skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have complaints about the roads in the area where I live, and also how my taxes are spent.

If I didn't have roads in the area where I live, I wouldn't complain about it, I'd leave.

There's a pretty big difference between these two situations. It's easy to focus on the bad side of taxes, but it's important not to forget that they pay for some very basic stuff that shouldn't be taken for granted. There are plenty of things we would disagree about spending taxes on, I'm sure, but it's rather silly to pretend that you disagree with the existence of taxes completely when in fact you depend on them.
Clojure, because of Datomic.
This is an important point.

I'm probably counted different now that my six months of unemployment have run out. I didn't necessarily 'turn down' work but I also didn't apply for jobs that would have me driving over an hour one way for $12-15 for what is supposed to be a somewhat experienced position (IT work w/ a lot of requirements). This is in LA so shit's already experience.

Right now, I could've been working two weeks ago if a recruiter had had their shit together (interviewed and got job four weeks ago; actual paperwork took two weeks; when I could've started, they found out their contract w/ company had expired).

It's very frustrating out here even having done the things the media bullhorn has said to do - work in tech, work in an office, etc etc.
The thing that drives climate change is the burning of fossil fuels needed produce electricity in the first place. Keeping the rate of electric production constant will not help us. The fact that electric energy usage is dropping is a good thing and we should keep a negative derivative, not increase it! There needs to be a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, keeping it constant (or even worse, increasing it) will not help this.

I really think everyone needs to take a step back from the HN ideology and think this through. Here climate change has a chance to essentially kill our grand children or at the very least leave them with a much more barren of a planet and a life. But somehow, the issue of a single institution's profit is somehow more important than actual people, children.

The free market is a tool, it shouldn't be more important than human lives.
Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008)
I disagree completely. Psychopaths are as psychopaths do. If anything I expect we'll get better at diagnosing/detecting them and perhaps discovering sub-classes of them, of which perhaps some are problematic and some are not. We'll most likely continue to call the problematic ones psychopaths since we'll need a label to discuss people lacking in empathy who commit terrible crimes or make people's lives hell for fun and profit. Maybe some of the people we now call psychopaths will be called something else and redeemed in the popular imagination. But as long as the worst people we now call psychopaths continue to exist I think there will be no strong drive to retire or sanitize the word.
What strikes me is how cheap the economics of social noise is. Writers are cheap and in huge supply, and can churn out tons of content (content writers can output 20+ blogposts a week).

I'd suspect that based on economics alone, these troll departments are not only Russian, but also probably used by every major political party. They just know how to toe the truthiness line better in order to remain under the public eye.

It's not fake news, it's a broader category of influence media.
There is this oddness between how programming in Haskell feels and programming in Python. Each time I go back to Haskell to try and learn a bit more about that environment, I find the mindset carrying over to what I write in Python.
I used to buy a lot of water and can taste the plastic. Large multi-gallon jugs are the worst. Volume packaged small bottles can be bad too. If you wonder what to look for - drill a hole in a plastic bottle (had to, since the lid wasn’t opening) and look at at your own risk taste the water afterwards. You won’t forget the taste and will be able to detect it elsewhere. With BPA causing estrogen surges, it can be valuable to have some kind of detection mechanism, especially at conferences and events.
life insurance wouldn't pay out.

New policies wouldn't pay. But established policies (usually over 2 years of age) may pay out in the event of a suicide. So that isn't a good justification.
IB has a debit card but no bank account, dunno if that's enough. You can also receive and initiate ACH transfers, but that doesn't pay credit card bills without routing through a checking account with bill pay.

What's stopping me from using IB is the $10/month commission minimum. It's waived at $100k account balance, so I plan on switching over then.
Murderers come in all shapes and colors.
If Robinhood opened up an API, wouldn't it be possible to invest in a way that mirrors existing index funds? I'm not super familiar with the details but it feels like it would be.
How is it instant? It takes 30 - 60 mins to have enough confirmations to be sure, and also pay a fee for miners to even take your transaction.
>Given that a Tesla can charge on 80 amps

Note that EVs are considered "continuous loads" under the US electrical code, so the circuit actually needs to be sized for 125% of the load (ie to charge at 80 A requires 100 A service, not 80 A service).
Industrial robots kill people all the time. And have for years. So nothing new legally.
Based on your article, congenital syphilis is extremely, extremely rare. Lead poisoning seems to also be rather low, compared to 50 years ago. I know these two things happen. I asked if they are significant. Seems like they are not.
That Russia is acting like a spoiled country is not much in doubt. What I hope doesn't happen is a needless tit-for-tat escalation. I think much of this goes back to the ill-conceived and ill fated "Reset" with Clinton (at the behest of Obama). For whatever reason Putin and Obama didn't get along.

I'm hopeful that cold-war warriors don't dominate the policies to come. If we (they and us) take that tack, we're in for a bad stretch. I'm hoping the current administration is capable of bucking the Russophobia the Dems are so attached to and committed to, mostly for internal political reasons.

Let's get real, deal with Russia as the adversary it is, but in a level-headed manner. Let's face it, they do not care about sanctions. One Bit. They will survive with or without the rest of the world but we get to deal with their blow back.

Obama granted N Korea's Kim more respect than he did Putin. I think that was a grave mistake on his part and we're now paying for this slight with these passive-aggressive moves.
The FBI studies mass murderers, and have a few models to explain people who kill themselves and their families. Typically the killer is a middle aged man, who “snaps” and kills his intended targets and himself. The typologies are generally broken down into roughly the following :

Possessive rage.

-A form of, “if I can’t have them, no one can.” Can also be even colder, “They’re mine to kill.” A family to this kind of person can be seen as something which belongs to them, and has no place existing in their absence.

Disappointment with life in general, and his family in particular.

-This typology bears the most similarity to mass murderers. The pilot who crashes his own plane, passengers and all, or the office shooter are not unlike this.

-The killer almost always attempts suicide.

Revenge against the mother.

-Most often seen shortly after separation or losing custody, less likely to end in suicide.

Paranoid ideation (protecting them by killing them).

-Most often seen in the context of psychotic depression.

-Suicide is inevitable.

I know nothing about the man in this case, and so I’m speaking in general typologies. I’d caution people against assuming that he must have simply been depressed and suicidal however. Most people in that situstion only want to hurt themselves, and rarely have the energy, desire, or will to murder their children.
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Which number is it that you’re taking to be arbitrary? I would expect that the product of two non-arbitrary numbers to be non-arbitrary. (Although I think tau might be a small improvement upon pi.)
I agree Robinhood is better than the incumbents in multiple ways. But at some time, other startups offer similar benefits while promoting an approach that is more likely to help the average person increase their wealth in the long term.

I don't think Robinhood is terrible. I just think someone who doesn't know what they're doing would be better off starting with Betterment or Acorns, which are just as user friendly as Robinhood.
Fantastic! My thanks to David Malcolm for this work. I think this will help a lot of people.
Anyone interested in seeing the, "proof" that Russia was responsible can see it here:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A

As with virtually every other accusation of "Russian hacking", there is actually nothing presented suggesting that it was Russians that performed these hacks, let alone conclusively proving that. The line of "reasoning" used to accuse Russia of being responsible is, yet again, the same bit of tired tripe. It boils down to, "this attack uses methods that we suspect Russians have used in the past, and we assert that Russians would have liked to do this hack, therefore we have proof that it was Russians".

>Malicious email campaigns dating back to late 2015 were used to gain entry into organizations in the United States, Turkey and Switzerland, and likely other countries, Symantec said at the time, though it did not name Russia as the culprit.

In other words, these were generic fishing attacks that could have been performed by anyone. Since anyone and everyone uses these fishing attacks, we had no idea who it was in 2015. However, now that everyone is blaming everything on Russia, we can safely do so without even casual scrutiny of our claims.
Okay, okay... I’ll be the lone Swift user. I really enjoy the type safety and in line parameter names on function calls. Of the type safe languages it feels like it has the minimal about of scaffolding needed to run some code.
>When have we not been on the verge of a “mass species extinction” event on our blue dot?

Try 90+% of Earth's history?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

Though all living humans are alive during the current (anthropocene) extinction event, so in that sense "we" have never known anything else.
That’s one thing an oligarch’s lawyer is paid for... to take the fall when the shit hits the fan.
You're sounding like an irrational Airtable fanboy here.

At least Fieldbook and probably also Ragic are very similar to Airtable and fill the exact same niche, with some small diferences, and they're not mediocre at all.
Most ETFs support DRIP and the dividends reinvestment happens at the fund level.
I think your points are important separately, but the crucial missing part is that electric energy production is rapidly becoming decoupled from greenhouse gas production. It is no longer an either/or situation.
I sense strong elements of Milo Minderbinder in there too -

---

“If they had any loyalty, they would buy my cotton till it hurts so that they can keep right on buying my cotton till it hurts them some more. They would build fires and burn up their underwear and summer uniforms just to create a bigger demand. But they won’t do a thing. Yossarian, try eating the rest of this chocolate-covered cotton for me. Maybe it will taste delicious now.”

Yossarian pushed his hand away. “Give up, Milo. People can’t eat cotton.”

Milo’s face narrowed cunningly. “It isn’t really cotton,” he coaxed. “I was joking. It’s really cotton candy, delicious cotton candy. Try it and see.”

“Now you’re lying.”

“I never lie!” Milo rejoindered with proud dignity.

“You’re lying now.”

“I only lie when it’s necessary,” Milo explained defensively, averting his eyes for a moment and blinking his lashes winningly. “This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It’s made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you’ve got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.”

“But it’s indigestible,” Yossarian emphasized. “It will make them sick, don’t you understand? Why don’t you try living on it yourself if you don’t believe me.”

“I did try,” admitted Milo gloomily. “And it made me sick.”
The Vanguard web experience isn't great, I agree. But if you set up a recurring automated purchase you rarely need to log in and mess with it. Set it and forget it.

Viewed another way, I would say the Vanguard fund costs are low for a reason. It seems unfair to expect a Mercedes experience for a Honda worth of expense ratio.
You can learn more about the person behind this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
Past contests involved:

* Solving origami

* Orbital maneuvering

* Writing AI for various NP-complete games, sometimes involving implementing VMs and compilers

* Hexagonal Cthulhu tetris

Mark your calendars, find some teammates and enjoy!
The UX of development tools is such an incredibly fundamental thing to fix.

Back in the day it was acceptable to build things without thinking how easy they were to use, indeed being "easy" was somehow a bad thing, like people who used to deride users of Mac OS.

The same applies to development tools, you aren't dumb if your tool is unhelpful, and if it takes 5 seconds less to see a problem, multiply that by how often that problem is encountered around the world, and you're making a significant difference to productivity.

Not to mention developer sanity. Why should designers have nice tools and we get tools that hate us?
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but have you tried sharepoint? It's a horrible product for just about any use case, but ad hoc data entry forms and view for them are where it really shines. It should have more than enough API wise.
How would Russian govt benefit from this? I only see immediate negative effects - sanctions and other punitive measures.

How did intel even conclude that Russian govt itself is behind this? A healthy dose of skepticism is necessary, otherwise it sounds like Iraq v2
The fact that a government agency fails to provide the services you're taxed to pay for does not mean they should get more money. I pay far higher taxes where I live now than when I lived in an openly socialist country that had better roads, faster police response times, better (and universal) healthcare. Every time I dig into specific government projects the amount of waste and corruption is disgusting. Wanting to throw more money at it is stupid, and the burden of proof is not on the people who want to be taxed less that it's actually doing anything.
Psychopathy is a specific kind of mental illness and I don't think it's self-evident that anyone who would kill their children is a psychopath rather than afflicted with some other form of mental illness.
Strange thing about article, is that CTS-Labs founders admit that they used to work for intelligence.
I know several people, who worked for intelligence. They never say "I worked for intelligence" and instead, tell you what they currently do and completely bypass "intelligence".
True.

It's not something I'd want to leave to chance though-- it's someone else's money.

When my ex's mother died of natural causes, her life insurance refused to pay out. She wasn't around to contest the matter. The choice became to write it off or fight a costly legal battle and recover a fraction of it.
Ahh yes, nothing more respectful or justified than smugly calling a deceased person who had mental health issues a "psychopath" while you barely knew anything about them or their personal issues.
Well, it was the day after the AMD news release, so it's timed pretty well.

"Our goal is to offer not only the best performance, but also the best secure performance."

Jab!
I try to remember these things when I look at the modern cathedrals, in Germany's case the new Berlin Airport, the new Stuttgart railway station, and, recently completed, the Hamburg philharmonia building - also called the German Bermuda triangle for its ever increasing costs and time-frame.

In the long term, this was the normal way to build large structures, and hopefully future generations will look at them and still be able to enjoy, even if we have to pay more and more and keep waiting.
It is a lot easier to decrease CO2 from electricity then from heat.
Haskell. I like the power of using a powerful type system to get more guarantees when you compile your program. It's like getting additional unit tests with 100% code coverage for free.
The whole charged-per-user SaaS culture is stupid.

SaaS had to be priced somehow, then someday someone came up with the idea of charging per-user and everybody followed that up, but it is not smart. Most SMB end up sharing accounts, which makes your product look worse than it actually is and at the same time makes your users miserable.
I don't admire active investors. Most of them are going to get killed on commissions and fees and won't be able to compete with the professionals who spend all day, every day investing and have sources of information that aren't available to retail investors.

It's good that most Robin Hood investors are young and don't have much to lose. I hope they learn their lesson before they put they are old enough to put their retirement investments at risk.
Betterment, where you pay an extra quarter percent to buy Vanguard funds.
This is an amazing milestone, and a stake in the heart of the idea that blockchain tech is no different than "tulip bulbs".
This sounds pretty cool. I used to do recruiting, and designers were always hard to find, especially because most people didn't know how to hire a designer (including me).
These are not pedestrian vulnerabilities. Not only do they appear to destroy the security of the PSP enclave system AMD uses, but it actually makes systems that have the PSP less secure than systems that do. They're essentially the worst possible vulnerabilities you can find in a security coprocessor.

If you'd found the same class of vulnerabilities in Intel SGX or the iPhone SEP, you'd have a contender for the top vulnerability discovery of the year; an almost-lock on the Pwnie.

I simply can't understand the people who are downplaying this other than by assuming that people love AMD so much that they don't want these to be severe vulnerabilities.

Do I think this will move the stock? No. I don't think an SGX break would hurt Intel much either.
Speaking of terrible UX, I'm not sure what ITunes hopes to achieve by repeatedly asking me to log in while just playing some music. If I'm not using any feature that requires login, and I have literally clicked "cancel" 5 times at the login prompt since starting up iTunes a few days ago, it's just silly to keep asking me to log in.
The Bierhaus and Steins are fine establishments but Mountain View is a strange place and I soon left for the City. As an expat, I absolutely recommend the best way to meet people is to go out on a bike ride with a local group (try Alto Velo) nobody cares who you are or what you do, but everyone is pleased to see you. Do well.
Congrats, looks nice! Is it compatible with v5 and how does it interact with Gutenberg?
The only issue I have is having to use Xcode.. has that changed since the last time I looked into it?
I hope <my favorite big company> acquires Airtable and integrates them into <my favorite app suite I'm already using>.

Sounds easy, don't you think?
For a certain kind of person, it’s not the drama, but the loss of control or possession, or sense of failure. In the context of divorce, and a particularly sick personality, killing children is a way to maximally harm the mother.

People can be very odd.
Persistence is a big deal, but I can't help but feel a certain level of "meh" because my gut feeling is that persistence is a lot more useful in espionage and state actors than in the kind of business environments I deal with.

Maybe this is going to be the next big thing thrown into Metasploit so it can be easily used to make persistent something that's effective on a variety of systems with a variety of environments and data while still being subtle enough to avoid having the infection vector code make it into every AV package out there, but I doubt it.

To me the use of this kind of exploit feels like a very fine needle. Very fine needles are very very useful in a lot of specific situations, but very fine needles scattered haphazardly around the environment are a very different thing.
Thanks. I looked at blocks, but on a mobile view it only shows the maps option, not everything else :-(
Well, you have to do this for every language that does reference counting.
Most of the time I mention the topic of regular expressions to other developers, I usually hear self-critical commentary like "oh, I'm terrible at regex", and rarely anyone who loves them. I think they're great though, if you take the time to understand them. They're something like a Swiss Army knife for programming.
>At our current renewables deployment rate, it will take 400 years to swap out all fossil fuel generation

This seemed off to me, so I checked the source. From TFA (in Technology Review):

>Instead of the roughly 1,100 megawatts of carbon-free energy per day likely needed to prevent temperatures from rising more than 2 ˚C, as the 2003 Science paper by Caldeira and his colleagues found, we are adding around 151 megawatts. That’s only enough to power roughly 125,000 homes.

>At that rate, substantially transforming the energy system would take, not the next three decades, but nearly the next four centuries.

Can anyone tell me how can this possibly compute? 94% of new electricity generation is renewable,[1] and it's not like power plants have a lifetime of 400 years...

edit: Of course, it was staring me in the face the whole time. They're using numbers from 2003! Essentially they're looking at the tail beginning of the logistic adoption curve[2] (the sloooooooow exponential ramp) and extrapolating it in a linear fashion. But logistic curves are "S-shaped," not linear.

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/01/12/94-percent-new-electricity-ca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#Applications
You may have noticed that I'm not saying taxation is theft. I'm saying I'm against the massive portion of government spending that I think is rank with abuse, waste and misuse of power. I actually spent several days in the last year looking into what my property taxes are supposed to be paying for at the county level and exactly none of the services are being done near my property, except for one, and that one service complains about not having enough money even when they get massive bumps in their budget - no matter what they ask for, when they receive it it's not enough for them to fulfill their obligations. Taxation in general - no I think it's necessary one way or another for our society. But I think the vast majority of it is wasted without enough accountability or integrity. But I guess I can always vote against the people doing, right? Yeah that's working great. But it's just justified with, "but we have to have roads."
My mom called me out once as a kid for assuming she was less intelligent or incorrect just because of her accent.

It's one thing to correct your child on that misconception -- that's correct. It's another thing to insist on using an English word incorrectly -- that's incorrect.

I think you are coming from the right place but that you are trying to place blame on parents essentially for failing to “fit in” as much as for being strict.

Again, I'm not talking about being strict. I'm talking about basic communication and maintaining your credibility. What do you think about the boss who would rather maintain face and keep his dominance, as opposed to a boss who actually listens and prioritizes learning the truth? It's the same thing.