skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, it isn't.

Except, yes, it is.

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

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti...

https://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/why-were-governme...

https://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/iraq-and-the-m...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_State...
I’m about to cut OO 3.9 (based on 1.9) - we’ve been waiting for the subpath CVE fixes and regressions to get sorted out before we cut a release.
I remember being a fiend on gameboy Tetris at 6 years old, and later on super Tetris(? -- the one with bomb drops) for MAC.
You could have said the same thing about Lehman Brothers too. Debt can help hide the inevitable right up until it can't.
The Guardian is rather unique in British newspapers in that it is owned by a trust. The rest of the British press is pretty right wing and is usually pushing the line of it's owners pretty strongly. Brexit for example was disproportionately supported in the press. The Guardian often seems left-ish in comparison, but it would have been hard to imagine another paper publish the Snowden papers. They have been publishing stories about the links between CA/Facebook/Brexit/Trump for over a year.

I used to subscribe to The Times (owned by Murdoch) but canceled after it's complete failure to challenge The Snoopers Charter[0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
Why do you think that increasing the barriers of entry into software work is a good idea?
VR/AR chat anyone?
Oh, I can see this, ok. I've spent an hour or so googling and debugging something before asking someone who knows the answer and does it in like 30 seconds hahah.

Person A should've considered alternatives and asked around before spending a week on that manipulation lol.
Likely your phone, given that no-one else has complained.

Sometimes I miss the HN of 2011-12, where literally 80% of the comments were about the design of the site, and how it didn't work on Safari/IE/Firefox/Chrome/Lynx.

Not often, though.
I've always thought 3D printers were cool, but never found a reason to want one of my own. You just gave me a reason. A big enough reason? We'll see. I hate throwing out things that are 99% fine, but have one little, broken part you know you can't buy anywhere.
I'm sorry, I don't buy it. You may be right but Assange may merely be pointing out the irony of the situation. I've been wondering about this parallel myself and I'm fairly sure I'm not a Russian agent. If anything beyond 'Anti American' I would propose that he's Anti Establishment and that aligns his goals with Russia perfectly except for when it comes to Russia, which he is most likely a bit more afraid of than most other nation states.

The whole Spanish argument that secession is 'against the constitution of Spain and therefore invalid' doesn't hold much water with me, obviously no country will be happy about a part of it wanting to break away and the Spanish government handled the whole affair about as heavy handed and wrong as they possibly could.

Keep in mind that Spain is afraid of something that it doesn't want the general public to realize: that the Basques and the Catalans have as much claim to wanting to be independent as the Irish, the Scots, the Slowaks, the Czechs and so on had, and that Europe to a large extent managed to accommodate these smaller chunks of larger entities because it made the dominance of Germany and France all that much stronger.

And that circles us back to Germany, which is why it is funny how Germany is now 'damned if they do and damned if they don't', if they extradite then they will alienate the Catalonians (which, incidentally is going to cause a lot of trouble for German visitors to Catalonia this summer) and if they don't then they will be at loggerheads with Spain which they need badly in the EU.

So this is quite the little clusterfuck and Assange/Russians role is just bit players, anything to fuck up the various houses of power is to their advantage so I'm not too surprised to see Assange do this.

Neither Snowden (living in Russia), Manning nor Assange strike me as 'Russian agents', though they definitely did as much more more damage to US interests than if they had been.
facebook.com (1998)

"With aboutface.com you can easily set up a directory for your organization in your own private location right on this Web site. If you prefer, we also offer a traditional, Windows-based product, AboutFace/Windows version 3.9, which you can use on your LAN.

aboutface.com is a Web-based service that functions as a directory for your organization. aboutface.com maintains photographs and biographies of your employees and takes the place of your old-fashioned printed phone lists, address lists, facebooks, etc. aboutface.com is available for low monthly rates and resides in a secure, private location on our servers.

We are the premier producer of electronic facebooks (online "names and faces" directories) for the business and academic communities."

Source:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981212013921/http://facebook.co...
Ember has a convention to resolve files in its 'app' directory from your project name, and it makes renaming files a lot easier: `import { thing } from 'my-project/thing/in/dir.js'`
SpaceX seems to have plenty of money on hand, but I really doubt that Elon would do that, no matter how bad things looked for Tesla. It seems like SpaceX is starting to move all of their resources into BFR development/production and wouldn’t want a car company with production issues eating into said resources.

I think Tesla going to Google or SoftBank or another group and asking for an infusion of money (and maybe a Waymo collaboration if it’s Google) would be much more likely.
if he's wrong, he's going to lose a lot of money.

i think that's about as accountable as it can get. at least this guy puts his money where his mouth is.
Hmmm - I've always thought you could see the effect of the vertical stack every time you were out for a walk and found yourself four feet in the air with your brain going "My bad dude - stick, not a snake "- I only read the linked article, but on the surface, it seems like imputing magical properties to the stack it doesn't need - if you just look at it as a mechanism for allowing certain signals to move across the hierarchy because they are extremely beneficial in bundling the wider range of information that's rising up from the broader lower hierarchical layers. My 2c admittedly.
Seems like the algorithms just surface already existing patterns in society. They have no inherit bias of their own, they are merely reporting the reality it sees.

Is introducing an anti-bias at the search engine level the appropriate solution? It seems a bit too much like Western medicine alleviating the symptoms without addressing the root cause. An anti-bias is just masking it.

Also, if the author is a feminist, why she writing for a magazine called "Bitch"?
> If anything, this could be a good thing for Tesla as it might attract other owner/operator expertise to the firm.

Would another owner/operator really be successful? Musk is probably the only person who could have received so much investment and goodwill over so many years without becoming profitable. And Tesla is going to need to continue to raise money for a while.

If a boring guy from an established car company had been in charge, investors would have run out of patience years ago.
Now that most VMs are fully virtualized now on 4.x, how much RAM and disk space do you need in order to have a usable system? The 'minimum requirements' they list of 4GB RAM and 32GB hdd wouldn't be enough to run more than a small handful of VMs.
Except dark matter isn't an observation. Its an unobserved variable that's been inserted to make models that don't match observations add up.
I don't use any form of social media due to privacy concerns but this person clearly doesn't understand the concept of caching despite being a "technical consultant and web developer". Or he's deliberately sensationalizing things that he knows to be innocuous.
Either. The details aren't especially relevant in either case. I just picked one.
There are physicists working on the problem, yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...
yeah yeah anyone can pledge ... like elon musk pledged a billion for openai and tesla has money issues ... it has been a fashion to pledge these days.
>If you even believe the video is representative of what a human would see (which is totally false, as recent local videos of that stretch have shown), then the car was driving beyond its headlights. That's unsafe driving.

This point needs to be understood by everyone discussing the issue.
HN has no obligation to "handle" your vitriol.
500 Startups B2B Partner on how to close enterprise sales
Hi,

I'm the guy behind latency.at. So far it's really just a little side project.

Since few people asked: I mainly open sourced it because I believe it's useful to have a complete, real life service as an example/inspiration.
You have to be someone's friend to extract that same info with scraper though, no?
In the case of a bankruptcy, the assets will be sold to reimburse employee wages, contractors, suppliers and banks first. Only what's left will go back to the stakeholders.
>The one line fix for that is to comment out dns=dnsmasq in NM's config.

There is no such line on either of the two leaking systems I just checked.
This is an interview with Rob Neivert, B2B partner at 500 Startups, on how to close enterprise sales. He has worked at eight startups and invested in 70 companies.

Rob shares some stories, like how changing a website's color helped him close a $2 million deal.

Key Points

- Use the acronyms and language of your customers — they will identify you as someone who has expertise.

- Know your prospect’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

- The first three sentences are key when you’re cold-calling or emailing.

- While cold-calling or emailing, the best strategy is to offer credible, customized value upfront. Giving instead of selling.

- Contacting junior level people can help you create “internal champions”.

- Ask your lead specific, genuine questions and frame them with industry standards.

- Optimize your demo: Prepare for tech failures, read your audience, dress to the prospect’s culture, customize design, summarize past discussion, consider light humor, and admit what you don’t know.

- Contracts that terminate by default can set clear expectations, motivate eager salespeople, and make terminations smoother.
I know gravity has a speed limit, but does it have a upper distance limit or lower magnitude limit?

As in, are we really feeling gravitational effects of mass that is 14 light years away, even if they are insignificantly tiny and we probably can't measure it, or is there a point where a force is so miniscule that the universe truncates the force to 0?
Wow, I totally hated my experience. I guess it is successful.
But is it numberwang?

Maybe my weekend project will be a numberwang NPM package.
The thing that made the platform good doesn't stay with it as it ages.
Yeah thats what is keeping me off them now (plus I've been caffeine free for a month!)
I agree with you - I think I would take it as a compliment as well. Also, I take back my original post on what the best comment is in this post. This is better:

"this will break the minds of everybody who ever sees that expression"
Well, I'm pretty outspoken and I have a general anti-corporate streak running through me and I do not like the way the USA has comported itself on the world stage since 9/11 much. They had all the credit that they could possibly wish for and they totally fucked it up. The fact that my comments in that vein are not categorically downvoted (rather the opposite) should be a pretty strong proof that it is definitely possible to walk your own course on HN without being harassed. Where HN draws the line is: stuff that is unsourced or plainly made up or crackpot, falsehoods and apologist stuff. That will get you downvoted in a hurry.
They are talking about apps on Facebook. E.g. if you want to build a chatbot on Messenger, you have to create an app on Facebook.
> You do realize that Zuck has pledged away 99% of his wealth?

He hasn't. He has pledged to donate 99% of his wealth to a private, for-profit organization that he owns.

I also pledge to donate 99% of my wealth to my bank account.
I use wrbrtc for lossy robot pose data. It would suck to require another approval popup in my software, but really, it's no big deal. Certainly the UX cost is worth the security benefits if we can't have both.
>But it is surely will be frown upon

I think this is presumptuous. We can try to find out, why not?
I'm not a physicist, but my laymans understanding is that it's fairly easy to account for some cherry-picked observations with modified gravity, but to account for all of them requires something at least as contrived as dark matter. So the evidence is still pointing in that direction for now.
Now do "white couple", or "american inventors".
He plans to "give away" money to an LLC he controls, which makes donations and invests in companies with some kind of social mission.

Not saying an LLC that makes investments in for-profit tutoring companies is bad, really, just not a charity in the usual sense, and not a gift to the public good.
If your enemy is a state actor, playing by its rules can only guarantee the worst possible outcome. You would be lucky if you end up in prison for life. Because "suicide" is also a very real possibility.
I think in this life at least all that's left for Linus to enjoy are marvelously disgusting hacks. So with that understanding this is probably the ultimate compliment.
As in, a week late? No. Changes like this take time; some of these Facebook devs and managers are probably already working around the clock on this and related changes.

Or as in many years late? In that case yes. A bit more privacy from the start would've been nice.
JRE did a good job with that interview. He has some good recent interviews on Jim Rome and Mark Divine (Sealfit). Definitely a good listen once or twice a month to hammer home a proper state of mind.
It reminds me of this page I created a few years ago https://connettiva.eu/newton/

Select a planet, then touch the objects below. Eventually read the text at the end for the implementation details.
Supporting Open-Source Creators
There's an enormous difference between Zuck's "charitable" corporation (not a foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

There's no visible effort at giving beyond the US Zuck Feelings Tour and hiring professional political hacks as his CZI staff.
Introduction to Objective-C in MorphOS 3.10
Not a down voter, but: This isn't accurate. Planetary science (as in the OP) tends to be more diverse and exploratory than Earth or Astrophysics, but it still has a strategy. It's not just stamp collecting. See: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/focus-areas
>You do realize that Zuck has pledged away 99% of his wealth?

Please stop spreading PR. He put the money into a limited-liability corporation, and spread a bunch of articles about a "pledge." It's nothing more then a tax-sheltered investment vehicle.[1] This is not the same as putting it into a charitable trust. He can use the money to influence whoever he decides to give it to.

1. http://fortune.com/2015/12/02/zuckerberg-charity/

"Corporations can make for-profit investments and political donations—and unlike charitable trusts, they don’t have to report their political donations."
I think they're saying it won't affect whether they want to buy a tesla or not.
The so-called "data breach" was always in reality a by-product of an open platform that hundreds of thousands of developers could easily build apps on top. You may err on the side of "more reviews" or "less powerful API", but in the end, those ideals are in tension. The more open the platform, the more open to this kind of "breach".

People who believe in the idea in this kind of platform having an API should have long ago spoken up in Facebooks defense. This is exactly what I was afraid would happen, and I expect worse to come from this "platform review". Given the kind of media coverage here, Facebook seems to have more to lose than to gain from letting random Hacker News kids build on their platform. And if so, they won't in the future.
Good point. I should have been more clear about "non-obvious" funding sources. If a service isn't profitable, but has a clear funding source (philanthropy, government, etc), that is a little different. But the motive for that funding would need to be clear as well.

So yeah, charities can be ok.
The losses are due to the capital outlays for factories, bot because the car business is unprofitable. Tesla has 20% margins on their sales, which is twice that of GM and Ford.
> Other advertising companies made far more profit than Google

Your argument fails at that. Considering Google strictly an "advertising" company is a narrow view, even in 2004.
“pledged”

Actually, he put his wealth in a tax-exempt “””charity”””.
I fully agree that too many people believe in the "vision of Elon" but the thing is that I can get reliable fully electrical vehicles from Nissan, volkswagen or Hundai. And while it used to be that the only "cool" electrical cars you saw on the road were early adopter Teslas, that's just not the case anymore.

Tesla isn't failing because of lack of belief in the vision (Which in absolutely no way belongs to Elon btw). Tesla is failing because they took a huge bet on being able to set up a car manufacturer faster than the established market could adopt the technology.

Tesla still has a great brand to it, but it seems unlikely that they will be able to compete on price, so they might end up only having a high-end electric niche which cant justify their current inflated valuation.
As far as we can tell no. Of course, what we know with certainty is bounded by a nonzero experimental resolution.
Besides basic semantics, there's not that much stack juggling going on really. Cixl offers four stack operators, drop, dup, swap and clear; the idea is to use more convenient constructs like let bindings, closures and multi methods to keep the stack tidy.
Trouble is how many connections you might have created accidentally. If you combine all of someone's posts together, many people have revealed enough information in total to figure out their true identity. Especially if they have a unique, google-able username that they have used on several different sites on different subjects, and you combine everything they've said on every site.

Of course, there are ways to throw some dirt into those gears, like posting fake details or trading/selling accounts every now and then...
>how do you explain this galaxy?

I can't, and neither can anyone else - which is why people are struggling with invented variables like "dark matter". Its fine to speculate, its absurd to claim with certainty (as many so-called scientists do).
> The $230 million is trivial. They have ~$2.8-$3 billion in cash as of end of Q1.

And they're losing $408 million per quarter, on the average. (a loss of 1,632,086 thousands of dollars in 2017, according to their 10K)

At the current rate, Tesla is going to be forced to raise more capital within the next year.

Tesla definitely can survive till 2019 by my math. They can probably survive longer than that if they cut costs. But once Tesla cuts costs, they stop R&D and other "luxury" projects. Cutting costs implies cutting growth.

Tesla is still very much in the growth stage for some reason. They can't afford to cut costs yet.
I think Dragonfly 44 is pretty close to all-dark-matter.
Cheers to my fellow Mexicans! (:
>we are expected to filter our world views and interactions through it

I am replying in the following manner only because I believe the discourse around this subject is usually poorly defined. It is not an attack of you or yours, but my attempt to help us all better understand what we're talking about:

By saying "filter through it," what do you mean by "it?" What are the rules of the filter you are applying?

When you say "expected," who is expecting this of you? What has indicated to you that there is this expectation, and what are the consequences of bucking that expectation?

What are the filters in California? What are the filters in the deep south? Is there any federally legal relevance? For example, you could face legal issues if you make sexually connotative comments to a female coworker, and though you are more likely to be pursued and charged in California than in the Deep South for it, is that how things should be? Shouldn't women feel comfortable with their coworkers regardless of local culture?
How Innovative SaaS Companies Are Leveraging Pricing to Beat the Competition
You can set a custom alias, for example nuxt uses ~ for project root. I've seen projects use @ also.
Go on, tell me again about how C++ compile-time metaprogramming is so horrible ...
Man, that graph of "Tesla's Production vs Tesla’s Targets" is damning. Either they are completely unable to predict their own manufacturing progress, or they're telling the same lie over and over. Even at 2000/week, it will take them a few years to work through the people who have given them (refundable) deposits.
An unfortunate element of propaganda is that it is designed to not be detected by the majority of those receiving it, as evidenced by the down votes you are receiving. I don't understand how the HN crowd which is clearly full of very intelligent people don't see that sources like BBC and CNN are clearly propaganda outlets.
The cohort of young people that used AIM/MSN/Y! (depending on your region) aged up into Facebook Chat [1]. Facebook captured the 'chat with people you know in real life' usecase, gradually leaving distance-only or interest-specific friends on the old chat networks. This greatly contributed to their decline.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417521
Once all these regulations get pushed through, “information operations” will be relegated to "fax machine" status in about five years.
For what it's worth, and setting aside opinions on the design itself, at least https://dropbox.design/ never steals focus or disables core navigation keys in frustrating, alternating ways.
If a user account authorizes to for the API, you could only see the data of that account's friends, too.
Wow. These kinds of communications typically seem trite. But this one genuinely resonated with me. I'm glad things worked out for him. And thanks for Docker!
I've actually read manufacturing consent and while I agree with the general idea that everything that we consume is propaganda to some degree I disagree that CNN is at the same level as Pravda in Russia.

There is definitely a case to be made for mass media being complicit in all this but not to the extent that actual propaganda mechanisms are put to work. The state does not own CNN, it does not own the Washington Post and it does not own the Guardian. Ironically, it does own the BBC and there are definitely times when you just knew that there was more to a story than what you could read but on the whole the 'manufacturing of consent' is not the same as outright propaganda.

For that you'd have to take a step back and look at some actual propaganda to see the difference. In the United States FOX comes pretty close (though not their 'hard news' section, that is still more or less factual), in Russia there are the various state owned media outlets and in China everything that the party sanctioned press will print would count as propaganda.

The rest of the media can - still, and who knows for how much longer - be held to a slightly higher standard.
> The research and development is already paid for.

That doesn't even make any sense. They aren't paid for, they are investments with an expectation of future profits. Paid for with shareholder's money.