skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lumping leftist politics under postmodernism is kind of a stretch, and the characterization of leftist politics here is like what you get when you learn about it from David Brooks columns. There is a leftist politics out there that values objective truth, and also attempts to grapple with arrangements of power in the world (and within societies) that are heavily informed by imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression. Often this means that historically repressed voices should and do get centered in the interest of seeking justice or attempting to right historic wrongs (and/or figuring out how they persist and have been systematized).

What it boils down to for me (a straight, white, cisgendered man who was born into an upper-middle class family in the US) is that the kneejerk "I guess I should just shut up" reaction to being called out as being problematic/racist/sexist/whatever is self-serving and it's too easy. You are allowed to have an opinion and voice it, but some amount of self-reflection is valuable when you often aren't experienced or knowledgable in particular forms of oppression.
Unprecedented growth leads to unprecedented correction. This is profit booking but huge players. The market will stabilize and start rising again. The fundamentals are still strong
That could be the case
Recon are also owned by Intel (they bought them several years back IIRC as part of their largely failed "wearables" push).

FWIW I also agree there is a strong market for endurance athletes - the progress of Recon Jet has been followed pretty closely by many in the Cycling/Triathalon community, where getting Garmin Edge computer style realtime metrics for things like speed/power output etc into glasses has been a dream of many for a while. This is a market already used to high priced electronics for training (a good bicycle power meter regularly runs over $1000 alone).
You need responsibility not regulation. Sue equifax into oblivion.
> Turn by turn directions when riding a bike.

FWIW, the Apple Watch offers this. It buzzes or audibly signals one way for turning left and another for turning right. I use it when walking around a new city sometimes.

I love the idea of the shopping list, though not integration with Amazon or having it automatically progress. It doesn't know where things are in my store (and they change), so that doesn't make sense to me. But having it there and being able to see it without taking out my phone would be nice.
I read cats.
Leave it to higher ed to leaven the growing and selling of weeds into a four-year degree. Really Canada? I thought you were better than that.
What Is Tether and Its Impact on Cryptocurrency Market? – Viral Docks
The challenge is when there are multiple observers that have a different opinion on what order the commands happened in. Redux and Vuex don't have that problem, that's why it's a nonissue there.
The interesting data is whether or not the business is getting better or worse over time, so any outliers in the data probably wouldn't change anything at all. If they're not outliers then a policy of voting "very unhappy" regardless is just adding to weight of other very unhappy voices.
I don't believe that you could read and reply to texts safely while driving. That simply isn't plausible.
We have transferred a TON of this institutional knowledge to China. Now companies like DJI can compete and beat us, and it’s all with knowledge that we transferred to them in the last 30 years.
It is regrettable that you're being downvoted so hard because I too recall these discussions. I also recall discussions about how toxic digital cameras would be with an "explosion of photography" "diluting the art" and causing an end to privacy. It's weird how prohibitionist people here are about cameras, but how other types of prohibition are axiomatically bad.

Turns out that there is a big difference between capability and intent, but no one really wants to talk about that in those discussions. If a thing COULD be used for a purpose but almost no one does, it seems difficult to really blame the tech for empowering people who breach the social contract.

Nevermind that in fact the proliferation of private cameras actually brings more parity between governments (which have proven the world over that they refuse to be trustworthy with that data) and private citizens (who can hardly do a worse job).
This is a great example, I am just trying to understand why this works and what is scientifically behind this ?
Biggest by absolute value or by percent?
In “Brotopia,” sex parties are the least of Silicon Valley’s problems
I think it has always been a reasonable assumption that a fall in the real economy would cause cryptos to fall. Play money gets liquidated first when real money (in 401k and stocks) evaporates. And the lack of liquidity in cryptos would cause it to fall faster.
Some users also "select all" + "paste"
The efficient market hypothesis would like a word with you...
I've worked with WordPress for over 9 years and set up probably over 100 sites, but can't wait for it to die.

It's easy to setup and the ecosystem is great, but the security issues are massive and there's really no reason for content to be stored in a database for the majority of sites.

I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content.
Interesting so you still have those fears even after facing them ? Wonder why you still keep doing it if its painful. Whats the point ? Just trying to understand thought process behind it.
Biased or not, it's the difference between the terminals, not the absolute ratings that matter.
It's not quite that simple, but yes insta is helping facebook hide their problems due to them stealing everyone from snapchat.
Whether it fits your personal style has no bearing at all on whether it's normal. I don't like v-neck shirts, so personally I never wear them, but they're definitely normal.
> The touchpad is really bad.

To be fair: I cannot stand any kind of Windows touchpad. They all pale in comparison with Apple stuff.

It's not only the size (which makes many multitouch gestures possible) or the firmware quality (I have hit an unintended combo maybe four times on a Mac in two years, while it was a daily occurrence in the Windows world), but also the "feel". Apple trackpads use a glass surface, nearly at level with the case, while Windows laptops seem to only offer plastic at 1-2mm inset. In addition I manage to get every Windows laptop really really dirty and the touchpads stained, I have yet to achieve this goal with any part of a MacBook...
I like to think that you can't time the market, but you get lucky sometimes.

> However, as my history has shown me - one doesnt assume this makes them smart.

No doubt. In my case, I still need to close out my short position so I'm only halfway there.
Absolute value. Not even close in percentage drops (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987))
I am terrified of heights. It does not stop me from hiking up mountains et al.

I used to be terrified of spiders. Various things have helped me get over that, including being a parent. Hunting down large spiders in spite of my fear to protect my kids because that was my duty as a parent plus other parenting experiences has put a stop to that phobia.

I don't actively seek opportunities to face my fears, but I don't shirk my duties or let my fears stop me from having a life or accomplishing goals. Because I'm not their bitch and will not be owned by them.

You can go after your goals or cower in the corner and let your fears unduly limit you. I choose the former, not the latter.

That doesn't mean I won't avoid things I hate if I can. If there is an easy out that doesn't have an objectionable downside I absolutely will take that. It's a case by case judgement call as to what the best answer is.
Do you want to list some of the ones you’re thinking of? I’m trying to level up on hedging strategies for retail investors.

I was thinking of buying VIX on Friday, and am kicking myself for missing out now.
> If powerful corporations or special interests want to influence legislation, make them convince the people that something is a good idea and have the people contact their representatives.

(1) A "special interest" is any strict subset of the population. There is no necessity that it be nefarious, as you imply.

(2) A republic, by definition, doesn't require the constant approval of the population for each action. That would be a democracy, which we in the USA don't have and never did. In fact, our founding fathers explicitly ruled out the idea of governance by "the mob".

(3) The problem with "powerful corporations and special interests" is that they have receive concentrated benefits with diffuse costs. The solution is for every elected representative to always vote "no" to every change to the status quo unless it meets a very high bar for diffuse benefits. That kind of government would get even less accomplished than the "Do Nothing Congress".

(4) It's simply unwieldily for elected representatives to talk to their entire constituency on any regular basis. The only time this does happen is when we have some sort of panic. Those with means figured this out and hired people that specialized in getting the attention of legislators, executives, and regulators.

(5) I'm all for rooting out corruption and eliminating it. I'm not for hanging people for doing something that is perfectly legal under current US law.
The good doctor murphy is a mad genius.

I laughed very hard indeed when I first read this and got to the last 30 seconds of the video.
Yeah, it seems like it should be possible to send a packet using a "firewall rule protocol" to the DoSing IP address, and have any non-malicious routers in between enact a rule that blocks traffic in the opposite direction (obviously there needs to be either spoofing prevention, or the packet must be signed with a certificate provided by the RIR to prove ownership of the source IP address).

Why not do this? Is it impossible to design it in a non-abusable way, or is there too much overhead to store and apply a possibly long list of arbitrary blocking rules?
It's a great question, because point drops are not a very useful metric.
If you would like to write Python 3 but need to maintain support for any particular version of Python 2, something that I can personally recommend is using the Coconut transpiler: http://coconut-lang.org/
The Coconut language is a superset of Python 3, so any valid Python 3 is valid Coconut. But the advantage of the transpiler extends beyond the language itself, in that it can target any version of Python from 2.6 onwards on the Python 2 branch and 3.2 onwards on the Python 3 branch.

It has been really useful for me in that I want the advantages of type annotations and f-strings and other python 3.5+ features but I have to support running in an environment with only 2.6 installed. So when I target a 3.5+ version, all of those features are maintained, but when I target 2.6, the transpiler does all the work in converting to running 2.6 code for me.
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Spectre and Meltdown don't give you the ability to _write_ memory, only _read_ it.

So they're "only" a problem to the extent that there is information you do not want the attacker to read. Passwords are the first obvious target here.

Of course the same attack could expose other credentials, so it's not a password-specific issue.
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I am not begging you anything but think twice. I personally am not an interested party, I have no blockchain-related assets but I think about all those people who has and I see 2 possible outcomes: if it gets publicly confirmed that the coins were not backed many innocent people will loose their legitimate investments and if it's doesn't they won't, and this doesn't depend on whether the coins actually were backed or not. I don't advocate scam but punishing them may be not really worth the global consequences for people who were not consciously involved. I am not telling what should the people investigating this should choose, I am only telling they should consciously consider all potential results of their decisions. I personally believe that it usually is more important to save what we still have than to revenge what we have lost and that we should always think about the people who happen to be in a less advantageous position than we ourselves are at the time. In fact I love to speak unpopular and "inappropriate" things aloud and question "unquestionable", somebody has to anyway.
I’m not even typing this in on a smartphone. I’m typing on a mobile computing and telephony solution.

Like its alternate meaning, the word “solution” tends to water-down and muddy what is actually being sold.
I wonder if the target audience of this printer even care about material properties like strength. I mean, what functional parts do you know of, in your car, bike, washing machine, are in full colour?

I feel like the people who want full colour will be making pre-production sample prints for marketing purposes.
but why ? Why can't the brain be trained to look at options logically and do it from the comfort zone.
When interest rates rise, stocks become less attractive relative to risk free assets. Even if fundamentals are strong, equity prices drop in response to higher than expected rates. Interest rates are a key input into asset prices and are somewhat independent from fundamentals
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How far can you take this thinking?

"My app will build even with Github down!"

"My app will build with Github down, and the entire internet down!"

"My app will build with Github down, and the internet down, and the US government being taken over by a foreign military power!"

"My app will build with Github down, the internet down, and the US government being taken over, and Europe a smoldering crater from the last alien invasion!"

At some point - just - nobody cares that your app can build. There's bigger problems.

To me, "Github is down and not coming up!" is one of those "oh my god we now have serious problems who cares about our app" moments.
The dip is good timing for Canadians, whose RRSP contribution deadline is coming up March 1st. If you're going to make a big 2017 RRSP contribution and buy ETFs, now is a good time.
There was, in fact, a coup against Gorbechev shortly afterwards, bearing out the fears of Thatcher and Mitterand.

Of course, the coup petered out, Boris Yeltsin climbed atop one of the tanks and addressed the crowd of anti-Communist protesters who had assembled outside of the Russian Parliament building, and the Soviet Union promptly collapsed, which is not a series of events that anyone in the West had predicted.
Is Space the Next Frontier of Archaeology?
Why did the berlin wall come down and the korean wall did not come down?
VIX measures the risk premium on options on the S&P 500 index. I don't see how total asset value ends up in the denominator?

Another explanation is that VIX is being actively dampened by the growing popularity of the 'short volatility' trade. E.g., the SVXY ETF among others. We're seeing today just how volatile volatility can be!
> For example, they think that they can scrape data about traffic from thousands or millions of connected cars.

It's not something Google/Waze could also do, it's what they already have been doing for years.

Google Maps has great traffic speed and accidents layer for all large cities in the world. And already uses it for routing, time estimates, and even calendar alerts like "leave early because of high traffic".
Bcachefs seems promising. For many, it's their hope for a filesystem that goes beyond ZFS.
Interesting movement at the close. Rather like a "flash crash" driven bounce. But on a minutes rather than microseconds time scale.

But after the close. US equity futures have continued an acceleration to the downside. And Japan's Nikkei index futures are -8% before the open.

Technically the key level to watch is just under $2500 on the S&P500. Any sustained break below that moves us beyond mere correction territory.
Rats in Norway trade in unlike goods and services
Huge part of why I refuse to switch to a non-macbook laptop, despite not being at all happy with the direction they've taken the pro in with the latest iteration.
How Bell Pottinger, PR Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa
A point of clarification:

When I describe moderator action, I'm speaking specifically of action by HN admins, who are able to rate-limit. As I understand it, downvotes on their own do not result in rate-limiting. I can understand why you may have misread this, as the conversation started out discussing downvotes, and while I was careful in the language I chose, I didn't point out that I was also excluding downvotes from my last comment.

I did so for a couple of reasons: you brought up rate-limiting and banning, which are actions only a mod can take, or change; downvotes are by far the action of HN members, and as such, much harder to categorize systematically. People downvote for all kinds of reasons, and not everyone agrees on how downvotes should be handled, and why they were given in any particular instance. A distinct impression I have is that often people view downvotes as disagreement, when they could just as easily be interpreted as a downvote for an unsubstantive or uncivil comment. And I believe that a disagreement couched in a civil and substantive way is much less likely to receive a downvote than one that is rude, snarky, and unsubstantive. You'll note a recurring theme here: it's more often than not what you say, but how you say it. You mention parody: parody is really difficult, and while I appreciate the wit of those who are able to wield it, most are not able to do so in a manner that's enlightening, and the misses hurt discourse much more than the rare win helps.

There's not a lot else I have to say with respect to the rest of what you've commented here. I think I've addressed most of it, if not specifically, in a way that's pretty easy to derive given other things I've commented. Operating from a position of defense and opposition does not lend itself to good faith and moving forward. Some games are played to win, and some are played to keep playing: and conversation, particularly on contentious topics, is most definitely the latter.
Italy can't get no respect
Well that's the point. Intel is releasing a developer preview in the hopes that third parties will create something more compelling.
Write code really really drunk. People reveal the worst in themselves when they code drunk.
Worth noting is the fact that this does not require a central transformation server unlike Google Docs' OT approach.

This means you can sync peer-to-peer without an Internet connection if say you have a Bluetooth connection between your phone and your laptop on an airplane.

Martin Kleppmann explains CRDT in detail in an episode of Software Engineering Daily.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/12/08/decentralize...
You want the data.table [1] implementation of dcast and melt. They support multiple pivot values, inline aggregation, are super fast, and are easy to use compared to trying to wrap your brain around gather/spread. Frankly I think Hadley went a little too far with those tidyr functions, the dcast/melt interfaces he created in reshape2 are much, much easier to intuit and the DT versions are just improvements on that.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/vignettes...
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>I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content.

Those people are already served well by things like Wix and Squarespace. WordPress is essentially a point and click application development tool at this point, with integrations for anything imaginable. Yes it is insanely insecure, slow, poorly designed, and bloated. But the depth of offerings from the plugin marketplace will keep WP relevant for a long time to come with people who can't afford custom development.
When did you short S&P? Was it because you saw it starting to go down, or did you have some way of telling ahead of time this was going to happen?
They also didn't pull out of Korea until after they set up the Kim regime--in fact, the Korean War saw Soviet fighter pilots, still serving with the North Korean military, go into battle against the UN forces flying Soviet-provided MiGs.
Unlikely. Momentum works terribly for equities, doubt there are many people doing it.
A lot of that transfer was explicitly driven by government policy.

If you're ever around the Beijing airport, you'll notice a mushroom patch of well-known non-Chinese companies' facilities. The one constant? More security around the buildings than a military base.

I'm not one to beat the US / European nationalistic gong, but it's a fact that the Chinese government has specifically targeted foreign industries to force into tech transfer. And foreign governments generally haven't done anything meaningful about it.
Well, there would be the overhead, so more ideally you'd be submitting such requests to an out of band network (possibly forward to such a CnC network /by/ the routers along the way).

The command and control network would authenticate the source request via some means and if it's authentic act accordingly.

The benefit of this is that it also allows for identifying infected or otherwise abusive customers and actually being proactive about getting them cleaned up.

Of course all of that degrades the 'customer' experience, and costs money. Both of which are probably why no one does this right now.
> I hope a static site generator comes along with an intuitive UI for non-technical people to easily update their own content.

Does this not exist? Would love to offer that to some of my non-technical team members.
The fucked up thing is that if you put a muzzle on your dog so that they can't bite anyone, people will treat you like you're traveling with a dangerous animal.
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> on average, stock value over the long term (20+ years) is very likely to be in range of, say, 5%/year, plus or minus (actual number is not that important for our purpose here), after adjusting for inflation.

Why should it be that way?
So are you making the case the US is going through a systemic change away from growth, and will start a multi-decade economic contraction?
Ask HN: Why has Apple's software quality steadily gone downhill?
I've been using Apple products since 2003, starting with the iBook G4. Since then, it seems as if Apple's software quality has steadily gone downhill. My iBook wasn't the fastest, but it was certainly the most steadfast and predictable Apple computer I've owned.

Now, on my 2017 MacBook Pro running High Sierra, I get random freezes, slow/failed wakes from sleep, kernel panics, strange APFS behavior, trackpad unresponsiveness, etc.

iOS 11 is even worse, freezing during calls and sometimes keeping calls active even when the display shows no trace of an active call.

What gives? What, internally (to Apple), causes this?
Haynes makes manuals for every car just about (in the US at least), and I'm pretty sure they do a complete tear-down and rebuild for each one.

https://haynes.com/en-us/
>Bitcoin is the only safehaven in times like these, the market just hasn’t realized it yet.

So it doesn't work?
LibreOffice wants memory pages to be writable and executable in the same time?
You can't use logic to change your mind about something that isn't logical in the first place. If you have irrational fears, and we all do, the only way to train yourself out of them is to do the thing that fears you and have nothing bad happen. Eventually the stimulus providing the fear will have less effect.
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