farming has been around forever. We have fewer barriers than before: a website is cheap to run compared to a newspaper or broadcast station and there’s no border restriction – no Moldovan teenager could send TV programs or newspapers to gullible Americans. That’s a huge difference: if a newspaper printed libel they could be sued and had physical assets to risk losing. Companies had reputations which took years to build or change. Now it’s just a sea of shell companies and disposable websites and if, hypothetically, a bunch of Republicans started caring that Breitbart was lying so routinely the same stuff would just pop up on a new domain a day later.

That’s the other key point you missed: distribution and discovery are totally different now. If I set up a newspaper I still had to convince people to subscribe or stock it, TV stations took years to setup, etc. That encouraged moderation to maximize the number of customers. In contrast, now everyone is competing on Facebook and Google News, both of which hate the idea of paying for editorial review and will cheerfully display satire or propaganda on equal footing with established mainstream news sources.

I’m not in love with the gatekeeper model – note that e.g. the 90s Balkan & Rwandan genocides relied on taking over the state media first – but that doesn’t mean that we can ignore the problems we’re seeing now, or that tech companies aren’t being incredibly reckless in their desire to make a slightly higher margin on ad revenue.
This is true, looking at the chart for XIV if the placed this bet every month for the last couple of years they may actually be down.

https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=XIV&ty=c&ta=0&p=m
You'd prefer that a century of professional mathematicians of the past never have had their careers, since their way of thinking doesn't pass your bar of complexity?
And I would assume that as in the UK collective punishment Is legal in the states.

Refusing to sponsor any h1'bs from that country would be one penalty.
OpenPDF is an open source Java library for creating PDF files: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
tsearch.c https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/20342823/
Before HomePod: History of the Short-Lived iPod Hi-Fi
Ask HN: What are some common abbreviations you use as a developer?
A reduction in readiness and force projection, but not sufficient enough of a reduction to put American soil in danger.

Other countries spend orders of magnitude less than the US on their military, and remain conflict free.

Our current path is unsustainable structurally, and we must switch course.
You may see support for tail calls added as part of project loom.
> bloody awful onVIF protocol

What's wrong with ONVIF?

Even if you don't have a use for the extra features it provides it guarantees you'll get an RTSP URL you can use.

It's been my experience that the ones that don't advertise ONVIF support are the ones that require cloud-connected or proprietary crap.
Like Android.
> There was an uproar about the legality of Trump's travel bans, but followed by a 7-0 supreme court victory on the subject.

Weren't there multiple versions that went through the courts?
Even if the probability is astronomical, isn't a non-zero probability better than null? Sure there is a cost, but is it that high that you couldn't justify taking the chance, and instead just blowing it on a couple other fancy things or whatever?
It makes me laugh that 'insane backwards compatibility ' now adays means that 10 year old software still works.
> I remember that "election dial" showing 80% chance of Hillary on (I believe) the NYT website. Was that grounded in reality?

Yes, it was. The implication that predictions were not grounded in reality because they didn't come to pass is false.

An 80% chance of Hillary winning is a 20% chance of Trump winning. 20% is a big number. You wouldn't play Russian roulette, even though the probability that you die is less than that.
VMware releases temporary mitigations for #Meltdown and #Spectre flaws
I have been in that situation. Vacations make everything much worse. CEOs have a habit of facing their problems up front. A vacation runs opposite to that instinct.

In the end it feels like you just wasted a lot of money and time running away from problems.
Also see the Herengracht index long term housing index which tracks housing prices on the central canals of Amsterdam.

https://hotelivory.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/herengracht21...

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bwa10/House%20Prices%20and%20Fun...
Or everything will increase in value because of less supply than demand.
first of all, a house with no windows on a single side is not unacceptable. i live in a place that only has windows on one wall and i find it more than acceptable. look at all the houses that people have built with no windows on one or more faces. there are innumerable examples that prove you wrong. and on top of all that, its a completely subjective thing, whether a house needs a certain number of windows. you cant just say that leaving out windows on one side is objectively and definitively unacceptable. thats bullshit.

furthermore, there is no need to omit windows on any side, even the south side. typically, a shading structure is placed that blocks direct sunlight during the warm seasons when the sun occupies those seasonal positions in the sky. these shading structures do allow sunlight when the sun is in its cold season positions, when sunlight is appreciated inside. going even further, windows should filter out any light that is not within the useful spectrum of visibility -- this reduces heat load from the sun. movable shading can also be used to block the sun only during the warm season.

there are countless examples of houses that have lots of windows and do not get too hot.

moving on to power. the back-side of your refrigerator should be vented, not exposed to your inside environment. led bulbs produce very little heat. overall, as i have said elsewhere, you will always need some amount of cooling and heating capacity.

it remains true that a properly implemented passive house will not get too hot, despite your shortsighted observations.
In Praise of Elon Musk
Technically, these people are hedging their portfolios. Just like insurance premiums don't create anything during periods of zero losses (they may actually seem like a loss themselves), holding these leveraged VIX ETFs can be used to protect one's portfolio.
Try umatrix. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
This is really quite impressive.
The old word of "fake news" is propaganda. The western media is also full with it, usually because they are sponsored by big companies or are linked with political parties. Both sides use propaganda, and it is hard to trust the news today with anything. Currently everyone uses fake news to mark some information that they don't like.

The article starts with a wrong position. "Fake news" was not invented by Trump, but it was introduced during the election by "PropOrNot". The website, which is probably propaganda by itself, stated that many independent media were Russian propaganda. This unfounded claim was used to help the democratic candidate, after wikileaks published material about pay-to-play and media-bias.

Afterwards the russian propaganda idea was fake news, because there has been no evidence that the election has been strongly manipulated by Russian bots or operatives. Instead researchers find people who have strong opinions and have lots of time to post stuff.

The article has a good point: "If you are convinced that some claim is true, ask yourself why. Is it because you have credible evidence that the claim is true, or is it just because you’ve encountered the claim over and over?"
In this I see the media repeating the "Russian hacked the election" thing, for which there is no real evidence. The reports from all agencies only based this idea on rumours. The wikileak documents themselves seem to be downloaded on a USB drive, and not via the internetz.
But can we withstand this "fake news", when there is so much support for it? And why is no-one talking about the pay-to-play problem. It is likely a problem of the political system, not just a candidate.

I agree with the solution against fake news. We should have credible evidence. But these should not be "public service announcements". These are usually linked to sponsors or political parties. Most people already disagree on what sources can be trusted. For example I trust wikileaks a lot more than many other people. They stand for freedom of information, unlike their opposition who likes to destroy relevant information (like torture records or emails).

And freedom of information is exactly what is needed for this whole problem. No information should be hidden in a democracy. And that is how we really should solve the fake news /propaganda problem: All relevant information should be available.

Just like every experiment should be repeatable in science.
First, I would start with a much more detailed curriculum of probability and statistics with applications. I'd also go much further in linear algebra, vector calculus, field theory.

Then I think I would probably hit computer architecture broadly with an eye both toward concepts as well as a sense of scale(s) - how long does an operation take under these circumstances, etc.

Last I'd look at actual languages. Functional programming to teach the power and techniques of abstraction while learning the structure of computer science. Whatever the market enjoys today to gain commercially viable skills. That would probably be Javascript, Python, Java or C#, C (not C++, not worth the cognitive overhead), and maybe one other. SQL and data wrangling as an addition. Numerical computing if I want to be working in the engineering and scientific world.
Altered Carbon – All the DNA of great science-fiction with some missing links
>I can look at what works for me, do more of it and see it pay off. I can see people do the opposite and fail.

And this is the fallacy in your thinking. I can find people who made terrible choices and became more successful than you. I can find people who made similar choices to you and are much less successful.

If that's all you do, then plain and simple, your experiences are invalid. They don't matter. They're not data. And anyway, you're already successful now, so your choices practically don't matter anymore. Success begets success.

To put it simply, you need to accept that there are people who made good choices as you did, and aren't successful despite their hard work and good choices. Because that's fact. That's the world we live in. That's not smug. It's a hard pill to swallow, sure and I don't really blame you for refusing to. But there's nothing smug about it.
This article is about fake news generally, not Trump supporters specifically. None of the research itself seems to target any political leaning.

That said, you seem to misunderstand probability. The 18% probably of a Trump victory is greater than one in six. You are less likely to die playing a single round of Russian Roulette than for Trump to have won the election. Something can be 82% like and still not happen, and something can be 18% likely and happen. That's how probability works.

As for the USSC and the travel ban... what? I remember the USSC allowing the third revision of the ban to take effect while under appeal, but I'm drawing a blank on a unanimous victory. There were at least two justices who stated they were against even that temporary decision, as I recall it. I'm very interested in a source for "a 7-0 supreme court victory."
I found a pony in Apple’s iBoot source code.

https://medium.com/aishik/i-found-a-pony-in-apples-iboot-sou...
A followed the crafting interpreters series but reimplemented the python in c. Really gave me an appreciation for high level languages...
Interesting. Where do you hear that? What I've heard (and experienced) is that Haskell makes is easy to come back and understand code written a long time ago (because the language allows one to structure code very clearly).
There are plenty of tools for ClojureScript, including syntax highlighters and test runners. ClojureScript, like Clojure, also embraces the host platform, and can call out directly to JavaScript, so a lot of existing JS tooling is available as well. For example, the Karma test runner is frequently used.

I’m not familiar with the Elm ecosystem, but I would be surprised if they don’t have pretty good (or likely excellent) tooling as well. I’ve seen syntax highlighted Elm and it’s well known for it’s excellent error messages. Any language change is likely to involve changes in the tools you use, but I don’t think that lack of tooling is a reason to avoid either of these.
I'm not sure what kind of "correction" you'd expect?

A rising sea floor should in general be associated with a (small) rise in water levels as well, although the depth would still fall. This is due to the gravity of the rocks attracting the water.
> the majority of users doesn't care about this

Only because they don't know what is going on.
Or you know, we can have free college tuition like other sane and not nearly as wealthy countries do.
I agree. HTML for documents. C# etc for applications.
Show HN: Complete the Tweet
Not my bar, personally I think this is a crap attitude but one that I experienced.
I'm not sure what you mean by "taxing the people who created the problem". Do we just tax people based on their age, and assume that anyone over 50 probably had their hand in this? Or do we test people to see if they ever gave bad advice to children, and give them fines? Who, exactly, will be paying the tax, and how do we identify these people?

Maybe I'm missing something, because this seems a bit too obviously absurd.
I would advise that you do something that requires networking, a database (probably SQLite), maybe some ncurses graphics. A minimal cli Bittorrent client is a great idea.
> A reduction in readiness and force projection, but not sufficient enough of a reduction to put American soil in danger.

And your qualifications for making that assessment would be?

> Other countries spend orders of magnitude less than the US on their military, and remain conflict free.

Those "other countries" are, in almost every case, under the defense umbrella of a country that does have an adequate military.
but i would wager that they do not live in perfect conditions inside those houses
WordPress TOS Easter egg
If you are trying to tell me that HTML was purpose built for the task that it does today, then I'm sorry but I do not agree.
Embryo selection is an advantage for IVF children
Need? No. Nobody needs to do anything.
JFYI, Ambrose Bierce;
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
This isn't news. It happens all the time. During earnings season, whenever there is a news break about pharma,tech,commodity, etc, whenever there is a big political/environment/etc news, and when the market moves.

And 8600% isn't that impressive ( depending on the size of the bet ). Leveraged bets can turn $1K into $1M or $10M overnight.

If you want impressive, go look into the returns in currency trading when the swiss unpegged their franc a few years ago. If you had insider information, you could have turned a few thousands into tens of millions easily.

This is really only news if this tiny hedge fund had insider knowledge. There's nothing really newsworthy about this.
When I first learned C, I wrote a program to check the Goldbach conjecture (every even number >= 4 can be shown to be the sum of two prime numbers). For a while this was the first nontrivial program I would write in any programming language I learned, but in retrospect it was pretty pointless on several levels.

It is a good project though, to learn about high performance arithmetic, data structures and has good potential for parallel implementations (I eventually rewrote it on top of PVM to run on a cluster of computers).
32bit DOS Development with Open Watcom
Fake news was barely even mentioned until about two days after the election and the Dem spin machine whirred into action coming up with plausible sounding reasons why the loss wasn't their fault.
I wonder if this would work over radio such as Ham or Two-Way.
Yeah, the comment you're replying to reeks of partisan bias and very conveniently ignores reality in favor of the type of headlines that would show up on Fox News.

I don't think they're arguing in good faith, regardless of whether they're """playing""" devil's advocate.
> Oh, wait, no, they're saying Trump supporters are the ones with cognitive ability issues

Please quote the part of the article where "they" say this, otherwise don't post this kind of nonsense. You're not flipping anything around; you're the one poisoning the well.

Flagged.
Yeah I was thinking the same. 2007 is not the dark ages.
Unless you have countervailing qualifications —- in which case you should talk more about them so we can ask good questions of you —- it’s unhelpful to bring qualifications into the argument.
Trust that the ledger is actually immutable is what gives these tokens most of their value. I guess if the devs decide the loss of confidence in their product hurts less than the loss from the hack then it makes sense to go for it.
Chess Engine in C
I would argue that gmail's filters work quite well.
Viacom to launch its own streaming service this year
Came here to say the same =)
>>I feel sorry for this "Low-Level" employee, because I suspect they are soon going to find out just how much of a price tag Apple puts on their trust and valued secrecy

Maybe there's no better way but this is a bad security policy. With thousands of employees with such access, odds are that one might do it, either because he can, bragging, ideology, $$ from competitor or NSA /FSB etc etc.

Punishment is a possibly but "I will not get caught" etc
The permutation group on N elements is the (N-1)dimensional simplex (1:point, 2:line, 3:triangle, 4:tetrahedron, ....)
Python has at least 4 ways to define a function: you can have a plain function, a bound instance method, a bound class method, and a lambda, which is similar to the same options js has.

Python's type handling is much better, but that can be mostly avoided in JS by understanding and avoiding the cases where js typing sucks.

Other than Python's superior type handling and standard library they seem like very similar languages to me.
I don't think it's the polls on their own that are the problem. I think it's the media-driven furore around them that feeds into the public's pre-existing confirmation bias ("see, the polls prove he's an idiot with no chance at the presidency!").

It seems like most people on both ends of the political spectrum create a media-fed bubble of bias, and when the outcomes disagree with that bias (as in the case of Trump) it can create pretty damaging cognitive dissonance.
In other words the ocean is on a scale which makes it much more complicated than your bathtub.
Ask HN: How's your work/life balance?
I currently work at a large public university as a software developer. Since receiving my degree, it's the only place I've worked.

I've got a great work/life balance right now. My employer often talks about how work/life balance is one of their core values, but given the public sector nature, I'm not entirely sure how much of my work/life balance comes from my particular position or government regulations.

I'm currently looking for new opportunities in locations that would give me easier access to outdoor recreation, which is how I spend most of my time outside of work. My biggest concern with taking a new job is that I'll be in a great location for recreation with little time to actually take advantage of it.

Because of this, I've been limiting my searching to the public sector, but I've got a tentative timeline for leaving (driven in part by my current apartment lease) and "the right job" won't necessarily be available before I need to come up with a new place to live.

So, my questions for you HNers is: how's your work/life balance at your current gig? How have you improved your work/life balance situation? (For context here, being in the public sector, there is really no room for salary/vacation negotiation, so I don't even know what this looks like.) How's the outlook for those of us who will never be a ninja/rockstar/eat breathe sleep code startup machine?

Thank you for any insight!
It is trivial. It's literally only about preserving the old api.
It is a GUI library written in ANSI C. Graphical capability is not a property of programming languages. It is an orthogonal matter.
I read a fantasy/computer crossover series (Wizard's Bane) as a teen and remember a mention of the IOCCC. it fascinated me and I decided to enter. I spent most this and made a Mandelbrot fractal generator. I didn't win or get any recognition, but I still remember the code fondly. The source was in the shape of the fractal, used recursion, and was very ugly with ?:s everywhere, strange pointers and other ugliness. It could zoom and scroll. I was very proud of myself and always have kept C around. It's still my go to for little projects.
I have almost no windows on the North/East because the idea is to maximize light and have as little heat loss through the windows as possible (heating here is far more expensive I’ve the year than cooling).

In hot and stable climates it’s probably common to not have large windows to the south, but in places where you have +30C in summer and freezing to -20 and dark all winter it’s hard to architect for all seasons. I wouldn’t give up the 4h daylight in my south windows in winter, even though they make the house too hot in summer. Shading that can be removed is probably the answer.

Vented rears for freezers, how does that work? Do they typically sit in an outer wall, or do they have ducts venting so they can be placed anywhere? I have never heard of those.
Then get a 2nd tier job there and learn German in the meantime
You can disagree but you would be wrong. I have personally taught people to diagnose and repair systems. Many others have as well.

There are are also formalized methods of teaching how diagnostics. And training on how to teach it. So yes, you can teach a monkey how to teach another monkey to do X.
Seems like a lot of room to innovate with technology, and I bet Amazon is banking on that.

This reminds me a lot of Amazon marketplace, where they took the core service (Amazon e-commerce) and opened it up to others without holding inventory. They can use other people’s orders to gain even more scale and drive costs down lower in the distribution network, commoditizing the complement layer (delivery, in this case UPS and FedEx).
I modified an embedded application for my then-employer's customer while I was working in product support. It made them really happy, and probably solved other customer issues as well.
James might believe something one day, eat some moldy bread and the next day believe in something else.
It’s partially regressive (not all of the money to fund this would come from regressive taxes) but it’s in everyone’s interest to have an educated society that isn’t unduly debt burdened once they leave college. We all benefit from this. So forgiving this debt palatable to me. It’s why I don't mind funding k-12 education even though I don’t have kids.
What does this house price number here capture? Cost of a single-family home? Buying cost of residential buildings in general? Or some combined index of actual housing cost?

some speculations:

A large part of the German market is renting, even more so in the "hot" cities. Many smaller towns and rural areas are struggling, so there are likely quite a few cheap houses available there which keep an average down, even if home prices in boom areas increase.

Buying a house is one of the few widely "acceptable" reasons to go in debt, but many Germans still try to avoid or at least minimize it.
For low power stuff in amateur radio check out WSPR and FT8.
Rbtrace: strace for Ruby processes