skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Internet journalism wasn't "fine".

Respectfully disagree, though we most certainly have different definitions. To me journalism does not only encompass the professional journalists but all kinds of random people who feel the need to film something and post it in Twitter with 2 lines of descriptive text. In that regard, and even before Twitter was a thing, internet always found a way to report things to the population. So IMO even if most outlets go out of business, the world would barely notice.

> Most "news" is basically just filler

That we fully agree on.

> Many internet sites do die all the time. New ones spring up all the time...

And this is absolutely fine. Indicates a relatively healthy system.

> ...but it seems to be the good ones that actually die and the garbage that continues to accrue

Agreed as well, but IMO what we are starting to observe -- news sites getting more and more annoying and/or using more and more obnoxious tracking in the hopes of cashing out through selling of personal data -- is the self-correction of the system at work. Namely natural selection. I have zero sympathy for people who feel the need to use shady practices to survive; maybe their business is not that valuable and they refuse to see it. That's normal, everybody will fight for the sweet dollars -- plus the humans at large resist change in general -- but none of us should care if it's hard for them to survive as a business or not.

As an additional point, I don't think that most people should be paid to write at all. As you pointed out, most writings are garbage anyway.

> The reason that clickbait works is because it understand human psychology. I think that says more about humans than people realize.

Absolutely. This will not change anytime soon. Maybe centuries down the road. The average human being is not very bright and that's the sad reality.
Take your ES6 in React to the next level
Is there a particular reason that BC has obscenely expensive phone plans?

For comparison:

I used to get a Spotify subscription, unlimited calling and SMS, and 1.5 GB of data for $30 in New Zealand. I now currently get 12 GB and unlimited calling+SMS for $40 in Australia.
Real average wages are up 25% since 1990.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
> Hire an x-CEO to come in as a “1 day a week CEO” to implement this system. She should be able to do so in 6-8 weeks. Have her then watch you run the system for 2 weeks to ensure that you are doing it correctly.

I was under the impression that the accepted gender-neutral pronoun to use in this case would be "they". Any idea why "she"/"her" is used? Is this a new phenomenon?
While I agree this is a good practice, it wouldn't have helped much. He had organization-level admin access and could've easily added a second dev account to accept them by himself.
The vent control officer has logged on.
This is only an issue if later players have knowledge of the action other players are taking during the turn in progress.

There would be no market price fluctuations more fine grained than whatever the tick rate of the turn is.
Asos, Zalando, Flixbus, Klarna, Xing, Spotify, Auto1, Takeaway.com

I'm not from Europe or America and the only one I've heard of is 'spotify'.

Are you really denying that the EU is well behind the US in terms of software though? I mean that's immediately obvious to any casual observer. Not sure why people are so defensive about it.
Most spouses would not be so tolerant!
It wouldn't be unusual to lose signal for a while though. What if the stork has a layover on a desert island?
Reason is just a dialect of OCaml and actually uses the BuckleScript[1] compiler, which before ReasonML, just took OCaml code and transpiling it to JavaScript. It's known for being super fast and generating fast and small JavaScript. But you can compile ReasonML to native binaries as well, not just JavaScript, using the BuckleScript compiler or others like jbuilder[2].

The advantage of having OCaml as the foundation is its excellent type system. It's very mature.

I'm relatively new to OCaml, just getting into it this year, but I've found that it forces me to write correct code first. I've been really impressed by it having come from the world of PHP/JavaScript/Swift and others.

Personally, I greatly prefer OCaml's syntax to Reason's. I find it much simpler, and less busy. But I know a lot of people are more comfortable with Reason's syntax. I definitely wouldn't call it "cleaner", though.

[1]: https://bucklescript.github.io
[2]: https://jbuilder.readthedocs.io
> Nullability support

Nullability? As in null references? The "billion-dollar mistake" (Tony Hoare, referring to Algol), also frequently called the "worst mistake in computer science"?
If they aren't creating jobs or otherwise stimulating prosperity, would it be a great loss if they relocated to somewhere else? Due to their political influence, their net impact on society may be negative.
> Why isn't it going back to the people who made the profit in the first place?

The boss does deserved share, since he/she took a risk in spending on equipment or other costs (including your wages).

The question is not whether it's moral or not, but how much is taken. I think everyone agrees is immoral to take 100% (slavery), but it's also wrong to take 0%. I say democracy has been good in the past in deciding. Why not use it for this determination of fairness?
Yes, that account was automatically shadowbanned.

But someone did a manual override.

I am impressed. HN does allow throwaway accounts, when necessary to post anonymously. And making that possible via Tor is admirable. There's certainly potential for abuse. I see occasional spam, and angry insults, but nowhere near as much as one might expect. Which suggests either that shadowbanning works well enough, or efficient moderation.
It is not paid from a percentage of profit. Basic accounting will show that is not the case.

Furthermore, I've signed and agreed to an explicit compensation that is a win-win. I'm free to live in a smaller place, bike to work and live in a humble diet... but instead I'm choosing to live in a city with a higher standard.

Finally, I have no boss since I prefer to offer my services and labor to a customer of my choice.

The customer profits and I profit.

Strictly speaking, an Employment Contract has your boss as your Customer.

Of course your customer is going to profit/benefit from your services, just as you benefit from them offering something else in return. If they were not to profit from you... then why would they hire you in the first place?

You always have choices and to put your external locus of control outside your sphere of influence is playing "woe is me".

Wealth and happiness come to those that render more service than they are paid for (Napolean Hill - from a Lifetime of Riches)

So I would really like to know... how am I being exploited when a customer/client/boss profits from my labor?

I sure hope they profit from me.... because then it ensures my stability and my own profit.
Patent Office Has Granted Samsung a Patent for a Biometric Camera
32°C is considered a "heat wave?"
I remember packaging and developing for the Tcl interpreter within Tivo boxes and set top boxes a while ago. The footprint was small back then, 10k is amazing. Great work.
I recently got into OCaml (and ReasonML) and wrote a blog post with my experiences. In it I recommend several resources for both languages and explain some stuff that wasn't obvious to me as a beginner:

http://donut2d.tumblr.com/post/171205516399/my-experiences-b...

But if nothing else, be sure to check out Real World OCaml[1]. It's pretty great and helped me out a lot getting started.

[1]: https://dev.realworldocaml.org
This is true of every field of science and even social science I’ve known. Also the same terms have different meaning in different fields. Also the standard use of a term within a subfield can be different from its usage in another subfield. There are even variations in usage within communities of the same subfield (e.g. inside different ML communities).
> I'm under the impression that in Jakarta and the surrounding areas (probably tens of millions of people) Bahasa Indonesia really is spoken as a first language.

No, they speak daily Indonesian. If an Indonesian spoke formal Indonesian it would be comparable to an English-speaker speaking lawyerese (imagine someone sounding like a EULA).
Americans seem to be constantly comparing themselves to Europe. Serious case of envy going on there. Meanwhile, in the non-developed world, we'd pretty much kill for the US's economic indicators.

I'm not trying to minimize the suffering of workers in a bad situation, but lately I've been feeling like Americans really don't value how good they have it.
With the current rules in place this isn't illegal, it would be if you coerced the information through some out-of-band system i.e. "Hey bob tell me what you're going to do five minutes before you do it and there's a nickle in it for you" but currently HFT front running is taking advantage of market arbitrage anomalies and trend prediction along with quick response to news events.

HFT adds nothing to the markets of value[1] and lowers the value average players are able to extract.

[1] except liquidity which they usually don't add in a useful manner, they will tend to make highly liquid stocks more liquid while not adding any liquidity to stocks that are being harmed by illiquidity.
Turns out Vitamin C is not even necessary. If all you eat is fresh meat, you won't have scurvy.
In the worst case, the AI could store every single input it has received (for example, every frame it has seen) and calculate how similar each new input is to its past corpus.

Calculating similarity of images is quite a well-understood problem, but you're right that generalising the idea of similarity across all types of input data, in a way that is helpful for the AI to learn from, and efficient to calculate, may end up requiring a lot of coding that's specific to the individual use case.
How about we go full meta and suspect the linked PDF is the malicious payload vector?
The article mentions that this is because fresh meat contains enough Vitamin C to prevent deficiency.
in my case, I know what's there when I get there, vs what I can bring.

I tend to stay outside of Lahaina on Maui, and there's a CVS pharmacy (long's drugs), a Walgreens, and a Safeway. all of them tend to carry the same mass-market greasy sunscreen with low spf values. my skin does not do well with that, and I end up extremely sunburnt. bringing my own ends up being a better value proposition.

editing to add: if I'm on vacation, I'm checking a bag, so taking extra liquids is no problem. if I'm traveling for work, I have a bag already packed with everything within TSA requirements, so no need to try to track down a store to walk or ride to somewhere near my hotel.
Message signing with CryptoCurrency wallets (especially those that integrate with the browser like web3.js compatible ones e.g. Metamask), might be a good avenue in the future, as these tools may become widespread for other reasons, yet also fix web authentication in the process.

Users would find the process of moving their identity on different devices tedious, but if that allows them to synchronize their whole digital lives, it would seem worth the effort.
I can concur with the breaking changes point. That and unmaintained libraries. It seems after a certain size you need to devote 10% of your time to just trying to keep libraries up to date security wise.

And then libraries get abandoned. "Your still using LibA? Switch to LibB!"; "Critical vulnerability! Upgrade LibX now! See migration guide to go from 1.2 => 9.1" literally 30 times across our projects...
As a user, these laws bring me nothing but annoyance. Not only do I get a cookie warning on many sites but now also a GDPR interstitial to click through.

And dozens of emails about updated terms. Not to mention that some sites now require a non-EU proxy.

All to solve a problem that was 100% solved a decade ago with a simple adblock. I can't imagine a more effective anti-EU campaign than these Internet laws.
People are smiling and enjoying themselves within the confines of rampant tagging and graffiti in Capital Hill. People are fighting to live there these days. One negative is we have a missing mystery soda machine in the neighborhood.
Often personal preference, especially when travelling through different countries. Canada has vastly different preferences in deodorant style and scents to New Zealand for example. Also different countries have different brand names (eg Lynx in NZ, Axe in North America), so if you have a preferred brand for whatever reason it might have a different name or not exist at all.

Plus the last thing I want to do after getting off a long flight is go shopping for toothpaste.
Even Linus left for the US.
If you are ever in the Fresno area, there is an underground garden built by a single man also.

http://www.undergroundgardens.com/
How to Tell the Difference Between Good and Great Developers
How long ago was this?

It certainly is not impractical now. I wrote my PhD thesis, along with most of the software using VoiceCode.io. These days I’m on Talon. Dictation has basically been my sole key input device for three years. Like anything, it takes practice.
One small adjustment:

All value comes from the Mind (and labor is a subset of that).

If I decide to write a book and I self publish, having paid for all my tools.... and still get a profit at the end after selling a million copies.... then who is exploited? Where is the theft?

What people don't realize is that the worker is a service provider (like an author) and they are offering their services in exchange for payment (boss is the customer).

The customer agreed the book is worth it.

The author agreed it is worth taking the risks and using their talents at producing works of art.

Win-Win.

Now let's add in that the author also hires someone to delivery the books.

The delivery person also Wins since they have a stable customer of their delivery services (ie: the author).

But would we say that the delivery person is suddennly entitled to additional retained earnings (profits) all of a sudden?

Anyone that will tell you that 2 or more consenting, voluntarily engaged adults is stealing from another is being dishonest and has an agenda.
A nasty bug in Safari is promotion Google's mobile app to AMP visitors
We got rid of a lot of "bad parts". For example we got rid of institutionalized classism whereby certain stations in society were reserved for nobles and royals.

And one other thing facet to think about is that "avoiding collapse" is not necessarily the same as progress. These new aristocrats may decide to give everyone just the very minimum to get by, leaving the masses in a sort of limbo. And then that defeats the whole point of capitalism; the individual is not longer in control of their destiny.
> The result is, as you point out, somewhat unintuitive in that case, since generating the data is the hard part, not creating the visualization. But that's where Congress chose to draw the line in order to circumscribe the scope of copyright.

And then the fun part, where data owners intentionally add false data to catch people. As a false item, it's not protected under the fact exclusion, so any inclusion of it is clear infringement.
ha! I didn’t catch that until you pointed that out. I wonder why is it dated July 27, 2018... maybe the report is still a work in progress?
There's one theory, notably absent, from the entire cavalcade of possibilities that no one seems to highlight...

1. D.B. Cooper boards the plane.

2. D.B. Cooper reveals a bomb, and with it, his intent to kill everyone on the plane, placing himself in control of their jeopardy.

3. He then, demands assistance, which involves the FBI. This, after placing everyone's life in danger, with the threat of violence.

4. The thing he asks for is absurd, and anyone who has ever used a parachute would raise an eyebrow at accepting equipment from a hostile entity. Even the FBI.

5. Once handed to him, there will be no way for him to look at the equipment, to see if it works, within the confined space of the plane.

6. As long as the money is real, someone making demands like this would expect the parachute to be real too. Especially, providing that their experience and status as a parachutist remains at novice level, with no specialization for preparing equipment.

7. The FBI could have easily provided him with real money and a sabotaged parachute, leaving him to plummet to his death. And why not?

There are obvious risks to this play. What if D.B. Cooper had been smart enough to unpack and inspect the parachute before jumping out of the plane, and then, what if he noticed the sabotage and blew up the plane?

That's the primary risk, there are other risks, and alternative options in the FBI's corner in this story.

They could have also opted to have the fighter jets circle back and gun D.B. Cooper down, before a working parachute reached the ground.

But, no matter what, no one seems to have considered the possibility of a vengeful off-the-record FBI. Which, of course, we all know, definitely existed back then.
I agree that using Facebook via VPNs and/or Tor is prudent. If you must use it at all. Because, even if you obfuscate persona and location, it's still harvesting data on social connectivity. And even if everyone involved obfuscates persona and location, that's still too much data to share with a single entity.

So anyway, Facebook was just an example. To show how social media etc providers could work around the EU Copyright Directive. By blocking access to all users known to be in the EU. If there are no apparent EU users, arguably the law doesn't apply. But then, IANAL.
Given that Clinton won the popular vote, and by a substantial margin, it is probable that more people were disappointed.
Yes.

1. I'm not always on a large monitor. Much of my coding is on a low res 13" cheap dell laptop. In future I'd like to downsize to a 10" machine but this form factor isn't getting much love lately.

2. Even when I'm on that screen but also when I'm on a much bigger screen at work not everything is full screen. Terminal multiplexers, tiling window managers and multi window text editors are pretty common among developers and anyone using these will often have several code files (>=2) side by side.

3. My eyesight is starting to succumb to staring at screens all day, bigger fonts are in my future.

4. Not all text editors and IDE's are good at line wrapping. It's embarrassing how many of them (looking at you Visual Studio) can't wrap as well as vim with:

> :set sbr=\

> :set breakindent
Even if the poor were not going down (they are in the west https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1oHJezqBYU ) that wouldnt matter much as we all compete for any goods that are pseudo finite. If inequality grows faster than the "growing pie" certain people will be worse off.
Many folks are unemployed.
Kim Dotcom eligible to be extradited to US, court rules
An information campaign is already in place on Hawaiian airlines. Not sure if that's just them being pro-active or what, but they do warn you.
For other stuff, anything from lodash or ramda that could reasonably be applied to async iterables would be welcome, possibly with some tweaks. For example, a `find` method that returns a Promise that resolves with the first matching result, or optionally rejects after X milliseconds timeout, or a `reduce` that returns an iterable that returns each new reducer result.
You have much higher faith in humanity than I do.
People use it like it's a rule, but it was more a specific quip about Yiddish, and how many saw it as a dialect of German, rather than a distinct language.
I've been confused by this in the past too, so let me clarify for you.

Confidence intervals are for predictions of a given value. They are not for probabilities. It doesn't make sense to say, "I think she has a 70% chance of winning, plus or minus 5%." On the other hand, it does make sense to say, I think she will get 48% of the vote, with an interval of +-1%.
You get a GDPR interstitial allowing you to opt out of tracking. I'm not sure how you could adblock your way out of Foursquare selling your location to advertisers.
Real estate is special in all sorts of legal and physical ways. I don't see why it’s weird that this would include taxes.
It's great that you've has progressed and acquired self-actualization and your efforts have paid off in the world, but understand that most other people do not want to be disciplined by the grinding, brutal, structural violence that lies at the heart of profit-driven, thieving (remember that profit is unpaid wages), competitive logic of market capitalism.

If capitalism were not to exist, would you truly remain as pathetic as your former self? If so, you might have to question your idea of inner strength.

The freedom to refuse enslavement to a boss, even voluntary, should not discount someone from existing a dignified and respectful life. Otherwise, submission to the very tyrant, even in free contract, defeats the very purpose of the free contract itself, thus it is completely unfree and coercive.

There are plenty of jobs that urgently need to get done that will remain unprofitable within capitalism. Your idea of success is not a perfect template for all human life. Neither is capitalism, obviously.

Any ethical socioeconomic arrangement built must respect the autonomy of the individual to live his life and labor.

You may disagree, but I'm sure you could have spent your time better and authentically if you lived for yourself and instead never had been owned by a master class.
Some forecasts show both the "chance of any rain" as well as various percentiles of the expected rainfall amount, eg this one:

http://www.bom.gov.au/places/vic/melbourne/forecast/detailed...
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Similarly, I've heard several non-Bavarian Germans claiming Bavarian isn't a language, while the Bavarians claim it is.
Right. And so, to escape the EU Copyright Directive, they would need to exit the EU entirely, utterly, completely, etc.

Maybe that seems extreme and unlikely. But consider. What would Facebook be left with, if users couldn't share anything?
> take decent salaries (500k+)

Now, seeing this, I would totally settle for some "unsatisfactory" $450K. :)
China only assembles the hardware. Almost none of the parts in your mobile is made in China. Look to Taiwan, South Korea, US etc for that.
>It would be no step forward.

By which set of metrics? These US companies are extremely successful. I'm assuming your ideological position(s) runs afoul of them, and that's fine, but how does that help businesses in the EU?