skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, its a rabbithole, but you asked for it. Here are a few strings for you to pull:

1. Westminster dossier:

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

2. The Franklin coverup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFrMpQxbmk

3. Sir Edward Heath WAS a pedophile:

http://www.dw.com/en/edward-heath-pedophile-investigation-former-uk-prime-minister-would-have-faced-questioning/a-40815152

4. IICSA:

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

5. The Lolita Express is a REAL THING, and the Clintons WERE INVOLVED:

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

>>>"The likelihood is high that this whole extremely specific and strange scenario is true and that none of us have any idea about it??? How do you figure?"

NONE of us has the power to audit our governments.

They can keep whatever they want, under wraps, as national security/state secrets - almost indefinitely.

And if you think they don't abuse/misuse their powers in this way - well, you've got some rabbit holes to follow. I suggest you buckle up. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
That strategy may very well end up skipping (well, delaying selection) of a surgeon that routinely takes much harder cases than yours. I don't know enough about heart surgery to know if practice at more difficult procedures has any carryover to less difficult procedures, but it's conceivable . Your strategy might make sense, but it's not obviously optimal.
Answering an email and confirming an issue is not really the same thing.
And when you are sued, your one man, tiny operation LLC will offer essentially zero protection. Unless you are selling parachutes to base jumpers, you'll be fine.
> What, specifically, is Facebook doing wrong today?

They rank content by the degree to which it captures users’ attentions and prompts sharing. This ranking incentive is fundamentally driven by their advertising business model, where attention from eyeballs and shares generates revenue.

Things that make us angry get shared more; numerous studies show this. An ad-driven social media service is this fundamentally driven to show us content that pisses us off.

> How could they improve?

By facing consequences for the violence they cause and profit from.
Isn't Scrum Agile? Agile in corporate parlance usually means "Scrum or XP", and since XP appears to have fallen out of favor, "We are an Agile shop" means "we employ Scrum or at least intend/pretend to".
An interesting thing about FB is that the messages between users and the stuff shared there does not have to be actually sent by the users and don't have to be displayed the way the users wanted. Facebook can curate those or manufacture them from thin air and this is not the case only because FB is not acting maliciously(As far as I know).

If the US government wanted to utilize FB as a weapon, they can win a psychological warfare wherever FB is widely used because of the lack of post authenticity verification.

Apparently, FB did successful experiments that altered the user's mood by the way their timeline is curated[0]. So, the FB can conduct covert operations to alter the psychological state of a nation.

What's more, by looking at location info and communications on WhatsApp and Messenger and the psychological profiling FB can fabricate entirely fictional "snapshot" of the world. For example, FB can display gaslighting posts as if they are posted by the friends of the people while making sure that they don't directly communicate(post displayed from people that have not been contacted since a long time, when contacted on WhatsApp or Messenger reply with AI bot answers to confirm the post).

I'm very sceptical that FB will remain a global social network without addressing the huge political risks. I think that politicians will find a way to get rid of FB and have a local social network that they can control, the same way as it is in China.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
How you described is how it works in the US too. I have opened up dozens of accounts at banks and it's always been that easy - never had to go to a branch or anything. Closing the account is usually very easy as well.

The reason I open and close so many accounts is churning the sign up bonuses.
Can someone hint why this is different from the usual stuff like falling water on turbines? Perhaps this is more efficient?
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Yes, it will.

Just enforced SSL - And if the free embedded service you're talking about is telegra.ph, that is different than writt because you can't write and publish within telegram, you have to use a web interface.

Glitch is made by FogCreek, the guys who co-founded Stack Overflow, and have built Trello and other stuff - so pretty sure they're reliable https://glitch.com/faq#trust
A doctor might have a 5% mortality track record for a surgery that generally has a 20% mortality risk. I feel like you are pushing it to an extreme with this yahoo doctor example.
Only if you misunderstand me. ;) What I meant was that Scrum doesn't dictate that there has to be a facilitator present but if your team isn't well-functioning it's probably a good idea to have one. I.e. if the Scrum master has done his job exceptionally well he's rarely needed.
I don't know the full details, but I'm lead to understand that indexing a Datomic database too late is time-consuming and will end up causing considerable downtime.

I'll admit that I'm guessing about how much of this depends on the database and Datomic itself, so I shouldn't be making a sweeping statement.
With people working remotely and companies abandoning open floor plans, I think a lot of people might disagree. Privacy seems to increase productivity through lower distractions and stress, at least for me.
No, they have refused to provide the encryption keys to Russian security agencies.
I'd love to have a package for that too. On Sublime I use sFTP and it works really well. You can either load files directly from an sftp connection, or map a directory, and every time you modify a file, it gets synced automatically.

It's a simple package, but it works very well.
Jesus said a finite number of things in the New Testament, so we have interpretations of some of his thoughts on some things. Every fundamentalist church I attended when I was young was far more enthusiastic about the teachings of Paul.
Having just read the linked article, it says smaller scale and that fish can safely get through.
Fluid dynamicist here. Your understanding is correct. I would not read anything into vague statements like "the power inherent in a vortex". That explanation is basically woo. There's nothing special about vortices. The large vortex used here is sustained by the gravitational potential energy, as you said.

The Wikipedia article read a bit like an advertisement to me.

I don't suspect the Coriolis force of the Earth contributes much to this turbine either, though I admit I don't know much about the Coriolis force in fluid dynamics. For objects of the size shown, Coriolis forces are neglected in my experience.

Edit: Wikipedia backs me up on the Coriolis force being negligible. Aside from starting the rotation in the cited tests (something needs to break the symmetry), the Coriolis force is negligible compared against gravity. In the turbine case I believe turbulence would break the symmetry (the turbulence itself being influenced by imperfections in the flow, surfaces, vibrations, etc.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force#Draining_in_bat...
I write better open source code because I take as much time as I like to feel satisfied with the result, which isn't an option in a proprietary corporate setting.

Although having an audience also motivates me to keep my standards high for what I'm satisfied with.
Ads provide some of the capability, but by no means all of it.

The engagement objectives of the ad seller (Facebook, here) means that highly-divisive or inflammetory content, which generates pageviews, or increases time-on-site, may be promoted over more socially beneficial material.
>very real political consequences

What if there really were a conspiracy to entrap politicians in pedophilia/ritual-sexual-abuse? How do you think the governments of the world would deal with it, once enough evidence is discovered to present to their citizens? If the network is deeply entrenched, how do you expect justice to play out? For the victims, I mean.
Let’s say they are, who do they answer to? Hillary and team think they contributed to her losing the election, FB, at least publicly seems to favor leftist/progressive ideas, so it’s not clear to me who they answer to, unless you’re suggesting some weird “deep state” conspiracy track.
False. Both Bernoulli Principle and Newton's 3rd Law explanations are correct - https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/bernnew.html
> the popup gets stuck and you can't see the top three lines...

The newest version has smaller popups on the bottom-right of the window, and that was a nice surprise for me.
Because a cursory lookup doesn't tell you much. Taxes are much more nuanced than a tax table. There are studies showing that a flat tax without loopholes or special deductions is a higher effective rate for the wealthy than a "higher" marginal rate in a progressive system. Additionally, states vary in what is deductible or non-taxable income.
The rotating flow / vortex in that sentence is probably referring to the 'circulation' of the air flow, which has some mapping to the lay idea of vorticity, but isn't fully it. It's basically a measurement of deflection through a closed boundary.
s /Jensen / nvidia ?
To be fair, would you like to have coffee with a friend as a minder sits with you?
We bundle up too many conflicting jobs into the role of the doctor. Rating the difficulty and status of an incoming patient should be completely separate from the job of treating them, and all judgments about doctor effectiveness should be judged relative to those assessments.

(Credit: alerted to this misincentive by Yudkowsky’s recent book Inadequate Equilibria.)
There is this video[0] on the subject matter.

[0]: https://vimeo.com/151465912
What if they do it to themselves? Proscriptive societies don't value absolute freedom and setting them up with democratic institutions leads to the most odious demagogues coming to power.
I don't see where the article says "the odds of killing them are all but guaranteed", so I don't really appreciate you stuffing that meaning into my comment. I highly doubt that surgeries at that level of risk are actually in the medical interests of the patient (the standard I used).

Are you speaking from further knowledge of the the statistics of the cases where surgery is refused? If so, why not drop that instead of the lecture?
Hi and thanks for the questions.

1. To be clear, I'm not advertising on Olx saying I'm giving away money, so I don't have adverse selection to deal with. Rather I use to the "Seeking Work" section to proactively reach out to individuals that seem like they might be in need. And when I do reach out, I don't just open with "Do you need help? Can I give you some money?" Rather I try to build rapport and develop a real relationship. Most of the people I contact are just excited about talking to an American even before money enters the picture.

So I think the remaining risk isn't that the person isn't who they say they are but that they'd exaggerate their circumstances to get more money from me. The way I counter that is by developing a real relationship with the recipients. I talk to most of them on a daily basis. See pictures of their house and children. Get their whole backstory. And, in general, just end up with enough collateral documentation about their lives that it'd be hard to fake.

And, in fact, it's these relationships that are the most rewarding part of the whole thing. You're not just helping an abstract stranger. You're helping a very real person that's become a part of your life. My first recipients, the single mom, has become something of a sister.

2. I don't use M-PESA directly. Rather I use WorldRemit (https://www.worldremit.com), which connects to M-PESA, to send the money. Other than the occasionally delay, it's a pretty seamless experience. When you factor in the poor exchange rate you get, the cost of sending money is about 1%.

3. Honestly, it's just more rewarding to give directly. I know keep saying this but to talk to the recipients and see how grateful they are and how life changing the money is just an amazing experience. And it's motivating. I want to keep giving and find ways to give more.

As for the handout question. None of my recipients seem to attach any stigma to receiving the money and none of them treat it as a handout. They all keep working in one way or another and most use the funds to start a business of some sort.
From the OP:

> "...two-dimensional caricatures tend not to deepen. Instead, they flip – in this case, from loving and peaceful back to the sinister and violent caricatures that..."

Much like arguments over whether who and what is "real" Christianity, or Islam... it's all equally "real". Buddhism is made of people and has a couple thousand years of history across large swaths of the world. And like everything made of people, it's complex and has parts and times and trends we might like and parts we might not.

I suppose the believer can say the parts they don't like aren't 'real', and different factions of believers can fight it out over which parts are 'real', as in all religions. But that doesn't seem very "Buddhist" to me. :) And like with all religions or ideologies, the non-believer has no stake in the game. It's all equally "real Buddhism", as it's all things that have actually happened and been done by and in the name of Buddhism.
Well having done RAD/DSDM (including projects presented at the IEE) some of the bizarre rules based things scrum gets up to seem sub optimal (to be kind).

I have even done very successful hybrid projects that used Waterfall for design and built the system using RAD in 12 weeks - including doing a physical delivery.
Why Was California’s Radical Housing Bill, SB-827, So Unpopular?
"You might as well" implement your own secure transport protocol instead of SSL/TLS by the same thinking. With your own protocol implemented in your app there's no need to rely on whatever TLS implementation ships with the device.

In both cases it's a trade, and my argument is that just as it would have been a mistake to roll your own transport security protocol in 2011, it's a mistake to make your own PKI in 2018. At least for any reason other than education.

There doubtless were people in 2011 who could have come up with something better than TLS 1.2, and there doubtless are people in 2018 who can do a better job of managing a PKI than we've done of the Web PKI. But most people's secure transport protocol in 2011 would have made SSL 2.0 look good, and most people's attempt at running their own CA today is going to be OpenSSL on somebody's laptop.

Part of the reason for my skepticism is interacting with private PKIs where they touch the edge of the Web PKI. Without exception they are badly managed. Whether it is the Payment Card Industry, the US Federal Government, or a company-specific setup that I end up debugging, it's pretty shocking. If Bad Guys aren't breaking these systems, it's because they aren't trying. And if they aren't trying, who cares what you do about security - anything would work.
It's not obviously insane compared to driving. It's a 4200 mile trip, basically the length of Europe and back. That's a minimum of 6 days of driving, ~$400 in gas, 5 nights in hotels during the trip (at least another $500), plus meals (three fast-food meals per day could be ~$200).

Obviously you can economize on any of these at some cost to your comfort and sanity. But because you can read a book on the train, or play computer games, or work, or socialize (or all of the above), you can easily conclude that a modest premium is worth it. That makes the $1100 fare a bargain, and even the $2000 fare might be worth it.

The real cost is the time. Most people who get yearly vacations can count on two weeks worth, and most of them aren't going to want to spend half of that on the journey; they're either going to go somewhere closer or they're going to fly. And that's still $400 for a cheap coach ticket, 8 hours in the air, and all the suffering you can bear in the airports at either end. Plus a taxi at each end, or long-term parking. You do get an extra 4 days to explore Portland though.
So let's lift off visa requirements in USA and let everyone come if group of people leaving in some place cannot decide what should be the rules.
As tempting as it is to believe this story's premise that Facebook is bullying?/neglecting? smaller countries and then fit that into the larger backlash against social media, I think it's very misleading to believe that actually applies in Sri Lanka's case.

In fact, Sri Lanka has a history of majoritarian ethnic violence, up to and including genocide, against ethnic nationalities and minorities within the country.

Sinhalese also committed organized violence against Muslims in 1915. There were riots in 1958 because Tamils protested the use of the Sinhalese on license plates (following 1956 when Sinhalese replaced English as the only official language of govt, disenfrachising all Tamil govt employees). Tamils were killed in 1974 at the international Tamil conference in Jaffna, the Tamil cultural capital. And of course, the official war between 1983 - 2009 was one drawn-out genocide against Tamils by the 99% Sinhalese military and 95% Sinhalese police force, "ignited" by Sinhalese "mobs" using govt voter lists to burn Tamil homes and business along with killing Tamils, while the police were deployed everywhere but stood by and watched.

I get the tech-relevance of Facebook here, but this story is trying to take the latest ethnic atrocity from country that's already systemically racist, and somehow shoehorn it into the larger narrative of social media, corruption, and politics.

Maybe this is Sri Lanka's attempt at distancing itself from the Cambridge Analytica exposé that Channel 4 did undercover, where they posed as a middleman working to swing the recent SL local elections in the favor of an opposition chauvinist strongman who oversaw the crescendo of genocide against Tamils in 2009 (https://www.channel4.com/news/exposed-undercover-secrets-of-...)

I find the Sri Lankan government a very unsympathetic, persistent, complicit actor in the violence within its borders. It's not like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica were around to cause all the racist violence since 1915.
But "keystroke" is a very strange metric. In terms of speed, it's often much faster to just ctrl+a and rewrite it from scratch. The mental gymnastic in trying to compute in your head the difference of characters is definitely non-trivial. It only really works if the thing you're replacing has the exact same number of characters in it.

Can you explain the exact scenario you use it in, I honestly can't think of a scenario where insert is useful.
There's an old joke: "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor." Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight face, IMHO.

Evil-mode solves that, and just as magit is better than git evil-mode seems, to me, better than vi. Emacs is better than ever (though you do need to use auto-formatting for languages like JS that change a lot- there is no emacs mode that has kept up with ES whatever. Luckily emacs makes it easy to use formatters like prettier on a per-buffer basis.)
I agree 100%.

Thankfully I dont do agile any more, but I'm close to several teams that do. My fondest memories are:

No over-arching design (Implement feature after feature however the hell anyone likes)
Once said features are implemented, taking the time to "refactor" (read: completely rewrite because the code was so bad) becomes a really hard sell.

Thus, new features get progressively harder to implement, as you touch a deeper cross-section of the code to try and fix stuff semi-covertly, without a formal refactor.

"Tech Debt" was done in sprint scheduled after phase of dev sprints. After, say, a year of development, lets fix all the problems in 3 weeks... When you're dealing with procedural php masquerading as OO, MVC with business logic everywhere it shouldnt be, and abuse of inheritance such that you cant throw an error in a command line because you're not a logged in browser user, who's had their language queried from a database, and doesnt fall back to default when the db isnt there... 3 weeks isnt gonna cut it!

Introducing peer review was supposed to sort that, but bad or inexperienced devs didnt know they were doing shoddy work (it met the criteria after all..), and good devs became impediments because so many stories needed redoing. Demoralising.

We were probably "doing agile wrong". But it's like a religion: open to interpretation. In my experience it's a tool used to extract maximum customer benefit at the expense of the developer's soul, under the pretence of "self managing team" - ie. "You brought it on yourself".
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No one does that for large contracts. We would have had to sign over 1,200 pages.
There are several benchmarks floating around about system call overhead for docker. These are generally low, however, IO overhead in the form of filesystem and network can be quite high.

Over at Wallaroo Labs, we've seen some workloads in Docker at are an order of magnitude worse performance for some workloads. However, in those cases, it was comparing raw performance on OSX vs running on Docker on OSX. IO overhead while it exists, has generally been much lower when running in Docker.

Talking about "specifically using Docker" is a little difficult as Docker is mostly providing a UI over existing Linux technologies and thus, isn't that much different from other LXC based technologies.

If you want to talk about "docker specifics", you should be looking at things like the overlay networking and Docker Swarm.

If you want to provide someone an environment where you know your software will work because you've tested that specific environment then containers are a very nice way to accomplish that.

I'm not sure what you consider the "hassle of containerization". I'm not a big fan of Docker. The UX irritates me as I can never remember how to do anything even if I've done it tons before (and in this way, its very similar to git for me), but the creation of containers is, in my mind, quite easy. Certainly no harder than putting together a `bootstrap.sh` with Vagrant.

Without knowing what your run_install.sh does, its hard to really say much beyond that.
From experience Agile methods require a different and in general more experienced developers - some one fresh out of uni who only studies cs because of the $ is going to struggle
Yes, lot's of things are always involved. Including air quality etc as I think I saw on HN just the other day.

I find it interesting though that the right type of vegan diet will basically make you hypertension and heart attack proof and that it may also reverse heard disease (the only diet to do so). Especially when you look at mortality and costs of healthcare this really need to be more generally recognized.
I don’t think so, GM made billions from the Nazi war machine then made even more at home when the US woke up it transferred all of its production capacity to support the war effort and was paid well for it for years still after the war has ended.
I’m simply not seeing the same opportunity for Tesla to make the analogy truly work.
>better capitalized and Elon structured debt specifically

This goes against everything I know about Tesla's finances. You really have to provides sources if you want us to believe this.