skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a somewhat shady thing to do. To play devil’s advocate, though, I would argue that inflating your follow numbers is less “evil” than building a machine that takes in user data and spits out profit.
i cannot believe we still havent seen a major news story on reddit. the night and day takeover of the_donald was very obvious to me. i wish someone would write an in depth piece on the nature, scale and timeline of the operation there.
There’s pretty much zero chance that any of those build scenarios would happen. This is a hypothetical app for Windows, so it would be built on Windows, and it would use Windows tooling. No Swift, no Objective-C, no macOS. There is no reason that Apple would drag their entire ecosystem along to build this app, if they even built it themselves.
Wait, Upwork gives you a preemptive code challenge just for you to promote your business (since self-employment is a business)?

Ewwwwwwwwww!
I accidentally sat on my HP-15C in college and broke the LCD. I wrote to HP to see where I could get the LCD replaced. I was a college student and the thing was like $125 1986 dollars, I wanted to fix it, not buy a new one.

They just sent me a new calculator for free. I was so amazed! Heh.

I repeated almost the same accident with an early kindle and Amazon did the same free replacement. I don't think they do today.
Where's Tesla's secret sauce in this solution: the battery chemistry, the control circuits or well-engineered integration of the parts?

How much a threat is constrained lithium supply to the business model?
My favorite low-impedance pickup forum thread (which has been going on for almost 10 years!)

http://music-electronics-forum.com/t5447-8/
I’ve actually never seen it approached any other way (triggered by a direct action), which is somehow even more obnoxious than the prompt itself.
The ads were for Facebook groups, so once they built up a decent subscriber count, they had an audience to propagandize to without paying.

As for the pro-LGBT/liberal ads: One of the strategies the Russians used here was to infiltrate and divide. Only propagandizing to one side of the American political spectrum isn't as effective as playing both sides and turning them against each other.

These ads are just the tip of the iceberg. There were still countless bots and sockpuppet accounts used to sway people one way or the other - but typically against one another.
> Big Falcon Rocket

That's not the meaning I remember. Is it now official? Did Musk use it?
This is a bug, could you send me the details at vjeux@fb.com? It goes back to HN for me.
The funniest example right now are the Rs who are against USA violence in Syria but for it in Iran, juxtaposed with the Ds who are against USA violence in Iran but for it in Syria. Syria and Iran are allies, and there is no compelling reason for USA violence in either nation. The whole war media narrative has really gone off the rails...
Learning a transformation from the full transformation semigroup is the most general case. Consider a mystery unary CPU operation M on a 64 bit register. How deep of a circuit do you need to calculate any such transformation M? According to Kolmogorov just writing out a random transformation function takes (2^64)*(64) bits to make the lookup table. log of that to get a result out efficiently. Results here were already proved in information theory. If you use a depth less than log of the lookup table you are screwed unless your function is extremely non-random.
My critique of your comment is not based on a dispute over facts about the history of phones.
While not cost effective in the slightest, jettisoning nuclear waste into outer space is one proposition.

Naturally, launching rockets filled with nuclear waste comes with its own safety concerns.
So lie, cheat, and steal, basically.

You sound like the type who makes contracting and consulting so much harder for everyone else, because you exploit your clients ignorance and trust for your own personal gain.

Ironically, you'd make a lot more in the long run if you had a more long-term outlook instead of being so transactional.
(This is a response to a response to my comment by @ppf. That comment is dead, so I cannot reply directly to it)

Sure. Take that document you linked to, and take out the hundreds of pages that are summaries of the rules, recounts of the history of net neutrality regulation, explanations of why we need net neutrality, analysis of the legal authority for the rules, discussion of past court cases on net neutrality, the Commissioner's comments, and all the other extra things in there that are not the rules, and you'll be left with 8 pages that are the actual rules.

To save you some time, the authors of that document have already done that for you, and put the results in APPENDIX A -- FINAL RULES, which starts at page 283 of that particular version [1] of the document.

[1] I've seen other versions that are the same content, but are paginated differently.
Aside from discriminating on protected characteristics, white-collar employment decisions are not really subject to judicial review.
How do you know so much about this person, are you aquaintances in real life?
Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents?
Wow that's so conspiracy-theory.
It would, though it'd be a tricky research design to pull off well: too many moving parts (it turns out to be difficult even to partition video by speaker automatically, let alone everything else).

On a more conceptual note, sentiment analysis detects (linguistic markers of) sentiment, not bias. Pretty much every news source will have positive sentiment for heartwarming human interest stories, and negative sentiment about atrocities. That's as you'd expect; we don't produce or consume news in a vacuum.
He donates plasma. He's one of only approximately 50 people in Australia who have the necessary antibodies.
Wow they flew across country to discuss over dinner something they could have just emailed/phoned about? They really do have a pretty boring job.
Life is hugely politicized

We think we’re boxing it off from that but if you look closer, through the abstract nonsense people peddle, you’ll see it comes down to a political yes/no process

You’re welcome to pretend otherwise. I’d rather just dispense with the notion life is anything but dialog back and forth, jockeying for acceptance and access into some clique or the “right” to build useful infra
As a title III entity serving the public, the bootcamp is obligated to provide an interpreter:

"For people who are deaf, have hearing loss, or are deaf-blind, this includes providing a qualified notetaker; a qualified sign language interpreter, oral interpreter, cued-speech interpreter, or tactile interpreter; real-time captioning; written materials; or a printed script of a stock speech (such as given on a museum or historic house tour). A “qualified” interpreter means someone who is able to interpret effectively, accurately, and impartially, both receptively (i.e., understanding what the person with the disability is saying) and expressively (i.e., having the skill needed to convey information back to that person) using any necessary specialized vocabulary."

Source: https://www.ada.gov/effective-comm.htm

They could have complied by hiring an interpreter or even simply writing captions for the lecture, but they decided to violate the law instead.

Also,

> Don't be the person who burns down someone else's house just because you don't have one.

is absolutely disgusting. The ADA exists because, as a society, we decided to make life accessible for disabled people. One day you'll get hurt, and you'll learn how important reasonable accommodations are.
> decomissioning

You have to decomission nuclear plants unless you want radioactive waste in your ground water. You don't have to do such a thing with wind turbines. You could just let them turn into industrial ruins. It's probably more economical to recycle the materials, but that's a choice.

> construction

All plants require that. Nuclear or coal plants are not made from unicorn hair and dreams.
And modern wind turbine blades are made of reinforced fiberglass composites, not aluminium.
Back when Twitch was Justin.tv, we put in a lot of effort to make sure we only sent video to a copy of our player that was successfully showing our ad placements. I imagine that similar protections are still in place, but it's been almost a decade since I worked there.
It's not that simple. First of all they are never full.

Second the trips are longer, since they have to drive fixed routes, so people are in the vehicle for longer - sometimes MUCH longer, so more road capacity is taken up.

They way they stop and start constantly also reduces road bandwidth.

To me bus service is about money and parking - not being able to afford a car if you only rarely drive, and a place to put the car.

I am not convinced buses help with congestion. (Trains/subway/T are different because they have a whole new road built just for them.)
I don't see a contradiction here. (speaking as a Python and Haskell user):

1 - dynamic languages, while granting great freedom, make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot with simple typing bugs, so we cope by adding type checking

2 - many (most?) static type systems are not expressive enough to type some programs, so people embed dynamic solutions to build the stuff they need.

Haskell is pretty decent at typing most stuff I want, but it makes me think about it up front, which is nice sometimes, but not always. Python lets me build stuff quickly and work out the design as I go, but it's hard to make sure everything works as intended. I wish there was something that let me bodge things together, but then constrain them with types when I need to...
Back to the Future? Russia's Hybrid Warfare
I suspect the panopticon effect is an incentive for the open office designs and the trend towards glass. The incentive would be that there can't be any false claims in either direction if everyone can see each other all the time.
If there's no row for the customer in the joined table, the customer won't show up in an inner join.
As far as the X-Men go, very often children have similar (if not enhanced) powers compared to their parents c.f. Jean Grey and her multiple-universe-spanning offspring with some variation on tele{pathy,kinesis}.

However, in the cases where the mutation seems to not be directly inherited, the explanation lies in the "implementation details", as it were. When the X-gene activates (due to puberty, stress, etc.), it releases a protein that goes on to cause mutations in surrounding genes, seemingly at-random but not so random that you have "mutant" teens dropping dead of sudden protein deficiencies.
Ok, I don't know myself, because I stopped looking for the next editor years ago, so I'd like to ask: do you know how long it takes, on average, for IDEs and editors to highlight a type error?
> None of your arguments make any sense when you take in account the fact that such business model has enormously benefited consumers.

I think I already explained my position pretty clearly, which is that consumers benefit from the free stuff less than they suffer from the monopoly subsidizing it.

I'm happy to defend my position but you need to give me an argument of your own first, besides "it just doesn't make any sense".
I'm not deaf, but if you'd like, I'd be happy to do some pair programming with you over a chat client. We could come up with something appropriate for your skill level and see how it goes! I'm more of a back-end developer, but I do know a bit of front-end stuff. If interested, my email is in my profile.
I mean, his 12 points are pretty stock Stoicism, with a 21st century spin. By my reading, he's not entirely stoicism, true, but he sits in the adjacent seat. If he is this popular with (as I see it) his re-skinned stoicism, then the conclusion that 'stoicism needed an update' is not unreasonable, as it seems to resonate better with the re-skin than without. Caveats, obviously, apply.
Then why are you on hacker news

Is HN social media? What exactly is social media? I always figured it as anything where you can followers/friends/connections/subscribers/contacts etc and you can’t really do that on here and consider it a forum.

As for Twitter, or any other social media I don’t personally use it. Tesults, of which I am a founder does but not much, we kind of suck at it tbh and are more focused on serving our existing customers most of the time and improving the product but would love to improve, if anyone’s got any tips send me a message. How many followers did you have before quitting?
Discovering DELIVERY-ONLY pizza
Why not two traits? One that determines if (Earth || !Earth) (call it the "Magic" gene) and one that determines (Pegasus || Unicorn) but only if the other gene is active.
We've seen this story play out before, exactly as how you describe.

However, if it gets kids to docker compose, well that's a net positive.
> to keep the numbers clean

With Australia's minimum wage, it's likely to be at least double this.
I'll freely admit that I have an axe to grind. However, that's because I've seen this all first-hand across a bunch of different companies.

This doesn't sound like young people with free time, this sounds like people with commitments that had a culture where it's okay(and even celebrated) to blow off those commitments.

It's a cultural thing in this industry that does a ton of damage to the engineers who want to sustain a family life and work a job that's deep and interesting. I'm certain I'm not over-reacting though, I've seen it enough times in this space(and even from NVidia reps who came to pitch/visit us) that I know it's an issue that's worth addressing.
This is fascinating article. The main complaints are actually against a woman, the foundation’s top fundraiser. One of her quotes to a black intern:

>“ok slave, come into my office”
Bollocks see my comment. We know worst case bounds for Kolmogorov random transformations of a finite set, the most complex learning task there is.
Less easy to explain are the countless advertising emails.
Dynamic Languages Are Static Languages
Again, that sounds more limited or narrow than what people are actually building in safe Rust. The ecosystem has piles of software that would've been in C. Likewise, that it cant handle a few primitives doesnt matter if I can prove them separately using a VCC-like tool for a subset of unsafe Rust, one that generates Rust, or one that does assembly. That these situations are fairly uncommon is suggested from fact that people always bring up the same examples which C does no better on by itself. Whereas, all the rest of the code outside those components will be safer and more maintainable than C. So, it beats it on a number of dimensions at language level despite remaining unsafety.

Whereas, if we count tooling, C is still safer than Rust given there's more verification tools available plus certifying compilers. You have to use many of them with a subset of C easy to analyze, though.
UC Berkeley wasn’t forced into either of those two options; many other universities found a way to accommodate students with disabilities, including creating more efficient workflows by which items were only transcribed after being requested. I think it’s lazy and disingenuous for a university with a 4+ billion dollar endowment to make up reasons not to make these materials available to everyone and think it’s absurd to compare those requesting adherence to the law to arsonists.
You are correct, there's also a flaw on CSP not limiting all the ways you can download a resource. And at this time, it's still not fixed. We'll publish an advisory soon.
Because the Democrats on the congressional committee that released them released them as 300+ MB PDFs. This site just printed them all as images and posted as-is.
Odd the article doesn't mention CMV. He would have to also be CMV-negative (somewhat rare) to donate for children. I am CMV-negative and was aggresively courted for my blood (they never said anything about antibodies). I guess the difference is plasma vs full blood?
I built it to be a reference implementation for "Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics" (1st Ed.) by Robert Bridson. The book is a cleaned up version of his free course notes. If I had the time, I'd clean up the code a little because the book already has a great explanation of how it works.

https://github.com/cgmb/euler
Ask HN: How much would you pay to stop seeing ads?
I am all for a 50/50 split if both parents want to work or even a stay at home dad. But, it's more than just breastfeeding.

Giving birth is hard from a few weeks and arguably months before to a few weeks and or months after. That naturally tends to taking a few months off and hey infant needs a lot of care so when not extend that a little. Add a second pregnancy at 1-3 years after the fist and it's easy to end up with a stay at home mom.

Now, this is far from the only pattern, but it is common for real biological reasons.
It was The Ministry of Statistics census people doing some work post the Christchurch earthquake.
What's the carbon footprint of a thousand rocket launches?
As a mostly non-practicing, lifelong Mormon, I find most of your conclusions here reasonable. And I commend you for the open-mindedness required to look into a widely-maligned minority religion like Mormonism.

I would say, though, that the idea that more manuscripts necessarily implies a more reliable textual history is incorrect. The textual history of the Book of Mormon is incredibly simple, substantial parts of the original manuscript and the entirety of the printer's manuscript (a copy made of the original for purposes of printing it) both exist. For the New Testament there are no "autograph" manuscripts (original manuscripts) and the earliest manuscripts are at best a century after the originals. Reconstruction based on all of the numerous NT manuscripts really only serves to get you back to the point the the BoM text is already at, and not even quite there. See Royal Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project for more on this.

It took hundreds of years for trinitarianism to be adopted as a consensus, and prior to (and also after) the great creeds there was substantial disagreement about the nature of God. I wouldn't put too much stock in them as a doctrinal buttress. See "Voting About God" by Ramsey MacMullen.

Again, kudos for all your research into Mormonism, which I find to be a fascinating tradition, even if I now seriously question its truth claims.
> to allow the source page to carve out

How would that help? If I have malicious site, I just wouldn't use that feature.
Salmonella Kitchen is a ridiculous example. Take something that is actually controversial, like raw milk.

If people want to drink raw milk, let them.

Allowing a company to offer a service for free in exchange for a user's data is very far away from allowing unaccredited doctors practice medicine.

GDPR is more like blocking people from braiding hair without a cosmotology license.
One of my dreams is to do something similar by simplifying neural nets via (bi)simulation (something along the lines of quotient automata).
There is no way in hell I'd automatically (or anyone I know for that matter) pay for something without having some idea of the transaction occurring even if it is 1 millionth of a cent.

That is the real problem with this strategy and why it won't work. Now if I had a $5 per month allocation for instance, that I could distribute in this way and then after that runs out all other access is free then that might work.
But the first time some autobot or something goes rogue and triggers a billion/trillion payments against your account, this entire house of cards would fall down.
Open floor plan is so horrible. I have said no to a few positions from it.

I don't mind working in team rooms, but that is still a bit distracting. The second it becomes two teams or more, I start looking for new opportunities.
https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social...
Why would you want to do that? JavaScript is memory-safe.
An anecdote about the HP-35, from the HP Museum (http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm):

> The HP-35 had numerical algorithms that exceeded the precision of most mainframe computers at the time. [...] This forced time-consuming manual comparisons of results to mathematical tables. A few bugs got through this process. For example: 2.02 ln e^x resulted in 2 rather than 2.02. When the bug was discovered, HP had already sold 25,000 units which was a huge volume for the company. In a meeting, Dave Packard asked what they were going to do about the units already in the field and someone in the crowd said "Don't tell?" At this Packard's pencil snapped and he said: "Who said that? We're going to tell everyone and offer them, a replacement. It would be better to never make a dime of profit than to have a product out there with a problem". It turns out that less than a quarter of the units were returned. Most people preferred to keep their buggy calculator and the notice from HP offering the replacement.

And here is a scan of that recall notice: https://imgur.com/K1k0cSQ (original source: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-2821.html)
Cycle Pedals Bare Metal Container Orchestrator as Kubernetes Alternative
Looks like they're trying to get more subscribers for a group controlled by the Russian government, so that they can start propagandizing.

What do you think that specific image disproves?
Setting up a Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal
It absolutely is locked, and needs to be unlocked and flashed while in EFI mode.
But not too late for further dividing America under Trump...
In Electron, all file:/// URIs share an origin. Using `script-src: 'self'` isn't much of a boundary.
There was a link here recently with a video of a consultant talking about a Model 3 tear-down. He basically said the "Skateboard" was amazing, the rest of the car was sub par. The were most impressed with the battery pack, saying it was was above and beyond anything they had seen with cell to cell voltages being astonishingly close.
Companies can still do that - they just need to be honest and transparent with their users.
The complete and utter intentional lack of understanding of the current Russian influence campaign, the ongoing congressional investigations, and the special council investigation in this thread is appalling.

Once upon a time I thought HN was:

A) Well-informed, and

B) Not a place for political discussion.

Honestly if you can’t find fact from fiction in news articles, just read the damn source documents. You’d probably find it fascinating, instead of just something to dismiss as a bunch of politically-motivated time-wasting.

I know this comment is against the guidelines, but so is nearly every single comment on this story.
I use clickjacking as a “feature” on a website I operate, http://vlograd.io

I had no choice, at least on mobile.

On mobile browsers, audio contexts start out as muted. They can only be unmuted by an event originating from user interaction.

I use a web player embedded in an iframe on my site. It has an API to communicate with it to do things like playing and pausing the current track. However, this also means the audio context is in a cross-domain iframe, and my only way to trigger the play() method is via the asynchronous postMessage API it exposes. So, in order to unlock the audio context, I present mobile users with a “tap to start” screen. In reality, I’ve positioned and zoomed in on the iframe such that the play button is covering the entire screen for any reasonable screen size. Thus, when the user taps to start, the audio context is unlocked (since the “tap” event on the play button in the iframe fires), and I immediately send a “pause” command via the player’s API. Now, the audio context is unmuted and I’m free to send the “play” command for any track to start playing music.
That is good to know. We will also need to unlock the flash descriptor, which is more proprietary code to reverse engineer.
Propulsion bearing failure on Navy's new $12B Carrier