skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you mentioned Battlebots, I wanted to mention that when I was on Battlebots in 2002, the options for batteries were pretty damn slim.

The was one company making a good product called Battlepacks (for lightweight - super heavyweight classes). If you were doing anything in the smaller weight classes (antweights through the 30lbers), you were typically hijacking a lot of remote aviation resources.

The options available now are much better than they used to be.
This made the rounds on Reddit a few months ago, and it was called airbornOS back then. Glad to see they dropped the "OS" part, as it really isn't an OS.
Because even the people who invented modern computing and have a complete understanding of how the internet works, are still vulnerable to the bad habits that dictate our ability to use the internet.

I think what he is also saying is that Yahoo had a built in buffer, that they had to work really hard to fuck up. Because even Genius's turned to Yahoo to Google things for a long time.

Also anytime a genius can't do a basic task it is "interesting". Viral sites like Buzzfeed love spreading stories about how Steven Hawking couldn't figure out how to use his Comcast remote control.
I mostly agree, however:

> Blaming everything on "the other side" as you are doing here

> Step up and work the problem, rather than contribute to it.

My argument is that HN is increasingly becoming a ~"progressive, illiberal echo chamber", where dissenting ideas are not welcome or open for discussion, and censored (to the degree that people like me often have to wait up to several hours or until the next day (in which case the discussion is effectively over) to post a comment as I am almost always in the penalty box, for the reasons being discussed here).

If that's true, should the onus be only on the censored side to fix the situation?

If you believe my claim isn't true:

- do you believe that it is possible for any community to be like this?

- do you believe HN has any imperfections at all in this respect?
Kaspersky, as both an security firm and an agent of the Russian state, certainly has the capacity to identify the probable source of APTs.

As Slingshot is a US-originated APT deployed against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the US is in conflict with the Russian state in Syria, it's a newsworthy question as to what aspect of Kaspersky's job is most relevant here.
That is inspiring!
> just got hired by Google. And I've got about 20 years on you.

As impressive as your achievement is, I'm equally impressed that Google finally started addressing their perceived ageism problem.
There was a time when some would have said the same of AOL.
In general, honesty and following the rules I think correlates to religion. Religion isn't necessary, but I believe something formal is necessary. I see no reason whatsoever to believe that people are going to each come to similar fairly optimum decisions individually, and plenty of reasons to believe they won't.
Yes if the watermark was for original Netflix Originals I would appreciate the utility. Even Red vs. Blue is marked as a Netflix Original but I believe it predates even YouTube.
To answer many of the replies:

(Most prominent -> least prominent)

Web-related: Go, Elixir, JavaScript, Python

Desktop GUI: Python, C++

Game-Dev: C#, C++

Really its a matter of how much you'll pay us, and I think we've been scarred by too many bloated Rails apps and Wordpress sites to want to work on those.
The difference is the extent to which those companies make that data accessible to third parties.

Disclaimer: I work for Google
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Why do you think someone can't solve fundamental domain problems by thinking about it for 10 seconds? :)
I don't know of any company that publicly advertises the bonuses they give (if any) to employees for finding vulnerabilities in their own software. That seems more like part of someone's job description.
In capitalism it's mostly the customer's responsibility to switch when a company becomes too-evil in some way. Depending on your politics you could, perhaps, argue with some truth that network effects make that extremely difficult for social media sites, so the only solution is to have the government extensively regulate FB, twitter, etc, but I am not entirely convinced. IIRC FB engagement with teenagers and early-20s folks is already declining noticably in the US (though there probably are multiple reasons for that beyond just privacy concerns).
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I've known several people that have changed email addresses several times in the last decade, but their FB profile has been stable and always shown the most current email address.

Some of them are less technically proficient that rely on whomever their current ISP or employer is for email. Some of them are more technically proficient and use changing email addresses as an Inbox Zero technique or as a nuclear option in spam fighting.
Poland's economic experiment based on Thomas Piketty
A dog that raised a paw on the word “Hitler” infuriated the Nazis in 1941
Will the ‘new electricity’ please stand up
Interesting. Here I am trying to figure out what I can do to get out of technology at 40+.

Congrats on finishing school!
They leave out a critical fact, which you can find buried in The Hill article they deride:

" “Consciously or otherwise,” The Guardian states, “the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page — home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends — directly into the central Obama database.”
Facebook had no problem with such activity then. They do now. "

Consciously or otherwise...

It was the same exact tactic, maybe only slightly less deceptive than CA's methods.
I would hope most of the lithium in old 18650s is recycled? But maybe that's me being overly optimistic.
With PfSense you can block by country or ASN and avoid huge blocklists
>> easy money

Some time around 1995-6, yahoo reported earnings $0.05/share above expectations after the markets closed, and the stock shot up more than $200.00 in after-hours trading. Can any company survive that?
... Or build the directory tree you want manually (Shell script, Makefile, ansible, whatever) and use skopeo to push it to a registry.
Can they cancel planned sells though? If so, it seems this would be a great way to get around insider trading laws. Just always have a bunch of sells scheduled, and cancel them if you don't need them.
Once I volunteered at a large tech non-profit. Between projects, I took over an unused desk in the sysadmin team cave. After lunch one day, I heard a loud noise. I went to the cave door - it looked out over a large cubicle farm.

There were now a dozen fires burning over a forty foot diameter, along with little bits of smoldering cubicle wall.

Someone had apparently removed the battery from a laptop, plugged it into a bench power supply, and then gone off to lunch. It exploded in their absence. It gave me an instant respect for li-ion batteries, plus a small concern every time I fly in a small metal tube full of a couple hundred laptop and phone batteries.

But several hundred used laptop batteries, with no balancing, in my garage, mounted on wood. NO FREAKING WAY EVER.
Part of those 20 centuries includes the Inquisition, slavery, selling of indulgences, persecution of the Protestants, the expulsion of the Jews, The Killing Time in Scotland, witch hunts, and corrupt popes, so it's not like this most of these caricatures are new or that a sense of history would help.

While it's true that everyone attended the parish church, it's not like historically they mingled and used the church as a place to put worldly status aside. Or rather, not since the 1400s (https://thesecondeclectic.blogspot.com/2012/12/churches-with... quotes 'Church Architecture' as “In the late Middle Ages the congregation sat down on the job and there was a drastic change in Christian worship—perhaps the most important in history. People, in effect, became custodians of individual spaces which they occupied throughout the service, and social distinctions made some spaces more privileged than others.” )

That weekly ritual also reminds us that "we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Nothing like a bit of negging to start the week.

The pilgrimages were during the medieval era. When I researched it a few years ago (after learning about someone who did the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela some 20 years ago), I was surprised to know that something like 20-50% of the adult population of Europe went on at least one pilgrimage, during the period 1150-1450. Along with, as you say, many feast days. (Parts of the US still have many feast days; eg, the Native American pueblos in New Mexico.)

But then we had the rise of power of central kings, who wanted people to work more, giving power and wealth to the king(dom). For example, the Swedish king Gustav Vasa forbade pilgrimages in 1545. So this loss, and "the State", occurred a long time ago, not just a few years ago.

And yet, pilgrimages are on the rise since Paulo Coelho's 1987 book about walking the Camino de Santiago, and the follow-on renewals of other pilgrim routes like Norway's St. Olav’s Way.
The parent is attempting to 'teach the controversy', by trying to convince others that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people on this subject (that government policy creates cultural norms, and these norms are suppressed creativity and intellectual conformity). The lie then becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically. These accusations aren't exclusively associated with race (the same was said of the Japanese, Soviets before them, Americans circa 1800s, etc), but that is merely cover when you accuse China of IP theft and the very concept is an intellectually deficient product of trade protectionism.

Deriding culture on the basis of tenuous claims is a deceptive way to evade accusations of racism.
at least a few comments would have been nice..
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Lithium Ion batteries do not contain any lithium metal. They are considered Class B fires. Do not use a Class D extinguisher on them. Water is an acceptable way to extinguish a Li-Ion battery. Most battery factories use water to extinguish Lithium Ion battery fires.

Lithium-METAL batteries on the other hand require a Class D extinguisher. They are not Lithium Ion batteries. They are single use devices and can NOT safely be recharged.
> Remarkably, we have arrived at a system where academics feel a moral obligation to perform the thankless task of reviewing the work of other academics, anonymously and unpaid. This undoubtedly makes the literature better than it would otherwise have been, and ensures at least one reader for each paper.

I'm afraid it doesn't ensure that all papers will be read. Some papers can attract more attention, some papers can even receive too much comments with relevant comments being drown in the sea of observations.
I don’t know much about MS other that it’s bad. Care to share more details of your story? Many thanks on advance
My biggest regret
thoughts on rails 5? coming from rails 3 -> 4 -> 5, it solved a lot of issues for me.
Combined. I don't seem to have kept that breakdown, but it was about what you'd expect from population.
"In contrast to what all the expert statisticians here have to say, I watched a guy on Youtube play Russian roulette and he was fine. I've played these kinds of "dangerous" games myself and it's always been fine. Ignore the experts, what could go wrong?"

There are all kinds of dangerous things in the world, and many can injure or kill you if you don't treat them carefully. I don't understand the callous disregard for safety concerns, nor the attacks on people with expertise and credentials in these areas, all in favor of some random guy you saw on Youtube who happened to survive and your own limited experience.
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What about YouTube channels?
I would totally DDOS legal with a deluge of stupid inventions.

Toilet which makes farting sounds when you flush it.

Spoon with a hole in it so you spill on yourself.

Mug without an opening (solid cylinder with handle)

Computer monitor that only displays the color pink.

Headphones with integrated q-tips

iPhone but its a triangle

Strap for swinging a chainsaw over your head like a helicopter
So how does one delete his previous history before he was made aware of this change?!

in other news, I guess this means shadow IT is back in style! :P
derriz, the ~0.005% taxes is not on revenue but on EU profits. How can you keep repeating your same mistake and keep burning through your karma?

"After an investigation, the EC determined that Apple, in accordance with the tax agreement with Ireland, had effectively paid annual taxes of 1.0% on its European profits in 2003 and ~0.005% in 2014."
-marketrealist
https://marketrealist.com/2018/01/eu-demanding-15-billion-un...

How about you post some of your sources?
Interesting counterpoint. So I guess the social isolation in America is one part poor urbanism (cities designed for cars, isolating suburbs) and one part decreasing social trust, one part due to small families and children moving away.
You are wrong about the EU - the national legislation on right to privacy is stricter in many (most?) countries. EU only sets minimum levels of protection. And even EU law protects more than you imply(1).

I'm defending employee rights and generally the human right to privacy against arbitrary surveillance, not Slack.

(1) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/09/06/workplace-surveil...
> This little exchange speaks volumes about what's happening in the the media regarding the tech industry: one company behaves badly and then all get tarred and feathered.

Perhaps that's perfectly fair, and perhaps everyone has a responsibility for the standards and behavior in their community. That would apply especially to Google, a leader in the community. To the degree the public views the standards (including laws and regulations) as insufficient because of what Facebook has done, perhaps they are correct. And it won't be changed without Google's direct involvement; the public might wonder, why hasn't Google seen to these issues already (if they have, it's largely been ineffective). If fraud is rife on Wall Street, is it wrong to hold Goldman Sachs accountable regardless of their direct involvement? Is it plausible that Goldman Sachs is not directly involved, given their size and influence? Doesn't Goldman Sachs have a responsibility to fix the problem, regardless, at least as a leader?

(Thanks to dpark for providing essential context about the parent comment: The author works at Google.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16640453 )
derp, I meant [quasi-]"public domain" and therefore, in some legal sense, safe for engineers to read without fear of getting sued.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Table saws are dangerous, yes. It is important to be careful with them.

But it's a whole different kind of stupid to recommend building your own table saw with salvaged parts and zero safety features.
Google must be doing something right in their candidate triage algorithms. I applied for one job and they suggested another that was a better fit, which I hadn't even considered.

I applied to a bunch of places and only Google seemed to perceive the whole package instead of myopically focusing on my recent education or last job. The whole process was much smarter than any other company in the interview cycle.
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Signal is outstanding. I've convinced a few dozen friends and coworkers to migrate over, I'm a member of several group chats, and everything works great. There were a few issues last year with group chats and keys breaking pretty badly, but everything's been a lot more polished (and idiot-resistant) since the last major overhaul a few months ago.
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You need audience feedback. So the Andrew Ng's solution to film yourself is half good. If you know great public speakers (friends, colleagues, your boss, etc.), ask for feedback when you train, pull them in, ask them to come and judge you.
What is the actual difference between Google/Facebook and "third parties"? Google actively uses information it gets about me in ways I don't approve of, and generally can't opt out of without stopping use of the services entirely.

Sure, Cambridge Analytica was using the data to influence an election, but Google is not shy about it's own social activism, and it's efforts to manipulate users into seeing it's view of the world.

Google's only protective of our data for selfish reasons: If you sell our data outright, the third party doesn't have need of you anymore, but if Google maintains a tight hold on the data, Google can continually sell the ability to make use of it (through Google's advertising services and the like) over, and over, and over.

The harm to me is the same either way.
Twitter has propaganda = No? Isn't it propaganda bot central? Whats the source of the data on this site?
> n the long run, my organizational skills, focus, determination and world experience outweighed their raw brainpower and better memory.

Great. Would love to hear more of the story.
Honest question, I thought they were 3.6 volt cells?
> Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was made a number of promises that really weren't kept

For example, not expanding NATO wasn't even a promise, it was a rumour.

OTOH, Russia broke several international _agreements_ and started waging wars with their neighbours.

Can you really equal those? Waging war and ephemeral promises?
https://nutritionfacts.org has some of the most understandable analyses of published food and nutrition research. Really well done. I use just by searching an ingredient or topic of interest and see whether he's covered it. Then compare with other sources, of course.

He'll often point out the conflicts of interest behind the funding of various studies as well as analyzing them on their face.
"There are more than half a million hikikomori in Japan — according to the latest government survey published in 2016 — defined as people who have stayed home for more than six months without going to school or work and interacting with no one other than family."

One question for the hikikomori. If they don't work, how do they get money? I'm sure they can live relatively inexpensive lives but how do they get money to pay for rent? Does he work remotely? Bitcoin investments? So many questions...
I looked, but I don't see anything like that. The exclusions for smoke and water damage do not apply to "sudden and accidental" losses but the pollution one does. And it does not limit it to contamination of the environment.

My Erie policy was emailed to me, but here is a State Farm policy (not the one I quoted above) that has a similar exclusion:

http://www.opic.texas.gov/images/TDI_Approved_Policy_Forms/S...

That said, from googling I gather that there has been a lot of litigation over what counts as a "pollutant," including specifically whether gasoline counts. So I don't think that the presence of this clause means that an insurance company will always try to exclude any losses involving gasoline. I just think maybe they would have an argument if they wanted to.
Not that it matters, and it likely wasn't your intent, but this style of "conversationally but not technically" (for lack of a better term) writing bothers me, as it's not crystal clear what the intended message or information is. I'm noticing this style of writing is becoming increasingly common in the media as well, which might explain why so many people believe things that aren't true.

I'll get off my soapbox now.
I would be careful trying too hard to fit anything at all through that loophole though, as I'm pretty sure in California, companies that push employees to sign non-compete agreements that are deemed unenforceable (which is objectively most non-competes in California), may be subject to statutory damages and may wind up getting summarily owned in the countersuit.

I have no source for this and I am not a lawyer (but nobody knows you're a dog on the internet...) – if anyone knows more about this than I do, I'll happily read and be glad to learn something, but this is a subject I've read a bit about.

OK, actually, it wasn't that hard to find a citation:

http://levinebakerlaw.com/publications/post-employment-non-c... see the phrase "independent wrong"

You still have strong protections as an employer against "unfair competition" but you are better off not trying to pass any non-compete agreement to your employees, as you may be on the hook for damages if it's determined that your NCA is unenforceable, so you misled the employee(s) who have signed it.

California law is (and has always been) very favorable to employees, compared to other states.
This article says that peer review is unpaid - it isn't.

If you are an academic or work in industrial research, it's part of your paid job to do peer review as part of the community. You are paid for it - it's part of your job and it's normal to do it during work hours.
I agree. You can't maintain credibility by telling everyone that you are the only legal source of information about a subject, even if that subject is yourself. Because in situations like these, the facts of the case look indistinguishable from an operation that was revealed by an unofficial, unauthorized source.

That tells me that there are in fact times they would like the general public to know about their operations, and separately, those unauthorized sources seem to match the official ones a lot of the time. With that established, we can move on to trying to discern their motivations when they decide it is important we know the details of their operations, and why they would seemingly go against the very advice that they so rabidly bark to everyone else.
I don't thing there is going to be reliable information - the Christians in China keep their heads down for good reason as they've been slaughtered in the past.

Here's a good explanation of how the numbers are always going to be suspect: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-estimates-of-the-number-of-Chin...

That said, I've encountered so many devout Chinese Christians that I suspect that they numbers are higher - and given China's population, if only 15% were Christian, it would probably be the largest.

I think we also have to be careful with numbers too in the west - some people say there's 200 million Christians in the US. But I suspect a lot of them just tick off the box on the survey and haven't set foot in a church for years.
Not only chat apps.

Android, Flutter, ChromeOS, PWA, Fuchsia...

Feel like using the NDK on Android?

Legacy gradle plugin, Gradle stable plugin with cmake, ndk-build or eventually the new C/C++ support being developed by Gradle.

Ah, and then there is Blaze as well.
Sorry, leadership in Ukraine wasn't "deposed". President simply fled the country.
After this week's redesign of Google Finance, I do too.
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It has to be separate because your responsibilities towards your kids are different than your responsibilities towards other people. There are things you can do to your kids you can't do to other people (e.g. grounding). There are things you can't do to your kids that you can do to other people (e.g. refuse to provide shelter).