skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is, historically speaking, the most influential country in East and Southeast Asia, as evidenced by the fact that Korea, Japan, and Vietnam all use or used a script derived from Chinese characters and that there is a large Chinese diaspora in even more countries in the region. On what basis would we consider China an outlier? Just the post-war era? Despite ambitions to do so the CCP did not exactly sweep away Chinese culture as it existed prior to the ascendance of Mao.
I'm in that scene too and have a fairly major car addiction issue...and know all about Sears Point Wednesday nights.

The NHRA collects annual dues from a huge number of elderly racers across the USA, which keeps them fat and lazy... and is also the sanctioning body for the increasingly divorced from reality 'big show' nitro car traveling circus, which is in reality a small number of multimillionaire team owners (Kalitta, Arab Sheiks and sponsorship hustlers) fielding multiple cars. All good fun live but hopeless for the average joe in a Honda who wants to race.
It's all at a bit of a crisis point and the drifting/sideshow mayhem doesn't help at all...
onestly I found really fun to do "a bunch of awk or sed magic"
I used to own 7 BTC. Then converted it to BCH/XMR. Then sold most of it a couple months ago, mainly due to concerns about tether / general market mania

Once BTC fees hit $40 average tx (I paid $100 due to UTXOs increasing my tx size in bytes because I actually used bitcoin to transact), I had to accept that BTC was done.
Any behavior which damages the physical integrity of others is criminal. Thus, burning fuel without everyone else's permission is a crime.
FYI re Tor browser:[0]

> 15. HSTS and HPKP supercookies

> An extreme (but not impossible) attack to mount is the creation of HSTS supercookies. Since HSTS effectively stores one bit of information per domain name, an adversary in possession of numerous domains can use them to construct cookies based on stored HSTS state.

> HPKP provides a mechanism for user tracking across domains as well. It allows abusing the requirement to provide a backup pin and the option to report a pin validation failure. In a tracking scenario every user gets a unique SHA-256 value serving as backup pin. This value is sent back after (deliberate) pin validation failures working in fact as a cookie.

> Design Goal: HSTS and HPKP MUST be isolated to the URL bar domain.

> Implementation Status: Currently, HSTS and HPKP state is both cleared by New Identity, but we don't defend against the creation and usage of any of these supercookies between New Identity invocations.

0) https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ [February 19th, 2018]
>> “I can’t tell you how much I enjoy working in the prison factory. The other day, when I was complimented on how efficient and meticulous I was, I grasped the joy of working. I regret that I never worked. My life would have been different."

I think this is a core human drive and it makes me wonder why so many organizations seem to be fundamentally incapable of leveraging their employees' desire to do good work, regardless of the task.
The anthropic principle doesn't make our universe any less surprising. It's like saying "of course I survived that catastrophic accident, otherwise I wouldn't be observing the fact I survived the accident."
The Intercept is so wildly underrated (and unfairly disparaged). Vital reporting.
Which was ultimately my suggestion. You could get rid of all cars for all it matters to my argument.

My claim is that bike lanes are an inefficient use of space because they are underutilized and would be better served either for vehicles or pedestrians since they make up all but a tiny percentage of commuters.

If you're going to do all of that traffic calming you probably should just have the bikes use the roads since it'll be safer for them and the speed differential be lower.
I don't think it should be, but I'm not at all surprised that it is (and I don't think it's mostly partisan, though there's probably some of that.)
Not after a conversation between judge, prosecution, defense attorney and offender. They obviously concluded after long deliberations that it was in everybody's best interest to just apply the law. In the case of a first-time offender, the judge can more easily ignore the offender's wishes. In the case of a repeat offender, he cannot just keep sending the poor, old woman away, can he?
Wow thanks, reading it now (:
It's not the ambiguous headline that got my attention; it's this, in the body of the article:

WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes found four investigations in 2017 where *police issued these uniquely extensive warrants*...

That wording is absolutely clear to anybody who read the body of the article. It may be factually incorrect, but the writer clearly claims that the police issued the warrants.

There also is no mention anywhere of any judicial participation at all.
"Help us cure online publishing of its addiction to personal data"
Just want to say; I'm checking in after a few days of using it and... if i think about it, i guess i'm clicking that "killsticky" bookmark less and less.

its funny, suddenly i don't even have to think about it, which is what this is all about - reducing cognitive load.

re inclusion on ublock and the like: it should probably be an option that people can enable/disable; ublock is more about blocking ads/trackers, but i would wager that most people are annoyed with sticky stuff too.

ready for the next challenge?.... getting rid of sites that fuck with the default scroll behaviour ;)

thanks again :)
read: how dare you not pay for this data
I have never read useful log output that wasn't generated by code that I had written.

Other people's logs are mostly noxious CPU exhaust.
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The old woman will just keep stealing a mango once in a while, until people finally understand her, and allow her to come to rest in a better environment.
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Within the article text:

WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes found four investigations in 2017 where **police issued these uniquely extensive warrants**...
I suspect the flags are due to the anticipation or evidence of the resulting HN discussion, regardless of the worthiness of the submission itself: of the 20 comments (including the dead), only three are about the submission itself. That's a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio.
Coming down a hill at 20Mph in a bike lane that should be at least partially clear on a wet day (very common in Seattle) is perfectly legal. Running into a large unexpected object in the path is hardly the cyclists fault.
Ask HN: How do you learn?  Is there a faster/efficient way to Learn?
I'm currently pursuing a part-time Online MS degree through Georgia Tech in Analytics. One course is very programming intensive (I had to learn d3, JavaScript, Java, and Scala from scratch so far this semester). Another course is math heavy.

I'm struggling in both courses for different reasons, but it comes down to a single self-assessment: My brain feels like soup, and I just don't feel as sharp anymore. It takes me way too long to absorb information, and requires reading the same topic from multiple sources before things click.

I was never really "smart" in the sense that things clicked naturally, but as I get older, and time becomes more valuable, I think my brain has been accustomed to inefficient study/learning methods. How do I re-wire my brain to be more efficient in absorbing information?
It seems fairly obvious that the solution is to allow denser construction in the city cores, as well as allowing smaller residences to be built (such as dormitories at the lower end).
Yes, QE is interesting. Definitey goes against the “Government must tax before it can spend” idea. Remember the Fed is part of the US Government sector, so spending as a result of QE should go into the private sector, minus what is taxed back later.

Government securities generally represent savings because the Governments are generally legally required to match deficit spending with bonds, etc. QE was a bit of a departure from the norm (perhaps only temporarily though) and shows what modern monetary theory says - that it isn’t really necessary, not is it necessarily inflationary (this is because all spending carries inflationary risk, and inflation has to do more with aggregate demand than money supply etc. - and the most generally anti-inflationary force is actually taxation)
Curious to know how long it takes for a person's mentally unhealthy characteristics to become evident in a combat zone. Based on past experience (in vanilla zone) I think it takes about 1 to 2 years of regular exposure to a colleague to be able to determine whether they occupy the same reality as the rest of us.
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You should see the driving and biking conditions in Seattle. Expecting a bike to stop on a dime when coming down a hill just after it rains is wholly unrealistic.
A better parallel would be storage lockers. And there, if you stop paying eventually they cut the lock off and sell your stuff.
March Add(on)ness is here
That was my thought as well - but on the flip side, by dealing in quantity they are a lot more likely to have one leak and be reverse engineered, and thus have Apple render them all useless.

It's certainly an interesting problem of profit maximization!
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Read: only Facebook has the right to pass data to "firm that does political, government and military work around the globe."
I'm not sure why we're arguing. China clearly is different from the West. And so are other Asian nations. Not as different as China is, however. Maybe more or less proportionally vs relative cultural influence from China and the West.
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Posts on "why is this down voted" always get downvoted, mostly because they're unanswerable and not germane to the actual topic under discussion.

It's also against the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not at all.

Someone was going to do it.

The mistakes are:

Failure to educate people better on the dynamics of speech. The idea of,"right to not be offended", comes to mind. We don't have a shield in the First Amendment for good reason.

Agency in conversation. We control our end of things, and we control our responses too.

So often the goto is righteous indignation. So many other tools are available. Humor, disregard, honest engagement... A lot gets escalated way too easily. Very favorable risk reward ratios result in mega drama, lots of butthurt.

Doesn't have to be that way.

Weighting of things isn't done well in a lot of cases too. A clown gets at us, and we allow that, instead of calling the laughable as such?

Norms. Social media could be used more to understand others better. For those who embrace doing this, it's pretty awesome. Perspective is out there. A world of it for the asking. Near free... such an opportunity wasted.

Had the software come with better norms, the hard work in all this, our social media problems would be much less, maybe non problems.

The biggest, in terms of "fake news", seems to be the idea of conflating opinion and advocacy into "news", now a bludgeon. Evaluating these things is part of the cost of being connected.

People are ill equipped, and often appear to have some expectation of there being trusted, work free, sources that they can count on.

Those don't really exist. For profit news, and the education problem I first mentioned, combine to render many people, too many people, victims of some kind, rather than critically minded enough to navigate things.

Technical solutions have their place, but also costs. One being dissent all to easily marginalized as toxic, propaganda, fake, whatever flavor of the day is.

Most of the problems are human ones. It's gonna take a generation or two for new, better norms, education (when we start digging deep on that one), to take root and begin to turn things around.

I just hope we don't lose frank, real expression, citizen reporting, advocacy and other vital things along the way there.

At times, I feel a Disneyland type Internet is our doom.

Hate the thought of all that. I've met and interacted with awesome people, had some of the best, raw, real conversations ever online, and the idea of it all being rendered safe?

No pain, no gain kids.
If you think your users are smart enough to figure out all you've mentioned, then they are smart enough to use databases for their usecases.
From my own experience:

One approach is to try software in academia. Look for departments that need web developers, and once there see about branching out into other areas (they often like folks who are willing to learn new things that can be applied in their domain).

In addition to the ability to branch out, you'll likely have the opportunity as FT staff to pursue a degree at reduced tuition (depending on the university/college).

It's often the case that you take an income hit in academia (which is often a reason they're willing to hire anyone with relevant experience), but the learning experience can be beneficial.

Of course, I could be generalizing my experience.

Just a thought.
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Yes I know. But as we see in many European cities, it doesn't have to be that way.
How is that good? It basically said nothing. Cool.
I tried telling that to the insurance agency when I rear-ended a car that suddenly stopped in front of me. It didn't work.
Can Apple sue the makers of this program under DMCA anti-circumvention acts?
My experience has differed from yours. I've recently started using O365 for some client work. I'm really missing a few features from GSuite, that are important for collaboration:

1. Ability to reference a specific person in a comment (e.g. +DamnYuppie please add your thing here).

2. Ability to add/update TOC for a document

3. Comments being owned by whoever wrote them, so others cannot accidentally edit the text of the comment.

4. Ability to notified of and reply to comments by email.

5. Ability to organise documents within my own folder, without creating second copies. (In GSuite, a document is a single thing, even if different people want to organise their own folders differently.)

I also find the UI is hard to get used to. It's different from GSuite, which is to be expected, but it's also different from the desktop version of Word.

Of course I went through a phase of finding that GSuite lacked features that I liked in Excel, but the ease with which you can use Google Docs/Sheets/Slides across devices, and the super-slick display and interaction of the commenting and suggesting features, more than make up for those.
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179 people in 17-18 years...basically no one.
What if someone pretends to be you and posts incriminating posts?
> In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe.

I guess Facebook is mad that Aleksandr Kogan profited from selling Facebook user info without Facebook taking a cut.
A better solution would be to do regular speed studies and actually update the speed limits posted. Also, prevent municipalities from passing laws on their own speed limits and creating speed trap situations.

I see a lot of speed limits that are woefully out of date and/or very different from the 85th percentile speed on any one motorway.

> It doesn't matter what was envisioned. We don't need to preserve what was envisioned.

Then we should just ditch the whole speed limit concept. You should be punished for variance from 85th percentile speed on a motorway in either direction. Too slow or too fast are both dangerous
People said the same thing about Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger before they were each elected as Governor of California.
The debt is only owned by the government because they are printing money like crazy to convert their debt to 0% interest bonds. Japan is in an enormous amount of financial trouble and the moment inflation starts to show and panic sets in the race will be on to get out of yen into anything people can get their hands on, which will only make the problem worse.
It would be neat if MachineBox could sense whether log noise would be useful in other contexts--e.g., as a metric that can be graphed. Or whether your logging is lacking something that might be useful, or just lacking signal at all (hey, user, your logs are just noise!).
You get an insight into why current languages and compilers are designed the way they are. For example, why does C have #include? Probably because it's the easiest possible way of including/referencing source code from another file.
AP style guidance prefers ‘crash’ to ‘accident’ jfyi
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> " It takes me way too long to absorb information, and requires reading the same topic from multiple sources before things click."

That's usually how it is with new or difficult concepts. There are things I understand really well today that I had to read about many times before I understood them, like recursion.

Reading multiple sources about the same topic is a good thing. It means you care enough to really want to understand it. Not all sources are equally good at explaining things, and different people understand different explanations more readily.

With programming related stuff, playing around with code and trying out different things to see how they work can also be helpful.
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Does not seem any different to me, if the only difference is the jail, you can just create a bullshit law to put those people in jail (see the war on drugs).
I think these guys are smart enough to strip out everything that is not race winning related - Teslas are heavy...
that's what the NHRA did in 1951, we've come full circle...
The cops have never heard that one before.
I'm curious to hear more about this. And how much of the population gets their bill prepared by the state?
When I was an undergrad, I had a roommate who was a metallurgy PhD student.

When I mentioned this to high school friends, too many of them asked: "Wait - so he's involved in cannon technology?"
I disagree with the idea that it "isn't useful to lump in China with Asia overall" because, in fact, there is a lot of commonality between Chinese culture and other Asian cultures.
Yes data matters to me. If cameras or other types of enforcement truly made things less safe overall, I wouldn't want them. I don't think that's the case, but I'm certain there are unintended consequences to certain kinds of enforcement.

I can ask you the same. Do you care about data? Your question about data follows a link to highwayrobbery.net, which is using FUD and inflammatory language, and I would bet some misleading characterizations of "data" to rile people up over this issue.

If the "data" is being politicized and falsely presented, if people are actually mad about a perceived tax or government control, and not about safety, do you consider that data that matters?
While rationally you might think so, in practice you tend to act differently than that. Here's the best example:

Let's say that you a running a risk of, for whatever reason, having to pay $1M in any given year with a 1 in 1M probability.

Your expected outcome is -$1 per year, which isn't much. So if someone came and offered for you to pay $1 for year for that risk to go away, you'd be indifferent.

But utility isn't linear. Losing $1 wouldn't make a difference in your life, but having to pay $1M would most likely destroy your life financially, leading to significant hardship.

So the cost, to you, of -$1 isn't the same as [1/1M]*-$1M, the latter is much higher. With that in mind, if someone offered you to pay $1 to get rid of the risk, you'd most likely accept.

In a similar way, let's look at the positive side.

Let's say you're broke, you have $0, and I offer you $10 for 1h of your time. Would you accept? Most likely, yes.

Now imagine you had $1M in the bank. Would you still accept $10 for 1h of your time? Probably not. And if you had $10M in the bank, the odds of you accepting would be even smaller.

That's because marginal utility (of pretty much anything) has diminishing returns. The value of a thing to you is different if you have zero of it, or if you have plenty of it.

The result is that even if you think that rationally the value is all the same, it isn't, and you'll actually be valuing things differently. And there's nothing irrational in that.
I've experienced lonliness on the job but I've come to realize it has more to do with having meaningful work than meaningful relationships. If I'm doing work that is contributing and adding value I will not care at all about the people I'm surrounded by or if they even know I exist. When I'm underworked I start to feel excluded and isolated.

Currently I'm bordering on overwork and I find socializing taxing. When I work from home I do twice as much work but I don't need to sleep on the couch after work.
s/bike/car and good luck in court. "But I couldn't stop! The road was wet!"
Interesting. You would think the case of Alex Kibkalo would lead to the opposite conclusion. Microsoft prosecuted a blogger for piracy of Windows software after reading his private hotmail emails.
Good news! You don't need a hunch, since Twitter directly approached RT (which is effectively a government control media apparatus) and pitched them access and discounts to "US voters" ahead of the 2016 election:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-offered-rt-1...

Their response after that reveal was "We do not have any comment on our private conversations with any advertiser". Which, mostly confirms it. If it was a made up story, they would have quickly refuted it as such ("RT made this stuff up like they always do etc").

Not only did they not care about American voters, they were an active part in allowing an external entity to manipulate them. But of course we all believe they changed now and their hearts and minds are one with the American voters. Phew, I can finally sleep better at night.
15 percent for physical books i.e I have to read it 5 times to pass a an undergraduate level exam with an A grade, 20 percent for audio about four times spaced repetition for the A grade and 25 percent for video.
I passed PMI-PMP just watching videos on my first attempt.
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Someone suddenly stopping shouldn't be unexpected, nor is it necessarily against the rules of the road. Hacker News is fun and all but consistently gets beaten by 15 seconds of googling e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/nyregion/double-parking-i...
> form a model to predict the personality

I can do a model of personality using ML/DL anytime as well, it's a piece of cake. How good the model is is another question; I'd be surprised if they were significantly better than random noise given how pathetic "science" of psychology is.
i wouldn't be surprised to hear that FB was at the same time also selling data directly to CA, such are the times in which we live
Oh man, recursion is something I read up on every 3 months.

I just hate the whole RTFM mentality when it comes to asking for programming help. There’s stuff beyond the documentation that I can’t grasp, and I don’t quite know what it is that I don’t know... I just know my program isn’t running (if that makes sense)
Put on a tracksuit and this becomes the Slav Squat.

https://www.google.com/search?q=slav+squat&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS5...