skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rockefeller Brothers fund divested from fossil fuels in 2014. The Rockefeller family fund began a process of divestment from fossil fuels in 2016 [1] starting with an immediate divestment from ExxonMobil for "their morally reprehensible conduct."[1]

[1]https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/the-rockefeller-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-family-feud-with-ex...
Moves App is shutting down
The blog is hosted on github, but the post is about Oslandia.
Are people actually wanting Amazon? Many I know (on both classic political sides) are saying "anywhere but here".
We found that using a server as a router was not very robust. We were getting strange problems all the time. The speed wasn't that great and finally we replaced that with an off the shelf router and all the pain went away. I know this was a software / configuration problem but we couldn't get it to work well. Has anyone else encountered these sorts of issues? If so did you manage to get it working well?
This second example:

[bar(x) for z in stuff if (x := foo(z))]

is not equivalent to:

[bar(foo(z)) for z in stuff if foo(z)]

because here, foo(z) will be called twice. If foo is an expensive operation or performs some other magic in the background that you don't want to call a second time, := lets you express this behavior without having to break your expression out into a huge for-if-append code block:

output = []
for z in stuff:
x = foo(z)
if x:
output.append(bar(x))

Of course, the above verbose language might end up being a better code in the end, because mashing together a bunch of terse code is often not very readable. But in real life, transforming a comprehension into a loop is just a bunch of work that gets in the way of me trying to complete a task.

When I'm developing out an idea and just want to see if the code works and passes my tests, I would rather have the option to insert behavior swiftly without having to reformat an entire block of code. Then when reviewing my code or deciding whether to make it reusable for something else, I can go back and clean things up.
Facial recognition, how does it work?
I did not, and hearing this guy’s story means that the problem hasn’t been completely solved.

For us, this was triggered by a question about our privacy policy (which we have, and always have had). I assumed that it was just a glitch in their review and follows-up software — specifically, that it didn’t give the full 7 day grace period. But it sounds like it’s a bigger problem than this.

One of the big frustrations for me was that their system was run from an anonymous mailbox, and seemed to have different folks responding different times. Also, if they sent you a message and you replied immediately, you might not hear back for days. At times, it seemed like I was either corresponding with a bot or someone with very bad English.

Maybe a tech journalist can write a story about what’s going on, and actually get some answers from them?
What does the user story look like for installing a Chrome app locally? Do you need to go through tons of menus or is it just dev mode + easy/scriptable setup process?
Greed is usually the answer. Cancer research doesn't pay. Bitcoin does. If someone could just harness one to do the other. If there was a crypto currency whose calculations helped to cure cancer then we'd be on to something
Query: if this directive passes and the outcomes are in line with the negative predictions, what happens?

If it becomes standard practice for all except certain large corporations to ban all EU addresses, how will this impact the web and the EU?
I am talking about complaints with the elections of other districts.

My representative fairly represents my district's sentiment. The policies we want are blocked by neighboring district representatives - who also fairly represent their districts. The compromises tend to land squarely in between the extremes. If we're not happy with the compromise, the answer is to try moving the opposing side closer... which means convincing citizens of that district to change their mind.

Citizen discourse is the core of effective democracies. Elections merely represent public sentiment - peer to peer discussions are how we change the status quo.

America's problem is we seem to have forgotten how to talk about politics. Even your language reflects that... no suggestion of civil debate, just a false dichotomy of surrendering to the numbers game or "attacking" other citizens.

Insults are an attack, but genuinely challenging beliefs is not an attack. My neighbor and I may disagree, but we aren't enemies - we are both citizens that want what's best for our family and friends. Talking politics is how we figure out what that means. Those discussions between private citizens is the decentralized process of moving a democracy forward.
I keep pointing people to the "shitcoin vs buttcoin" animation on Counterthink, showing how low volume can make market valuations skyrocket.

https://www.naturalnews.com/CounterThink/Shtcoin-Buttcoin.ht...
Guys working at a fast food chicken restaurant get to more interesting stuff than I ever will.

Reading this just makes me want to give up. I'm so goddamn sick of the bullshit.
Google’s DeepMind Taught AI Teamwork by Playing Quake III Arena
The Surprising Power of Virtue Labeling
Isn't this article precisely about using the infrastructure for crypto mining for more practical computing?
Intel Optane Memory Update: Making Hard Drives Perform Like Fast SSDs
Tried that, once. I wish they had a simple web api for this.
But let me guess, immigrants are.
Mirror your videos to other services. If you want to make sure your content is preserved you can upload it to archive.org.

There's also a huge difference in scale. There's not that many browser extensions to consider, but they have millions of videos on YouTube. It's not really comparable.
IANAL, but usually if something is explicitly allowed by law you can rely on that even if other parts of the law forbid it.
Yes, this is a big issue for many infrastructure startups. The AGPL scares potential users and customers away, but permissive license often get taken advantage of.

At FOSSA, we've commissioned a new license called the Commons Clause (http://commonsclause.com/) that tries to address this exact problem, so that developers can create permissive software without being exploited by providers.
Can Markov Logic Take Machine Learning to the Next Level?
This is great, I love explorations of how to represent code. (My masters thesis was a vaguely similar project: http://snowedin.net/windowinthebox/)

Lately, I find the best way to make my code more comprehensible is just to break it down into smaller pieces. The 300 lines of fuzzyset is pretty good! I find 150 lines is ideal, although I rarely understand the refactoring space well enough to hit that. 300 is more common, and 600-800 is not unheard of for me. And I code in 42 character width, so those are short lines, with smokers whitespace.

Forcing your code into single 150 line JavaScript file with a README and a published interface is a great way to force yourself to really understand the core concern. You squeeze out any and all orthogonal concerns into their own fully independent module. It clarifies the design to the point that the documentation has less to do.
That's among the sources cited by the article you're dismissing:

> As personality psychologists Robert McCrae and Paul Costa sum it up, “the MBTI does not give comprehensive information on the four domains it does sample.”

As I said, a sometimes-reliable survey with wild variance that poorly measures what it purports to is worse than nothing because it gives false confidence in someone's hunch. The MBTI test was not constructed in any scientifically rigorous way and if it accurately correlates to anything it's an accident.
What if there was a market out where you are on Titan, and you could cool things to liquid methane temperatures by pumping liquid methane from a nearby lake?
You're right - it's silly:

"Spanos had pledged $350 million to the stadium project in San Diego. But now that he’s moving, he’ll have to pay the NFL a $550 million relocation fee.

That’s right. For roughly the same amount of money he’s spending to flee the city that has loved his usually woeful team unconditionally for 56 years, Spanos could have had his new stadium. Instead, he fire bombed his fan base to relocate to a city so enthused by the move that it couldn’t even manage to stifle its yawn."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour...
I have told them that this issue has pushed us to look more at other platforms. We are also on Firefox (much easier now that their extension platform is similar to Chrome’s), but we still have the vast majority of our users on Chrome (60k versus <1k).

I even submitted our extension to Opera. Months went by with no response. Dev forums show that this is a common experience.

We’re also on iOS, but since extensions don’t really exist on mobile, this isn’t a great substitute.

I’d welcome suggestions for another platform that we should be on!
Yes, after bitcoin stops being profitable to mine. After we've pumped a few billion more tons of carbon into the air in the name of blockchain. And assuming of course that some newer crypto doesn't take bitcoin's place which it almost certainly will
If your perspective were truly orthogonal, wouldn't that mean, by definition, that you have nothing to say at all on the topic of the long term intellectual value to humanity of fiddling with loss functions and making optimizer tweaks?
User experience analysis is always going to require a human mind to synthesize the material. The problem is that automation eventually gets noticed by users, thus automation implies to a user 'the programmers/whoever believes my mind and preferences can be automated'.

That's always going to throw a wrench into automation. So yes, it's hard work that requires real thinking with a clear focus on the users and how the users feel about the software. Software needs to care about users if it is dependent on users for it's business model!
It absolutely is NOT. it explicitly states these numbers are only useful for comparing hours worked by year in a given country, not for comparing between countries.

"The concept used is the total number of hours worked over the year divided by the average number of people in employment. The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources."
The movie Imperium presents an unnervingly plausible plot about this very thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(2016_film)
They can, but they're not enforceable.
Play association football in a stadium intended for gridiron football? Are you a madman?
Yes, I counted for $0.5 not $0.05, so I got 40% instead of 4%. Big difference, I'm sorry.
The web in the EU will be dead and everyone will use a VPN to participate in the actual internet, i.e. the internet outside the EU.
Datoray 1.0 for cloud-based equipment manuals, videos, images, notes
I don't know that cave at all, but from various descriptions, it sounds like they may have had to crawl through several restrictions to get where they are. So it's not a matter of walking through vertically to get in, then just being gently pulled back out the same way It's a matter of squeezing through on your belly to get in - then to get out, reversing that, in unfamiliar bulky diving gear, completely underwater (literally no air anywhere), in pitch blackness, and zero visibility (as in, you'd not see an inch beyond your mask, even with a powerful torch). It's not easy even for experienced cave divers. I once went through a hole, then couldn't get back out! I tried for 10 minutes. At one point I even considered removing my tanks and pushing them out first. It eventually happened, but it gave me a scare - and that was in crystal clear water, in a site I'd dived before! Its just not as simple as people seem to assume. But again, I don't know the cave in question, I'm just going from what I've read.
I would hope that Tor usage in the EU goes up.
Do you foresee any entry level data analyst or software engineer jobs opening in the future -- for Salt Lake City?
Opera switched to Blink ages ago and the -o prefix died with it. If you're still using it, that's on you.
Captiv8 is making its influencer database available for free
So, if you are a citizen you should have access to politicians, but if you start a company or get promoted to an executive position you suddenly get that access revoked?

It would be pretty difficult to restrict lobbying without running into problems with the First Amendment.

Most people who complain about corporate lobbying don't seem to mind when the EFF or the ACLU engages in lobbying, which indicates to me that they are really against corporate power, not lobbying per se.
That's the thing that makes Google a more challenging beast than Facebook: you don't have to have an account to be an asset for Google, and you likely feed them more data all the time.
>ocean going exploration

Bad example. Believe it or not, exploration wasn't invented in the 1400s. Groups have had strong command of the Pacific and Indian oceans for much much much longer.
Yes, they recorded every serial number of every bill, and not a single one has ever been recorded in circulation. A subset of them were found in the area where he jumped out in 1980 by an 8-year old, but those were not put into circulation.
Sounds like they don't really have automation that well set up for fixing up removal mistakes. Not a great sign.
This may be true of the family's fund, but the Rockefeller Foundation, which this article is sponsored by, is opposed.

"However, the much wealthier Rockefeller Foundation, whose endowment tops $4bn, is understood to be opposed to divestment for now."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/rockefel...
You can usually skip the discussion meeting if you do the 1:1s, and your design/plan will be much better as the discussion can be deeper in 1:1s. I've been a in a huge number of design reviews where a massive flaw is pointed out and the reply is "well we'd love to talk more about it but we won't get over everything if we do...", and the meeting continues discussing the details of a plan we just showed won't actually work. You are also playing with the human dynamics of not wanting to look bad in front of a lot of people. Large discussion meetings are usually a waste of time and result in sub par plans.

As an IC you play with the rules you've got.
So, it has begun. Imagine just how nice will it be, once they will go after Qualcomms and Apples.

Will not happen you think? Back a few years, just as iPhone 5 began to ship, an administrator of a bonded customs zone decided to detain all and every Apple's shipment for a few weeks just to recheck all and every of their papers, and to make a statement "I am a big man here." And nobody of higher ups seemed to ever given a f##k about a single lowest tier official holding few billion bucks of Apple's money hostage.
Listen to people about their complaints and preferences as intellectual equals.
In addition to paying tax, the Tesla employees probably have a relatively high salary and are feeding money directly to the locals through general consumerism.
You can use a hash of source and dest ip, protocol and port, but you will get confusing results and some sites won't be happy.

Using source ip to round robin on active wan connections is the safest.
It's satire like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy or http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burri...
Well, shit. I installed this extension a few months ago, because multiple people HN recommended it.

Tried it out, but found a different way to restyle and adjust sites to my tastes (uBlock and custom Greasemonkey) that I found easier. Then forgot about it.

And now it turns out this thing has been slurping my Internet history for months.

No downvotes, nobody calling them on it, just happy oblivious HN users that carelessly install random browser extensions and then recommend them to other people. Urgh.
Not my field, but from a humble programmer's perspective, a 5x to 10x speedup sure sounds like a significant result. It certainly would be in most areas where we already have efficient algorithms.

Why is this one "inapplicable to most practitioners"?
They’re Not Sending Their Best
This article is trash. The first link in the article says nothing about whites being a terror threat. The second article only compares Muslim versus non-Muslim threats and that non-Muslim attacks number slightly higher. Considering that Muslims account for less than 2% of the U.S. population, Muslims are, disproportionately, a much, much larger threat than whites.
The article refers to it as viewing video content on tv.
You build a culture of people who are programmed to commit genocide against all non-whites while ignoring treaty obligations that would stop them, turn them loose across the continent, and then expect that their offspring a few generations later are anything but terrorists? Of course they're terrorists.
Still committed to Microsoft after all those years:

<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12">
A Headless CMS means you define all of the frontend interpretation of the content. Basically a GUI for your database.

If you have lots of queries happening behind the scenes whenever someone makes a request that seems basic- like how Facebook gets a list of comments on a post, plus the friends who made them, and a list of different reactions to each comment, and other stuff that rapidly creates a complex graph- then GraphQL simplifies. The REST way involves all of those extra calls, GraphQL gets everything in one request.
> I guess, Mountain View must be moving at extreme speeds, which is why time goes by way faster over there — relativity theory in action.

The other way around. The OP must be the one moving at extreme speeds.
I have no doubt Google ruthlessly takes advantage of tracking data but that’s for them, not for third parties. Anything is possible but I think they’d see giving up data like that to a company like Cambridge to be surrendering a competitive advantage.
That's great. It's a really good take on the phenomenon. You see it between different subreddits frequently these days.
I don't think it's about assassination - the amendment is clearly about a "militia," which envisions a group of individuals capable of fighting a protracted war - like the Revolutionary War. (I'm not taking a position on what the "militia" language says about how much it guarantees a right for individuals, but it certainly guarantees a right for militias.) Even in the era where it was written, any joker could assassinate an individual politician - see e.g. Spencer Perceval, or honestly the entire idea of duels.

The threat of a military attack is a very different one from the threat of assassination; while the Black Hand was (sorta) successful, Lee Harvey Oswald was not, nor were any of the other assassins of any other American president. Assassination usually kills an individual and leaves the system intact; revolution usually changes the system entirely.

And popular revolution (unlike assassination) used to carry the implicit authority of democratic legitimacy, back when the people could be reasonably well armed against their own government. You'd win by having more soldiers on your side and the willingness of the people who lived in each city to either aid the soldiers or become soldiers themselves, which would be a way of returning control to the people when confidence was lost that the current system really represented the people. (That doesn't work too well nowadays because Raytheon would just rule the country, of course.)

I agree with the rest of what you write, and yes, for all that the Right seems to paint the Left as violent, the Left seems to not really believe in using the Second Amendment for its intended purpose to pursue their goals.
Are we close to having machines solve TopCoder problems?
These are good suggestions but don't help the parent poster's lost revenue.
It never balances out.
A slight irony is that this extension actually removes tracking capability from Google itself in the search. (I suppose only really if you have JS disabled, otherwise they can capture the click event in JS instead of handling links via a special redirect tracker).

To the author: Thanks for the extension. I'm a happy user on FF for a long time.
I prefer we just don't listen to you and stop giving in to corporate greed.

It's incredibly shortsighted and foolish. It is absolutely a race to the bottom and it's just increasing wealth inequality even further.

But whatever, people like you will never learn.
It only feels unlimited. It's actually limited to 600 aliases, which I think is good to avoid one account getting thousands and depleting the usable namespace for other users.
Reiterating this: Management and updates are wonderful through the unifi app. It functions similarly to Meraki, better in my experience and there's no recurring fees.

The app can be self-hosted, run in the cloud, or on something they call a "cloud key" that's not much more than a Raspberry Pi.

I've run it on a Pi3, and it's a little bit laggy, but tolerable. I prefer to run it on my little x86 server.

Both the self-hosted and the cloud version can be managed remotely, which is neat.

There are a host of other benefits, but given the price (around $100 per AP), I see no reason to use the more commonplace consumer grade stuff. Check out the unifi demo here:

https://demo.ubnt.com/manage/site/outlets/dashboard
This is like telling women they don’t need to shave their armpits or men they don’t need to shave their face to find a date. Sure, it shouldn’t be needed, but when everyone else is doing it, it sure makes it a lot harder to find a date if you’re the only one who doesn’t.
From The Guardian's website
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2016/jan/25/content-funding
"- A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support the Guardian’s Cities project"

If I were to suggest that the article was written in bad faith, I'd be more willing to link it to Elon's recent agitation of media figures on Twitter.

Carroll doesn't seem to have written much of anything about Elon or his projects in the past couple years, but starting in June, he's penned this, and two other articles on the man.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/04/elon-musk...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/10/a-great-i...
> Bitcoin's main demonstrated value is as a speculative instrument.

I think it's primary value is for money laundering and hiding money transfers from the eyes of jealous lovers / spouses / governments.
Ha! Good to know.
> Using government as a market has worked very well for both marijuana legalization and gay marriage advocates.

Except for people like you who are 100% in favour of stamping on people's rights because "it's a market".
This happens in the US as well and I expect all countries.
If you search the HN archives, I think you'll see the success rate is low but the general feeling is that it's enough to justify the effort people are putting in.

Personally, I don't mind the occasional cold email and will reply politely if I'm not interested.

What bothers me A LOT is the automated emails and automated retries every few days with templated emails trying to appear like they were written by some CEO pretending to be my friend. When that happens, the company is leaving a long lasting bad impression.
IRL streamers as a containment board. Not far from the truth...
We should be thinking about internet with large latencies, such as if you're traveling in outer space. How would you design for that when you only have intermittent connection?

What would you cache & how much?
> It would be pretty difficult to restrict lobbying without running into problems with the First Amendment.

Then fuck the first amendment. Change it.
For Chromebooks? I thought Google was deprecating chrome apps.