skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will continue to ponder your point, but I am inclined to disagree. Suppose we consider a two page document of classified information. Leaking one or two sentences from the document can be done in a highly misleading way.

In fact, our officials routinely leak information in this way, fed to reporters to spin a narrative that supports a political goal.

But seeing a trove of documents can make the broader malfeasance much more clear.
Now if only deleting your account meant never getting any more emails from them... I still get ‘so and so wants to connect’ after I deleted mine.

Anyone have any idea how to stop this? (Besides an email filter?) is this practice even legal?
WikiLeaks sat on Manafort's group sex and blood money texts, but released Podesta's emails less than an hour after the Access Hollywood tape was published. His agenda was more than an act to get on Don Jr.'s good side.
Maybe as a way to help compartmentalism from what the article is describing, I keep wondering: why do “long form” stories all seem to follow the same script?

- Introduction to the subject

- Introduction to the “characters”

- “Dramatic thing began to happen, with seemingly innocuous steps taken towards the unforeseen conclusion, but then, as the thing begins to unfo—“

- “Back in 1823, when the ancestor of the grandfather of the person who first set these steps tangentially in motion was born, baby rattles were just becoming popular...” [119 paragraphs giving a detailed biography of the main person]

- “And now, the conclusion...”
I don’t think clicking yes in a confirm dialog implies that anything was “truly deleted.” It might well still be living in the undo history, other indexes, auto save files, backups, and it could certainly live in memory (especially if it was moved by the garbage collector).

It would be very foolish to assume that just because one has clicked “yes, delete” that the data is gone forever.
This is the most fascinating article I have read this month, if not year. Thanks to the author, if you find your way to these comments. What I found particularly interesting:

1. The insight into Igbo culture and its complexity. We rarely see this in articles published in the West about African culture, in part because many African writers care not to disclose (not just because of existing narratives into which western writers place lazy stories).

2. The nuance in the response to the past: guilt and pride. Many people feel this I suspect. I wonder if knee jerk reactions such as that by the commenter (1996) at the top of the comments is a reaction to that discomfort, rather than the perceived accusations of historical injustice.

3. The way in which traditional belief systems, curses etc, gave rise to such a mature and measured response to the sins of the past. There is a parallel to German acknowledgement of past sins; I'm fairly sure roooted in their traditional Catholic belief systems.
He was acknowledging that their origins were African. Which they were. The humorist that you are talking about is Trevor Noah and he is from South Africa. He is an immigrant. So it's not really a US thing. Its a being subjected to a double standard thing. In the US when you're a minority and you are doing something positive you are considered without doubt an American. But when its something negative or objectionable to some people race comes in to play really quickly.

When I was growing up it was common for the news to report the race of a subject when it was a black person doing the crime. But you knew the person was white when race was not mentioned at all. In the past few years that has gotten better but it was definitely a thing in the not too distant past.

When a large segment of the population thinks its okay for police to profile based on race its hard for people subjected to it to not think about race in all avenues of life. Because its something that you deal with on a regular basis.
Nice app! I created a similar app a while back. The difference is that you can also connect the boxes(a mind map like concept) you create, otherwise, the click-anywhere-to-add kinda feature is similar. I'd appreciate it if you check it out - it's https://www.mapsofmind.com
I don't think I am:

'Ever operated a tank barge and wondered what power
source you would need for your cargo tank’s liquid overfill
protection system to comply with the law? Probably not. But if
you did, you might consider thumbing through the Code of
Federal Regulations, where you would discover that one option
is to hook up to an off-barge facility, provided that your system
has “a 120-volt, 20-ampere explosion-proof plug that meets . . .
NFPA 70, Articles 406.9 and 501-145.” 46 C.F.R.
§ 39.2009(a)(1)(iii)(B). Dig deeper and you would learn that
NFPA 70 is not some obscure rule or regulation or agency
guidance document but is instead another name for the
“National Electrical Code,” a multi-chapter technical standard
prepared by the National Fire Protection Association (the
eponymous “NFPA”), detailing best practices for “electrical
installations.” Complaint ¶ 66, American Society for Testing &
Materials v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (ASTM), No. 1:13-cv-
01215 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2013) (“ASTM Compl.”), Dkt. No. 1,
Joint Appendix (J.A.) 86. Parts of NFPA 70 have been
incorporated into the statutes or regulations of at least forty-
seven states and, as we have just seen, the federal government.
American Insurance Ass’n Amicus Br. 5.'

So an SDO develops a standard. No problem, that's private and copyright is theirs. Then than standard is incorporated into statues. The incorporated language is now public domain.

I'm 100% ok compensating SDOs for their work, which is necessary and important. But that needs to happen before it becomes law.
> and that medical science has proven diets don't work because obesity is primarily a hormonal problem or a reaction to stress

Wait, when did that happen?
It solves the renting current blockbusters problem but, for most people with decent internet, that's not much of a problem and Redbox' results reflect that.

As another commenter noted, Redbox doesn't solve the back catalog problem and Netflix increasingly doesn't either. Going forward you may have to go back to just buying discs for some types of films. (Torrents aren't very consistent with old movies either.)
Hello HN. You might like to try a competing offering I developed, http://Write.Pub
>I wonder if the rapid growth of ML recently has diluted the reviewer pool dramatically?

There was a blow up a couple months ago around this issue. Someone posted to r/machinelearning saying they were starting grad school in the fall, and had been accepted as a reviewer for NIPS2018.

Twitter convo about it [0] generated some press, with the pull quote of "It's 'peer review', not 'person who did 5 TensorFlow tutorials review'".

[0]https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/996021724188725248
We're getting damned close with guinea worms -- down from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to 22 in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_dracunculiasis

May the day when it drops to zero come soon.
I’m the same.. as a UI/UX Designer & Developer LinkedIn via recruiters has brought me great opportunities & a better overall life.

Some recruiters are slimey, but most I’ve dealt with in my ten year career are not.
I was surprised to discover the article didn't mention any engineers that had worked on the design or implementation being sued for damages. Nor did the article mention any engineers who refused to construct or otherwise work on the tallest and most dangerous waterslide in the world.

Perhaps engineers in other fields are not so different from software engineers after all, published code of conduct aside.
This ... feels like a Unix-class-solution for a social network: reuse of simple, orthogonal pieces to create a new system.
They killed a politician's 10 year old child with a badly designed water slide. If it hadn't been a elected official, they'd probably still be operating.
Yes, but what purpose does any work-related communication serve? The communication almost always is (and should be) around the tasks, activities, projects etc. Tools like Slack do not provide hierarchy and organization. Tools like kanban on the other hand, do.
This is correct, thanks for fighting the disinformation!
It's funny that the main thing you do in a note-taking program is create notes but there's no keyboard shortcut for it. Otherwise, cool concept, will keep an eye on it
My grandma lives not far from Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels. I remember one incident, probably back in 1990 when I was 5 or so, I was at my grandma's house and some cousins came down to go to Schlitterbahn.

They went without me (was perfectly fine enjoying myself on my grandma's 20 acre property) and they all came back later that night. But the next morning my one cousin, probably 12-14, stayed in the back room and never came out. Everyone kept bringing her food and water through out the day but she never came out.

I finally asked what was wrong to which my (somewhat crude mouthed) grandma only stated that she hurt herself on a ride and now her vagina is all swelled up and so she can't walk. Being 5yo I really wasn't sure what the heck that meant. Actually, I'm still not sure. But the best I can conjecture was she rode this one really tall water slide where you sit on a plastic sled and I assume the sled came out from under her and when she hit the "water brake", it flew in between her legs. But I don't know, and I'm not going to ask...
> It makes me profoundly sad how the world (or at least my world, mostly far left, liberal, educated, etc.) has turned so hard against Julian Assange. He's a hero in every sense of the word.

In my world, heroes don't run from sexual assault trials.

Is he afraid of prison, or of the sexual assault prosecution being a sham to punish him for what he published? Chelsea Manning was prosecuted and sentenced and more-or-less tortured for the actual things she leaked. She's a hero - she did the right thing for the country even though she knew what it would cost her. She didn't run. She was sitting in solitary confinement while Assange was tweeting in an embassy and claiming political asylum.

Someone who wants to change the world, who seeks prestige and power, and who gains fame from someone else's sacrifice can be many things (and perhaps many good things) - but I wouldn't call him a hero.
Cuba moves toward striking changes to recognize private property, et al
There's also phage therapy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Which is using viruses to kill bacteria.

Also I imagine that gene editing might also become a tool in combating infections in the near future.
St Louis Uber driver has been streaming his passengers online. Most have no idea
"Fine tuned" != "bug fixes". Fine tuning means they start changing the security model and the properties it can enforce because it was poorly designed to begin with. That is the case with the JVM but not with WASM.
I have a shelf full of laserdiscs that I honestly don't know what to with (and a laserdisc player). I don't want them and I assume there are individuals who do but I'm not about to go to a lot of trouble to sell them.

I suppose I could put the whole thing on Craigslist, take it or leave it. But I'm far enough out of a big city that I've never had much luck with that tactic.
Since any Rust function may use unsafe code, you don't know whether bets are off for any particular function call.
I found this resource quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8V3KNSgDr1Dai77_y8JrQ
Very impressive. The authors should apply it to the old recordings.
Is it really possible that no licensed engineers were involved with the project, and that none of them signed off on anything significant? Based on the article, it sounds like at least one licensed engineer noticed that rafts were leaving the track.
Are there other nations that we have proof that they tried to tamper with that election? They of course need to prove it before deciding, but it seems to me that it is prudent to suspect the Russian state at this point.
I hear you, but that's just not how this particular site works. Here it's “original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait”, which is a fundamental quality. A link aggregator with editorialized titles would simply be a different thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From the NetBSD About page[0][1]:

> Why the name?

> The “BSD” in our name is an obvious recognition of our heritage as a derivative of 4.4BSD and 386BSD.

> Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat systems; many of us have never met each other in person. We also use a remote source code management system called CVS which enables a large number of developers to do independent work on the same source tree easily. We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that made NetBSD possible. The “Net” in our name was thus chosen as a tribute to the Internet.

Also, just as an aside, NetBSD was released in 1993, long before network security had anywhere near the attention it has today.

[0] https://www.netbsd.org/about/

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/about/#content_name
Is a murder taboo really universal? Large societies run by death cults have occurred several times throughout history. For example: Carthage, Aztec Empire, ISIL, etc. If you define their actions as not technically "murder" then the word becomes meaningless.
The really dangerous stuff is the NBOMEs which were being sold as LSD maybe 7 years ago. This is why we need legalization, so people can be sure what they're getting.
> Yes, but your program isn't doing what you think you told it to,

Your program is still doing what you told it to if you weren't relying on any undefined behavior (Which, obviously, you shouldn't be). That's the point - if you write C that doesn't rely on any UB, then it can run on a large variety of architectures, work exactly the same on each one, and still get close to the maximum speed for each architecture because they can take the fastest possible option for any of the UB cases (And your program shouldn't care what they do in that situation).
Well, if you use it correctly LinkedIn isn’t too bad.

As a contractor who has to jump ship every 6 months or so, I find it quite convenient to let the recruiters do the heavy lifting.

I literally have to do nothing - I just get offers in my inbox and just have to say “interested” to secure an interview and usually get the gig the next week.

Maybe past a certain level of experience you can easily secure gigs without it, but I’ve never really been interested at “networking” and if I can let LinkedIn do the job for me then all the better.

Granted, the platform itself is shit (and the iOS app is an absolute crime) but the idea isn’t that bad.
I can't downvote, but in my mind to engage with this question is to lend it legitimacy. The debate then is unwinnable. See, if we frame our discussion on your terms (Was he a willing conspirator with Russia and Putin or merely a fool) then anyone with the beliefs like say,
"Assange did the world some good by releasing documents the US government didn't want released" or "Assange was a powerful force for government transparency" then we have lost. I can't tell you why three people downvoted you, but my best guess is your comment is perceived as bad-faith.

Cheers
Inside Bannon's Plan to Hijack Europe for the Far-Right
Microsoft Introduces the Python Language Server in Visual Studio Code
By that logic, we'd have to give this dude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey#NSA_domestic_wiret...

the Presidential Golden Eagle of Infinite Liberty.
Slavery was one of the original sins that built this country but its funny to see so many comments in here believe that was it. That once it was abolished call it a day. Blacks in this country were not truly free until the Civil Rights era. Which the height of it was only 10 years before I was born.

I agree that you can't let the past define your future but you also can't be naive and think that in 50 years true unabashed equality has been established. Hell it took until 77 to get redlining by race wiped out. Imagine not being able to buy the house you want to live in based on your race.
Youth-Led Marches Across the Globe Demand Immediate and Ambitious Climate Action
I’ve also had lucrative offers and contracts come by way of LinkedIn.
Because they are not gone.

Weaponized smallpox almost certainly exists. It escaped a Soviet lab in the 70s and other countries including the US worked on it.

Smallpox is uniquely deadly... it wiped out something like 75% of the indigenous population of the americas.
Doesn't sound like they had any engineers. The article mentions only one engineering consultation just before it opened which warned that "a raft with three passengers weighing between 400 and 550 pounds could go airborne" and which was dismissed by the company.
The true value of FB or any other company to its users is mainly twofold: keeping the spammer/scammers at bay, keeping your account secure and available.

These are some things distributed social networks, even email based, don’t have an answer too yet.

Remember email before Gmail? Spam everywhere. Now everybody has Gmail, which I don’t see it much better than everybody having FB.

Plus, IMHO, email has to be replaced by something where email addresses are not tied to a provider, so people can change their providers without too much hassle.

If you think about it, email is a business/organization tool: <User>@<Business> and not a perfect fit for personal communication.

Imagine if your phone number was tied forever to your phone provider.
If that was the process, we'd hear about everything lumped together and quickly forgotten about in confusion. The way it was published instead, people have time to process specific revelations and let the whole thing stay alive for multiple media cycles.
I don't understand why LinkedIn get's so much hate. I got my two last jobs from recruiters reaching out to me on LinkedIn. My current job I got from an ex-coworker at a place that I found because of LinkedIn. Like all markets, LinkedIn is chaotic but you can get value out of it if you can avoid the bad parts like spam.
They should have an unsubscribe link, if you live in the EU you should be able to ask them to delete all your data under GDPR rules
What I would give to have exactly this instead of all the scrum nonsense.
Yes belief in aliens is unscientific. There's nothing wrong with such a belief but no matter how you dress it up with Drake Equation calculations it's equivalent to a religious belief taken on faith.
LambdaTest Launched Days Pass to Meet Your Short Term Cross Browser Testing Need
White people in the U.S. don't get the benefits from slavery, they benefit from a severely broken social fabric.

"Slavery" is a racial institution, and racial institutions do not exist in the U.S. But a social divide that somehow puts people of colour on the receiving end of society is an effect of the free market, and to be against that is to be a socialist, because everyone is responsible for their own success, with society having little to no bearing on that; that's the American dream.

To finally abolish slavery, institute universal healthcare, make high quality education available for everyone, create a social fabric that is inclusive. But that is not the American way: every success and every failure has to be self-made, and to think otherwise is communism and an attack on American values.
This may be a little rusty, but from ~2002 to ~2008, I ran my modest home server on NetBSD.

Why did I choose it? Because at the time, I was still living with my parents and needed to get Internet access working via dial-on-demand ISDN-card. The only OS I found a tutorial for how to do that was NetBSD.

What were my impressions? Compared to, say, Debian, NetBSD takes more effort on the side of the user/sysadmin. But once something was in place, it stayed in place. I also liked the clear distinction between the base system and third-party software installed via pkgsrc (which ends up in /usr/pkg). These days, NetBSD has binary packages for the most mainstream architectures, so it less of a problem.

I liked the system - it was simple enough to get a realistic idea of what is going on under the hood, even for a Unix-newbie, but also powerful enough that it did not stop there. Also when a friend of mine got me a Sun SparcStation he had salvaged from his university's garbage pile, NetBSD was the only system I could get to boot on that machine.
If you'd read the article, you'd know that the sexual charge was dismissed
Yup. Especially the "Rube Goldberg Machine" comparison.

You want me to go through how many steps to do X? Might as well write it myself... (almost)
Hello! I’m not sure I understand the phrase “soft tech”, but Rover uses some large springs for suspension and has big foam tires. I could build active suspension but it dramatically increases the cost and complexity of the robot, which goes counter to my goals. Some low cost active suspension would be helpful though! Right now I’m just focused on keeping the thing reliable. :)
That isn't what Wikileaks is doing. They aren't releasing "a trove of documents [that] can make the broader malfeasance much more clear". They are releasing absolutely everything they receive. The simplest example is their refusal to redact the names of Afghani civilians who worked with the US government and therefore put their lives in jeopardy. That type of action by Wikileaks says that they believe their political opinions are more important than the lives of innocent civilians. That isn't whistleblowing.
What test could we perform to determine whether a computer is actually conscious, or just imitating consciousness?

All humans have very similar biology, so it's reasonable to assume that other humans are conscious. But even there we don't have any hard proof.
The idea of LinkedIn is good, but the execution is absolutely awful. It encourages spam and lies, has a shit app (on iOS) and the “social” aspect of it is completely stupid and useless (they now even support videos - WTF?).

I’d pay good money for a “premium” alternative without the above issues.
Actually they were very unintrusive. I thought they were part of the article
Only do it with an experienced guide. Read Jim Fadiman's book. If you're serious, sincere, and patient you should be able to find a guide through your local yoga, meditation, new age, etc. scene. Michael Pollan's new book is excellent if you need a bit more motivation.

These medicines are far more powerful than you could possibly comprehend. Once you are in it, expect to have zero control, so you need a safe, experienced environment.
No. But we shouldn't turn a blind eye on the hate filled Islamic sources.
Any time I am given the opportunity to learn something new unexpectedly, I have fun.
Try --inspect-brk so that the Chrome debugger stops immediately and you have the time to set your breakpoints.
Related question.

Could a habitable planet exist in orbit around black hole? At least habitable as far as humans go? I didn't think there was another star that those planets had to feed them light and energy, and could they get enough light and energy, keep an atmosphere, and etc in orbit around a black hole?
Oh yeah, and good luck getting a foreign bank account if you don't already have one. Heck, if you have an American bank account, I've heard European banks don't want to deal with you even if you're a solely European citizen living in Europe.
Am I the only one who never received spam from LinkedIn ever?

Nothing before I had an account, and when I signed up I turned off all the spam in the notification settings and don’t get any either.
Is Python the Future of Programming?
Could you clarify - are you saying that being far right isn’t tolerated in the US? Or that being far right isn’t tolerated by liberal society in the US?
Ask HN: Should you allow your employees to work on side projects?
It is true and documented extensively. By the way I'm French.