skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2017 they were claiming to be founded in 2015 [1] and didn't disclose that they were affiliated with financial companies. A few days ago [2] they were claiming to be founded in 2016 and disclosed that they were affiliated with financial companies.

The fake expert is not that concerning but providing affiliate links with no disclosure is a real concern and is rife across the internet and growing [3]. Obviously this company came clean once the journalists got onto them.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170610022155/https://studentlo...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180420191847/https://studentlo...

[3] https://blog.marketing.rakuten.com/hubfs/Networks_Help_Drive...
That's depressing.
>As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that.

I strongly disagree with this. I've owned an electric scooter for over a year now and I learned real fast that it's super dangerous to ride on the sidewalk.

The problem with pedestrians is that they are not looking out for scooters. People will wander into your path and depending on how fast you're going you may collide.

Also you can't see people walking out onto the sidewalk from doorways and recessed building entrances and around corners. I see people on those scooters going full speed on sidewalks and if someone happens to suddenly walk out doorway they're getting hit.

When people walk out onthe street they should look both ways for cars before stepping on the road. In my opinion it's ridiculous to expect people to peer out of doorway stoops and look for people on scooters barreling down the sidewalk.
Not to mention the proven cognitive benefits and reduction in things like Alzheimers when you learn a second language.
What do you mean by expression? In the common usage, javascript has plenty of them. E.G. "asdf", 1 + 2, [3, 4], {"foo": "bar"}, and fn(arg).

Not to mention the if/else expression, a ? b : c
Why is everyone going crazy over electric scooters in California?
Khan describes the long straddle (3:53): https://youtu.be/2HIRaOQDRho
Appelsiini is from the German dialectal Apfelsine, so it actually is an Indo-European loan.
Definitely blockchain.
> Countries like China are tougher, but it's not exactly difficult.

Uh, no, that's definitely wrong. Learning Chinese script is a very difficult and time-consuming task. Literacy in Japanese requires about 2,000 characters; literacy in Chinese requires about 5,000.
Internet outrage is _never_ as widespread or important as it looks.

The best way to predict the effect of any social media campaign against a person or organization is to evaluate the steadfastness of the campaign's target.

If you are the target of an internet mob and you blink, you're not only going to enact mob-demanded changes that are detrimental to your interests, but also broadcast weakness and attract further mob attacks.

If you instead stand your ground and refuse to be cowed by hashtag campaigns, the outrage mob eventually gets bored and finds another target. Your interests are preserved and you end up broadcasting strength and determination.

A lot of people are starting to figure out that internet mobs have no real teeth.
I use Windows 98 every day when supporting medical devices. 98 is not the earliest version I support. There are a few machines in my care that run Windows 3.1 or some custom OEM build of Windows predating Windows 3.1. I recently had to fix a machine with an unknown release of early windows that has a monochrome touchscreen CRT display.

These machines are control computers for medical equipment. The scientific instruments do not get obsolete, so my clients continue to use them.

So, if you were thinking hospitals had merely old machines of XP vintage, think again. I not long ago fixed a GE MRI that ran on a Sun Ultra 10 powered by Solaris 2.5.1.
My focus from 2000 is still in great condition. Good for another 15 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...
Volkswagen is upmarket? That's weird, they own Audi for that reason. What brands are cheaper?
I agree that there are more polite ways to respond to questions than to simply say "RTFM". Some of the other arguments don't resonate well with me, though, such as discouraging words like "should" and "ought".

These are often appropriate words. It's true that they can subconsciously apply some form of judgement, especially if applied with a particularly negative tone as context. But the imagined tone doesn't change the word itself. Even the author uses the concept of "should" in a less direct form. Whether you say "It's time to retire RTFM" or "You should stop telling people to RTFM", you're still suggesting a preferred behavior.

If we stop using words because we're afraid of an edge case where someone may assume negativity, it lends power to that interpretation. When enough people have the same interpretation, the definition becomes the reality. Curse words only have their power because people avoid them or use them as curses.

Perhaps better advice would be to make conscious effort to convey positive tone, rather than avoiding relatively neutral words that are heavily influenced by tone.
Yeah they really enjoyable. I daily the 240z, no complaints here. All smiles.
do you think IB would close an account for algo trading? I have bad experience with sportsbooks
> Post-Privacy means no one can get privacy even if they want it. That has never been the case.

We are already there.

3-letter govt agencies can listen track your calls, intercept your browsing and read your email.

Unless you pay in cash and shop only at your local mom and pop shop, your purchases are already being tracked and reported.

Your cellphone carrier is selling your information to third parties.[1]

You may not be on Facebook or WhatsApp but all your IRL friends and family are. They have your phone number in their contacts list and they have shared it with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and God knows how many other companies. They have taken your pictures and tagged you.

Other than a very small number of privacy-conscious people, which includes living-off-the-grid doomsday preppers, the rest of the country is already there.

1. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3233211/security/mobile-ca...
Using a Latin alphabet might help Kazakhstan interface with the West. However, I think the more direct reason is that a Latin alphabet would facilitate links with Turkey and other Turkish speakers who use Latin alphabets.

Either way the move away from Cyrillic may loosen ties to Russia, but the fact that Turkey uses a Latin alphabet is a stronger motivation than any hopes of building bridges with the West. The latter, if it happens, would just be a bonus.
It’s made for euro cups, aka espresso shots ha.
The old trackpads on Apple laptops (pre-force touch) suffered from the same vulnerability, but there didn't seem to be a whole lot of outcry over it.
Unless you bought a first gen F-150 Raptor.
Yeah, but there's a trivial selection effect going on with Github.
Surely the government could easily print romanized place names in addition to Cyrillic ones, if this is the primary concern.
Just a quick handwavy idea: from falsity you can derive anything, so maybe in this context Falsum would be something that could be used to "prove" the validity of any transaction you want? That said, I'm not an ETH enthusiast and I don't know how you'd express this in that system or if their notion of proof is comparable to "proof" in logic.
I had many problems with my MBP, and it came out so long after the last model, that I completely abandoned Apple after I'd say 8 years.

I think there should've been a massive recall. I don't know why people put up with spending a fortune on a laptop and you can't even type on it...
It was a pen name backed by multiple writers. Why is it different?
Which languages/frameworks would help me be viable anywhere in the US?
To add to that question: What languages/frameworks would aid in my quest to become “independent”?

I’m expecting my wife’s medical school will have me moving a few different places in the US in the next 4-8 years. As is the case, not every city in the US is a tech haven and I need to make sure my skills make me as viable as possible. This could even mean I might need to do freelancing or independent work that could bring in money. What sort of programming languages or types of programming(front end, mobile, etc.) do you think could help me realize this goal? I’m a senior in college if that matters.
Cheeseburgers are cheaper than healthy eating
Cost? Hybrids are ballpark $10K cheaper than electric.

For example the Ford Fusion Hybrid starts at $25,390 and Prius V at $26,675, the only fully electric vehicle at that price point is the Smart ForTwo electric drive, but the ForTwo Electric has a terrible 58 mile range, only two seats, missing quality of life features, and arguably poor fit & finish (similar to a $13K new car level). A good electric vehicle, like the Bolt, is in the mid $30s ($34-36K ish).

A plug-in hybrid offers a good compromise between features and cost. You'll get similar mileage to a ForTwo Electric (50 miles on electric) but with fewer of the compromises (unlimited gas range after that, more features, nicer finish, four seats, etc).
Well, the measuring stick is not English.

Is it Latin? Which version? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet

Or is it all modern non-Cyrillic letters used in Europe that don't have diacritics?

In any case, diacritics are a positive. They're used to make a language as phonetic as possible, which is a net positive. As anyone can attest, learning to pronounce English words (or French, for that matter) is a lot of people wasting a lot of effort, which would be better spent elsewhere!
In the US, anything sexual is a big deal, often to a much greater degree than it needs to be.

It may be doing him no favors that at the exact same time that he is job hunting following this conviction, we have movements like #MeToo. There is something of a hang 'em high attitude nationwide currently, plus some people who don't know where to draw the line -- because the line has moved/is continuing to move -- are erring on the side of extreme caution. This is, in some cases, going bad places because, for example, some men are declining to hire attractive women for fear of being sued.
Yes, a gasoline engine.

"ABSTRACT: Achates Power has spent the past 12 years modernizing this historically efficient engine architecture to deliver a step-wise improvement in brake thermal efficiency (BTE) over the most advanced conventional four-stroke engines. In addition, with the elimination of parts such as the cylinder head and valve train, it is also less complex and less costly to produce - making it even more appealing to manufacturers.
This paper highlights the work done, to date, on the Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compressions Ignition engine and discusses the advantages of the OP engine as an ideal platform for incorporating gasoline compression ignition (GCI) technology, the study of which recently was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy."

http://achatespower.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/JSAE_s171...
You can achieve the same with tor hidden service.
> The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC

Curious to hear how this got past their vetting processes.
The Mondeo is apparently the UK version of what's known as the Fusion in the US, maybe the UK has more accurate fuel economy testing than the US. Or everyone I know who complains about not getting EPA numbers just has a lead foot.
I've had this problem and when I got an even newer mac I solved with a cheap plastic keyboard cover. It has completely solved the problem, but i'm dumbfounded as to why Apple hasn't simply fixed this by preventing stuff from getting under the keys using a similar method.
Ford basically makes all of their money on the F-series pickups, and the Escape/Explorer/Expedition SUV series.

One thing I've never quite understood is how Ford has managed to maintain a stranglehold on the police department market for my entire lifetime. Crown Victorias were ubiquitous until just a few years ago, and now seem to be universally replaced with Explorers. Outside of a few state highway patrol units that use Mustangs or Dodge Chargers.
Was there a commercial conflict of interest between the writing and the writers?
nice hijack attempt.

superior tech is absolutely laughable - you're storing tweets to a private and centralized database somewhere.

OP's writes them to bitcoin's distributed ledger where they are public and permanent.
I mean difficuilt to get around as a tourist - of course I didn't mean learn the glyphs, I've backpacked across China and, yes, if you're looking for a particular street you have to compare it carefully, you're making out the shapes as a picture rather than reading it like a language, but it's not that hard.

I modified my comment to better reflect the intention.
this blew my mind :)
Williamson was making a more pointed and subtle point. You probably missed it.

Part of the key is that Williamson is generally against the death penalty. He is regularly tongue in cheek and hyperbolic.

He is certainly against ex post facto punishment.
> It then uses an exception-like model for error propagation to "solve" error handling (which is fairly easy to handle with a channel).

If none of your code ever actually waits on the error channel when you spawn a goroutine, what happens?

Is there any circumstance where that behavior is preferable to guaranteeing something must wait on the error channel?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I said this in another post somewhere too but I love the new MBP keyboards. I've had my current machine since launch with no issues whatsoever and I'm a web and software dev so I pretty much type all day long. The low travel is amazing and I love both the trackpad and the touch bar. I have no issues with the machine so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :-P
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Scooters don't kill people. People kill people.
Both are "rich get richer" schemes in the grand scheme of things, except that Bitcoin PoW started out as a completely open network which anyone could start mining from, so technically it's our own fault that we didn't realize the potential of Bitcoin in the early days and jumped onto Bitcoin. Otherwise we would be all billionaires. So I don't think it's the same. Just because you can label two things "Rich get Richer", doesn't mean they have precisely the same quality of "rich get richer scheme". Bitcoin PoW is completely capitalistic where people who mined to get their bitcoins deserve their wealth--they "worked" for their coins. So in Bitcoin it is true that "the rich get richer", but also "poor can get richer" too, as long as they started out mining early. This is not the case for PoS systems where bootstrapping PoS requires external capital, so this one is truly "Rich get Richer" in a sense that ONLY the rich can get richer.

That said, talking about this "fairness" is totally missing the point. As I mentioned, in the grand scheme of things it's all "rich get richer" and that's how capitalism works. The truly important question is how immutable an stable the ledger is, because that's what makes these blockchain projects meaningful.

If you ask anyone who has a thorough understanding of these technologies they would say PoW is superior to PoS in this sense. And Yes, this includes even the guys who are working on PoS blockchains. The only reason people bother with PoS is because PoW is having a hard time scaling and many people think maybe there may not even be an ultimate solution just with PoW.
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I had to use a new Macbook pro for a while and didn't for one (willing) second use the keyboard. I've also used Windows and Linux laptops of various configurations and really never used the keyboards. I mean, a laptop keyboard is something you use on the airplane or at a meeting. But for real work? Never. Why do people torture themselves?

But the Mac keyboards have been broken for a while. A pointless function key where the control key belongs? No one has explained that one to me yet. So, just keep the stupid thing shut and problem solved.
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Well, we are in a "post-privacy" world already. At least in the US. I'm not OK with that. I'm ok with the concept of anonymized targeted ads, but also realize that this attitude enabled bad actors and loose regulation to tear down that wall.
In Crimea and Georgia, Russia used the argument of defending Russian speaking populations to justify military intervention.

Perhaps, they see the Russian language as a threat to their independence?
> less than half of their forex traders are profitable

Slightly less than half are profitable. This seams reasonable. And how much of IB trades are done by algo trading? Probably not much.
Mrs. Silence Dogood?
Damn, Drew Cloud for student loans and James Blockchain for investing were my 2 go-to people. Now what?
> You can still treat it less formally than if it'd be an actual formalized relationship.

You can, but it is not wise.
I hope there was no possibility that the brains regained consciousness in any sense, otherwise it seems like incredibly unethical experimentation.
FUD, inglorious FUD: IOTA
If you think that taxing the wealthy to provide essential services to the poor is immoral then you've totally lost me. That's not the type of society I want to live in. Relying on voluntary donations leaves too many people to fall through the cracks.
> I think the more direct reason is that a Latin alphabet would facilitate links with Turkey and other Turkish speakers who use Latin alphabets.

Perhaps, but Kazakhstan intentionally decided not to make its new Latin alphabet mirror the Turkish alphabet. In the 1920s several Turkic nations took Turkey’s alphabet as a model, but then were condemned by the Stalinist regime for being too pan-Turkic, with tragic consequences. Kazakhstan is therefore trying to walk an independent course here.
And it was always understood to be a pen name. Nobody was under the illusion that there was someone named "Ann Landers" dispensing advice, they even held a contest for the replacement when one of the earlier writers passed away.
In the '80s and early '90s, a lot of police departments were using the Chevrolet Caprice as their main vehicle.
>Yeah, I may have to eat some crow from an argument the other day with another HN user. Surveys and #deleteFacebook and protests and so forth seemed to indicate that people did finally start getting interested in their own privacy.

I think it largely depends on who your friends are, and who you follow. All the people I follow on twitter for tech news were ranting and raving about all the FB scandals. Not a single one of my friends or people I follow outside of the tech bubble cared about it, most had no idea. If people spend their time on FB and insta, it's not hard to understand why they wouldn't even be aware of what was going on.
Sidewalks also have two-way traffic whereas the bike lane should be only one direction (which is also the direction of car traffic).
If only police departments didn't love them so much. Seems like I end up with one in my rear view mirror every other day and half the time can't tell whether it's an undercover patrol car or not.
I hope you didn't jump straight to quitting. There may have been a legitimate need to launch something that quickly. When I get requests like that, I usually explain the immutable rule of software development... deadline, quality, scope: pick two. Since he wants to adjust the deadline, ask him which of the other two he'll compromise. One answer, quality, would probably lead me to quit, since I can't stand delivering stuff that sucks, but if he were willing to adjust scope of those projects, it's a completely reasonable request.
What is the point of getting a truck for weekend road trips? Do you own a trailer or boat? Plan on off roading? Otherwise I’d get a fuel efficient vehicle. If you’re going to bite the bullet on an F-150 to own a weekend fun truck get a Raptor.
But then you'd have a Raptor so you'd have that going for you.
From what I understand reading this thread, OP has a record for showing his junk in public... now I’m not saying it’s okay to be doing this, but it’s not like he actually assaulted or raped anyone either. I’ve seen unsolicited junk before (both male and female), and I’m still here and it hasn’t affected my life in any way; I just laughed it off and forgot about it 5 minutes later. I really don’t think this “crime” warrants a lifelong record, unless the offence was repeated multiple times.
He didn't say it was funny. He said it was ridicule. Getting people all worked up in their ignorance was the goal. His error was being too effective in practice.
Thanks for commenting. I have the same problem with the "b" on my 18mo MBP.

Can you elaborate or link-to some more info on "replace the entire key and membrane"? Apple want to replace the top-case at AUD $650...
I'm really really really not qualified but:

TLDR, split up a blockchain into a bunch of smaller blockchains sharded by something (let's say address), and then a different tier of nodes which only operate at the shard level can exist -- they call these "collations". collation-internal transactions can be managed by only the nodes in the collation, and they even lay out an initial proposal for how to do cross-collation transactions, leaning on merkle proofs for verification. They also propose making it transparent as a part of an auto-loadbalancing part of the blockchain so developers wouldn't feel any difference.

This paper was actually pretty interesting. It's pretty thoroughly researched, and the solution that they come up with (sharding) is actually pretty promising as a solution to the centralization + throughput issues of the blockchains up until now. I certainly learned a lot about blockchain systems by reading it, and more importantly learned the current problems with the state of the art and how this group plans to address them.

At this point, I also look at blockchain as a generic distributed database problem -- so I get the feeling these finndings will benefit the field some day. Surely something will come out of the research energy that's being dedicated to blockchain right now that will be beneficial to future researchers.
It is a completely different design. The old one was basically a dimpled rubber sheet with some plastic-scissor-stabilized keycaps over the top.

The new one is made of little buckling metal parts.

They mainly changed designs so that they could make the keyboard thinner – the new one is something like half the depth, or less. Since key travel is reduced, they needed a snappier mechanism to keep enough tactile feel.

The feel of the new keyboards is actually impressively okay for something with so little key travel. (Personally I would prefer something with the snap of the new keyboard and at least as much travel as the old keyboard.)

The problem is that the little metal pieces get easily slightly bent and stop snapping as much as they should, and also dust gets into the contact mechanism and stops keys from registering.
lol yeah, gonna make for an interesting court case in 2030 when someone cant scrub some heinous tweet from the blockchain :P
Vitalik admitted it himself. I linked the ref in my piece.