skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're American, aren't you supposed to be for democracy? I understand your point about kompromat... But shoudn't the Russian people be the ones dealing with gay rights, poisoning journalists, illiberal government, and shouldn't the Europeans be the ones dealing with Ukraine? Why do you go around giving your opinion about other people's countries? Mind your business!
Are recreational doses significantly higher than prescription doses? Why the difference?
> if you want better protection for your data than the US provides: do not send your data to the US

Should EU companies be allowed to send my data to the US, then?

> If you seriously think that the US government is going to let the EU fine some US-based business without any EU presence millions of dollars because Brussels passed some law, you’re headed for disappointment.

The US shut down a lot of non-US poker businesses, including PokerStars in the Isle of Man. And sent the FBI to New Zealand to seize Kim "dotcom". If a US based business becomes a sufficiently big problem for EU privacy, it's going to get fined, and we're going to find out whether the EU-US cooperation is bidirectional.
> dubbed Spectre and Meltdown, that affected nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings.

WTF, spreading FUD on Intels behalf again?
This nonsense comment can be TL;DR'd as : "I prefer to be part of the problem instead of the solution because I am an entitled asshole"
This is obviously a consequence of the clever tax avoidance schemes companies like Facebook have used to minimise local revenue. Fining an international corporation based on the local revenue is pointless when the corporation can shift numbers around to turn that revenue into close to nothing.
Many lanes on important highways and connecting streets downtown are being made bus-only all the time, when they really should be Bus+Carpool or allow regular car usage outside peak hours.
I'm a guy with longish hair (curly and shoulder length). I run long distances (50-ish miles a week) and bike commute daily.

I also shampoo only 2 or 3 times a year. No issues for me. I just use very hot water and really rub my scalp in the shower. Started it as a 30-day experiment in 2010 when I had bad dandruff and never looked back.
> idiotic "collusion" story

Reality: Don Trump Jr. met with Russian agents in Trump Tower to negotiate receiving hacking assistance.

A few days later, Trump Sr. delivered his famous "Russia if you're listening ... [deliver what was discussed in that meeting] ... you'll be rewarded" line.
But what I've never understood is that if your objective is to magnify errors, why not cube it? Why not to a greater power still? If the other benefit is that all negative values to an even power become positive, then why not take the absolute value of the cube? No matter what, the degree to which we magnify errors strikes me as arbitrary.
Google Chrome Launches Default Ad Blocker – Viral Docks
Bitcoin has been great if you understand it. Have been trading futures with TradeStation and have been finding success with the large ups and downs of bitcoin. https://latechnews.org/tradestation-your-broker-wherever-you...
lolwtf. Laundry ball technology.
Voting machines are indeed woefully insecure - and has been for years - but accessing voter rolls doesn't do anything to it (but does a lot if you want to open a fake bank account or credit card, which is likely the motivation). Curiously, virtually nobody so seemingly concerned about voting security is advocating doing something about securing the actual machines or replacing them with more secure ones. Let alone taking more stringent measures on verifying the voter rolls, validating the voter's identity, etc. The argument immediately switches to "electoral fraud is insignificant and does not present enough threat to take measures that can lead to vote suppression". Which is fine, maybe the fraud is insignificant - but then probably the fraud done by hacking the machines - which is part of overall fraud, and probably one of the harder ways to pull it off - must be yet more insignificant? So is it a significant occurrence or not?
That's a very, very small portion of the population. It's also the part of population known for its crazy parties, abundance of money, drugs and alcohol.
Thanks for everything you do - your app is a huge part of the reason I can live in the Seattle area without a car.

One note - I just donated, but I almost bailed out when I saw I had to go through the whole UW process (especially when I then paid with PayPal, which has all of that info anyway....). I'm sure you're restricted to using their platform, but even better PayPal integration would go a long way.

Thanks again!
How does that solve anything? The shooter just comes in and starts shooting... he doesn't wait around to get checked first.
I thought HN was for "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"? This isn't an actual performance review, it's just parody.
You'd think so, but I bet a large portion of developers on hacker news develop on a mac and run their apps in production on a linux distro. At least for web apps.
Is there a disincentive to spamming the network? I.e. is there a fee associated with putting up a transaction that never goes through?
> middle and lower income people can only afford to live in the outlying areas in the first place.

That is a solvable problem: get rid of the zoning that keeps them out.
It's a fairly common misconception that military bases are full of people running around with guns. Generally speaking, the Army loves soldiers, and loves guns, but hates soldiers with guns.

Gate guards, MPs, and soldiers on an active firing range would (generally) be the only ones equipped to defend themselves.
Not to mention that Trump had to fire one of his campaign managers for receiving illegal payments while working for the campaign of Russian-aligned Ukrainian president Yanukovych.
Just look at South Africa circa 2018--whites trying to escape with anything except the shirts on their backs and Bitcoin doesn't do fuck all for them, either.

Nazi Germany! Sheeit. The smart people fled the Nazis in 1938. Anyone Jewish who stuck around after Kristallnacht probably didn't make it out at all. They probably got on the relocation trains without once realizing it was a one-way trip, too.
Ya I take the bus to work everyday and rely on public transit here 99% of the time I'm going anywhere and 'clean, frequent, on-time' happen, but are not the norm. Some of the express routes if you're lucky to live near them are frequent during day time weekly business hours but once you get outside of that and core downtown travel it gets much harder to get around. I put up with it but everyone I tell about my use of public transit here thinks I'm crazy for not owning a car, and I'd agree.
Why? Are people in the US really that stupid, that they would rather have the right to massive amounts of arms and regular mass shootings, than no arms and no mass shootings?. I guess they are..
Oversight. I wrote this in a hurry. Maybe you can post that as a comment on the blog.
Sure, but there were sexist ads everywhere including the TV; every pub, car repair shop etc. had at least one erotic calendar hanging in the public and so on. There's way more, please don't try to say that there is more sexism today than there was in the 70's.
Hard to have a democracy when journalists are poisoned, their companies leaned on/threated/had their licenses revoked by the state, and the main election opponent to the Prime Minister thrown in jail.
Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town’s Crisis
There are millions of black-market firearms available in the United States that may be acquired by a motivated killer with relative ease. I'm not entirely convinced they can "unfry that egg", so to speak.

For now, in the short-term, I think the suggestion that we could harden these soft-targets with on-site security is an idea worth examining. Perhaps, even staff with pertinent experience, training, and the trust of the faculty, could volunteer as "sheepdogs" and are permitted access to weapons on-site, during such emergencies?

By no means to I want you to take the above as a complete solution, but neither is simply banning guns. What does that even mean, anyway? Why not ban murder? Crime-stats make it clear that illegally-owned handguns are most-often used to commit violent crimes, after all. Criminals don't seem to care what the laws are.

As always, it is important to note that this issue is highly politicised, to a maddening degree.
The upside is that once you turn it into a habit and unconsciously, as well as consciously, link it to your health and general well being, you'll be wanting to do it regularly, feeling bad when you don't for some period of time.
Exactly why I switched to vim from emacs. I also never let my bashrc or vimrc files grow too baroque.
Well, no, the article is about Uber, specifically. If you mean where I said that neither Uber nor Lyft is sustainable, then specifically what I'm referring to is operating with such low prices that rides are money-losers, aiming to raise prices after achieving total market dominance. I do not doubt that ride-sharing is a business model that can make money if prices are high enough to make the business self-sustaining, but Uber and Lyft aren't pitching themselves as such a minor variation on the traditional livery service.
A different tact (for some cases) to the same end: use elinks[0] and in an active <textarea>, press shift-ctrl-T to pop up your favourite editor[1]. This works for gmail, for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
Isn’t the CDC specifically prohibited from doing studies involving firearms?
I made the experience that no matter what language you choose, and no matter the size of the problem you are trying to solve, after about a week of writing code you will have to start refactoring parts of it. While up to that point a more dynamic or "risky" language may have given me some advantage in development speed, it might make it harder to change things without breaking parts of your application by accident.

Having a compiler that catches 80% of the errors you can make during big code changes already starts becoming a real advantage.

I don't think that Go is a perfect language, but for most of my use cases it is the most efficient one overall.
Let's just skip straight to requiring all students to be naked and start the school day with cavity checks.

/s

I will never understand why people think starting from an assumption of guilt and treating all of the potential victims as guilty parties is some kind of improvement. This does not foster a more civilized environment. It has the opposite effect. It just escalates the atmosphere of terror.
> [It's become quite important in NLP, for example.]

[citation needed]

Maybe it's the specific NLP tasks I've been paying attention to (goal oriented dialog), but most of the RL for NLP work I've seen has not been super impressive.
Thanks, I'm already a huge fan of Discworld, but I'll definitely give Malazan a try!
I'll just list a few tools I use on a daily basis

Kubernetes - Great platform for orchestrating containers, made my life a ton easier (Learn Docker and containers first)

Jenkins - Very powerful automation platform, great for setting up CI/CD pipelines

AWS - Good to get your feet wet in the public cloud space

Chef - Configuration management and infrastructure automation tool, you define how you want your workloads to look and it delivers

Terraform - Infrastructure as code, where Chef defines the configuration of an existing machine, terraform defines how that machine should be provisioned

In terms of core concepts, read up on CI/CD, Agile, and SDDC architecture.
I don't know why this comment died, it's accurate.

If you disagree with the parent comment, give your viewpoint on why this isn't the case or these changes were good.
Not only that, but the perception is going in the opposite direction - as learning to (or actually practice) programming gets harder - non-programmers seem to think that the proliferation of graphical tools ought to have made programming easier.
It is (mildy, granted) pejorative in the description of a participant in a debate, especially when only one party is it.

Search for the truth is about collecting and reviewing evidence. Being passionate (synonym of ardent) about one side (rather than possibly the inquiry itself) is a bad quality.
There have been stories that drivers in searches of riches lease a car from Uber, which is paid off by being an Uber driver. If they leave the platform, they can't pay their lease.

Low-income "gig economy" workers might not have the mobility to leave for better jobs. Perhaps that's a privilege only certain classes of well-paying jobs have.
I do Java programming by day, and I still find the IDE to be a pain in the ass. It offers me a lot of power (enough that I still use it for all my Java code), but the configuration is so opaque. It's a GUI, but what a confusing, complicated GUI.

In contrast, opening a repl in python/node is super easy, and it was super easy even when I was a beginner.

Building a GUI like you said would be hard, (though I did a very simple tkinter gui in my first year), but I think that even for a beginner, opening a repl and starting to muck around is easier without the IDE in the way.
Not just some book, usually lots of books, from the fundamentals of BASIC to technical references with complete schematics for the entire machine. I had a Commodore VIC-20 and it certainly came with all these.

And even then, experts and resources were available online, for suitably primitive values of "online". Think CompuServe.

Another thing we had back then but less so today was magazines, full of programming and technical tips and info, usually tailored to a particular computer family. (So, Commodore magazines, Tandy magazines, Apple magazines, etc.) Once business computing took off, the dominant players (PCMag, MacWorld, etc.) became more productivity-oriented -- but I still learned Windows programming from the free utility and programming columns in early 90s PCMag. And then once the Web hit, the dead tree publishers were fighting over scraps.
no, although I don't see what the issue with that is. transactions are mined starting with the highest fees, and transactions are evicted from the mempool lowest fees first.
Ditto on Dr Bronners for shampoo replacement. I find I only need to use it once every couple weeks.
Super interesting. For the bibliophiles out there, I wonder how bad this is getting industry-wide? Does it happen at indie book sellers, Wal Mart, and Amazon too?

Certainly I have put down books that were made way too cheaply, and I have impulse-purchased books that are exceptionally well-designed.
A guy at work come from a different culture and don't put on deodorant and I can smell him every time he walks near me. I guess he doesn't smell his own odor because he got used to it, but other people notice.

In the same way, sometimes, when the trashcan is full, I don't really notice the smell until I leave the house, breathe the outside air and come back inside after. Then it hit me.

Also, how can one really clean his ass crack without soap? Water alone is definitely not enough.
Because a lot of focus now has been on STEAM programs around the country supporting the fields of science, tech, engineering, art and math. These programs are targeting our children from an early age to gain more interest and attraction for up and coming students.
https://latechnews.org/raymond-ealy-founder-steamcoders/
https://latechnews.org/stem3-academy-open-house-november-4/
> There are no significant changes to the language specification.

I'll continue hoping goderive becomes a language that displaces go.
It would take me more time to selectively lather certain parts of my body. It's faster to just lather my whole body with a soapy cloth.

And what happens if you accidentally get soap on part of your arm or leg?
Or it will stop moving in a cell dead zone, and be unable to request assistance.
Yep. I run or cycle daily. Be sure to rinse your armpits, etc.
Thanks, I appreciate it :)
Thanks so much for pointing out the clipboard copy bug -- I should've caught that.

I have similar feelings about the link for auth. It'll almost certainly change on the next version!
So, I have the same problem as you buying moto jeans and shirts. I'm pretty apple-shaped and have a largish waist and short legs. Anything I found either didn't fit right (fitting my waist meant legs several inches too long) or was laughably inadequate (kevlar shorts inside thin denim jeans sorts of stuff) which is why I went for a separates solution. That way I could wear standard Levi jeans that I knew would fit over them.

The long john style liners are, well, long johns. They're stretchy, so they adapt well to body shape. The leg liners aren't cut particularly long--they have stirrups. You could choose to ignore or remove the stirrups and flip up the leg cuffs to make them a few inches shorter and they'd still work under boots. I haven't tried the shirt but it's the same material. My guess is if you match with the size you'd wear in standard long underwear it'd be fine.

The other respondent to me was correct, though--like all long johns these are fairly warm. I'm fine in them spring, fall and winter, but summer is a different story. It is an uninsulated open-weave mesh, so breathes well enough and it does a great job of creating air channels under your jeans, but I tend to just take my chances for a couple of months of the year rather than add more layers.

Edit: to make sure we're looking at the same thing, I mean the ones reviewed here, https://www.webbikeworld.com/draggin-liners-review/
Have you asked anybody if you smell?

My dad had this "crystal rock" deodorant that he thought was working until we told him otherwise.
Fair warning, Denver may not be Seattle bad, but people are moving here at a crazy clip and traffic continues to degrade as we fail to see improvements in roads or mass transit to effectively offset the growth. And with the possibility Amazon HQ2 landing here it may only get worse.
Consumers have a choice of not using the service. It's possible to survive without using Facebook.
How to Teach Programming (and Other Things)
They don't have to win. It suffices to overwhelm the legal resources of their opponent.
In my experience, what you say is very accurate.
Show HN: It's 2018 and js-cookie still fully supports IE 6
The Venezuelan government days are numbered
No way.. it would be completely unbeliveable. We might have a firedrill, but that would be super rare.
Here's the background for the plan to move away from IE 6: https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie/issues/370

Here's a summary showing how I saw the community to move away from IE 6:

* SauceLabs stopped supporting IE 6.
* QUnit stopped supporting IE 6.
* grunt-contrib-uglify started failing because they stopped supporting oldIE by default.
* The Mozilla polyfill (link above), somehow doesn't work in BrowserStack but worked in Sauce Labs before they removed IE 6 support.

The reason why we kept supporting IE 6 is mostly out of fun. There's not a lot of work to support that, it's mostly testing and avoid using a couple of newer features such as "const", "let", "forEach", etc.

As a side-effect, I was able to see this transition up to a point where we're getting more and more without options.

I wonder when there will be no more knowledge of IE 6 and newcomers will just wonder how development was at that time.

Have we reached that point already?

This journey was extremely fun.
Venezuelan citizens are not armed as many in the US.
I hope that this can be made much easier in the future.
For social networking companies, I believe that it means targeting influencers to take advantage of their networks' coverage is much less powerful than first thought. An advertiser won't expect to be able to steer dollars towards just a few of the truly deeply connected influencers and gain outsized rewards; instead, they'll have to target lots of influencers, reducing the ROI of the project.
Do you really want to use that currency to buy, trust respect, and responsibility for things outside your job description?

You have to watch out that a "go getter" attitude doesn't result in you just getting overburdened.
So at minimum they've got your identity and much of your browser history.

Seems reasonable to call that obscene.
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice.

There are several such countries, here is a list: http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=Copyright_in_English_la...

You can google for more info.

Some more points:

- not all images have copyright (public domain images, most images by NASA, etc).

- printing out things is certainly something people do, why do you assume that’s trolling?

- whether copyright and copyright infringement are right/wrong/moral/immoral is a discussion for a different time

And in the end, people might just not care whether their desktop background is properly licensed or not. Is yours?

And what would you actually do about the kids birthday invite with a Mickey Mouse on it?
Tesla is a MapBox customer.

https://electrek.co/2017/07/03/tesla-map-navigation-open-sou...
How long would it take to widen the freeways to account for the same number of commuters that the light rail is predicted to carry? I'm guessing rebuilding all those roads, overpasses, underpasses, purchasing rights of way, etc, take some serious time and money..
> It always saddens me how mathematicians seem to look down on “intuition”.

They do this for good reason. I had to take, as part of my philosophy concentration, a bunch of mathematical logic classes. First Order and Second Order logic, as you might imagine, are pretty simple. The rules make sense in a very intuitive way. I'd get 100 on exams just because I'm good at programming. But when I had to study metalogic, model theory, Henkin Proofs, and Godel's Theorems, that intuition quite literally flies out the window. I guess my point is that most interesting stuff is rarely intuitive.
If you're Canadian then there generally is. [0][1]

0: https://ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/scent_free.html

1: https://www.allergicliving.com/2010/07/02/scent-free-workpla...
ASU has a degree called 'informatics' that's run by the computer science faculty but focused more on <the application of technology to other things> rather than <the technology and creation of technology itself.>

I just transferred into it from computer science, because I spend all my free time making games anyway, and the informatics program lets me take an elective track to get credit for that. I do think CS is probably a better fit for what I see as my long term plan, but I think this program has a lot of potential for people who wouldn't otherwise call themselves engineers.
No, still isn't Java.
that would require more testing, I only had a few mins to play with it, but yeah - I'm curious too.
I just read on Wikipedia that the exit tax was 25% from $700k, later revised downwards to $200k. I'm assuming that's on total assets, not just unrealised gains.

Obviously not defending what had happened here, but that doesn't seem unreasonable in a time of war? Currently the US also levies an exit tax of around 25% on unrealised gains.

At the time it was also quite easy for wealthy people to evade taxes and not be prosecuted for it, for the better part of the 20th century.

I'm assuming, at the time, people had more pressing issues to deal with than their money...
A fun read every once in a while, but reads a bit repetitively^^

I love what he did if he gets hackernews as referrer though :P