skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Is this for real?

2. Here are exactly two things that you need to memorize in order to make this sort of talk productive:

a) I don't know what X is, sorry. Can you tell me what that is/Can you explain to me what it does?

b) I'm not sure I follow. I thought X is [...]/does [...], what am I missing?

3. Did anyone who actually knows what these things mean review these definitions? E.g:

Vanilla:

"Plain or basic, often used in reference to coding languages or other computing-related systems that remain unmodified from their original form."

There's nothing plain or basic about the vanilla Linux kernel. What makes it vanilla is the absence of distribution- and/or vendor-specific patches that are not in mainline.

API:

"A set of rules that developers follow to create software that can interact with an external system or application."

This sort of matches what an API is in web land, if you squint a little. If someone were to ask me what that definition describes, "API" is about the last thing I'd say.

Django:

"A style sheet language that extends from CSS."

Last time I wrote web-related code, my girlfriend dragged me to see The Aviator twice because it was all the rage, and I haven't really kept up, but I could swear Django is not a language and that it doesn't extend from CSS, whatever that means.
That's why you'd use a cut-out: plausible deniability. Russia has attempted and/or carried out multiple hits on NATO soil in this exact manner, including one with a novel nerve agent.
My spidey sense is telling me that this could have been achieved with a few Erlang VMs and a lot less moving parts.

It's a supervisor (Director) with a bunch of actors communicating with different 3rd party API's. The state mechanism could ostensibly get abstracted away so the underlying DB is irrelevant.
Stealthy, destructive malware infects half a million routers
Commented above as well:

Case law would disagree. Here's a case where the Supreme court ruled that Facebook banning someone was a violation of their first amendment rights. [0] Salient quote: "Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights"

Edit: as pointed out, this ruling doesn't actually disagree with what the previous comment said. It does seem similar enough to me to be relevant though so leaving it up.
[0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf
Many foreigners manage to learn English and other languages quite nicely in their schools, thankyou very much. What Tabarrok says is that foreign languages are a waste of time, not that they are taught badly.
Second recommendation for DTN. I know people who run small town radio stations who use it because they can't afford the other big commercial services. They all say it's great.
What I always wondered about is that this generally assumes that classes are assigned with an equal (human level) error probability. While this is certainly the case in heavily curated example dataset, many real world scenarios only consist of a considerably labeled positive set while the negative set is often drawn randomly from the background. Is there anything on how this can be taken into account (Besides weighting, obviously)?
But what you are responding to doesn't say "saturated fat is harmless or even healthy". It says there is little saturated fat in eggs.
So you have nothing to refute the available evidence. Thanks for the informative response. Don't make claims in public you can't support.
Fair point. However, there are a bunch of complex laws in the US around gambling and gambling as a business is often banned where doing the same things as individuals is more often legal. Old but interesting: http://fortune.com/2011/02/15/was-my-sports-bet-legal/

Which I think get's into the same incentives as these games. If the house get's a cut of from poker players without risks they have reason to promote addiction. On the other hand friends playing for bubble gum can enjoy betting without meaningful downsides.

I don't think their are clear cut answers, but special regulations for companies due to the nature of capitalism has precedent in the US.
If you look past the poorly-thought-out title, this page is actually a good information resource for non-technical people.
GitHub and Laracasts
I think you're right. I also know technical people who obscure gaps in their own knowledge with jargon. So clarifying questions that might expose the gap are responded to with increasingly technical rambling. Bad habits all around, feeding off each other.
I am Black, but I use to laugh when people said that to me and reply "Why would I want to move back to London, England".

It is not just where we really came from, but many of us if you try just using our surface features have no connection to where many snap judgments think we came from.
"My posts weren't the most popular, so I had to delete the popular ones to get mine to the top of r/science!"

Did he really just say that post manipulation is allowed when he personally values the content and expected it to be accepted?

Reddit is so covered in arbitrary rules as it is. It's harder to get a post to stick on Reddit than it is here on HN sometimes, and HN isn't even for general discussion like Reddit is.

Now we're finding out that the social media website with the most red-tape and outright hostile attitude towards it's userbase deletes user content to substitute self-promotional content produced by organizers?

I think it's time to find an alternative. Reddit wreaks of hostility towards users. It's the online equivalent of a park bench with coin operated spikes to deter homeless people.
> China's economy functions better

China's economy developed under a multi-person single-party system. That has devolved into a dictatorship. I would be cautious about using the last thirty years as a baseline for the next fifty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping
One of my friends parents a couple of decades ago brought an architect designed house and the designers/contractors neglected to put in any ducting!

Took them ages to get POTS - You can see why Civil engineers make Architect jokes
We've done this partly in the UK. It's not good, people are lazy and expect everyone to speak Egnlish, which may be the case in business, but not always, and there's always more opprtunities when you can find and speak to clients in their native language.

As others have said, languages are much wider than grammer and vocab books, you learn so much. I've noticed I tend to have diffirent thought patterns and attitudes to things depending on the language I'm speaking or thinking in, it's bizarre and amazing at the same time. And I now know far more about english grammar than I ever learned in english lang classes.
2x 60dB is 63dB.
I was required to take 5 years of Spanish it was a huge drag and I learned next to nothing. I lived in South Korea for one year and my Korean is far far better. Foreign language learning requires immersion and motivation - both of which are absent in a normal high school class.
On the other hand, the US used an early cruise missle to deliver mail as a publicity stunt, and it did require landing[1].

IIRC the regulus system was developed as a reusable airframe to keep development costs low.

[1]https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/reg...
JavaScript is slowing down and at times actually reversing innovation.
NES era developers knew that many of their customers could only afford a few games a year but also didn't have enough memory on the carts for extremely large games. The only way to prevent kids from blowing through the content in a weekend was to crank the difficulty up or figure out some way to offer endless replayability (ala Tetris).

It's really incredible when you see printed out maps of old NES games just how small the levels were. You could put an entire game in a 4 or 5 page spread in Nintendo Power if you wanted.
Sorry if I came across as Anti-Amazon. In fact I am very pro-Amazon and I love the fact that Amazon is making cities battle it out. A future where city mayors and state governors have to actively fight for investment and when they fail they are seen as incompetent bozos would be good for democracy and people. Amazon has my full support for their move to pit city against city.

My point was that not dragging ordinary people into this might have helped Amazon get a better deal. Why should general public know what deals these mayors and governors are cutting ? (In Amazon's perspective, it is good for democracy if the fight is in open)
> It's puzzling that the idea of school exposing the children to culture

This is a very bad argument for selecting school curricula, since you could use it for an overwhelmingly massive amount of subjects.
Looks like someone has posted this to Reddit, and people have questions for the maintainer.
The person being quoted (Bryan Caplan) does actually make similar claims to what you're saying. His claim is that most people use very little of what they learn in school and that the main thing that school does is show you're smart because you were able to graduate. So instead of making kids waste time learning stuff they're just going to forget (or never really learn as in the case of foreign languages), we should strip down the school curriculum and only teach them things relevant to their future life.
This reads like it was written by someone who doesnt play or appreciate games, or even know much about the artform.

The point that is brought up several times, that they are classist due to their cost..
If you cant afford a game, or dont want to support its publisher or business model, but still want to play it. Just pirate it. Most games are readily available to pirate.

Games have simply become as film, and novels and all other art forms these days. You have the good stuff, which is cheap and indie and obscure, and innovative..
And you have the bad commercial stuff, which is very homogeneous and repetitive and 'safe' and is heavily marketed and designed to have the broadest and most shallow appeal. Its simply another business where X investment yields X*Y return (where Y is positive)

So, the equivalent of blockbuster Hollywood films, or airport novels.
If you have an interest in a particular medium you will quickly learn to avoid the bad stuff and learn where to find the good stuff.
I wonder he's getting the money for his two concurrent legal cases, or if he's acting as his own representation in both. Even if that's true, he needs to eat somehow as his parents apparently aren't allowing him their food.

I can't imagine that he has the resources to outlast his parents in this legal fight, which seems to be the way American court cases work: who has the deepest pockets to fund endless appeals and thereby force a settlement?
People underestimate the value of learning the structure of the process of learning a foreign language as early as possible..

I noticed in university that most high school subjects have about 2 years of daily curriculum that a university can magically squeeze into one semester of 3 hours a week for the students that missed it or failed to learn it.. So maybe university should start at eighth grade? Or maybe what needs to be fixed is more fundamental than foreign language; it's not much worse than the high school teaching of any subject with enough variation that a child doesn't see a social expectation applying to most adults.

Personally, I think mandatory school levels should offer Esperanto, which students can use to survive any European language in university and as a structure to learn later in life when they have a better idea what they want to learn.
Fast Mail and Cold Storage (google and amazon).
Yes.

I am maintaining an Anglaur app just now. What a waste of effort. Everything would have been so much simpler if it was kept server side. Instead we have a ton of duplicated logic.
I believe that's why Web Assembly (https://webassembly.org/) has been created. Eventually we will be able to use any language that can compile to Wasm.
There isn't actually any physiological evidence in the China case. mTBI can only be diagnosed by symptoms; there are no biomarkers for diagnosing it.

The media reports say the symptoms were "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure" that lasted a year. That sounds entirely consistent with a psychiatric explanation.

People working in embassies aren't somehow immune to psychiatric issues (and may in fact be more likely to experience things like this, due to the pressures of their work).
Considering that non-malware related documents were reportedly taken, you're not telling the full story.

You make some good points.

That said, the politics of the NSA and the politics of Congress are often quite orthogonal and shouldn't be equated.
FWIIW I use yandex instead of google for exactly the same reasons. The Russians are no doubt scoundrels, but I don't live there.
This article unravels at this line- " In industrial and post-industrial societies, work tends to be necessarily hierarchical. But leisure has always held out the promise of equality. "

I don't think this has ever really been true.
The article is missing some context here where spez said that r/science mods removed the popular posts in the sub during AMA for increased attention which is allegedly vote manipulation from their end.

Full reply : https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/8khscc/rscience_wi...
So maybe he'd be happy if we just upped the teaching methods to provide more effective learning?

The US is doing pretty terribly in scholarship right now so I can understand the frustration coming from how little the money we do spend tends to effect things, but the conclusion that we need to save that money as well seems pretty wrong-headed.
5 is maybe doable in a limited context, e.g. in residential neighborhoods of American cities. No way for the rest of the world though. The road systems are too complicated.
Your argument seems more in the vein of "C programmers are smarter java programmers" while ignoring the actual discussion, which is C is not a good teaching language. Yeah, you'll learn some stuff by virtue of blindly running over the language's landmines. I don't consider trial by fire to be a great way to learn.

> It's things like understanding how an array of ints is laid out in memory and what happens when you treat it as an array of chars instead.

This is one of said landmines, as the size of both is architecture/compiler specific. The only thing you learn by stepping on this one is, "use fixed-width integers when you care about exactly how many bytes the value is."
It doesn't look like Segment has released the codebase? They do have quite a few public repos[1]...

1: https://github.com/segmentio?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=&languag...
Great point, I cannot stand when the argument is made: "I'd rather have Russian or Chinese backdoors in my software, than allow the possibilty of US authorities to have jurisdiction".

It would be better if one chooses their software based on trust, security audits, open source, etc.
The entire Christianity and Catholic church has been the biggest examples of bigotry, racial, hatred and unimaginable violence. A Pastor should not engage in this type of virtue signalling.

When you create wealth you are already helping poor people and blue collar workers. Who do you think mows Mark Zuck's lawn ?
No, he literally says:

> Don’t make the mistake of arguing that knowing a second language has many benefits. The point is that foreign language instruction in schools doesn’t teach a second language.

I get your point that other countries manage to teach English. But English has a large amount of utility to non-English speakers. The reverse isn't true for most languages English speakers could learn.

I'm decidedly not anti-foreign languages. I can understand some Norwegian and French and am learning Arabic, but it is much less useful for me to know these languages than for a speaker of them to know English.
I think it’s a thought experiment and not a suggestion. And the transmitter is for the person being videotaped, not the person creating the video. Though of course you raise a good point about anonymity of the video creator.
Yup. Re: the 3B2s, I don't know how much they cost at the time, but I heard that they were extremely expensive. Everything was, of course, but the AT&T hardware especially.
The problem is that four years of high school French (or whatever) doesn't teach the language to any appreciable degree. ("The point is that foreign language instruction in schools doesn’t teach a second language.")

Now, I suppose you could double down on immersive language training etc. But, unlike the case of English in the Nordics for example, there's no single language that lots of US children would be greatly advantaged by learning.

In my case, I took 4 years of HS French (and 2 of Latin), My French is better than nothing compared to someone who has never had any, but it sure isn't anything approaching fluent.

In other words, 4 years of language is a pretty big block of HS time for a subject that seems to be pretty ineffective.
Judge rules Trump can't block users on Twitter
This kind of visualizations?

https://visualgo.net/en

https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht...
> Firms like CityFibre just want to cream off the most profitable areas of the country and kill off cross-subsidising the rest.

That has not been my experience. I live in an urban area where BT has a monopoly (no Virgin). They were not even slightly interested in deploying even FTTC -- the coverage was full of "notspots" where one house in a street had decent broadband and another up the road had none at all. BT have been quite lazy from where I stand, leaving players like CityFibre an opening.

Also, blaming Thatcher towards the end of this decade seems not to be very useful. More recently, Ofcom asked BT to consider FTTH repeatedly in aughties (2000-2010). BT declined to deploy saying "no business case" right up to Dec 2017 when their hand was forced by Ofcom. If BT were better run, they'd recognize the value in FTTH by the end of the aughties surely?
I'm actually more excited than I have ever been in the JS ecosystem. Sure, there's framework fatigue, but ES6+ features have been a pleasure to learn and use, and picking up Typescript has been a serious boon to a more OO style approach to client side engineering. The previous two years have been refreshing.
I don't care about JavaScript, but I love browsers as platforms; and as long as JavaScript is the de-facto language of the browsers, it will remain an important language.
That's not how it works. Who gets to say what is crazy?
Up- and downvotes work to a certain extend. But when the community grows big enough, the upvotes tend to heavily favor "funny" and other easily digestible content. Many subreddits and other online communities died the, what I call, 10,000 member death. If you don't apply moderation at that point, serious content will disappear.
No, but there is no evidence to support the sonic weapon hypothesis either, and a psychiatric explanation does fit the facts a lot better. Why would a single person in the Chinese embassy suffer the symptoms for over a year, while no other employees experienced it?
Not something I've ever been asked to do before. Was just a very timely example of what I was getting at.
JavaScript itself isn't the problem. The ecosystem is the problem. There is so much bad stuff out there that I stop reading articles about hot new software when they mention npm.
>I think it's always safe to assume the worst from bureaucrats.

No it isn't. As a law-abiding web developer, I have had frequent contact with European data protection authorities for many years. Without exception, they have been thoughtful, reasonable and gone out of their way to help me comply with the regulations.

The regulatory authorities exist to ensure compliance, nothing more. They are not a revenue-generating scheme or a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

The GDPR explicitly states that penalties must be proportionate and sets out no fewer than eleven factors that must be considered before any penalty is issued. It also explicitly establishes a mechanism for ensuring that enforcement is consistent across all member states, by means of the European Data Protection Board. The regulations simply do not allow a member state to "go rogue" and start handing out €20m fines for trivial infractions.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-7/
I’m impressed!
Dumpzilla – Extract All Forensic Interesting Information of Firefox, Icewea
And you are allowed to take it to the european court if you think the fine is bullshit.
And if you don't already know, european court don't take bullshit very well.

Anyway, all regulatory instances are working together (in a group named G29, imagination is not their strength) to draw guidelines for fines and warnings. They will also discuss together ongoing cases (to avoid multiple prosecutions i guess). If you are not trying to cheat data from your customers and if your security is up to date, you risk nothing.
IMO, the current state of voice recognition in general is absolute garbage for anyone who doesn't speak American English natively. Dragon for Windows is touted as having great voice recognition, but it often fails to understand 'page up' / 'page down' and other simple commands. The built in system to OS X is ok if dictation with mistakes that need correcting by hand (aka keyboard) is something one desires; I can't imagine it ever is. Interestingly enough, the mobile voice recognition features seem to work a little better, but systems like Siri and Google's assistant are completely useless for getting actual work done. The accuracy of all these systems is such shit, that I have turned them all off as they are not even useful for dictating a plain English message into slack, let alone driving a computer and doing productive programming and system administration work. On the other hand, I've seen native speakers do exactly that which is impressive and also, I admit, makes me jealous as I don't expect to have access to this technology for many years to come.
I guess my brain perceives being bored on a long bus ride as unduly painful or threatening.
GSuite, 1Password, NewsBlur, Mullvad VPN
Just No. It doesnt't even feel human. It's like throwing bunch of things at the developers and will give out output.
It's upper management version of random button smashing.
Ask HN: The greatest innovation since the internet / web
So as a non-coder I hear more and more about AI and I am wondering how significant of an innovation AI could end up being?

When I think about it to me it seems that smartphones and widespread mobile internet access are the biggest things to happen since the Internet became widespread but in my book, they still don't compare to the significance of the internet.

I guess I am asking two questions:
- Could AI end up being as important as the internet?
- What are some other innovations to look out for that are gonna be hugely important?
Forget OAuth complexity
This is awesome! Not sure why you made it in Java (puke) but very cool nonetheless!