skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The surprising thing to note here is how much optimism the street has in $twtr. Just one quarter of small beat and the stock jumped 100%. After the drop today (to $34) it's still too high for $twtr which hasn't actually proved anything since the stock was high teens low 20s. If anything, their live streaming effort is pretty much down the drain, and Anthony Noto, who's pretty much the heart and soul of Twitter operation, left. I'm super surprised the stock is still mid 30s.
dont tell John McAfee
Show HN: Googling a sentence yields copycat sites and poor results in general
Take the following sentence for example, searched in google with quotation marks included:

"Booster seats, car seats and seat belts are equally effective at saving the lives of children"

This is a sentence that originated (as far as I know) from here: http://www.montana.edu/news/17359/msu-studies-investigate-ef....

The first page of results contains various websites that, on the surface, contain the quoted sentence but on closer inspection, contains the entire original content from montana.edu verbatim. Additionally, the first 5 results are from sciencedaily.com, with different titles for each result and were created (supposedly) over the past 10 years or so.

Now if you go to the second page of results, the majority of results are now sciencedaily.com but by exploring the links, you find the phrase is embedded as a link to articles first shown as results on the first page of google search results.

I thought this was interesting so I attempted to look up what might be another widely copied type of sentence across websites to see what other articles are copy and pasted everywhere, example from https://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/22-medical-studies-that...:

"The vaccine-autism debate has been going on for years. It has been a tale of shifting beliefs as child vaccination rates remain high"

In this case, searching this sentence, quotes included, yielded results as before highlighting the sentence in almost every result that I found but the article itself was not copy and pasted verbatim as before.

In any case, thought this might be interesting to share. Perhaps this show the futility or limitations of searching this type of content or it may also show how many websites are merely reposting noteworthy content in order to generate clicks or mislead people into thinking their website is legitimate when it comes to scientific data or studies.
'Lingua franca' is a Latin borrow phrase that literally mean "Frankish Tongue". It has a specific meaning and nuance in English, it doesn't mean Italian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
That's an excellent example of pushing agency back upon the patient.

And I'm confused how "dying from complications directly caused by childbirth" would be reported differently in other countries. Maybe that's why Sweden has such a low murder rate, it's not "death by gunshot", it's "spontaneous exsanguination during a hospital stay".
Good find! Can't believe this person made that many fake domains.
> Subtracting the CPU emulator

If you're subtracting the CPU emulator what is the point of doing any of this?
It was real at one point. Every AMC in our area refused to allow outside food for the entire time I was living with my parents. Some time after I moved out, they dropped that policy. So far as I can tell, it didn't make any difference at all in our spending habits. It just changed how fat my mom's purse got while we entered the theatre.
Funny because I've built many, many apps and worked as a professional dev for 15+ years and literally never, not even once, needed to write a reverse bubble sort or whatever from scratch. Modern development is more about making good design choices and knowing how to leverage languages, frameworks and systems to develop a solution that meets the companies objectives and does it quickly and in the most cost-effective way. I've saved and produced millions of dollars of value for many companies and advanced algorithms knowledge was never part of the solution. This leetcode shit is just a hazing ritual perpetuated by the majority of companies because they're unwilling to do something more sensible because it requires time and effort. Wouldn't it be more effective to review my code on github and bitbucket than to give me a puzzle to solve? Right, that takes effort.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/834146806594433025
> Could you just

Yeah, that's a really bad example - the "just" adds a tone of impatience.
Just have to organize a resistance movement against a opponent who knows nearly everything about everyone participating?

Well, im off to search for someone with similar strong opinions...
The problem is that in the latter case the function object doesn't know what it's name is. This pattern gets unnecessarily abused just to be cool or follow the cargo cult.
We have to think deeper as to why their service is the one that's preferred though.

Part of it is the fact that they had historically been able to subsidize the monetization potential of their other services in order to out compete those who needed their services to make money.

The other half is more speculation, but certainly very possible, that they've been able to play this game for a long enough time that they have been able to use search to build these brands in such a way that makes us think of them first for all of these services. Brand power is a very powerful thing, and considering the fact that they have a subsidized ability to advertise to us (both through promoting things in search, and by not needing to pay themselves for adsense/adwords) is what has made these the more high quality services over time since we have given our data to them.
My understanding is that mortality for whites is actually comparable to other nations. It is specifically the mortality of nonwhites that is so terrible. It's actually more specific than that: immigrant minorities are fine, but the second generation has the increased mortality of other nonwhites in USA. I heard this on some podcast; it may have been "Reveal"?
I’m a British native that works almost entirely with people with English as their second language, mostly remotely. To be effective you need to adapt your language and accent to fit the global English style, and adapt to individual dialects on a country by country basis. It seems a little counter intuitive, but English is genuinely a global language and not owned by the English anymore, so it’s important to adapt to fit that if you want to be understood.
I’m guessing computers will get really good at translating between a at least a handful of prominent world languages. Think a fantastic Google translate with a flawless UI.
Combifactor vs. Multifactor Authentication
>Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and...
> it's like borrowing money to buy more ingredients for a failing restaurant.

Well, they're gathering people's information & movie consumption habits as well. I could imagine a similar business losing money on the movie cost but making up for it by exploiting people's data. Not sure how "well" they're doing on that front though.
You can sit on great ideas like the phone, because they threaten your gramophon buisness model?
I don't see the comparison you're drawing here. The question proposed in the Go issue is whether the standard bignum library in Go should be constant-time, whether crypto primitives should provide their own constant-time math, or whether a third library for constant-time bignum math should be added that all Go crypto can rely on. That's not an easy question, and meanwhile significant chunks of the bignum crypto code that people actually use in Go is written in assembly anyways.

The Go crypto libraries have a domain-specialist owner: Filippo Valsorda. If you have questions about constant-time math operations in Go, he's a smart and nice guy; you should maybe ping him.

Go's crypto library is imperfect, but it is the best native crypto library provided by any modern language. (Ring is excellent too, but is not as I understand it part of the Rust standard library).
Is the Game Over for MoviePass?
To lessen global co2 emissions we should think about which wehicles gets batteries first. Is it a car commuting for example an hour a day or commercial wehicles which are out in the road constantly?

Think of 100kw if battery power in a personal Wehicle versus commercial delivery trucks.

Secondly you do not need to pack 100kw of batteries in a car who rarely commutes long distance. If the batteries are shared between cars then you swap in a 100kw pack for the long term commute but have a 10kw pack for every day use. That way batteries will last a lot longer.
That's interesting. I have exactly that degree (MIS), yet, the perception of my education has been much more technical / information systems. Most of the library folk I've spoken to said that information science today really isn't the same as library science and sort of discounted it. I'm not sure if that's some kind of bias that people like me are seen as being overqualified to be a librarian and therefore not considered. Or if the skill-sets really have diverged and these are no longer the same thing (library vs. information science).
That narrative is unacceptable to power structures that rule through fear. If people really internalized the fact that (for one example) a person in the UK is more likely to die from swallowing a bee than through terrorism, many totalitarian policies would be undermined. Likewise if most Brits accepted that it’s riskier riding a horse than taking MDMA, the war on drugs would suffer.

Fear is just such a useful tool to keep people moving in the general direction you want that politicians and plutocrats will not give it up, and niether will marketers. Meanwhile the media has generally embraced sensationalism and fear for a very very long time. People are inculcated into a culture of fear to sell shit, to control them, to siphon money from them, and who’s left to show them the way out?

The prototypical example is that so many people fear flying commercially, yet don’t blink at getting into their cars to drive.
The Tweeter-in-Chief has provided more free marketing than money could buy. Twitter is now an indelible brand on decadal timescales.

They might go the way of MySpace someday, but, at present, there's nothing in the West quite like Twitter.
Police must justify their jobs...and people have to feel better by pointing the finger at "bad parent" of the week.
The EU leaning on English even more heavily after Brexit is already likely, since there's no longer a large country that would benefit from having the core language. Note that EU working English isn't exactly the same English as we're used to--there's a tendency to use some false cognates that are common across Romance (e.g., using "assist" where native English speakers would mean "attend").
Another bit of food for thought, ask yourself what it would look like if email had the same federal protection as snail mail.
Post apocalyptic woman whose duty was to memorize the encyclopedia. I wouldn't say Idan. I picture her as quite feminine.
You'll see similar language on LegalZoom, or any legal form website. Legal advice has a specific meaning in each state. Things like legal facts and forms are generally not considered "legal advice".
Thanks, C++ metaprogramming is awful. Please think of the people who have to read other people's code :)
It is social media, why does this need to be handled at the protocol level? Post a final message on the "You@ServerA" account saying "This is my last post here, keep talking to me with my new account: You@ServerB"

Anyone who visits your old account will see the last message. Anyone who sees that message and can't muster the effort to make 2 mouse clicks probably isn't a follower except from a numbers perspective.
It's the GroupOn problem. You're allowing people to self-select for being cheap, wanting deals.

The MoviePass system was probably pitched like a health-club membership with the expectation that nobody would ever use it, or like a streaming service people forgot they were subscribing to, but it seems they've captured a base of enthusiasts taking full advantage of the program.
I guess that does say something about English being a "good" international language. Native speakers, too, often have extremely hard time understanding foreign accents and even some "almost-native" accents; mutual understanding is an even more difficult problem for non-native speakers. This has to do with the unusual character of English vowels compared to the "continental" languages. For example, if you hear an English speaker read Latin, you would never guess it is Latin: the "say it right" guides tell one to pronounce 'e' as 'ay' etc.
Microsoft is a large company with many services, and some of them may intersect with this type of regulation through law enforcement. The financial sector isn’t the only area of business that have these types of restrictions, and it’s often significantly easier from a business and engineering perspective to block an account entirely than to cherry pick which services can and cannot be used.

This is particularly true when products frequently gain new features or integrations with other company-provided services, as changes in one system might allow an account that’s partially suspended to be able to perform legally-forbidden actions in another (think: something like iMessage gaining Apple Pay support). Yes, you can solve these things with engineering, but not only can that easily cost more than it’s worth, but you also open yourself to massive company risk if you fuck it up and regulators catch wind.
It is slimy, and I had to learn that the hard way. There is a lot of sleaze in our industry.

But as someone who has spent his entire career working startups, and just a human who has seen other scams before, I think the cliche about not being able to con an honest person is fairly true. If you buy the hype that you'll make an unreasonable amount of money in a short period of time, well, buyer beware.
Anecdotally, I'm finding it's becoming much harder to Google article titles for me when I'm trying to pull up an article on my phone to share. The top few hits are usually copycat sites.

I wonder if Google's gotten too comfortable in its dominant position, so it's not troubled when its search quality slips.
A colloquialism, plus a hesitation to use the correctly spelled word, what with all the scraping and data aggregation/analysis going on these days.

I don't support it. I also don't want to be flagged for simply discussing it.

Of course, this simple tactic may be futile, on my part.

Which sort of brings us back to the colloquialism.
It's funny you mention this: I've discovered that Google is injecting an ad above searches for "mapquest" that leads users who make the mistake of clicking on a Google ad to install a browser hijacker plugin before they can get the directions they're looking for.

This hurts MapQuest's brand, gives people malware, and of course, conveniently, makes Google a lot of money. They've been doing it for at least a number of years. There is no way to report the malicious ad to Google, and I've seen the exact same site over and over again confusing computer illiterate users into believing MapQuest requires they download a plugin.

A significant portion of Google's ad business is malware content, and they put it above legitimate rankings. Which is to say, Google is not downranking bad sites for being bad, Google is downranking sites who don't pay them for the privilege of being on top.
When was the last time you backed up your email? I recently moved off of Gmail to Fastmail just to make it easier to have a backup copy outside of Google's control. I keep most of my photography (500GB) in OneDrive spread across three machines and yet I still have multiple external hard drive copies just incase OneDrive does a complete wipe across all my systems.

For the apps, couldn't you create a new account (sure you'd have to buy the apps again) and be back up and running?
We built, for instance, a 10' tall animatronic set piece to promote a major comic book property at comic con. Attendees stood at a control console and moved essentially a giant robot around.

Any time you see a brand doing some sort of non standard advertising installation; stuff attendees would walk up to and interact with, that's the type of stuff I'm talking about.
But it is not the fault of Google their services are better. Bing is two characters less to type and MS owns the desktop.

Yet Google owns search. Why in Earth would we penalize someone for offering something better?
Usually having your own domain and letting someone else run the mail server is enough. In case your provider (Fastmail, Google, etc.) starts acting strange you can just update your DNS records.
Dear Sr. Taliban Commander,

Can you please return our expended munitions? Enclosed is a FedEx account number.
I have to 100% disagree about your assessment of ethics. If you're hiding things from your employees so you can get your bailout and shaft everyone else, how is that ethical?
Google succeeded because Yahoo used it as its default search engine for years alongside their directory. Google got enormous exposure from that at a point when they needed it. Imagine if your little startup had a "How about you try us out ?" on google.com, permanently. Plus, eventually, Google got better at Search.
I once visited a customer in Finland. In the office, they spoke english around me. Curious, I asked if they were just being polite by speaking english instead of Finnish when I was present.

They laughed, and said no, they spoke english because they came from all over europe and english was the only language they had in common.
I would start by:

a) buying my own domain

b) ensuring that the authoritative ns1/ns2/ns3 records for that domain are hosted at a diverse set of geographically diverse nameservers, for example an ns1 that you run and then using route53 and another non-route53-service for authoritative slaves.

c) setting the MX records for it to either a mail server that you run, or a third party mail server. This is sort of a compromise approach. You can use office365 or google if you don't want to fully host your own mail. You say you don't want to deal with the hassle of mail deliverability, so use either of those and let them handle the spam filtering, SPF and DKIM. Mail that's hosted by office365 is trusted by just about everything out there, in terms of not having other peoples' SMTP daemons reject or blackhole your mail. If either of those cuts you off for some arbitrary reason in the future, you at least have the ability to change the MX records to another service as you see fit.
Why are their products that good? What is it that makes content creators publish on youtube rather than on other platforms. I'd argue that a huge part of this is the fact that youtube gives creators more visibility than other places, and since google is able to leverage search in addition to their advertising business to bring more eyes to youtube is the reason for the platforms success.

I think your confusing googles monopoly not hurting the market with not hurting their consumers. But to suggest that they don't make it near impossible for anyone to compete against them is absolutely them hurting the market. Namely, the equity value of google would be more balanced with other smaller firms, and in turn we'd see more very rich people rather than fewer people with net worths well over 10 billion.
Finding a rhyme for orange
is as annoying as a squeaky door 'inge
IMHO Google should be regulated as a utility. Search is obviously as key to modern life as is electricity, water, highways, etc. Why do we leave this critical infrastructure completely under the control of one corporation, which is itself under the control of just a tiny handful of billionaires?

Now, I mostly agree with Sergey and Larry’s investments, and I love the long term approach and big picture view they take. But Google is still too powerful. The democratic will of the people is being disregarded here, and that is simply wrong.
DevOps Leaders vs. Laggards: Continuous Testing Is a Key Differentiator
>Mere arithmetic and some kind of ability to loop gives you that kind of turing completeness

I need my typechecker be total. And you don't need turing completeness for arithmetic and recursion.
The medallions are auctioned. The city is one of many sellers in the auctions, as I understand it.
> ... the "status" of English by making it more latinized (things like, not ending sentences in prepositions).

very interesting, that's something I'd really need to learn more about it.

But how much of that is common sense, or French influence?
Just wait until Microsoft buys Slack.
I listened to a podcast from the CEO about what their ultimate objective would be. The idea is to at one point have MoviePass be sponsored or paid ( or get a cut) of recommending things aside from the movie experience. For example, you'd get a deal with Uber to get to the theater or a list of great restaurants to try close to the cinema. Package an overall experience. I also think the data collected from movies that people are most interested in seeing would be of great use to publishers ( Box-Office seems to already help satisfy that). Problem is I think their cash burn rate won't allow them to get to that stage soon enough and I can't really see a light at the end of the tunnel for them especially considering AMC has started its own similar experience.
No. The same Trump tweet refers directly to the Fox & Friends interview the Warmbiers gave where they said he was physically abused, and that "it looked as if someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth." There is no uncertainty about what Trump meant by "torture"; he was explicitly confirming the Warmbier's claim, made minutes earlier, that Otto Warmbier was physically tortured.
Introducing the Slate Robotics TR1
>Realistically, and I mean no disrespect to the profession or your daughter who is studying it, but why is a degree required here? And a master's at that?
What exactly do they do that requires knowledge?

>My assumption is they shelve books, maybe make recommendations, and hold weekly community events? And nowadays, help with social services like helping people create resumes and what not?

Replying to mehblahwhatevs comment which does not have a reply link

No offense taken. The ALA (American Library Association) and libraries have deemed a Master required for as long as I can remember. In community settings, a Masters may not provide that much benefit, other than in getting the job. In academic settings, a Masters helps with taxonomy and other data classification issues and more. Reference librarians face sometimes challenging research problems. Digital librarians need exposure and some practice to tools and techniques. While a Masters does not guarantee that exposure and also that experience can be gained without schooling, libraries seem to like (as in require) the stamp of approval.

It's hard to make a proper living as a librarian when you have to get what is typically a liberal arts UG degree ($$) and a Masters ($$) for jobs that start at the low to mid $40s (US). Crazy huh? My daughter is lucky, her UG degree was 100% free other than room and board, she got in-state tuition for her Masters (VA to FLA because of an agreement that schools have) and earned some significant scholarship $ at Fla State. So her ROI will be more favorable than many other newly minted librarians.