skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as long as you're becoming a state afterwards, or more precisely - as long as you're a winner. Mandela was taken off terrorist list only very recently. Hamas being practically a state already, not a winner yet and thus is still a terrorist org.
It was a settlement, there is no precedent.
One of my favorite examples: https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/i...
If you consider this national discussion about foreign interference in elections as part of a national grieving process about the surprising outcome of a specific election, it makes a lot more sense and implies it is likely to pass once people have moved on.
I just found your demo video about McCLIM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBmRsPRdGg) and found it to very helpful to put things you outlined into perspective.

I have linked to it in a top level comment.
Same here. I have owned my domain and ran my email server for six years now. Investing a week worth of afternoons harls really paid off and i can do neat things like having infinite email addresses via a catch-all address.

By the way, give a look at mail-in-a-box, another cool project that implements a ready to use mail server with great functionalities.
> wrongthink

This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments, as well as the one that asks you to read other comments charitably (i.e. strongest plausible interpretation).

To drop a term like that in a comment here is not really engaging with the other commenter, just trying to make them or their argument look bad. That leads to much lower-quality discussion, so please resist the temptation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Come on....do you really think there are no legitimate sides to contentious political issues like gun control? How about abortion? That "other side" you speak of, presumably actual US citizens, is not interested in "basic democratic stability", they just want their political argument to win out and become (or remain) law. That's where the division comes from, not conjured out of thin air by the Russians.

But the fact remains that whether you are an outside instigator looking to sow discord, a citizen participating in a political flamewar, a politician looking to whip up their base, or the mass media looking for clicks, the tactics are exactly the same. You could wrap a bubble around the United States and cutoff all outside communication and you would not see much difference.

If anything pours gasoline on this fire it is the detachment of social interactions on the internet. And that Twitter is such a hotbed of political "discussion" is a sad testament to the times, considering its very design precludes the possibility of respectful, informed discourse.
The Wikipedia article on this so-called Atari company is useful reading to understand a bit about the hubris of what has gone on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_SA

Many people have wasted entire summers or entire university courses playing video games. I am sure everyone here knows someone has had a little bit of remorse in their time for that.

But wasting a summer mastering and completing a video game is relatively harmless compared to online gambling.

It seems that this Atari company (who are not really Atari) want to do more than sell 'harmless' sweets, they want to sell not just cocaine but crack, fully moving into online gaming for the company future.

Imaginably the crypto coins is the right technology for this. However, in all the years I have played standard video games I have never needed mathematical proof that I really do have however many gold stars/lives/experience points etc. Having the block-chain for that would not really help.

With all crypto currencies there is a lot in a name, 'Kodak' coins and 'Atari' coins are fakes in their own special way, being borne from fake versions of once legendary and innovative companies. Companies that now run on brain-farts.

I do know that there are a lot of banking fees and transaction costs for online gambling - background checks do have to be made and money does get lent to gamblers based on risk assessments, crazy as that seems. It has been a while since I have spoken with anyone that has industry knowledge but I believe transaction costs can be double what you would expect in ecommerce as far as bank fees go. Therefore there is a perceivable value in some crypto-coin that magically makes it easier. Once you are in the world of Atari coins it will only cost bigly on transaction fees once you cash out.

At the moment, if you are a gambler, then the bookies do not offer you a sideline in banking, in the future this fake Atari company will offer you those services.

I wait to see it...

But, what if instead of bitcoin things being mined as per the usual dumb, planet trashing way, what if completing games was the 'proof of work'?
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392728 and marked it off-topic.
for the singularity term to mean something it has to involve the mechanism of a starting point from which on change ever increasingly accelerates. The singularity can't 'slow down' so to speak. That's simply a 'paradigm change' or a significant disruption of which we had lots.

As the name suggests if the 'singularity' exists there's only going to be a single one.
Yeah, it seems like the name is a little misleading. The reason for "I've never felt less in control of my own hardware" is the software for the most part.
> based on the research I'd done as an informed voter.

The problem is that plenty of voters thought they were equally "informed" by "research," which turns out to have been fraudulent.

> I've never understood this whole Russian voting paranoia.

"The indictment charges that the foreigners falsely posed as American citizens, stole identities and otherwise engaged in fraud and deceit in an effort to influence the U.S. political process." Not comparable to Radio Liberty et al.

> Look at the millions both the Trump and Clinton campaigns and allied organizations received from overseas donors and politicians

Where are you getting your well-informed research, exactly?

"Foreign nationals, other than lawful permanent residents, are completely banned from donating to candidates or parties, or making independent expenditures in federal, state or local elections." https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/supreme-court...

(One of the many Trump scandals is that they broke that law, by allegedly soliciting overseas donations (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/29/trump-campai...). If there's evidence that the Clinton campaign did the same, I'd be very interested to see a source or citation.)
So, less emphasis "neat/readable organization symbols in a particular file" (though it's still important) and more emphasis "neatly organized abstractions enabling broad application"?

I often find folks who prefer langs like C, or at least have a lot of experience with it, are better at that than Ruby/JS/Python folks who haven't used much else.
The author characterises these messages as either aggressive and threatening, sexist _or_ trolls. Yet all of the comments are anonymous, generic, obscene or extreme, there is no subtlety or personality to the insults, they are completely generic and transferable as far as the individual is concerned. It's hard to see them as anything _other_ than trolls.

If they are all trolls, isn't this analysis really just about which profile pictures trolls find the easiest to find politically incorrect, offensive or sexist thing to say about? and isn't that just a reflection of what society finds the most offensive rather than what a bunch of trolls sincerely think?

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I'm downvoted because I think they are trolls, really? how lame... Try to come up with an argument group thinkers, or must we all cry in defence of anything even vaguely resembling sexism without thinking.
I think he meant section 702.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-continuing-fal...
"Also, you should give users the option to decide whether they want to consider crypto-to-crypto transactions as in-kind (and not a taxable event) for 2017 (US residents)."

Don't most official statements make it clear that crypto-to-crypto transactions are indeed taxable events in the United States?
Apple won't even let me delete auto-downloaded iOS updates anymore. They just download when I'm not paying attention, in the background, and take up anywhere from 500mb to 1gb of hard drive space, forever. Unless of course, I update.
When obtaining new apps or devices, you can’t tell if it is a worthwhile investment because it could break in any number of ways. For your money, are you buying 2 weeks of functionality or 5 years of it? It’s not even enough to have a reputable seller because good apps are sold to terrible companies that ruin them later, or the developer just decides to add new money-making schemes later.

It seems that we need more guarantees (legally enforceable, i.e. you said you wouldn’t update your gizmo to do X but you did so I get compensation).
Thanks for mentioning this.

I was just trying to point out the fact that its not hard to code in Lisp. Especially given the fact that non-programmers were doing it long back, in an era where there was nothing like Internet available to ask for help.
A similar line of thinking to the always provide the source code behind your paper position.
Hypocrisy is the essential purpose of a nation-state.
Unsupportable for the drivers or the company?

A driver tears up their car there's a ton of people to replace them but that isn't very supportable on the individual level.
You have doubts that sexism and misogyny exist on the internet and the real world? And you think that all sexism exists only because people assume the person they're talking to is a bot? What are your double-blind studies that have confirmed this claim? I'm very interested in your sources.

> See other comments.

Oh, oh. Nevermind. You already cited.
What do you mean by that? Filtering billions of posts, trying to figure out which ones are "real news" vs. "fake news," and which ones come from well-meaning vs. nefarious actors, AND doing so in a way that is not only politically neutral but also perceived as politically neutral is a MASSIVELY non-trivial problem.

Even if you think the social networks should be trying to solve this problem (and some would argue that it's a hornets nest they would do well to avoid), acting as if they're being negligent or incompetent because they haven't figured it out already is a bit unfair.
Are there any OSS packages to ingest this feed?
You are being downvoted because Amazon is a bad example. They are intentionally not profitable so that they can lower prices to drive others out of the market and reinvest all revenue into R&D and horizontal expansion. They could net way more than $3B if they wanted to.
Probably not uncommon, but not a universal rule either - my grandmother (in her 80s) texts a reasonable amount.
What ever happened to SPHERES? Or, Int-Ball?
Same. It’s like I’m a small company. Single server with no active maintenance? Sounds great and why would we ever spend more on it? It works great! ... for a while.

Once that single server goes down it’s suddenly the biggest issue currently keeping us from doing anything. Whether it’s because of something I did or an upstream outage doesn’t matter, I’ve still got to troubleshoot it and try to work around it.

For $5/m you could have FastMail do it for you, or for free you could have Google do it. Yes there are trade offs, but they also have more infrastructure than you do for the same price.

Email is just one of those things I would rather outsource.
Fear Factors
Hacking has long included social engineering, as with any other lateral approach.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Best part about this article is that the Guardian has Facebook tracking code that collects user data on it. https://imgur.com/a/UrSyt
It always saddens me how mathematicians seem to look down on “intuition”. Maybe higher math as a full-time job is just hard work and stubborn precision but for me, an intuitive, visual look is probably getting me closer to understanding than any cold-hard-facts book does. Not to mention how much easier it is to appreciate the beauty of it.
Uh, could you elaborate? This seems like a totally nonsensical statement.
That's not really how it's "supposed to" work. It's called predatory pricing and the most ardent free-market defenders claim it doesn't exist because it's economically irrational (check out the contentious discussion and Frankenstein-like text of the Wikipedia entry on the topic).
i'm not quite sure what you mean by "tactically", but this is significantly different because it's not the administration. Trump has been insisting that any suggestion of russian election interference is a hoax, and now the justice department is indicting russians for interfering in the election.
There is on iOS
If you tap three times on the display it puts it in an accessibility mode which has a simplified interface and...no ads!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392608
Haha, our warlord king Kadyrov got kicked out of Instagram (he had millions of followers) and instantly launched his own clone (iOS https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/mylistory/id1175917593?mt=8 and Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mylistory....)
You can say the same thing with people being pissed off about forced Windows updates that got in their way: They could go make a coffee. I might have made it more dramatic than it really was, but forced updates do make people upset.

At least I don't have that problem with my Linux computer and I love it. It works exactly when I expect it to, and it updates exactly when I expect it to.
Ugh. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't take HN threads into off-topic flamewar hell. If you haven't had enough Damore flamewars, the search box at the bottom of this page will give you enough to last the rest of your life.
Uber seeking to use regulation to shut out competitors is rich.
Facebook is by definition breaking the Internet by having created a walled garden.
If we continue down this path maybe at some point companies will start relying on open protocols to allow it's users to communicated with other outside the bubble.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604
I was shocked in CS graduate school the first time I downloaded the code referred to by a very well-respected paper in the field, and found that it did not even compile. By the 20th time, I was less shocked, but I had lost a lot of respect for CS academia.

The correct standard should be, if you claim you wrote a program that does X, the program should be available along with simple instructions that explain how to run it. The reviewers should then follow the instructions and verify that it actually works, and returns the results described in the paper! This basic process would sadly invalidate most computer science research.
it's probably worth noting that this indictment goes out of its way to specify that the campaign officials these entities communicated with were "unwitting" participants, and the indicted parties were posing as americans.
This looks more like software design problem and not a Lisp problem.

Building anything complex requires, apart from tools, getting organized in a lot of other things as well.
Technically they're not installed, those are just shortcuts to install them.

The issue isn't really one of backward compatibility but software design and function. As far as I know, Android maintains API compatibility all the way back to API v1. A simple app, like the calculator, written in API v1 should run on the latest Oreo device.

An app requires a remote service to function must maintain compatibility with that service to function. The trouble is compatibility updates and feature updates aren't delivered separately. So you can't avoid new features if a service compatibility prevents your old version of the app from functioning.
thank you kbutler! (don't forget i'd also need qt to use py qt)
This is remarkably disingenuous. The Russians hacked into both political parties and leaked their information selectively to support their agenda. They even got access to voting rolls. There is no evidence AFAIK that they changed anything, but they should rightfully be charged for penetrating the US at all.

EDIT: voter roll != voter systems... edited so I don't spread FUD. Don't want to distract from the main point. The success of Russia's efforts may be only a symptom of the problems in the US - you still have to treat the symptoms.
If I'm incented to sell memberships, I'm going to sell the sh out of memberships. The pearl clutching in this thread is apparent, but remember, they have the data, we don't.
Just for comparison, here's someone that has stitched the ADS-B information with Prepar3D (used to train air traffic controllers) and a bunch of other glueware and turned it into a live YouTube feed of LAX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQK0iR5iBU
Agreed. You should be able to get automated security updates and optional feature updates.
I don't think I follow. There's nothing impossible about running a livery service with a cell phone application for hailing, but I don't think current prices are sustainable. It is not a business with substantial economies of sale.
It didn't have to end up that way. The data is behind a cloud API because data is a source of power and the API is a control point. Whatever data the uber app needs could have been on his phone or in a cdn close to his phone or in a cloud computer operating on the user's behalf instead of for Uber. The balance of power has shifted asymmetrically towards centralized entities, but it does not mean that is the only possible solution. It is mostly a history lesson to understand why the balance today is what it is. It could have been different. Humans made all this stuff, there's no laws of nature saying software distributed systems only work if a megacorp is positioned in the center of it. Consider the world wide web.
No reason really.. Probably unconciouslly highlighted GITHUB :)
Well, technically they're both lists, it's just that the ' prefix makes it a list literal rather than having the compiler try to macro expand it. A bit pedantic, but of massive importance when macros are in play.
… hang on, what plan did you ask for for this, and what kind of mail were you actually sending/receiving? As far as I'm aware, Fastmail charges per-user, and isn't advertised as suitable for sending automated mail through. It sounds very strange to use it as a replacement for “setting up a mail server for a GitLab instance”.
C'mon this is emotional prostitution.
Some random EU resident visiting your website != operating in the EU, by any reasonable definition.
I run RBL checks a few times a day in Nagios, so I don't get surprised.
The best idea I've seen that involves crypto currency is the new game distributor "Robot Cache" which wants to offer the user ability to sell "used" PC games. The sale occurs via their "Iron" currency, which can be used to purchase other games. You can also opt in to mining the currency via their platform.

Personally, I don't really see the value of using a crypto currency over normally funded wallets, but it's the most interesting thing I've seen thus far.
Blame the republicans for everything you just said.

Go Blue November
Hype-To-English Translation of Magic Leap’s Recode Interview
> I still remember my high school math teacher telling the class, in passing, that Galois was killed in a duel at age 20.

I think that's actually an example of the problem. Galois's politics really had nothing to do with the problem he was trying to solve. Historical features are thrown in as random info with no point. The point of making mathematicians real people is so that students can say "Oh! That's how they came up with that problem! That's why they solved it this way! I could have done that!"

Rather instead, we further mythologize the individuals. You don't need to join radical political organizations and get yourself killed in your 20s to be a great mathematician.
3Blue1Brown makes great videos and offers good explanations. However, particularly with his latest Fourier Transform video, he not only gives the incorrect explanation, he makes it unnecessarily and overwhelming complicated. It is still better than the linked circles approach, but the Fourier transform can be explained more accurately in around two minutes and in three if you were to include the the definition of frequency.

3Blue1Brown is better than most but far from best.
Rust on Linux with Cassandra, the strong typing without a GC is a boon to stability and performance (my own sanity). Cassandra is fantastic, looking forward to using Scylla at some point.
Bitcoin miner in NYC home interfered with T-Mobile network, FCC says
I'll take your question seriously and provide this story of an 1985 NES attempting to mine. (http://retrominer.com/)
Donny, please.
I'm looking at this on mobile, and the cookie policy footer is taking up more than half the screen. Oh the irony.
I don't think I've seen FlightAware showing aircraft tracks on the ground.

They do show taxi times for arriving/departing aircraft and I wonder if they are stitching that data together using the STDDS feed.

To give you an example, for an arriving aircraft you would get an alert of "wheels down", which is as literal as it sounds: a timestamped event when the aircraft made contact with the ground. In addition to ground position events (allowing the tracking you see here), you would also receive an alert when the aircraft left the tracked movement surface, i.e. transitioned to the gate/ramp area and no longer on an active airport surface.

(Pretty sure I have that correct, it's been awhile since I got back to my STDDS-powered projects. If anybody familiar with STDDS wants to chime in, please do!)

For the curious, all these "alerts" are JMS messages with XML payloads. Pretty much non-stop stream of data, incredibly fun if you're a developer+av geek. For FlightAware-style tracking without using any ADS-B you'll want to subscribe to the SFDPS feed. You'll get position updates every 60 sec for all airborne flights in the US, which last week amounted to ~40GB in my Postgres DB. You can request higher resolution reporting which is every 12s.
Meetup - they have communities for lots of things. And its a paid service in the sense that an organizer may leave a tip jar on the table to cover costs.
Kim Dotcom made the mistake of operating servers in the US jurisdiction. New Zealand made the mistake of complying with the US requests to extradite him. The US could not have effectively enforced its laws upon Kim Dotcom without New Zealand's assistance.

If China comes after me for something terrible I say about Mao (stray absurd example), and the US turns me over to China because they're influenced and or intimidated by China, that would be a similar premise: the US would bear immense, near total responsibility for capitulating, showing no backbone.
Interesting approach.

It has the happy property that the performance penalty will trend toward zero over time, as fewer and fewer holdout websites stick with unencrypted HTTP. Even Netflix streaming uses HTTPS these days.

By the end of the year I figure we'll have virtually no such holdouts. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/08/google_chrome_http_...
How about simple transparency in who's buying ads like tv and print have to go through?
13 Russian Hackers Indicted for 2016 Election Interference
Capitalism is not "supposed to be" a race to the bottom and then the emergence of a single, monopolistic entity. That's far too simplistic. Price and value are a huge component of capitalism, yes, but the general idea isn't "price below what is sustainable by taking in massive amounts of funding until all of your competitors are sunk and then increase prices."