skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a "free service," Facebook is spending vast sums of money to operate their site. They're spending non-zero sums of money distributing people's pro-Nazi holocaust denial propaganda. Unlike the government, there's no law stopping them from taking this garbage down.
I recall tapes were selling in the $65-80 range. Which was a lot of money in the early 90's. Because tapes would wear out with each play, I elected to buy 12" LaserDiscs which cost only slightly more, but would never wear out.

For those who never saw one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrn2hBsYKE
It's hard to imagine a nation choosing to release something like smallpox considering the risk of it coming back at you and infecting your own population is pretty high. It's not like anyone has a fully resistant population where they could be sure it wouldn't spread to their own nation, or allies or generally cause political / military response by other nations.

I mean if two nations were at war, my nation / I didn't care, but fucking small pox showed up spreading around I'd be all for some serious interventionist stuff.... I imagine most nations would be all for it.

Granted, chemical warfare could still be a thing :(
This article contains actually interesting not much known history. It is more about learning about past and ditching away self serwing comforting tales. People want to talk about noble heroes going into adventures and celebrate them, but really really don't want to know about ugly stuff that was inherent to all that.

But when you accept ugly stuff for what it was and past leaders for who they were, you will find also a lot of lower level people standing in their way, arguing with them, becoming poorer or even risking their lives because they don't want to participate. Who are also interesting and complex.

We can judge Nazi and Stalin in their historical context, just like people from any other period. Just like slavery, they did not appeared via divine intervention of past - they appeared because of human decisions, activity, ideologies and struggle for power.
The Caret Interviews Vint Cerf
Magic Methods in Python – Dunder Methods
Anecdotally I’ve consumed 50-75 100mcg doses of 1P-LSD over the last year and found it almost indistinguishable from LSD. Not to mention easier and safer to obtain (directly from a research lab).

Obviously there is no research on long term effects at this point, and there may never be, but for my personal therapeutic rituals it’s affectiveness is the same.

It’s also worth noting that I’m not microdosing, which you may have assumed from my doses over time. I’m taking it once a week at an average dose of 300-600mcg with a 1-2 week break every 4 weeks (obviously I didn’t start at this dose when I first tried it). Along with other health supplements and exercise just so were clear.

I am an experienced psychonaut, but I’m not a doctor, and I’m not here to champion 1P-LSD nor my personal rituals. But this is my experience.
I would assume he used Obama's name because Chelsea Manning's conviction, and Snowden & Assange's exile, all happened during Obama's presidency.

I think it's likely that Trump, Bush, and all other sitting presidents would do the same thing, but the only other prominent example we have is Reality Winner, who just pled guilty last month, hasn't really occupied the headlines, and isn't the subject of discussion here.
Also, Joan Baez's cousin. And her father, Albert Baez, explaining elliptictal orbits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpKhCa64Eo
Man, so many memories. I was involved in a MUD called Dragonstone and had so much freaking fun, when I first entered college I had to stop cold turkey because every time I tried to announce that I had to quit to get my homework done, saying goodbye to treasured online associates made me so sad I couldn't follow through on leaving.

I also started one of my own, which gave me my first brush with people doxxing me (not as serious back then - I was more worried that one of them would figure out how to hack my computer - I was not a terribly sophisticated user of the internet back then - probably still am not today. XD)

I learned a bit about algorithms from our head coder, and we put our heads together to make an herbalism system that he should still be quite proud of, I think. Listing each room as a terrain type, a list of herbs that could grow in that terrain, and a random chance that the herbs would grow in any given room.

Man, what a strange time and exciting time that was! :)
Probably inspired by the World's Smallest Political Quiz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Smallest_Political_Q...

https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/
We haven't eradicated it though. I guess it's a bit dated now, but you might enjoy "The Demon in the Freezer," written by the same fellow who wrote "The Hot Zone" (a pop history of Ebola Reston).
Obama is a war criminal
Arizona.

http://peyoteway.org/spiritwalk.php
At the risk of....

We use it to work out when inventory needs moving and re-ordering...

I know it means 'coloured badge' so I can see why it could describe post-it notes, but since it is so well understood to mean 'when inventory levels get to the (usually virtual) coloured badge, trigger a re-plenishment,' in the Toyota manufacturing method I still (as a multidisciplinary person) find its use in PM really annoying. Especially as the Toyota method is so ubiquitous in inventory control. Two entirely different uses for the same esoteric word.

I use Trello by the way, but I much prefer the real post-it board if your team is in one place. Todo》Doing》Done for me. For certain workflows a QA stage is helpful
You can find some of the relevant evidence summarized in English in the original UK ruling on the EAW:

https://www.aklagare.se/contentassets/cc904ed99288454586d860...
Terrorist sympathisers and apologists should read more about what terrorists get up to. Islamic terrorists are not freedom fighters.

Islamic terrorists also harm Muslims in their own country, it's not just "fighting back" against America like some action revenge movie.

They live to disrupt. They launch violent campaigns in their own communities to enforce hardline sharia everywhere as far as they can reach. They brainwash boys into thinking that everyone outside of their narrow sect, is the enemy. They pay for the boys food, health and "education" over many years to put them on the jihad path, and I don't mean the good type of jihad.

Look up the Peshawar school massacre, and notice how that had nothing to do with America, it was terrorists being terrorists. Sneaking into a school and shooting as many kids as they possibly could. Yep... keep those media reports coming in, we won't stop reporting it.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who rolled my eyes at this (and in my case, decided there were other things I could be doing with my browser). Perhaps it's good communication in that it signaled to me that what followed wouldn't be from a perspective that would resonate with me.
This is an odd response to the article. You've had quite an emotional reaction to a well-written and informative piece. In a quieter moment, you might reflect on all the possibilities for your raised ire.
NT's everything is an object is a much more rational design. OS X is based off similar concepts except in the kernel thanks to NextStep.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/26/assange-slams-inc...

"Assange also accused the Clinton campaign of stoking "a kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria" about Russia's alleged role in the DNC hacking and Moscow's purported links to the Trump campaign."

Meanwhile a recent federal indictment has accused Russia of doing exactly that: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/13/rosenstein-says-1...

The indictment is here: https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download

More info here: https://www.2016activemeasures.org/#involved
You don't run your website, necessarily, on a local home computer, why would you assume the same for this?
Hi!

I’ve started a couple of lucrative contracts via LinkedIn and receive many offers there.

I make lots of money because of LinkedIn.

Thanks for playing, sorry to hear you suck at the game. Maybe try some cheat codes?
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't heard about Winner and will have to read up on it now. (Also that's quite the name!).
Don't mean to brag, but making this edit to Wikipedia felt damn good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rinderpest&type=r...
Struggling to read this as the original Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels was pretty much the happiest place on earth to me as a kiddo.
Even if that person would not have taken LSD and would have had a psychotic episode 5 years later due to the underlying issue, that's still 5 years of good health lost because of LSD.
Got the absolute pleasure of meeting Vint Cerf when he lectured at Michigan State a few months ago. Whip smart and very funny guy who also had the ability to explain tech so clearly that your eight year old could understand. An amazing amount of energy for a 75 year old as he's on the road constantly.
That OS/2 2.0 debacle is one of my favorite topics BTW. It ended up in the end much worse than that.
UN working groups have no legal authority.
It totally depends on the team and work. We apply Scrum or Kanban separately. For example Ops team almost exclusively executes Kanban method, yet Dev teams probably use Scrum.

For the columns on Jira: we have 4 - 5 columns; Backlog - To Do - In Progress - Blocked - Testing(sometimes) - Done. I do believe this is more than plenty, although in some customers I have consulted to might have ~10 columns which some of them reads like code review, test on staging, test on prod.

Ticket scoping is the most important thing if you want to execute a Kanban/Scrum method. It shouldn't be too broad (i.e. fix all the bugs) or it shouldn't be too focused (i.e. write tests for this function). Each story/ticket must be an independent deployable feature or function written with a business level understanding with clear acceptance criteria. Clear acceptance criteria in bullet point form is very important! (repeated for emphasis)

Backlog is prioritized by business value and urgency, and transferred to the To Do column by a business/product owner or a PM to make sure no one is ticket-starved.

Depending on your work or infrastructure capability, you can release each ticket as a separate deployment or you can create weekly or bi-weekly release packages that are well tested on a staging environment. Any code change that has stayed unreleased more than 2 weeks probably needs a fresh look.
I'd like a version of LinkedIn that uses computer vision to shadow ban anyone who wears a suit and a shit-eating grin.
Anecdotal info warning:

A few years ago, I thought I was completely incapable of feeling happiness. I hadn't experienced it for a long time and was completely numb. I was chronically depressed for 4-6 years.

I took shrooms from a friend at a security conference completely unaware of what I was getting into. For the first time in _years_, I felt truly happy. I have no idea, physiologically or psychologically, what happened, but when I woke up the next morning my entire world changed -- I didn't feel numb anymore.

That day, my chronic depression ended. I have been depression free for a few years now. We _need_ more research for this.
Everything old becomes new again. It just changes appearance.

Nukes, synthetic bio and chemical weapons are high-profile. If you acquire, produce or use them, you end up on the international radar. Everybody's watching you.

But coordinate some useful idiots into convincing enough of their own population that vaccines are bad for them, and you'll pave the way for wiping them out by reintroducing the simple pathogens those vaccines protected against.

The future of biological weapons will be organic, all-natural and non-attributable. We are setting ourselves up for something very bad.
‘I Am Going to Die If I Keep Living the Way I Am.’ She Was Right
I want to read the version of this where you win Githib
YES. You cannot describe the way those children were treated as anything less than torture.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/wikileaks-fue...

WikiLeaks promoted false conspiracy theories.
Sweden has a long history of being a neutral country, it spent the whole of the cold war as that, and is still not a member of NATO. They did departure that doctrine somewhat when they joined the European Union. But it is still very much alive.

Extraditing Assange to the USA over a political charge would have been a huge departure of the neutrality doctrine, I have a hard time seeing how any Swedish government would have survived doing something so blatantly un Swedish.

The UK on the other hand, is a country that boost it has a special relationship with the USA, and is imo. the European country most likely to extradite him. So it fairly weird he went there, if not getting extradited to the USA was the goal.
Thank you! So, maybe next time... ;-)
I think you'd really enjoy Joe Duffy's Midori blogs then http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
Ask HN: What can set one up for success in a Tech lead role
Inspired from the thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726130 where OP`s question was geared towards on how to prepare for a engineering manager position.

In a similar vein, wanted to get a discussion started on things that make one stand out as a technical lead of a team:

1. Things you wish you knew in the initial phases of your Tech lead career.

2. What are somethings that can set one up for success in the role.

3. What are the general expectations for this role - this might vary from company to company but what are the overall tenants that hold true irrespective. For ex: At my current as a tech lead you are expected to know the ins/out of the tech of the product, resource allocation, participate/influence the tech design etc.

4. And how would you recommend one prepare for a Tech lead interview.

Looking for a fruitful discussion not limited to the above points.

Thanks!
I find this article a reminder to me: there are people from Russia, China, <insert country>; who don't agree with all of the politics, policies, actions of their country's government (just like I don't agree with all of politics/policies/actions of my government).

Its a reminder to focus on individuals and ideas and how we treat them and avoid defaulting to guilt by ostensible association.
How do they know if what they’ve taken is actually LSD-25, and not some research chemical?

Anyone who has become an ‘acid casualty’ was dosed with these dangerous research chemicals, and everyone who was just fine had legitimate LSD?
Which is exactly my point. Whistleblowing shouldn't be done with a shotgun approach that reveals all secrets. Every piece of information should be reviewed and judged in a vacuum as to whether there is a benefit to the public for it to be revealed. Wikileaks just releases everything and doesn't care about the public value or any negative results from that release. That isn't whistleblowing. You are free to agree politically with Wikileaks, but don't pretend it is something it is not. That only ends up hurting the real whistleblowers.
But doesn’t solve the problem. Selection is very limited due to the lack of space.
Wait, you're proud of being recruited on LinkedIn?
A bit related: On top of that, papers in top venues frequently don't publish data, let alone their implementations. How hard is to just dump a zip of your data in 2018? (I don't want to single out any particular papers).

I am talking about data that should not be that huge. Does no one else feel frustrated by this?
I think he's actually a lawyer, turned blogger/writer/editor/pundit.

> He received a BA in Philosophy from George Washington University in 1990 and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Early_life_and...
But that's not what's happening here, is it?

It used to be that Assange feared extradition to Sweden, and then Sweden would send him to the US. You covered this.

Now, since Sweden has dropped the charge, his fear is that the UK will send him to the US. This is a different scenario.

In either case, though, how does Ecuador intervene?
Yeah, it’s interesting how you point out it being a signal. And in that case I do wonder quite who it would resonate with...
You'll want to disable JS on this site, or else you'll get shot to another article when you reach the end, replacing the linked article in your history (lord knows who thought that was a good idea).
Yeah, I am aware of Eve.

I've also done my bit, with In-Process REST[1] and Polymorphic Identifiers[2] for the "REST" half, and Constraint Connectors[3] for the "reacting" half.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-9299-3_...

[2] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...

[3] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/publications/media...
I’d have much less a problem with this line of thinking if there was a way to get to a reasonably accurate dollar figure. Specifically not everyone’s ancestors participated in slavery or left them with an inheritance. Do the white Americans that bankrolled the civil rights movement (and their descendants) get a write off? Does the price tag guarantee that people won’t later complain that the price tag was too low? The whole problem is intractable. That doesn’t mean we can’t work to create a more equitable society; it just means we should look to improving lives of the less fortunate and maybe give up on punishment.
It's also rather biased in questioning
It doesn't matter if it is faster until it starts throttling. i9 is intended for pros who need that CPU power for longer periods of time. And if the issue appears after a minute of usage and performance becomes worse than i7 (as shown in initial Dave's video), then it's a bad product (Macbook, because of not being able to cool it, not the i9 itself).

And benchmarks should be changed to run for longer time periods or else it's not showing actual performance indication.
> Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

And seeing is what vision looks like?

Your statement seems reminiscent of the Homunculus Fallacy

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
What is the evidence that these are the accusations, or what is the evidence that the accusations are true? I obviously don't know that the accusations are true. Swedish prosecutors think they have evidence of that. That's what I was hoping a court case would decide. I think the government should treat him as innocent until proven guilty, of course, like any civilized person, but like any civilized person I also think trials should happen.

If you're interested in evidence that these are the accusations, see e.g.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sex-accusers-bo... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_... or https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange... or http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-14/julian-assange-to-be-i... or really a Google search for 'assange condom'.
An example of why not rest history is this part of the story: “Not everyone could summon the courage to be a slave trader,” he said. “You had to have some boldness in you.”.

That is fighter for human rights speaking. But still, his attempt to defend his father, he frames everyone who did not sold slaves as less courageous. That is how bad actors still frame things today - they are risk takers, brave, courageous and those who are not like them are less brave.

Reading this part makes sense and teaches something stories and entertainment can not possibly teach.
In the interest of fair competition yes, that's exactly what they have to do. Or play in a market with different laws.

Now were you this upset when Microsoft had not only to give other browser makers access to an OS that was on 90% of computers in the world, they had to take them to 99% with the "browser choice" screen that was basically free promotion for other browsers?

The law is clear, when you have a dominant position you are not allowed this kind of shenanigans. And Google was fully aware of that law. This situation isn't the negotiating type. And you are not actually looking for answers, you think trolling is useful somehow.
Also, above a certain level of affluence, a person's time, is valued over money. Taking a private jet might be a good deal for anyone making the big bucks.
Algorithms ( sorting, for instance) don't require knowledge of advanced math. Analysing the computational cost requires some math or math like thinking.

Advanced math is linked with computing mostly because the roots of computing lie in mathematical logic.

So you can become a master programmer without advanced math knowledge.

In short, most algorithms 101 books should be accessible to someone who considers themselves math illiterate.
I love capitalism and the idea behind laissez faire. I still think it might be the least bad thing out there but I keep coming back to stuff like this where people just don't act in their own long-term (or even short-term sometimes) interest. Caleb's gone, many people who lived in Grenfell Tower are gone, and now I think many markets where safety is critical deserve some good regulation.

> He never got a conventional education beyond high school and never formally studied physics or engineering.

That alone isn't a bad thing. Maybe he's a visionary for these water rides. Provided you retain real engineers and take their advice, that is...

> an engineering firm ... issued a report suggesting ... there was a chance the raft would go airborne on the second hill. The ride opened anyway, with the weight range unchanged.

!!!

> But one of his lawyers acknowledged that Jeff didn’t have such training. He added, “Neither did Henry Ford, and he built the car.”

This is actually a mildly compelling argument. Thousands died in cars for decades [1] before cars competed on safety features and real safety regulations arrived. However, today, I think and hope that other water parks and amusement ride designers do conventionally use simulation and other methods to arrive at safe designs. It's not unreasonably expensive considering the total expenditure of the ride's design and construction.

States like Kansas should come up with some terribly simple low bars like requiring professionally licensed engineers to sign off on a ride's design and maintenance procedures as safe, and requiring annual inspections of ride service and incident records.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
In Search of the Last Great Video Store – The Black List Blog || https://blog.blcklst.com/in-search-of-the-last-great-video-s...

I grew up about 2 blocks away from Scarecrow Video in Seattle. I'm happy it's still around. Place was amazing, and... in the late 80s and early 90s they weren't dicks about renting R movies to kids like Blockbuster was. I remember being like 11, and I negotiated a monthly punch card in lieu of allowance. I could rent any 12 movies I wanted! Such power for a kid. And the clerk always had great suggestions.

It's because of Scarecrow that I got introduced to great films early... The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Apartment, Giant, 12 Angry Men, Dr. Strangelove... anyway for a kid in a single parent home, I lucked out getting to watch old classics when my friends were all busy watching stupid cartoons and Saved By The Bell re-runs.
Is Kubernetes really worth managing yourself?
Somewhere I heard that 80% pure 20% impure is a good sweet-spot. I think I read it somewhere on this blog: https://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html but it does kinda ring true.

What I experienced more, is that function to be state-less is more important than it to be pure. And many functional languages (i.e. erlang or clojure) don't really have a way to curb I/O, but they have strong primitives for dealing with mutable-state or they forbid-it altogether.