skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't down-vote but pretty good counter arguements is there really is no evidence that Russia was actually behind the leaks other than the CIA and the department of homeland security said so. Seeing as these are the same organizations that lied to us time and time again, like lying about the cause of Benghazi, I'm not inclined to believe anything they say without evidence. These people are known liars and pretty much everything they say is a politically motivated manipulation.

Sure Russia could be behind the DNC leak, but so could a 14 year old who guessed that podesta's password was password (if you believe Julian Assange's claims which haven't been denied by the DNC). It could also be a disgruntled Democratic party staffer who saw what Hillary and Podesta were like behind the scenes and said "fuck these people, the public needs to know what they're really like"

Second, why is it a bad thing that Hillary's email was leaked? It gave an insight into how corrupt the Democratic party is and how corrupt our politicians are and how the democratic process is being rigged. This is a lady who ran a private email server as secretary of state. I'm happy that we were able to find out how the Democratic party rigged the campaign against Sanders and worked a little too closely with the media to ensure a Hillary victory. I'm also glad we found out the real reason for the attacks on Libya (gold reserves not protection of people).

Sure it had a bad result for Trump opponents who didn't want Trump to win. But imagine it was not Trump but Obama running against Hillary and the emails had been leaked. I'm sure you and everyone else would be saying that it was a great moment for democracy instead of regarding it as a terrible mockery.
One year’s worth of [these] truck sales was estimated to release 13 times as much nitrogen oxide as all of the Volkswagen diesel cars with fraudulent emissions controls, a scheme that resulted in a criminal case against the company and more than $4 billion in fines.
Hi pjc, you are probably correct! :)

However, I think although this system might not be able to infer truth, it would at least be possible to infer "effort put into the post" or "well structured post" vs the obvious low effort things we see every day. Which might be enough for a better system.

Any suggestions for what you would train on to get a model which could rank more objectively than an upvote/downvote system can?

I think we should be vary of being bound by everything that happened in the 70s due to the differences in resources for solving the problem, although I'm not in any way saying this is easily solvable or even solvable in our time. I do think it's not provable that we can't achieve this at some point.
Had this problem. On the latest version, it seems to be resolved for me, though I have an AMD GPU.

One thing that worked for me while it was a problem was switching off ALL antialiasing in IntelliJ, or at least going down to greyscale.
Fundamentals of Fully Homomorphic Encryption – A Survey
As other people already said, extracting metals from old electronics has been a thing for a long time. I don't know about gold/cooper/etc, but I met a guy that was extracting galium arsenide from circuit boards, last I heard he was opening a large plant in China. AFAIK it is (was?) actually pretty difficult to pull that off, so he's one of the few people who do that.
I've had a hard time with GEB too. Tried a few times. I felt ashamed because my progress was more in the tens than over a hundred.

Writing style is important for me too. I can complete a narrative, story-style book in 2 days. I can't complete a non-fiction book in that time that's half the size. My favourite books are ones that set out to teach something practical in the form of a story (like The Goal).

I have finished non-fiction books. They tend to be fast paced and immediate with what I want out of them. To the point.

In general, that fits with the ADHD type i.e cut the bullshit and get the point!
Related: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronasale_Aromawahrnehmung

It's in German, but Google Translator should do.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&ie=U...
How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) for Weight Loss
It’s less “the code for this is a mess”, and more “the code for this can’t be anything but a mess”.
"Some religions consider root vegetables like onions not okay to eat, because harvesting an onion involves killing the whole plant."

That is only one explanation for the taboo. In certain Indian and Nepalese religious strains, it is said that the devout cannot eat onions (or garlic) because of a folk belief that these vegetables encourage lasciviousness.
The people receiving government assistance are not expected to be the same people paying net taxes to fund it.

Although the existing system is so asinine that sometimes they are, which is just another reason to replace it.
Show HN: A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers
Depends how utilitarian your morals are.
It's interesting that these are "Forever" stamps and don't expire so how can they possibly say all of those unused stamps are profit? They don't expire and due to the nature of stamps it is not unrealistic people will still be using them for a decade+ and USPS will still need to deliver those letters.
If you would get it wrong, such as setting the income level too high, how would it be worse than now?

And it’s not set in stone, why not try? You would increase tax revenue and thus have more resources to deal with the problens. And there’s lots of examples across the world that have done this and can share experiences of what to look out for.
RMS is gonna be RMS. I just wish he was a more realistic advocate of open content. Creative Commons has taken off while GPL v3 is rarely used.
I think your irony meter needs to be calibrated.

Whether we can agree that a given tax policy is good or bad is dependent on whether we can agree to what the goal of taxation is. I think the goal is to maximize human flourishing. I honestly don't know what the optimal levels are, but I don't think it's 0 and I think it will involve a progressive tax structure of some sort. It's true that if millionaires were "fleeing" California than we could agree that California's tax policy was running counter to that goal. But that's not what is happening. It's a clickbaity headline that only serves to score a point in an ideological battle.
Netflix is still way better than the video streaming services run by giants such as Google, Amazon, or Apple.

You won't see Netflix intentionally not working on Chromecast in order to sell their own dongles and tie users to its own ecosystem.

Their business is video streaming, so their motivation will be to make sure as many paying users can access their content as possible.

In contrast, the giants can just use their services as a way towards greater vendor lock-in.
Useful results. I usually use long stop word lists and sometimes use stemming - I will stop doing that since the paper is convincing re: eliminating only a few most common words and not giving up extra information from stemming.
I would like to compliment you on the lovely aesthetic.
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I felt uncomfortable with legitimizing it in this way.

I do respect RMS, but there is a sitcom contained in these two lines.
Wow, I didn't know there was a sequel, oh what a pleasant surprise!

Statistics already had a lot of useful random trivia and left me with an impression that this is how a good student's resource should look like (my university had a really bad stats course so I had to learn stats myself).

But now you say there is more? Thank you random internet stranger!
That’s kind of the saddest part really. We’ve allowed the convenience of streaming, packaged with these pesky copyright and privacy issues, to destroy any other legal repositories of digital media. Luckily as streaming has matured some of the more tech savvy artists are starting to do their own distribution.

My biggest fear is in what will be lost in the future. These companies haven’t been around long enough for consumers to know how they will retain media. Will they only keep up licenses on the most popular movies? How will you then ever get a legal copy or access to one of your favorite movies of 30 years ago that nobody else liked?
Despite the poor media framing, Trump's "task force" is a response to that same fingerprinting snafu, and is predicated on the suspicion that some of these naturalized citizenships were improvidently granted.

https://www.theroot.com/trump-creates-denaturalization-task-...

From CNN:

> Since the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also been working to put more than 300,000 fingerprint records into a system that can be checked against citizenship applications.

> According to USCIS, the effort to followup on those records has resulted in 2,500 cases that have been flagged for in-depth review, and 95 of those have been referred to the Justice Department to date.

Yes, I get that Trump's a big scary monster, but despite the media charade, and his inartful presentation, this seems to be exactly an extension of what the Obama administration did.
Step 1: post about it everywhere

Step 2: wait for literally the entire Internet to wish you'd shrivel up and die

Step 3: PROFIT! and weight loss

See also the ol' SHIT NICKELS FAST copypasta.
Seeing that you are fired email in dark mode will be a real horror, lol
We are not afforded a free'er alternative that is legal so I believe he probably doesn't watch much TV. DRM IS everywhere. There is no copying of modern media that isn't illegal. We lost that war.
DVD and Blu-ray both have DRM, though. I guess there's always VHS.
Calling sensory experiences subjective subtly implies that they carry zero bits of useful information and that everything is up to interpretation. That is profoundly defeatist. Whereas I maintain that there is a universal truth, and that individual sensory experiences are mere samples. The more samples from as many sensory devices and vantage points the closer your approximation to the universal truth it is.
Wow it's almost like the free market could've solved this problem but government laws got in the way and distorted everything and caused more problems than they solved. Weird.
Professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you're gay
No, it's RMS.
Offer me a better product and I'll consider not using Netflix. Once all the original shows I'm watching have been canceled of course.
I recently heard about VPP for the first time; VPP is one of those user-space networking frameworks. Apparently it's the fastest thing currently around by a large margin ("10 mpps per core? Too slow for me!"); it's alluded that Cisco's ASR9000 routers use the same core tech to do all routing in software.
I agree with everything in here but still use Netflix(and others). It's almost an addiction.

I remember originally ridding myself of cable, at that time the pain of spinning a disk or the fear of downloading a torrent limited the amount of video I watched in a day. Now I that I am unencumbered it has eaten into all of my other leisurely activities especially video games and music.
Get out of here with that Commodore 64 crap, Atari 8-bit line for life! :)
Any DRM free, EULA free source. Probably won't get that from the publishers and its probably illegal in most cases. If you have a problem with that, obviously don't use it, but there are limited legitimate offerings from publishers out there. The only semi-mainstream one I've seen is on the Louis C.K. site. I was hoping he was going to inspire a publishing trend, but I dont think he'll be putting out any more content.
DRM is not undefeatable.
> Try not to posite a solution. Listen, don’t speak over them.

I got that, I can do that with conscious effort.

> often by mirroring language, tone, words, body language etc.

I can avoid using my words for things instead of theirs, especially minimizing ones like “hassle” or “inconvenience”, I can avoid closed-off body language like crossing my arms and maybe keep my voice in a different register for a little while but beyond that it come off as an attempt at mimicking, not helpful.

> Guide, ask questions that indicate that you’re open to hearing more about their issues, sometimes worth a “It’s ok if you don’t want to say but, what happened...”
Thank them for sharing with you.

That sounds like an example for someone you don’t actually know very well.

> Done.

Until tomorrow.
There are the two LG ultrafine displays specially made for MacBooks that are sold solely through Apple.
DVD DRM can be broken easily.
The point is that even the best of "them" is still not helping the individual. Netflix isn't giving back to society, because we can't archive their works legally or lend them out at a public library.
I suppose you were too cynical to actually deliver your [fair] points, which rarely is an effective or respectful way to convey ideas.
Print books and VHS, I imagine.

Anything post-DVD would be problematic due to CSS and suchlike. Maybe whatever videos you can legally get in Ogg format.
They deliver stuff to my door within 1 hour to 3 days and save me the hassle of driving 15 minutes each way to Walmart, the closest option for varied purchasing, so... I'm fine with it.
It could be a cheap shot comedy making RMS into a funny weird guy, or it could be an interesting and challenging dialogue about ethics, entertainment, and convenience.
CERMINE: automatic extraction of structured metadata from scientific literature
Laptops aren't completely controlled by a third party.
Are humans really blind to the obvious or merely attentive to the relevant?
I'd like video files personally, but publishers are probably not going to agree with me.
I'm pretty sure I konw which one Netflix would buy.
I made the switch to Linux (Netrunner Rolling with KDE) in the last year and have not looked back. It is definitely not for everyone as some things just have no good replacements, but it suits all my needs.

I do a ton of things in the browser, love the availability of a good Terminal at my fingertips (same as macOS), develop webapps and love the simple availability of a full local web server stack to develop on and so on. I use LibreOffice for my very few "Office" needs. I use Firefox as my primary browser (moved away from Chrome to Firefox before I made the switch to Linux). I use Visual Studio Code as my primary editor. I use Krita for my very few photo editing needs - simple stuff really like cropping or color picking. That's about it. Everything else happens in the Browser or on the command line.

As Netrunner is a derivative of Manjaro and thus Arch it's very simple to access a plethora of packages from their AUR system. It's like Brew on steroids.

Have been really happy with the switch!
Given a person A and person B, while both have a very small subset of the 'univeral truth' one of them is closer to it than the other approximation. And better yet the combined sample sets are likely to be even closer.
The name of the language is Nahuatl rather than Aztec.
ricochet is a metadata-free chat app with file transfers - it has been audited and uses onion routing in a novel way.
I know. That's why I'm so upset that Netflix is imprisoning immigrant children.

Oh wait.
Tell me more about how I can waste their money by clicking random ads. I have blocked all ads since adblockers were invented, but if I can actively create a disincentive by wasting their money, I want to do that.
It’s very easy to say “don’t use Netflix.” It’s a little harder to say “use X instead, it’s a viable alternative.”
Ask HN: What non technical skills do you think are valuable to startups?
Forget anything CS-related, what other skills do you think are valuable to startups in the first 3 years?
A decentralized ecosystem for government and finances. It would be a good fit as the domain is B2B, working and partnering with governments and banking institutions (with a focus towards developing/third-world countries to jumpstart their standards of living). The ICO would ensure their salaries later.
The problem isn’t defeatability. It’s the principle of buying DRM-locked content.

It’s a compromise I’m willing to make under certain circumstances, but ultimately one that bothers me.
the author of it here, hi ;-)

Yes, ZFS on Boot is right now more like a technology preview. Fonts break badly, so ZFS boot is not advisable (and also doesn't give you that much benefit really).

I want my data to be guaranteed to have integrity and really enjoy snapshots (I've been bitten by Final Cut Pro X data deletion errors etc and rolling back a snapshot is a bliss).
It's not a secret. Atari was notorious for drug use, drinking and hot tub parties. Go listen to episodes of ANTIC where they interviewed former employees https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
Living Safe in Aadhaar and Data Economy
Or it could be about a guy from American academia focusing on a very narrow definition of freedom.
I think this character was already well portrayed as Sheldon in Big bang theory. Although he was more science nerd than open software nerd.
> VPP is one of those user-space networking frameworks.

oh yes, vpp is builds on what is provided by dpdk.
Great. I run everything on LXC and this is a step in the right direction. LXC is so much better to work with than Docker.
Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?
I know there are tons and tons of PM apps. I wanna know if any of those drive your daily project management activities as (Engineering) Manager.
You can change all the names, but all of the criticisms remain valid. It's super-easy to game an anonymous "leak" distribution platform, in particular if you're an intelligence agency. That alone should give people pause, but it doesn't.
>basic income does not replace any of these safety nets. you will still have to have them

No, you would repeal all existing social and welfare programs, the minimum wage and employer healthcare, and replace them with a bare minimal UBI.

At least in the US, there is no other implementation that would be palatable to conservatives, business and most voters.
> trusting the recipient of sensitive information to use it well is a much more difficult

Just curious, why is that even in the process? If you want to spread information, would you not distribute it to as many people as possible? Why do you have to trust the recipient?
A search engine to compete with Google with a new paradigm.
So is Apple going to stop selling the 21" iMac that has a 1920x1080 panel?

What about someone who buys one today?
Where grep came from [video]
UK youngsters boost legal content consumption
The same is true of my local improv theater.

Recording technology seems to have given us a collective case of viparinama dukkha with respect to popular culture. Perhaps it's OK for art to be ephemeral.
It's been done for multiple retro-computers actually. And consoles, as well.
Libertarians consider government to be a necessary evil, anarchists consider it an unnecessary evil.
As far as emulation goes, how is this better/different than running an emulator on my pc or raspberry pi? I really want one for the cool factor but am unsure of how practical it is. FPGA dev sounds fun.
I remember when APFS was introduced, it was framed as being for everything from the Apple Watch to the Mac Pro. Would ZFS have scaled down to whatever puny hardware is in the first-gen watch?
BluRay DRM is the worst thing ever - it demands that you are FULLY locked out of your own computer (this is why 4K HDR BR players are practically non-existent for PCs, since you need a fully locked out DRM stack from the drive to the display), it and demands internet connectivity to download keys. The number of devices that actually conform to draconian BluRay 4K spec is order of magnitude lower than devices that can play Netflix content.
It's only irrelevant if you think it's reasonable discuss/promote technologies while only considering their technical merits and the "pros" for their use. I don't think that anyone can legitimately make that argument.
That sounds like a criticism of capitalism rather than a criticism of Netflix.

For me personally, Netflix makes enough good content (and hopefully pays artists well in the process) that the amount I pay is worth it. I want them to do little or no harm, but if I only patronized businesses that actively give back to society, I'd never be able to buy most classes of goods.
Creative Commons and GPL are for quite different purposes, and FSF supports using CC for purposes other than software and software documentation.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/cc-by-4-0-and-cc-by-sa-4...
> A negative income tax is a much better idea.

A negative income tax is the exact same idea with slightly different framing.
You're comparing apples to oranges.

Creative Commons licenses aren't meant to be used for licensing code, and GPLv3 isn't meant to be used for non-code projects.

Case in point: If you click on "eBooks" from the submitted site, you'll download a one-pager PDF written by RMS, and released under a CC license.
Government works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under US law and are in the public domain.
This is BS. Go Netflix.
I don't think the buck stops at college, we've even gotten to a point where HS/MS teachers are aggressively marketing for colleges as a way to an instant career.
My number 1 addresses for whistleblowing would be the NYTimes simultanesously with a German news outlet like Zeit, Spiegel, or Sueddeutsche Zeitung. My number 2 address would be Wikileaks.

These have actual, proven expertise in publishing leaks.

All those new "leak sites" have a trust problem. Although it's likely that most of them have noble intentions, it's equally likely that some of them have been funded by or have been undermined by intelligence services. I wouldn't even trust any open source software that is specifically developed for leaking sensitive information - it's simply too easy to slip an obfuscated security hole in it, and it's not as if the developers could afford regular professional audits.

I suspect some people will downvote me for this, but in highly sensitive matters I'd rather stick to those with a proven track record and evidence of having been persecuted by governments in the past.

To the people who think this is paranoid: It's not. Getting informants or people working on their behalf in crypto projects is the bread & butter of what intelligence agencies do, and it's much easier for them than their usual targets such as foreign military and agencies of state adversaries.
Apart from the morality of using Netflix or not (which to be honest had been taking off because it's a compromise made towards users of illegal downloading), it doesn't seem they have many shows of quality. The quantity and choice is good, but I'm still waiting for an interesting show to watch.

And frankly, requiring a fast internet connection is an added cost. I might want to watch something on my cheap Android, in a train, and fast internet on mobile is a no go for me.

Netflix is progress, but it's still a compromise. The fact that it doesn't have all existing catalogs shows that's it's not ubiquitous.
Exactly my thoughts. I'm generally impressed by how much stallman practices what he preaches, and by how many things he forecasted 20 ago actually came true or we're at least close to being there.

That quote however made me exhale rapidly through my nose, and I was still chewing on some spaghetti at that point resulting in little pieces of spaghetti ending up in my nose. Totally not a recommended experience. I can't help but still consider RMS somewhat nuts.
Does this come under the "No shit, Sherlock!" department?