skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what of the First Amendment?

Frankly, an awful lot of speech is legal. Our own law bars the government from acting against it.

And that is a great thing!

Originally, the idea was we make a free nation, and the power of that speech, as well as the strength of our people, ideas, and overall justice in our society was going to change the world for the better.

The founders were radicals, and they were smart.

Let the other nations speak. It's not like we don't have a major league impact on so many of them today anyway.

And maybe we, here in the insular USA, could listen a little.

Anyone who has traveled outside the USA, makes the same discoveries:

Many developed nations understand our politics, the world in general, and their own national politics better than many Americans do their own. In some ways, I don't feel good about saying this either: We deserve a little of what we've got.

As a people, we aren't really doing the work to make this thing run well.

And health care? We don't have it right, AT ALL. The world knows it. The poor state of our body politic speaks right to that struggle. It's embarrassing.
I’m not recommending anyone use InDesign or similar tools for everything.

It’s a typesetting tool designed for producing paper documents. You should use it for your company’s magazine, menu, posters, and published books, not for your auto-generated technical documentation, your blog posts, or your internal emails.

The previous commenter wrote about what to do if you “don't want to spend a few $10k on professional typesetting software.” That’s much steeper than most people will spend on professional typesetting software.
Well, someone is educating the crypto-masses, and charging a reasonable fee for it.
> I don't believe they had any real impact.

While I certainly have some glee at seeing the Russia allegations come to light, it does seem that they probably aren't very relevant to the election result.

I think the biggest reason for the DNC's failure isn't necessarily even the DNC. It's more backlash against various human rights movements that have tried to win by silencing opposing opinions. While I largely agree with the goals of the human rights movements, focusing on preventing people from saying bigoted things has not prevented people from thinking bigoted things, and in fact has closed off dialogues that could possibly allow us to change bigoted thinking. The results are that the people who think bigoted things voted for a person who said what they felt they couldn't, and it blindsided human rights movements that hadn't been listening to those people and therefore didn't know what they thought.

A few examples of why I think this is:

1. The Reddit crackdown on hate speech. This was effective in making it so that the mainstream who might read Reddit doesn't have to hear hate speech any more, but anyone who thinks it produced positive political change should take a look at Voat. The bigots on Reddit didn't disappear, they went to Voat. I get it, it was tough, some of the comments on Reddit were hard to read. But now those same people are posting those same comments on Voat, and now those comments are going unchallenged by open-minded responses.

2. When I found out about the Trump stunt with families of people killed by illegal immigrants, I was in a room with a bunch of acquaintances, mostly liberal New Yorkers. The response from the people around me was that illegal immigrants kill so few people that the issue isn't statistically relevant. This struck me as a callous, utilitarian answer--it's literally saying that the grief of bereaved families doesn't matter. Trump was appealing to people's fear of violence, and the left has long-standing answers to that, such as gun control, the fact that violence is a function of poverty, etc. But the people in the room with me couldn't engage with those people's feelings because they only saw bigots on the screen. They had forgotten that bigot is also a person who fears and grieves.

Notably, a few of these acquaintances were writers for a liberal media organization--people who represent what the left thinks in the public eye.
Indeed. I've been online for over 30 years, and I can still read. Admittedly, though, I've come to prefer Stover, Abercrombie, Morgan and other violence porn. But hey.

And I also don't have the patience for audio and video. I'd maybe like audio if I commuted. But I don't. And hard music is better for that, in any case.
In my field there are always templates. LaTeX, or I guess TeX, works well until it doesn’t, and then fails in ugly ways (quite the opposite of Word, which will work all the time not very well). So overflow and underflow paragraphs are possible, so are orphans, though it tries to avoid them if the output is decent. This is nice because I can fix all my problems usually by refining my content (changing words, orders, etc...), I don’t actually have to dig deep into TeX to otherwise modify the format! This is quite usable in general, though there are huge debates on whether it is appropriate.

From what I can tell, Adobe follows the more technical approach, though I’ve only looked over my wife’s shoulder. The fact that I’m just producing PDFs with LaTeX is also different. If I’m writing a web essay, I don’t mind using straight HTML/CSS, even markdown doesn’t really convey many benefits for me.
Ok. So you asked what can be argued (from your own point of view) to be a rhetorical question. I’m glad we could get to the bottom of why you got downvoted.
On a slightly related note. My son was applying for his first job and I found out that he didn't know how to sign his name. He couldn't sign his own name in cursive. He said he hadn't been forced to write cursive since third grade....
I have a dream where someone writes a processor that will allow the writer to bang out some Markdown-ish plaintext and turn it into a p&a with automatically generated Table of Contents, Table of Authorities, caption, and pleading paper.

Call it LexDown or something even less mellifluous and free millions from the tyranny of Word style sheets forever.
In this case, maybe. But you have to do a sum over all cases to prove that your proposed solution is better. Otherwise it's just a way, post facto, to blame somebody. An error which is one of the biggest topics of Dekker's book.
Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years (2016)
Fixing SMS notifications for those using two-factor authentication
> Even ISIS was formed in American prisons.

This is probably what's getting you downvoted. This seems like an extreme claim that runs contrary to common knowledge but is presented without any evidence.

Do you have a source for that? According to Wikipedia ISIS started out in Jordan as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and merged with several other groups before rebranding itself as ISI in Iraq and later ISIL/ISIS/Daesh. Its founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did end up in prison early in his "career" (1992) but that was in Jordan, not in the US, and he already had founded a terrorist group at that time.

Considering al-Zarqawi is generally considered the leader/founder of ISIS and never saw a US prison, your claim seems odd.
Web essays is definitely not the place to use professional typesetting tools. Browsers are simply incapable of doing professional quality typesetting of the type books have had since the 15th century because the output environment is too heterogeneous, unless you abandon html and render documents as SVG or PDF or something (I would not recommend doing that). Authoring tools won’t help you. On the web the best you can do is make (or purchase/find) a decent CSS template and hope it’s readable enough for most viewers on most devices.
Signatures do not have to be in cursive, although they commonly are. Just something that is easy for the person to do, but difficult for others to reproduce (or not! I know some people, 30+ years old who just print their name, but their writing style is somewhat unique).
I note that this is a fully general argument for the permissibility of sweatshops of all sorts (as long as the company hasn't done anything other than set up and run the sweatshop). I also agree with it.
Great tool, will have to show my family

Did you account for the principal also accruing value while you're saving up?

E.g. In the HY Savings account for a 1K/month passive income, you need $827,586. If you saved $1K/month, and reinvested that income until you got the $827K, it should only take you 20 years, not 23.

The error gets bigger when looking at longer time frames and higher returns.
Money. Specifically, big money donors and their financial interests.

That's no joke.

And it is that simple. Just watch. That, and a couple other strong economic messages will be major issues in 2020.

Or, we will have another irrational election.
The concept is about 'what constitutes legitimate authority?' After all, consider your argument:

>'we already have laws about which people can get married. This is hardly an egregious extension of that power. The law is very plainly there to protect children.'

What you're advocating by disavowing the above, yet allowing the topic is to say you: "agree with authority when it happens to agree with my moral compass."

Sayinf "disagreeing with this is an extremely odd thing to argue," reveals the fact that the original intentions of the founders of this country (assuming you live in the States), as well as those of Enlightenment figures, that government is only legitimate whwn it is limited, is so odd and alienating to you makes me think that no wonder humanity always turns itself in to tyranny, over and over again.
There only better wiki I have seen is the Gentoo wiki.
I didn't know "fall sleep" worked in English too. The phrase used in Persian [0] would translate to the same thing.

[0] خواب رفتن, transliteration: "khab raftan"
Well at least the decent, law-abiding people have their power handed back to them:)... how come IBM is always involved... public IT project? IBM is already there, granted. They are Google/Facebook for public sector, i.e. they manage personal profiles (in fact very sensitive data) on behalf of authorities in too many countries across the world.
If you can sweep into office on the basis of a single policy, you don’t actually need those donors. Once in office the people with money and agendas will need you, and since you only need to maintain one policy you could be everybody’s meat.

So again, why not?
So you are arguing that at a scale it makes no difference to ride a bicycle since everyone else drives a car.

I'm not sure what to say to this. I really don't have any answers to big societal problems.
The big issue is the low-quality of machine learning / applied CS literature in general. Pull a paper and try implementing their algorithm(s). You'll be almost certainly guaranteed to encounter barriers ranging from mistakes in the paper, omissions / ambiguities in the paper, to even downright fabrications.

The entire field has a reproducibility problem, which implies that as a academic community we're just churning out pubs and not actually doing science.

I'm helping form Nature's foray into ML (https://www.nature.com/natmachintell/), and we're strongly considering enforcing a requirement that FOSS source code be published in a public venue (like github), and requiring that at least some benchmarks are established on publicly (but perhaps not freely) available data sets. This won't be appropriate for every paper of course, but our editorial staff is certainly going to be focused on maintaining scientific quality.
There's a spectrum of activity.

CS:GO skins lie at one extreme. If you pay $2.49 to open a case and win a valuable skin, you can directly sell it for cash on the Steam community market, with Valve pocketing a cut of the transaction. Skins have also become a form of currency used in casino and sportsbook gambling.

You can buy skins for real money on the Steam community market, gamble them on a game of roulette on a site with Steam API integration, then cash out your winnings on the community market. Valve's role in the process is absolutely brazen.

The situation with FIFA Ultimate Team is slightly more murky - you can't directly cash out cards or coins, but the in-game trading mechanic effectively facilitates transactions in real money. You can open packs, sell the cards for FIFA coins, then trade your coins for cash through a third-party site. In-game items are used as tokens in third-party gambling activities. Unlike CS:GO, this third-party activity isn't facilitated by an API provided by EA.

This is vaguely reminiscent of the loophole used by pachinko parlours - you can only convert your pachinko balls for non-cash prizes, but a vendor just around the corner will give you cash for those prizes.

FIFA-related gambling has led to criminal prosecutions in the UK.

http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statist...

Overwatch skins can only be won from lootboxes and can't be traded in any way, so Blizzard probably have the strongest claim to legitimacy. Opening Overwatch lootboxes might mimic gambling in some respects, but the "prizes" unarguably have no cash value. The business model strikes me as a bit seedy, but it isn't obviously within the purview of a gambling regulator. There may be a case for regulation under consumer protection laws, but it's not obviously different to baseball cards or blind bags.
.net core?
How not to replace email: lessons from Google Wave
I don’t see any submission from you for this. I’ve seen submissions from some domains get marked dead by default (often spam-type sites it seems). I don’t know if that’s the case here. Can you describe how you’ve tried to submit and what the failure mode has been?

As an aside, I can understand you might be frustrated, but please don’t immediately assume bad faith or malicious intent. Even stories which are flagged dead can be resurrected by members who vouch for it or mods if they think it’s appropriate. You’ve provided far too little information here for someone else besides a mod to easily figure out what might be going on. You can also contact the mods directly via the Contact link in the footer, which is often the most expedient method of getting an authoritative response.
Very well put. I would only add that by medicating we are simply treating the symptoms.

In the same way that cough syrup will never cure a cold, antidepressants alone will never cure depression.
The products already "support" Prime Video apps. Amazon has just chosen not to create said apps. Amazon's language in this case is proof enough to me of its bad faith. But the point remains that this is a relatively minor case of anti-competitiveness, and I don't think the public interest would be served by breaking the company up.
I can’t read fiction as much as I used to when I was younger. But I work in publishing. I figured it was as much burnout as anything else.
Automatic text generation – applications and examples
Ask HN: What will fees be on the Lightning Network?
If I operate a node and want to charge a per-transaction fee, what could I charge without alienating the network or payment routing algorithm?
Well, one thing is the mere act of commenting on X tends to make one more committed to X. The process of becoming what you say is accelerated by people posting links, memes, cut-and-paste-me's and so-forth.

A person may not fully believe meme X but they may "find it interesting", may want to "rattle people's chains a bit". Then someone else launches a full attack on meme X and the person feels, attacked, and defends, attacks the other person and so-forth. Polarization is powerful and well-documented dynamic on the net.
Haven’t read the novels yet, but have watched half of Altered Carbon series on Netflix. This was the first thing that came to and a resounding ‘hell no.’
In Russian they don't fall asleep by themselves, it is you who make them so. 'Я отлежал руку' - I made my arm fall asleep by lying on it.
Less than 5% of their revenue for sure.
The German phrases (Ameisenlaufen, pelzige Haut) seem odd. As a native German I've never heard of them and there's a grammatical error in the second one (it's cited as "pelziges Haut", the grammatical gender of the adjective and noun don't match up: Haut is feminine but pelziges indicates neuter). He doesn't seem to be a native speaker so I'd take that claim with a grain of salt.
>I'm curious if he hesitates to kill spiders since writing this article.

DFW committed suicide many years ago.
I find many of these points unconvincing. All of the pros listed at the beginning also apply to TeX, some arguably better than to Markdown. As far as I can tell, Markdown has several advantages over LaTeX, but these aren't highlighted in the article:

* Markdown is easier to learn (at least the basics)

* Markdown is more readable when in plain text format

* Markdown doesn't require boilerplate/metacode such as package imports

* Markdown more easily and naturally renders to HTML (biggest one in my opinion)

(I don't particularly find any of these that convincing for my uses except maybe the last one.)
This is some pretty high level misinformation. Amazon (or anyone) can write apps against the Cast API (https://developers.google.com/cast/). Amazon has just chosen not to.
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You mind sharing the list on https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUF19IlXcAE2UC6.jpg:large
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Puns in journalistic reporting are as old as printed news itself. If anything they have become significantly less popular with time.
Generally GA aircraft have a 500’ AGL limit to adhere to; and it’s higher above built-up / high density areas.
The submissions to the Inquisitr are autokilled. See https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=inquisitr.com with "showdead" enabled.

For an official reply, send an email to the mod in the morning hn@ycobinator.com , sometimes they unkill the story.
I have not tried it yet but the OpenIndiana project is designated as a desktop distribution of Illumos. SmartOS is based on Illumos as well. OpenIndiana seems promising but I would not set my expectations too high for the desktop experience. However, if you virtualize Ubuntu or another *Nix distribution under OpenIndiana, it may fill some needed gaps.
(In addition / As an alternative) to Pandoc, has anyone tried Bookish [0] by Terrence Parr of ANTLR fame?

It was referenced by Jeremy Howard in a HN comment [1] on the submission for their "Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning " HN submission of 18 days ago [2]:

>Jeremy here. Here to answer any questions or comments that you have.
>
>But more importantly - I need to mention that Terence Parr did nearly all the work on this. He shared my passion for making something that anyone could read on any device to such an extent that he ended up creating a new tool for generating fast, mobile-friendly math-heavy texts: https://github.com/parrt/bookish . (We tried Katex, Mathjax, and pretty much everything else but nothing rendered everything properly).
>
>I've never found anything that introduces the necessary matrix calculus for deep learning clearly, correctly, and accessibly - so I'm happy that this now exists.

[0] https://github.com/parrt/bookish

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267593

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267178
Olympics cater to the masses for support. Men wearing dresses would turn off so many viewers I can't think of a faster way to shut it down.
Tutanota: Encrypted Open Source Email Service for Privacy Minded People
If you can't sell it, and it can't be paid for directly how can it be worth "between $0.1x and $10x" Some items might be more desirable but you can't pay more or less for them. That is rather different than a raffle where the prize is usually something easy to put a price on.
This is pretty clear bait, but his choice to commit suicide gives absolutely no information on his position on harming other creatures.
As a young person (high school) I can assure you that this is most probably false.
Default Androids Track Location History Even with Airplane Mode On [video]
I'm not familiar with NYC, but typical techniques involve refusing to issue business or construction permits, or imposing untenable restrictions.
Exactly. Amazon's SRPs are an utterly miserable browsing experience because it's so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. So many no-name Chinese garbage importers, out-of-stock-except-for-gougers, redundant listings for the same product, etc. Stuff you'd never have to deal with on a meatspace store shelf.
Give me a break! 50+ books? No one needs that many books to develop a game engine.
This is reminiscent of the untraceable phone hotline in The Shockwave Rider (the 1975 novel that gave us the term, and idea, "computer worm"). In this case the worm protected the anonymity of the "Hearing Aid" -- you could call that number, say whatever you liked, and at the end someone at the other end would say "only I heard that" and hang up.

The ability not to be overheard is becoming increasingly precious.
I’d like to believe you but I tried submitting from another account: http://imgur.com/a/tDiA7
Check out https://firecalc.com for a great utility to estimate what you need to retire on.
YouTube itself is having the identity crisis. With the launch of YouTube Red, it stopped being YouTube and started being TheirTube. The fact that they have moved away from their online editor and have made recent anti-creator revenue changes is just more evidence that the people at the top don't quite understand what made YouTube great in the first place: You.
No, I do not have the same feeling.

You can always try Reddit, Facebook, Fark, or your favorite topic-specific forum for a different flavor of commentary.
The weird part of all this is lobster was considered garbage only about a 100 years ago.

I live in a rural area and the farmers would use whole lobsters as fertilizer on their fields. This only after anyone bothered to collect them from the beaches, no fishermen were catching them.

Even when people did eat them anyone who did was poor. My mother in her mid 70s said to me kids at school who had lobster were mocked because everyone knew they were poor "Eww lobster".

I wonder what the Swiss law says about shellfish such as clams, mussels, quahogs, geoducks etc. all those are boiled. Compassion is one thing but outright lunacy is another.
This is what success looks like. Thanks for making TLS easy and free.
Also - post things that are more interesting that Politics.

There is such an abundance of Political fodder that it makes political stories less relevant or interesting.

There's a place for it, but it's not here. If people wanted that, there would be no need for HN's.

It's not really censoring as much as that's the boring content that's on every other major news syndicate.
This probably explains it but definitely wasn’t apparent in the error message shown.
And on the flip side, if you treat your dog like a human, it’ll probably wind up being a misbehaving menace.
We are at 800 people per sq. km now that's quite a bit.
At the end of his life my late father would call me four times a day. One of the hardest adjustments for me has been getting used to those calls not coming.

I'd always call my dad every time I made an out of town trip. He'd worry so I always would let him know that I'd returned home safely. Multiple times I've had the phone in my hand, start to dial his number and stop. Grief is a bitch folks.
I like to cook my lobster sous-vide at well below boiling, can’t imagine that’d be any better for the bug...
This isn’t about politics. It is about how tech companies are enabling outsiders to create political discord and influence elections.
They say it takes ten years to get the bugs out of a filesystem. Unfortunately I think a general release is necessary to mature a new FS.
When I was in uni I used Latex to format work that had math and needed better organization (theses, publication papers). For simpler stuff like comp sci assignments I did it in markdown and ran it through pandoc.
I'd read written instructions first, possibly including clarifying diagrams. I'd continue to a video if the written instructions were insufficiently clear. Video is almost never my medium of first resort; it's intuitive, but inflexible.