skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German laws and authorities have very little tolerance for Nazis, for damn good reason.
What do you have in mind exactly? If by interfering you mean things like chargeback or denying transactions that appear fraudulent that's the point the parent was making, for most people those are useful services, not drawbacks.
I've been to a few events (including pro privacy events). My understanding is that all you need (in the US) is to make them aware with a sign that says by entering this room, yada yada yada.
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Well, the only way I get it to work is by searching up how to use it on Stack Overflow, so…
I spent a month trying stress hacks – here's what worked
Not that one. That's owned by Space Rogue. I'm talking about the one linked now, owned by some Indians who keep copying articles off other sites. There was a reason this got banned years ago. At one point you could trace articles from The Register and Motherboard paragraph by paragraph to their stories, but with bad grammar and bad sentence structure.
"non-negligible" doesn't sound very precise.

You mean "non-empty but finite"?

"There exists a member of the Committee that is not active"
>"I grew up playing Wolfenstein 3D and watching the History channel. Nazi symbols were completely normal and everywhere."

You obviously should have paid a lot more attention, then.

Can it with the whataboutism, it's not helping you.

If you visit a country, you respect its laws and customs. You don't go around breaking them because you disagree with them. Leave it to the residents of that country to change their laws if needed, don't be an invading asshole.
> RT piece

> Sputnik

Pretty much discredits the entire article.
Sublime:“Unlicensed copies do not have the ability to turn off update checks.”
One Year After WannaCry: A Fundamentally Changed Threat Landscape
Why expensive weddings are a bad idea
TL;DR I'm famous and contributed to the Python community, I'm depressed (it's real! Check this references) because people don't like me forcing them to use my tool. these people must be awful.
lowcarb + regular fasting that's all you need
That's like saying "you will always have the option to use cash. Banks offer convenience, take it or leave it". It's true but not massively insightful.
George Galloway is primarily a contrarian, and actively supported Saddam Hussein. I'm not sure he'd recognise a genuine position if he fell over it in the street.

Neil Clark is a genocide denier: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/warcrimes.comm...

There's a real problem with people who (correctly) spot that Western governments are lying about certain things, and then infer that (a) they're lying about everthing else and (b) non-western governments aren't worse liars.
The only way I’ve been able to handle this is by being self-employed. That way, when I needed to sleep for 5 hours after lunch it was up to me.

Now that I know I have celiac and can manage it by avoiding gluten, I just have chronic pain and inability to eat without not all of the autoimmune madness. This is a lot less uncomfortable but I am surprisingly almost as unable to work fully.
From the fine article:

> Tim Hayward is one of the group of academics (his colleague Paul McKeigue is another) who set up the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media – or if you prefer the Times description, Apologists for Assad. The group’s questioning over whether it could be definitively concluded that the Syrian regime was responsible for the Ghouta chemical attack last month (they have also queried the Novichok attack of the Skripals) is apparently what provoked their pillorying in the Thunderer.

> The RT piece opens with: A mystery online figure called Philip Cross is targeting anti-war and non-mainstream UK figures by prolifically editing their Wikipedia pages – to the point that George Galloway is offering a reward to see him unmasked.
I live in a country with free healthcare and free education, people like the woman in the article aren’t better off here. They just take the same huge loans to buy, cars houses and generally live above their means for years until the debt comes crushing down.

The american education and health system needs reform
desperately, but not because of financially irresponsible people can shoot themselves in the foot, that will always be the case unless you start completely dismantling the financial freedoms of the individual.
You don't like the language because of dogma you perceive to be in the community?
It really depends on the design of the library in question. In iso omena the new library is very open and integrated with social/welfare services so some noise is expected. The library host a wide range of things of public interest such as instrument rooms, conference rooms(free for individuals), vr rooms, pc's for gaming, 3d printing and probably more I'm not aware of. I've noticed a lot of school aged kids just hanging out and socializing in the library. If you really need a quiet space to focus then there is a special study room where noise is not allowed.
From the article:

> It's important to note this does not change what we know about exercise's ability to protect against dementia. People who exercise more are less likely to get dementia, possibly because it maintains blood flow to the brain.

> However, once the brain has been damaged by dementia, exercise may not help prevent further damage.
Actually very few services uses this kind of load balancing without relying on another service that does it for them.

If you're going to find patterns to decide what to block then you first need to make sure you receive all the traffic. If a single entry point can't handle it, well, then you need to load balance the incoming traffic.
> It's important to note this does not change what we know about exercise's ability to protect against dementia. People who exercise more are less likely to get dementia, possibly because it maintains blood flow to the brain.

Exercise can delay the onset of dementia. I wasn't aware it has been claimed to slow its progress.
As the article clearly shows, the risk in student loans is that the student will accrue more debt that they can handle and not get a high enough income to pay down the principle, in which case the lender will end up getting their money back far far slower than planned. Just because there isn’t a risk of default doesn’t mean there isn’t any risk. If American Student loans were risk free profit at 8% the entire financial market would rush to invest, bringing about competition and driving down the rates.
Why don't you engage with the substance of the criticism rather than who's made it. He's made over a hundred thousand edits on Wikipedia in almost 15 years. I'm sure some of them are well justified. We're highlighting the ones that aren't and in which he has a serious conflict of interest.
https://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3607865

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-fu...
Python as a declarative programming language (2017)
(2017), see also previous discussion from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736763 (55 comments)
But what if the pain is truly warning you of a dangerous physical condition, or something that could cause irreversible damage?
This is an interesting one (referring to the title itself and its broad message, rather than actual details which many will never read) -- because: part of me is happy to see actual research reported, regardless of how positive/negative it is to us as humans, possibly helping to balance out a lot of the (perceived) over-reporting of "x may be the cure to y". Of course, the other part of me is sad, because it likely triggers a lot of people to make false decisions (exercise is a chore to many, including me), and it's super easy to mute that motivation-to-exercise with a quick "I read it's not as healthy as they said it was anyway, so...". Considering the context people will be reading a highly-editorialsed version of this in the form of trashy glam magazines, side-columns and Facebook shares in month's time, that is.
Please tell us a bit about you, so that we can have a discussion with subsequent vote whether you are a useful person.
I completely agree. Besides, how can you submit a pull request for documentation when there’s no documentation for you to understand the code with? I say that as someone who spent a week trying to figure out a project recently, including reading the source code to figure out how it worked, submitted a pull request to improve some of the code and wrote a beginner getting started tutorial. That is, I have went through the effort and it really was a lot of effort to the point where I’ve been meaning to finish a followup article but just lost all energy for the project and moved onto other things.

Documentation is so important if you want to get people interested in your project. Personally, I value good documentation above features because without documentation I may never learn how to use your features and may never get started using the project. If I never use your project then there’s zero chance that I will contribute. Or, like above, I do, but run out of steam really quickly and lose interest.
"requires picking whose utility matters how much"

... which is politics in a nutshell. That's partly why I support the complete privatisation of education, at all levels.

https://mises.org/library/what-if-public-schools-were-abolis...
I hope people see what this research is really showing, and that it's accurately reported.

They're pretty clear that exercise can help prevent people getting dementia.

What this research shows is that once you have dementia exercise doesn't do much to slow it down.
Part of this is also normal in a way. Periods were people have everything to invent, and then periods were people live in previous codes.

Music feel the same. After the 70s most things have been done. 80s brought some pop color and craziness to it. And now what is there to invent ? hard to say.

Maybe we hit the ceiling, maybe there's still room for surprise ..
FYI, Donald Stufft of PyPA says PyPA doesn't have official tools.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8kjv8x/a_letter_to_...
FTI: FYI typo on QWERTY
NFI: Not found on the internetz?
It's a great idea and I know people who are working on this.
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> The point was propaganda.

I get that, my point was that if you're going to give examples, it may be worthy to not always point to Russia/China etc. as that is well known and understood, but to take the opportunity to highlight that it is done by countries that are supposed to be our friends to a much greater degree as that is not a point you'll hear on MSM, (Russia you'll hear so much about, it borders on Xenophobia).
FB, Google and so on have subsidiaries in Germany (+other EU countries) and have a significant part of their user base there. They are very deliberately focused on having a large number of Germans use their services.

It wouldn't apply to a site like HN, for instance.
And of course if you were orchestrating a shadowy conspiracy to denigrate certain figures on Wikipedia by subtle edits as opposed to an individual with an interest in politics and lot of time on their hands, you probably wouldn't use the same handle to copyedit political bios and vent your opinion on the particular individuals on Twitter...
At the very least "The set of inactive members of the Executive Committee is non-negligible" would've been better.
> "What's so great about libraries? Seems like a very inefficient way to store/disseminate information in 2018"

I'm going to repeat something I've said previously on Hacker News: people underestimate how much information in books isn't online and just how much useful information is still tied up in those books. Many of us assume everything is mostly online and so it's our first port of call for any research or knowledge gathering.

A few years ago I was researching the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. I wanted to find out about his famous housing complex called Unité d'habitation (Housing Unit) first built in Marseille in France. I started my research online looking for floorplans and commentary or critques. I found very little (there is a lot more available online today, but not when I was looking).

Consider that Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the 20th century so this was a surprise. Eventually, I did find what I was looking for by...(yes, you guessed it) going to the library and visiting an architecture exhibition. I ended up scanning some floorplans from a book (and putting them online). From the exhibition, I came across a video of Corbusier talking about the Unité d'habitation - a great find, and I ended up transcribing sections of that interview. None of this information was available on the web.

It's very easy to fall into the belief that the information you find online is likely to be the best or most recent information available on that topic - so the thought of further offline research at a library never crosses your mind. But there is a huge amount of information and knowledge found in books that has never made it online. If you never go to the library, you won't realise what you're missing.
>I think the desire for decentralization is very real

Ideology aside, as a random human being, why would I care about that? I need to buy bread at the bakery, I can use cash, my "centralized" Visa or my Bitcoin wallet, all other things being equal what difference does decentralization make?

And if it's solely about principles then I have bad news.

I think most people would agree that ideologically speaking if you value privacy it makes more sense to use Duckduckgo rather than Google search, yet even though DDG now offers a quality of service comparable to the big G it still remains extremely confidential. The friction to get from one service to the other is like 3 clicks in your browser's UI, yet most people don't care.

If 99% of people can't be bothered to ditch Google search in favor of something else even though there's very little friction, how can you ever hope to convince people to switch from Visa to a bitcoin wallet which is significantly less convenient and makes it easy to irrevocably lose your money? That's a pipe dream IMO.
You're losing focus thanks to technology
How so? They are simply making people liable for breaking laws that already existed.

How are they blocking you? How are they cementing their power by punishing people for inciting to violence against people with specific religious/political viewpoints or sexual orientations etc.?
I've read some of your comments about your symptoms and experiences with headaches: I don't envy you.

I had a couple of minor surgeries and some were in full anastesia, some with spinal injection only. Once the nurse said that I may experience headaches and I thought, heck, I know a thing or two about headaches, but noone ever told me how fucking painful it is going to be.

It lasted for two days and the only good thing was that I did not vomit and had no tunnel vision, but the pain reached an astonishing level.
These guys need to be clearer they're the developers of PlaidML - I don't think it's made very obvious.

Worth pointing out for anyone else that it seems PlaidML is AGPL licensed - so maybe not worth getting too excited about if you have any commercial applications in mind.
> The system has been designed to not allow strategizing, as strategy often backfires on the student, as well as it's argued that students from lower class backgrounds make more strategic mistakes.

The flaw is even more fundamental than that. Even if everyone plays without strategic mistakes the results are still poor.

What the system is trying to do is assign students based on what school they want. So they want each student to give an ordered list of their true preferences and the lottery algorithm will do its best to hand them out.

Once you add trading to the system, the optimum strategy appears quite quickly: list the most desirable schools first. If you get lucky you'll have lots of in-game currency for the "trading phase" of the game.

If every student followed this strategy, you'd have lost all preference input to the system: every student would turn in a nearly-identical ranked list of schools by "trading value". Now the algorithm has no chance of working -- instead the system has devolved into a purely random lottery where lucky students will randomly be given more "points" (i.e. a desirable school worth trading for)

Outside of the pure game-theory issues with a trading scheme it also adds risk of other pressures being introduced. For example, suppose you're a parent and your boss suggests letting your child trade schools with their child... are you able to refuse?
Many of the older books are not digitised and probably never will be. And reading poorly scanned PDFs on a computer screen sucks. Some of the new books are released in paper only as well. Non-tech books don't get more or less up to date. In fact, paper books are great that they can't be easily edited.

Of course "build it and they'll come" doesn't work. But if we could get more people to come to libraries, it'd be awesome in all sorts of ways. And without building it, nobody will even have a chance to come.
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> How can you even compare a luxury item to getting an education?

A car can be a necessity, in that case a Tesla is a luxury.
An education is not a necessity in any case, but for the sake of argument lest pretend that it was, a that you would die a quick death if you did not at minimum have a degree in something. Then choosing the cheapest available option would the the necessity and choosing to take variable rate high interest loan in order to stay "with your friends and the teacher you know" is a luxury.

Then with a huge pile of debt, and a finished degree, to decide to pursue graduate school abroad instead of getting a job and dealing with your debt is an insane luxury.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that anyone who takes an education is buying themselves a luxury, but in a market with varying costs and opportunities, if you decide on your own to go out and put yourself in huge debt to study above your means, then you are choosing a luxury. And saying things like "but community college sucks/My kids can't be successful without expensive private schools/etc." Does not suddenly make it societies responsibility to magically make it possible for you to live above your means.

> And as far as I remember, the big bad industry was saved after the crash...

Yes, the government went in and invested in the industry when it was at the lowest and no one else had available capital to invest. Those investments are paying off today(https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/), and the industry is at a better place, where among other tings it can provide loans to students who would otherwise not be able to pay for their education. What is your point? Should they start printing free money to students like this who can't manage their finances, gets whiny when it comes time to pay back the money they loaned?
Only if you know how to pirate the book, have internet and are willing to do the pirating. Now I afford to buy ebooks or audio books but as a student I could not buy the c++ gaming programming book, the Linux books were not in libraries and I did not had internet. Even if you afford to buy a book or tow a month, if you have more free time you can get more books from the library, start reading them, see if you like them or not, return them and get other ones.
Black Mirror S01E03. Even with bullet-proof privacy, not a future I would want to live in...
Certain ways to earn money from the internet
The pain in math comes from trying to solve problems you know are solvable. Either doing exercises, or deriving a result some article called trivial.

Compare this to doing original work. Here, when you get stuck it is frustrating because you want progress, but there is no reason to presume that what you are doing is feasible. Therefore, it is not painful that you make no progress, for it is not expected of you to be able to progress.

This is of course a big difference between undergraduate mathematics and doing mathematics research.
The Floating Island Project Almost a Reality
Hacker News has a pretty well educated community, so it's not surprising that the general response seems to be that this was an obvious outcome. But this story is not unique to this woman. There are a huge number of people that seem to be in the same situation, and it's dismissive to just say that people should be more educated.

People aren't rational agents. They suck at making decisions about their long term well being. They're told that the best way to support their future is to go to university, so they take out a loan under the assumption that once they're finished, they'll earn so much that paying it off won't be an issue. And if you're not particularly financially literate, you might assume that this is fine since everyone else seems to be doing it. And you might also assume that they wouldn't lend you money that you couldn't repay.

The reality is there's an information asymmetry in favour of lenders. They know better than you how likely you are to repay your debt. And their incentives are structured to maximise their return, not clear your debt. So if the best way for them to make money is for you to not be able to pay off your debt, that's what they'll try to do. The harder it is for you to understand what you're getting into, the better for them. The less financial literacy you possess, the better for them.

I'm not arguing that the author shouldn't bear responsibility for her decisions. Of course people should understand the things that they agree to and meet their obligations. But there is a calibration problem when the pursuit of an education can lead to three decades of financial hardship.
I used to have bad eyesight, just zoomed-in the page with `Cmd +` to 110% or 125%.

Unrelated to reading HN, if LASIK or similar is an option for you I would suggest you to talk to your ophthalmologist. Having eyesight corrected has been one of the best decisions I've made. It had such a drastic impact on my quality of life.
You can hate as much as you want, in private. Germans are very adamant about the protection of privacy.

The problem starts if you go around in public, making hateful speeches that incite violence.
What caused it?
There is an opensource OS for Pebble as well! https://github.com/ginge/FreeRTOS-Pebble
In some ways yes, they are smaller. Here in the uk the investment and speculation parts now have to be separate from retail banking. They also have to keep much larger reserves to reduce the risks.

I'm sorry if you don't want to hear it, but some regulation is good and put in place to protect the consumer.
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Living in Finland and doing remote work so often I just go library to program, it's pretty quiet, it has air conditioning and it's free.